Daily Facts (17 Mar 2024)

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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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