Daily Facts (17 Feb 2025)
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Today's facts:
- Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced
- As an iceberg melts, it makes a fizzing sound because of the compressed air bubbles popping in the ice
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"
- The first ice hotel was built in Swedish Lapland
- Atari had to bury millions of unsold "E.T." game cartridges in a New Mexico desert landfill in 1982
- At just four years old Mozart was able to learn a piece of music in half an hour
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
- British scientists have found evidence that heart attacks increase significantly for people who watch soccer penalty shoot-outs
- In Ivrea, Italy, thousands of citizens celebrate the beginning of Lent by throwing oranges at one another
- The longest human beard on record is 17.5 feet, held by Hans N. Langseth who was born in Norway in 1846
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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