Daily Facts (13 Oct 2024)

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Today's facts:

• On average, a hen lays 300 eggs per year
• Many cancer patients that are treated with chemotherapy lose their hair. For some when the hair grows back, it can grow back a different colour, or be curly or straight
• Some dolphins can swim up to 40 kilometers an hour
• Natural gas does not have any odor. In order to detect a gas leak, some gas companies add a chemical that smells similar like rotten eggs.
• At one time the group "Grateful Dead" were called "The Warlocks."
• Parma ham is only Parma ham if it is made in the Parma region of Italy. The British chain supermarket Asda, made and packaged its own "Parma ham" and was successfully sued by the real Parma ham people (Parma Ham Trade Association)
• Reindeer like to eat bananas
• During the First World War, cigarettes were handed out to soldiers along with their rations
• The greatest snowfall ever in a single storm was 189 inches at the Mount Shasta Ski Bowl in February, 1959.

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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