Daily Facts (21 Mar 2024)

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Today's facts:

• On average, 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day
• A scorpion can have up to 12 eyes
• By recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being saved is enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours
• Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since
• Researchers have developed odourless socks. The sock fabric is made by attaching molecules that contain chlorine called halamines to textile fibers
• The word tulip comes from the Turkish word for turban
• In 1988, the largest ice cream sundae in history was made. It was made in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and weighed in at over 24 tons
• The average cow produces about 2,305 gallons of milk each year
• For every human in the world there are one million ants
• False Bay, on the southern tip of Africa and close to Cape Town, South Africa, is a breeding ground for great white sharks, which feed off the thousands of seals in the bay. However, it is the only area in the known world in which these sharks are known to breach - they attack the seals by coming up vertically, often leaping clear of the water with their prey in their mouths

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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