Daily Facts (14 May 2024)

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Today's facts:

• According to research, the most productive workday is Tuesday and the least productive is Friday
• The word "Nazi" is actually an abbreviation for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, which refers to the National Socialist German Workers Party
• Americans on average use about 580 pounds of paper per year per person
• The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the english language
• A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon
• The Simpsons is the longest running prime-time animated series on television history
• There are five million scent receptors located in a human beings nose
• The peanut is not a nut, it is actually a legume
• Toronto was the first city in the world with a computerized traffic signal system
• The abbreviation Xmas for the word Christmas is of Greek origin. Since the word for Christ in the Greek language is Xristos, which starts with the letter "X," they started putting the X in place of Christ and came up with the short form for the word Christmas

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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