Daily Facts (09 Aug 2023)

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Today's facts:

• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television
• Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido, once pinned an opponent using only a single finger
• "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters
• Bubble gum contains rubber
• French astronomer Adrien Auzout had once considered building a telescope that was 1,000 feet long in the 1600s. He thought the magnification would be so great, he would see animals on the moon
• Unlike other four legged mammals, kangaroos cannot walk backwards
• The amount of aluminum that Americans throw out in three months is enough to rebuild all American commercial planes

Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas.

Fact explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts.

This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios

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