Daily Facts (19 Jul 2024)

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Today's facts:

• The 20th president of the United States James Garfield could write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other at the same time
• 215 jeans can be made with one bale of cotton
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple
• Over one million Pet Rocks were sold in 1975, makine Gary Dahl, of Los Gatos, California, a millionaire. He got the idea while joking with friends about his pet that was easy to take care of, which was a rock
• The ruby red slippers in the movie "The Wizard of Oz" were sold off at an auction for $660,000
• When the volcano Krakatoa off the Java islands exploded in 1883, it was so loud that it woke some people up in South Australia
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class
• In the U.S. there is, on average, three sex change operations per day
• Tycho Brahe, a 16th century astronomer, lost his nose in a duel with one of his students over a mathematical computation. He wore a silver replacement nose for the rest of his life
• The only English place that has a name that ends with an exclamation mark is "Westward Ho!"

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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