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Back to EpisodesThe WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer (+ 9 more facts)
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Daily Facts (23 Aug 2023)
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Today's facts:
- The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer
- The sap of a banana plant leaves serious stains on hands and clothes that is extremely hard to remove
- It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year'ssupply of footballs.
- The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house
- An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards
- Mexican jumping beans jump because of moth larvae inside the bean
- There are approximately 60 muscles in the face
- Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China
- The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 480 hours held by Dennis Easterling, of Atlanta, Georgia
- There were 43,687 toilet related accidents in the United States in 1996
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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