Daily Facts (05 Jun 2024)

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Today's facts:

• Hundreds of years ago, only the wealthy people used to wear underwear
• John Van Wormer invented paper milk cartons after dropping a bottle of milk one morning. The bottle broke spilling the milk everywhere. That annoyance was enough for Van Wormer to come up with the idea.
• The Dead Sea has been sinking for last several years
• If all the insects in the world were put on a scale, they would out weigh all creatures
• Roughly 44% of junk mail is thrown away unopened
• Lighthouse keepers were nicknamed "wickies" because they tended the lamps wick
• An owl has three eyelids
• Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
• 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
• The fur of the binturong, also known as the "Asian Bear Cat," smells like popcorn. The scent is believed to come from a gland located near the tail

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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