Daily Facts (20 Apr 2024)

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Today's facts:

• The seventeenth president of the United States, Andrew Johnson did not know how to read until he was 17 years old
• Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers
• The male howler monkey of Central and South America is the noisiest land animal, which can be heard clearly from a distance of ten miles away
• Some silkworms can spin cocoons that contain more than two miles of silk
• The dromedary camel can drink as much as 100 litres of water in just 10 minutes
• Early sewing machines were destroyed by mobs or workers who felt their jobs were threatened by automation
• The first drug to be sold in the form of a tablet is Aspirin
• 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
• Bruce Lee was so fast, that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That is the opposite of the norm
• Braces were first invented by Pierre Fauchard in 1728. The braces were made by a flat strip of metal, which was connected to the teeth by thread.

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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