Daily Facts (18 Aug 2023)

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Today's facts:

• Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, andchocolate.
• Edward VIII did not officially become the King of England as he abdicated the throne to marry an American divorcee
• A maple tree is usually tapped when the tree is at least 45 years old and has a diameter of 12 inches
• A housefly can only ingest liquid material. They regurgitate their food to liquify the food that they are going to eat
• The biggest religious building in the world is a Hindu Temple, Angkor Wat, located in Cambodia. It was built at the end of the 11th century
• In 1986, a drunk fan got into a pace car at Talladega Superspeedway, and started joyriding on the track in front of a nationwide audience. The police cruisers who had to chase him around the track were not amused when they caught and arrested him
• It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation
• Koalas sleep up to 19 hours a day
• On average a business document is copied 19 times
• The palms of your hands and the soles of your feet cannot tan, or grow hair

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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