Today's facts: Resistance Movement; Karnak-Complex; Automotive-Giant; Aftermath; Quaker-Founder; Volcanic Glass; Irregular boundaries; Allergy Prevalence; Historic Sauna; Censorship crackdown
Daily Facts (25 Oct 2025)
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Today's facts:
- Samuel Adams founded the Sons of Liberty, a group dedicated to methodically resisting English rule in all of its American colonies.
- The Karnak temple area is the largest ancient religious site in the world, covering about 60 acres and developed over nearly 2,000 years with contributions from approximately 30 pharaohs.
- The Ulsan plant is the world’s single largest automobile plant, occupying 1,200 acres and employing over 34,000 workers capable of producing 5,600 vehicles daily.
- The term "postmortem" refers to both the examination of a body after death and evaluations or discussions that occur after the end of an event.
- George Fox was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers.
- Obsidian is a natural glass formed by the rapid cooling of viscous lava, and it can contain spherical clusters of radially arranged, needlelike crystals called spherulites.
- The borders of U.S. states, often believed to be defined by straight lines along latitude and longitude, are actually irregular polygons with hundreds of sides due to historical surveying errors.
- Hay fever affects up to 30% of all people worldwide, including up to 10% of U.S. children under 17 years of age and 7.8% of U.S. adults.
- Finland Steam Baths, established in 1928, is the last steam bath of its kind in Quincy and has remained a family-owned operation since 1969.
- As of December 1, 2013, Iran had 35 journalists imprisoned, highlighting the country's crackdown on press freedom.
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