Daily Facts (25 Sep 2023)

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Today's facts:

• The oldest known disease in the world is leprosy
• The fastest flying butterfly is the Monarch, which has been clocked with a speed as high as 17 miles per hour
• The name of the squiggly line "~" is called a tilde
• Sylvia Plath was a famous poet who killed herself at age thirty-one by sticking her head into a gas oven
• The pound key (#) on the keyboard is called an octothorpe
• In 1903 Mary Anderson invented the windshield wipers
• There are some species of snails that are venomous. Their venom can be fatal to humans
• The largest employer in Central Florida is Walt Disney World. There are approximately 50,000 people working there
• Tropical rainforests cover about 7% of the Earth and receive over 80 inches of rain every year
• Some farmers in Japan have learned to grow their watermelons into a square shape. They did this to conserve shelf space

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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