Daily Facts (13 Apr 2025)
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Today's facts:
- The song "Strawberry Fields Forever" sung by the Beatles refers to an orphanage located in Liverpool
- Termites are roasted and eaten like popcorn in South Africa
- India has the most post offices in the world
- Pretzel snacks have been around for over 1300 years. A European monk invented the snack using used leftover bread dough
- The word "America" comes from the European explorer "Amerigo Vespucci
- The colours yellow, red, and orange are used in fast food restaraunts because those are the colours that stimulate hunger
- A Connecticut Toy maker, Herobuilders, sells action figures of President George W. Bush, Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, which are all major figures tied to the September 11, 2001 WTC attacks
- The theme song of the Harlem Globetrotters is "Sweet Georgia Brown."
- "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters
- The Koala bear is not really a bear, but is really related to the kangaroo and the wombat.
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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