Daily Facts (09 Nov 2023)

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Today's facts:

• The first toilet stall in a public washroom is the least likely to be used. It is also the cleanest
• In WWII, when allied armies reached the Rhine River the first thing men did was pee in it. This was pretty universal from the lowest private to Winston Churchill (who made a big show of it). Gen. Patton had himself photographed in the act
• A Connecticut Toy maker, Herobuilders, sells action figures of President George W. Bush, Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, which are all major figures tied to the September 11, 2001 WTC attacks
• In the United States, approximately seven billion pounds of chocolate and candy are manufactured each year
• Every year, 100 million sharks are killed by people
• The Coca Cola company offers more than 300 different beverages
• In 1897, Bayer, who is the makers of Aspirin, once marketed the drug heroin
• In 1929, the Coca-Cola slogan was "The Pause That Refreshes."
• Ho-Ho-Kus, a small town in New Jersey, is the only town in the United States of America that has two dashes in its name
• In 1657, the first chocolate house was opened in London, England

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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