Daily Facts (12 Jan 2026)

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Today's facts:

• Dame Stella Rimington was the first female head of MI5 and the first to be named and photographed.
• Alfonso Ribeiro was announced as the new host of America's Funniest Home Videos, taking over from Tom Bergeron for the show's 26th season.
• Schism is regarded by the Church as a most serious fault, punished with excommunication and loss of ordinary jurisdiction, akin to the penalties inflicted on heresy.
• The Charge of the Light Brigade involved a British army unit of approximately 670 men who charged against well-armed Russian troops during the Crimean War, resulting in two-thirds of them being slain or wounded.
• Frank Lloyd Wright designed stained glass windows in 1912 for the Avery Coonley Playhouse in Riverside, Illinois.
• Mariah Carey's album "E=MC2" features collaborations with high-profile producers and artists such as Jermaine Dupri, T-Pain, and Damian Marley.
• Miles Davis's album "Kind of Blue," recorded in 1959, became a landmark in modern jazz and is the most popular album of his career, eventually selling over two million copies.
• The new Steinway Augmented Reality app allows users to project and visualize any model from the Steinway & Sons range into their home to determine the best fit for space and aesthetics.
• Tamworth Services M42 offers free parking for up to 2 hours.
• At least 85 people died during the Night of the Long Knives, although the final death toll may have been in the hundreds.

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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