Daily Facts (23 Mar 2025)

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Today's facts:

• The Romans used to clean themselves with olive oil since they did not have any soap. They would pour the oil on their bodies, and then use a strigil, which is type of blade, to scrape off any dirt along with the oil
• An owl has three eyelids
• If all the cars from the U.S. were taken and lined up from bumper to bumper, there would be enough cars to go to the moon from earth and back.
• The heaviest United States President was William Howard Taft who weighed 332 pounds
• The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yorewhen the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on theground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
• Before the fur trade had started in Canada, it was estimated that there were over 6 million beavers
• There is cyanide in apple pips
• 898 tornadoes were recorded to have occurred in the United States in the year 2000.
• Eating about twenty tart cherries a day could reduce inflammatory pain and headache pain
• Pilgrims did not eat potatoes for Thanksgiving as they thought they were poisonous

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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