Daily Facts (12 Mar 2025)

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Today's facts:

• In Greece, the climate is so warm that many of the cinemas do not even have roofs
• Back in 1796, dimes were called dismes
• Chocolate maker Cadbury uses more than sixty thousand tonnes of cocoa each year, in the United Kingdom alone
• The most common pear world-wide is the Bartlett. It is bell-shaped, sweet and soft with a light green colour
• People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper
• The Angel Falls in Venezuela were named after an American pilot, Jimmy Angel, whose plane got stuck on top of the mountain while searching for gold
• The Chihuahua was named after the Mexican state where they were discovered
• Scatologists are experts who study feces. (aka. crap, dung, dookie, dumps, feces, excrement, etc.)
• Catfish have tastebuds located on their whiskers
• The most expensive spice in the world is saffron

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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