Daily Facts (30 Nov 2024)

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Today's facts:

• The Liberty Bell was the first mechanical slot machine, which was invented by Charles Fey, a car mechanic in 1895.
• The idea of Christmas cards was invented by Englishman Henry Cole in 1843
• There has only been 193,000 metric tonnes of gold discovered to date.
• Before 1883, the three-cent U.S. stamp was also used for advertising. The advertisment was located on the back of the stamp for various products
• A group of people that are hired to clap at a performance are called a claque
• The highest recorded speed of a sneeze is 165 km per hour
• Pikeville, Kentucky consumes the most Pepsi per capita then any other American city
• Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side
• When an orange is shown in any of the "Godfather" movies, this means that someone is about to die or a close call is to occur.
• The speed of sound must be exceeded to produce a sonic boom.

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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