Daily Facts (29 Sep 2023)

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Today's facts:

• The earliest known example of an organized market for equities dates from Rome, second century B.C
• A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years
• Every year Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes, 1,000 of which measure above 3.5 on the Richter scale
• The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards
• In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum
• There are two credit cards for every person in the United States
• The green ring that is formed around the yolk of eggs that have been cooked too long is formed by the chemical reaction from the iron in the yolk and the sulphur in the white part of the egg
• Actress Michelle Pfeiffer was the first choice to play Clarice Starling in the movie "Silence of the Lambs." She turned down the role because she found it too scary
• The largest LEGO castle that was ever built was built with 400,000 LEGO bricks and was 4.45 m x 5.22 m
• A honey bee strokes its wings about 11,500 times a minute

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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