Daily Facts (22 Mar 2025)

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Today's facts:

• The New Zealand Kiwi bird cannot fly
• The feet have approximately 250,000 sweat glands
• Before 1859, baseball umpires were seated in padded chairs behind home plate
• The first subway system in America was built in Boston, Massachusetts in 1897
• The USSR launched the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, in 1957.
• Watermelon is considered a good gift to give a host in Japan and China
• St. Patrick explained the Holy Trinity to King Laoghaire, using the shamrock to illustrate the trinity
• There is enough concrete in the Hoover Dam to pave a two lane highway from San Francisco to New York
• The nut "filbert" got its name from St. Philbert which is celebrated on August 22nd, which is also when the nut matures
• Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second? William Jefferson Clinton

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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