Daily Facts

The Pentagon cost $49,600,000 to build in 1941 (+ 9 more facts)


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Daily Facts (14 Mar 2025)

[Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website.

Today's facts:
  • On average, a typical dairy cow lies down and stands up about 14 times a day
  • Sharks have upper and lower eyelids, but they do not blink
  • The Pentagon cost $49,600,000 to build in 1941
  • A study revealed that men that were born with a low birth weight were less likely to get married
  • Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth
  • Billiards used to be so popular at one time that cigarette cards were issued featuring players
  • When Sony introduced the walkman, it had a variety of different names in different countries. It was called "Soundabout" in the U.S., "Stowaway" in the U.K., and "Freestyle" in Australia
  • The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets
  • On average 1,668 gallons of water are used by each person in the United States daily
  • The White House has 35 bathrooms, 3 elevators, 132 rooms, and 412 doors in it

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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