Daily Facts

Oak trees can live 200 or more years (+ 9 more facts)


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Daily Facts (24 Mar 2025)

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Today's facts:
  • Sailors once thought that wearing a gold earring would improve their eyesight
  • In Australia, the average person uses 876 gallons of water daily. In Switzerland they use only 77 gallons of water per person daily
  • Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a fifty thousand-word novel, "Gadsby," without any word containing the letter "e."
  • Four billion pounds of watermelon were grown in the United States in 1999
  • Over 100,000 birds and sea animals are killed every year due to plastic garbage
  • The name Reebok was named after the African Gazelle
  • Nine egg yolks have been found in one chicken egg
  • Oak trees can live 200 or more years
  • Pucks hit by hockey sticks have reached speeds of up to 150 miles per hour
  • Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996

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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