Daily Facts (12 Sep 2023)

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Today's facts:

• When a predator is chasing an impala, a type of antelope, it runs in a zig zag formation jumping as high as three metres
• A female ferret can die if she goes into heat and cannot find a mate
• Annually Americans eat 45 million turkeys at Thanksgiving
• Approximately 1-2 calorie are burned a minute while watching T.V
• Sharks are capable of going at least 6 weeks without eating; the record observed in an aquarium is 15 months by a species of shark known as the swell sharks)
• Sir John Harington, the godson of Queen Elizabeth I, was the inventor of the toilet
• 93% of all greeting cards are purchased by women
• A group of larks is called an exaltation
• The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites
• The length of a human esophagus is 25 centimeters

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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