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There are five years in a quinquennium (+ 9 more facts)

Published 9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Daily Facts (24 May 2025)

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Today's facts:

  • There are five years in a quinquennium
  • 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
  • A single chocolate chip gives enough energy to a human being to walk 150 feet
  • Jackrabbits can reach a speed of fifty miles per hour and can leap as far as twenty feet
  • An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet
  • The first jet engine was invented by Frank Whittleof of England in 1930.
  • In a five card poker game there are 2,598,960 possible hands
  • The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
  • The makers of Crayola produce over 2 billion crayons in a year
  • Female alligators lay about 40 eggs that hatch in 60 - 70 days

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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