Daily Facts (17 Oct 2024)

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Today's facts:

• Frogs do not need to drink water as they absorb the water through their skin
• Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine when it was initially introduced
• It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation
• Sales of antacids increase by as much as 20% the day after the Superbowl
• The peanut is not a nut, it is actually a legume
• The flu pandemic of 1918 killed over 20 million people
• A rainbow can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon
• Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots
• The first couple to be shown on a sitcom sleeping in the same bed was "Mary Kay and Johnny."
• Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever

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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