Daily Facts (17 Feb 2024)

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Today's facts:

• Every day the human stomach produces about 2 liters of hydrochloric acid
• Hair and fingernails are made from the same substance, keratin
• Bernd Eilts, a German artist, turns dried cow manure into wall clocks and small sculptures. He is now expanding his business to include cow dung wrist watches
• The most senior crayon maker Emerson Moser retired after making 1.4 billion crayons for Crayola. It was then that he revealed that he was actually colorblind
• The coliseum in Rome was used regularly for about 400 years
• Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
• The Nike swoosh was invented by Caroline Davidson back in 1971. She received $35 for making the swoosh. The first shoe with the swoosh was introduced in 1972
• The #1 peanut producing state is Georgia
• Actor John Travolta was offered the role of Billy Flynn many times for the movie "Chicago." Richard Gere ended up playing the role
• Indonesia consists only of islands - 13,667 total

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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