Daily Facts (29 Oct 2023)

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Today's facts:

• The puma and the leopard are the highest jumping mammals. They are able to reach a height of 16.5 feet
• The average life span of a mosquito is two weeks
• Of all the words Dr. Seuss made up in his storybooks, only one has stuck in the English vocabulary: grinch, which is refers to a killjoy -- and it took more than 20 years
• Melba toast is named after an Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba
• Mangos are known throughout the world as the "King of Fruits."
• The best selling game in history for coin-operated machines is Pac-Man
• The wheelbarrow was invented by the Chinese.
• The Beatles have sold more records than anyone else with over a billion worldwide
• Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific
• Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster

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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