Today's facts: Extreme consumption; Numerical Inspiration; Pioneering Domain; Trio-Origin; Gum-remover; Voracious appetite; Carcinogenic cocktail; Aroostook War; Cosmetic Boom; F-honk
Daily Facts (22 Sep 2025)
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Today's facts:
- A leech can gorge itself up to a maximum of five times its body weight
- The search engine Google got its name from the word "googol," which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it
- The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com on March 15, 1985.
- The popular chocolate bar "Three Musketeers" got its name because when it was first introduced in 1932 there were three individual bars. The flavours were strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla
- Peanut butter is an effective way to to remove chewing gum from hair or clothes
- In one night, an adult hippopotamus eats approximately 150 pounds of grass
- Tobacco contains over 50 chemicals that can cause cancer
- The Canadian province of New Brunswick had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
- In the United States, 8.5 million cosmetic surgical and non-surgical procedures were done in the year 2001
- Most American car horns honk in the key of F
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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