Daily Facts (29 Aug 2023)

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Today's facts:

• Cimeti?re du P?re Lachaise located in Paris is the most visited cemetery in the world. The cemetery opened in 1805 and has over one million people buried there, including rock star Jim Morrison
• With winds of 50 miles per hour, The Statue of Liberty sways three inches and the torch sways five inches
• Over 175 million cubic yards of earth was removed for the creation of the Panama Canal
• The Taj Mahal, located in Agra, India, was actually built for use as a tomb by Mogul ruler Shah Jehan for his wife, Arjuman Banu Begum
• Families who do turn off the television during meals tend to eat healthier. This was regardless of family income, or education
• The city of Denver was originally chosen to host the 1976 Winter Olympics, but had to withdraw because Colorado voters rejected to finance it
• Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone
• Tomatos were once referred to as "love apples." This is because their was a superstition that people would fall in love by eating them
• In Belgium, there is a museum just for strawberries
• Some arthritis medications contain gold salts, which is used as an anti-inflammatory

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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