Daily Facts (14 Dec 2023)

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Today's facts:

• The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth is called Arachibutyrophobia
• A "gelotologist" is a person who studies laughter
• White-Out was invented by Bette Nesmith Graham, who is the mother of Michael Nesmith from the "The Monkees."
• Russian I.M. Chisov survived a 21,980 plunge out of a plane with no parachute. He landed on the steep side of a snow-covered mountain with only a fractured pelvis and slight concussion
• The cornea is the only living tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels
• Frisbee got its name from William Russel Frisbee, who was a pie baker. He used to sell his pies in a thin tin pan, which had Frisbee written on it. When Walter Frederick Morrison thought of the idea of making saucer like disks to play catch, he visited the campus of Yale and noticed people there were using the pie pan to play catch so he therefore renamed his invention to Frisbee
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
• Amtrak is the combination of the words "American" and "Track"
• Washing machines use anywhere from 40 to 200 litres of water per load
• Canada has more donut shops per capita than the United States

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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