Daily Facts (17 Apr 2024)

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Today's facts:

• The name "Tonka" trucks was named after Lake Minnetonka located in Minnesota. Tonka means "great" in Sioux
• It has been suggested that shepherds are responsible for inventing the game golf. It is said that they used to use their staffs to hit the stones
• The first email was sent out by Ray Tomlinson in 1971
• A honey bee has four wings
• Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
• In the game of Monopoly, the most landed on properties are B&O Railroad, Illinois Avenue, and "Go."
• The triangular shape that Toblerone chocolates are packaged in, is protected by law
• An oyster can change its gender
• Some of the other names that were thought of for the dwarfs in the Disney movie "Snow White" were Awful, Dirty, Shifty, Hotsy, and Jumpy
• If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs inthe air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg inthe air,the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horsehasall four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

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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