Daily Facts (23 Dec 2024)

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Today's facts:

• In the 1920's, Q-Tips were invented by Leo Gerstenzang who got the idea after watching his wife clean their baby's ears with cotton stuck onto a toothpick.
• Australian Graham Barker extracted his own belly button fluff every day for 18 years acquiring a record-breaking amount of fluff. He hopes to accumulate enough fluff to stuff a pillow
• Crayola Crayons currently has over 120 different crayon colours
• Colour is not an indicator for the taste or ripeness in cranberries
• In the early nineteenth century some advertisements claimed that riding the carousel was good for the circulation of blood
• Vasaloppet, which is located in Sweden is the oldest, longest, and the biggest cross-country ski race in the world. Every year, 14,000 people compete in the race
• The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma
• Every single hamster in the United States today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930
• In the movie "Gandhi" 300,000 extras appeared in the funeral scene. Of the 300,000, approximately 100,000 received a small fee, and the other 200,000 did it for free
• The reason why tattoos do not vanish even though we shed our skin is because the dye is injected deeper into the dermis part of the skin. It is only the epidermis that we shed

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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