Daily Facts (23 Feb 2026)

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Today's facts:

• Samuel Johnson believed that a truly intellectual man would never want to leave London, equating weariness of the city with weariness of life itself.
• Encephalitis lethargica is associated with conditions like akinetic mutism.
• In March 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made the first spacewalk in history, floating outside his Voskhod 2 capsule for 10 minutes while facing life-threatening challenges to reenter the spacecraft.
• The E6B circular slide rule, created in the 1930s for aircraft pilots, is still in daily use around the world for tasks like converting time, distance, speed, and temperature values.
• Calcutta officially changed its name to Kolkata on August 24, coinciding with the city's 390th birthday, as part of a trend among Indian cities to remove colonial influences from their names.
• Spirograph was developed by British engineer Denys Fisher and first sold in 1965.
• Pluto is so small that it is outsize by 7 of the solar system's moons, and its equatorial radius is only 1,151 km.
• Daniel was thrown into a lions' den for praying to God, but he was unharmed because God sent an angel to shut the mouths of the lions.
• The second Test match between England and the West Indies in Antigua was abandoned after just ten balls due to the pitch being deemed too sandy, marking a rare instance of play being halted so quickly in Test cricket history.
• UCLan's multi-million pound sports facilities served as a training venue for the Olympic Games and last year’s RFL world cup.

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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