Daily Facts (24 Oct 2023)

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Today's facts:

• While still in college, Bill Gates and Paul Allen once built a special purpose machine called "Traff-O-Data." It was a machine that would analyze information gathered by traffic monitors. They never found any buyers.
• It would take approximately twenty-four trees that are on average six to eight inches in diameter to produce one ton of newsprint for the Sunday edition of the New York Times
• The largest dog in the world is the Irish Wolfhound
• Some dolphins can swim up to 40 kilometers an hour
• Japanese research has concluded that moderate drinking can boost IQ levels
• In Ontario, an average household income of a golfer is greater than $60,000
• Silk was developed in China were it was kept a secret for more than two thousands years. Anyone found trying to smuggle silkworm eggs or cocoons out of the country was immediately put to death
• The hippopotamus has the capability to remain underwater for as long as twenty-five minutes
• The New York Yankees have appeared in the World Series a league leading 38 times and won 26 titles
• On a bottle of brandy VSOP stand for "Very Special Old Pale."

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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