Daily Facts (14 Jul 2024)

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Today's facts:

• Male sea horses are the ones that get impregnated rather than the females. Males have a pouch on their belly that provides incubation for the female?s eggs and they can have up to 1500 babies at one time
• The Nobel Peace prize was first awarded in 1901 to Jean Henry Dunant, who was the founder of the Swiss Red Cross
• In Britain, one out of every four potatoes is eaten in the form of french fries
• In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles
• In Denmark, people eat about 36 pounds of candy a year. The highest consumption of candy of any country
• The ancient Greeks had a fascination with the planet Mars. They attributed the planet to Ares, their god of war, because of its red colour
• Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever
• Shridhar Chillal from India is known to have the record for the longest fingernails in the world, which were each at least three feet long
• To make butter more attractive in colour, carrot juice was used by people in the Middle Ages
• Almonds are members of the peach family

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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