Daily Facts (10 Dec 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
• When explorers first arrived in Venezuela, they were reminded of Venice. They named the country "Little Venice", which translated into Spanish is Venezuela
• The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service
• The first person to die in the electric chair was William Kemmler, an ax murderer from New York on August 6, 1890
• An armadillo can walk under water
• 99% of pumpkins that are sold are sold for decoration
• Tobacco contains over 50 chemicals that can cause cancer
• Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry
• The biggest hamburger that was served was 8,266 pounds. It was made at the Burger Fest in Seymour, Wisconsin
• The Pacific island of Tonga once issued a stamp that was banana shaped

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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