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The human heart weighs less than a pound (+ 9 more facts)
Manage episode 483253248 series 3470831
Daily Facts (17 May 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:
- In China, people eat a bar of chocolate for every 1,000 chocolate bars eaten by the British
- The USS Abraham Lincoln has five gymnasiums on the ship and a basketball league with 22 teams
- Tomatos were once referred to as "love apples." This is because their was a superstition that people would fall in love by eating them
- The oldest inhabited house in Scotland is the Traquair Castle. The castle has had 27 kings as visitors
- The reason why golf balls have dimples on them is because it helps in the ball to move a farther distance by reducing drag
- The best selling game in history for coin-operated machines is Pac-Man
- The Hubble telescope is so powerful that it is like pointing a beam of light at a dime that is two hundred miles away.
- The human heart weighs less than a pound
- The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
- There are more Subway restaurants in Canada than there are McDonald restaurants
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
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
826 episodes
Manage episode 483253248 series 3470831
Daily Facts (17 May 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:
- In China, people eat a bar of chocolate for every 1,000 chocolate bars eaten by the British
- The USS Abraham Lincoln has five gymnasiums on the ship and a basketball league with 22 teams
- Tomatos were once referred to as "love apples." This is because their was a superstition that people would fall in love by eating them
- The oldest inhabited house in Scotland is the Traquair Castle. The castle has had 27 kings as visitors
- The reason why golf balls have dimples on them is because it helps in the ball to move a farther distance by reducing drag
- The best selling game in history for coin-operated machines is Pac-Man
- The Hubble telescope is so powerful that it is like pointing a beam of light at a dime that is two hundred miles away.
- The human heart weighs less than a pound
- The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
- There are more Subway restaurants in Canada than there are McDonald restaurants
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
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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