Daily Facts (20 Apr 2025)

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Today's facts:

• A housefly can only ingest liquid material. They regurgitate their food to liquify the food that they are going to eat
• DC-10, the name of an airplane stands for "Douglas Commercial."
• There are over 1,000,000 swimming pools in Florida, eventhough the ocean is no farther than 80 miles away
• The study of the iris of the eye is called iridology
• There is a certain species of kangaroo that is only 2.5 centimetres long when it is born
• The colour blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones
• The first known American novelist to hand in a manuscript that was typed was Mark Twain. His typewriter was a Remington No.1, which was invented by Christopher Sholes and Carlos Glidden.
• The same amount of calories are burned by doing 6 sessions that are 5 minutes each of an activity and doing 1 session of that activity for 30 minutes
• Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
• Harley Proctor got the idea to name the soap "Ivory" while he was listening to a bible reading at a church in 1879

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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