Today's facts: Stonewalling; Unification Catalyst; Investiture Ceremony; Lut Heat; Scandalous Marriage; Impressionism Pioneer; Rationalism.; Turnaround Success; Damselfly Diversity; Widespread popularity
Daily Facts (17 Dec 2025)
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Today's facts:
- The silent treatment is considered one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse in relationships, indicating its destructive impact on communication and connection.
- Alexander the Great used novel tactics and new kinds of armed forces to conquer the Persian Empire, transforming the Mediterranean into a more unified world of economic and cultural exchange.
- Prince Charles was formally invested as Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Caernarfon Castle in 1969.
- The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth, 70.7 degrees Celsius (159.3 degrees Fahrenheit), was measured in the Lut Desert in Iran by a NASA satellite in 2005.
- Queen Caroline of Brunswick became nearly as well known for her promiscuity as her husband, King George IV, highlighting a scandalous marriage that brought Britain to the brink of revolution.
- Claude Debussy is recognized as the creator of impressionism in music.
- The Enlightenment is characterized by a belief in the potential of human reason to solve societal problems through education and scientific progress, marking a shift from centuries of perceived darkness and ignorance.
- Tata Group bought Jaguar Land Rover in 2008 during the global financial crisis, but managed to turn the company around within three years, achieving a profit of £1.1 billion in 2011, equivalent to the amount paid for the acquisition.
- There are about 2,838 named species of damselflies worldwide, with an estimated 500 to 1,500 species that are still unnamed.
- Netball is reportedly played by over 20 million people in more than 70 countries.
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Fact explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts.
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