Daily Facts (09 Dec 2024)

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Today's facts:

• The only bone fully grown at birth is located in the ear
• General William Booth is the founder of the Salvation Army
• Early hockey games allowed as many as 30 players a side on the ice
• Cashew nuts contain oil in the shell that is very irritating to the skin
• There are approximately 2000 thunderstorms that are active at the same time which results in 100 lightning flashes a second.
• Even though a polar bears fur looks white it is actually colourless and is made with hollow tubes. The reason the bear looks white is because the rough inner surface of the tubes make light scatter and reflect at many different angles which gives the white appearance
• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
• The Welwitschia plant can live up to 1,000 years
• The 1912 Olympics was the last Olympics that gave out gold medals that were made entirely out of gold
• In 1967, the first successful heart transplant was performed in Cape Town, South Africa

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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