Daily Facts (12 Feb 2025)

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Today's facts:

• From all the oxygen that a human breathes, twenty percent goes to the brain
• Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920
• The name of the character that is behind bars in the Monopoly board game is Jake the Jailbird
• It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States
• During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, Red Vineyard at Arles
• Mexican jumping beans jump because of moth larvae inside the bean
• In 1871, horse cars were introduced. It was simply a car that was pulled over a track by a horse.
• The largest ketchup bottle in the world is a 170 feet tall and is located in Collinsville, Illinois, USA. It was built in 1949 by the W.E. Caldwell Company as a water tower
• The game Monopoly was once very popular in Cuba; however, Fidel Castro ordered that all games be destroyed
• Florida has twice as many lightning injuries and deaths than any other state

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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