Daily Facts

A human eyeball weighs an ounce (+ 9 more facts)


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Daily Facts (17 Mar 2024)

[Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website.

Today's facts:
  • About two hundred years before the birth of Christ, the Druids used mistletoe to celebrate that winter was approaching
  • A human eyeball weighs an ounce
  • Mr. Butts invented the game SCRABBLE. The game was originally called "Criss Cross Words."
  • It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation
  • Unlike other four legged mammals, kangaroos cannot walk backwards
  • Construction workers hard hats were first invented and used in the building of the Hoover Dam in 1933.
  • The name Hasbro was invented by the name of the founders: HASsenfeld BROthers
  • The first American celebration of St. Patricks Day was at Boston in 1737
  • There is a city called Smackover located in Arkansas
  • On average a person passes gas 14 times a day

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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