Daily Facts (01 Mar 2024)

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Today's facts:

• Robert Wadlow is the tallest man recorded in history. He grew to be eight feet and eleven inches and weighed 490 pounds when he died
• Stinging insects kills approximately 25 people annually in the U.S
• Colonel Sanders traveled over 250,000 miles a year visiting various parts of his Kentucky Fried Chicken Empire
• According to Scientists, vampire bat saliva is the best known medicine for keeping blood from clotting.
• At 120 miles per hour, a Formula One car generates so much downforce that it can drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel
• The word witch comes from the word "wicca" which translates to the "wise one."
• Chef Boyardee is actually a real person. His real name is Hector Boiardi and he was born in northern Italy in 1898
• 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
• Botanically a rhubarb is a vegetable. It was changed to a fruit in 1947 by a U.S. Custom Court
• Post-It Notes, which are adhesive notes, were invented while looking for a way to improve the acrylate adhesive found in tapes

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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