Daily Facts (21 Aug 2023)

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Today's facts:

• Eating dandelions can make you urinate more
• On average, a man spends about five months of his life shaving
• There are an equivalent number of cows and people in Friesland, Netherlands
• Bats sleep during the day and feed at night. The place that bats sleep in is called the "roost."
• In a study that was done by the University of Chicago in 1907, it was concluded that the easiest color to spot is yellow. This is why John Hertz, who is the founder of the Yellow Cab Company picked cabs to be yellow
• According to legend, tea originated in China when tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water
• No president of the United States was an only child
• Sawney Beane, his wife, 8 sons, 6 daughters, and 32 grandchildren were a family of cannibals that lived in the caves near Galloway, Scotland in the early 17th Century. Although the total number is not known, it is believed they claimed over 50 victims per year. The entire family was taken by an army detachment to Edinburgh and executed, apparently without trial
• Caterpillar means "hairy cat" in Old French
• One out of four American households own a cat

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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