Daily Facts (14 Dec 2024)

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Today's facts:

• The study of twins is known as gemellology
• The Roman emperor Domitian took great pleasure in being secluded in his room for hours and catching flies and stabbing them with pens
• The oldest bird on record was Cocky, a cockatoo, who died in the London Zoo at the age of 82
• Many insects can carry 50 times their own body weight
• Obsessive nose picking is referred to as rhinotillexomania
• In the U.S., over one million gallons of cosmetics, drinks, and lotions are sold that contain aloe in them per year
• The laundry detergent Tide, has a market share of about forty percent market
• Sponge Candy was invented in Buffalo, NY
• The first modern toothbrush was invented in China. Its bristles came from hogs hair or the mane of a horse that were then put into ivory handles
• First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer

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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