Daily Facts (31 May 2024)

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Today's facts:

• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
• The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases
• The first hair dryer was a vacuum cleaner that was used for drying hair
• Since its introduction in February 1935, more than two hundred million Monopoly board games have been sold worldwide
• The football team Green Bay Packers comes from a meat packing company called Acme Packing
• As a defense mechanism, the North American Opossum closes its eyes and becomes totally limp. Basically it plays dead
• Missouri has been to most NCAA tournaments than any other college without reaching the final four
• Passion fruits have a tranquilizing effect on the body
• The silk that is produced by spiders is stronger than steel
• Dairy cows can produce 20 to 35 gallons of saliva a day

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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