Daily Facts (18 Oct 2024)

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Today's facts:

• Keeping your car tuned up is a good way to save on gas. A car that is tuned up is 9% more efficient on gasoline.
• In 2000, there were 1,579,566 drug arrests in the United States. Of those, close to half were for marijuana
• In China, people eat a bar of chocolate for every 1,000 chocolate bars eaten by the British
• Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool.
• In October 1986, Pepsi paid close to $840 million to Nabisco for the Kentucky Fried Chicken empire
• In 2002, the most popular car color in North America was silver.
• In order to mate, a male deep sea anglerfish will bite a female when he finds her. The male will never let go and will eventually merge his body into the female and spend the rest of his life inside the female mate. The males internal organs will disappear apart from the testes that are needed to for breeding
• Bo Jackson set a Monday Night Football record by rushing for 222 yards in one game against the Seattle Seahawks, including a 91-yard TD run
• Rice is thrown at weddings as a symbol of fertility
• The sound made by the toadfish when mating underwater is so loud that it can be heard by humans on the shore

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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