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Today's facts: Nasal Wings; Popcorn-scented; Delayed Signing; MTV Debut; Necropolis Town; Alaska Purchase; Record-breaking; Milk Bottle; Combinatorics Insight
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Daily Facts (06 Oct 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:
- The fleshy bulbs on each side of your nose are called the Alea (AY-lee) singular Ala (AY-luh)
- The fur of the binturong, also known as the "Asian Bear Cat," smells like popcorn. The scent is believed to come from a gland located near the tail
- Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, JohnHancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, butthe last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
- The first music video ever played on MTV Europe was by Dire Straits, "Money For Nothing."
- There is a "cemetery town" in California named Colma. Concerns about the public health, crime, and the need for space forced the city of San Francisco to outlaw burials in 1902. The city of Colma, which is five miles south of San Francisco, was established to bury the dead. The ratio of dead to living people is 750 to 1
- The U.S. paid Russia $7.2 million for Alaska in 1867
- The Beatles have sold more records than anyone else with over a billion worldwide
- In 1884, Dr. Hervey D. Thatcher invented the milk bottle.
- In a five card poker game there are 2,598,960 possible hands
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
974 episodes
Manage episode 511224041 series 3470831
Daily Facts (06 Oct 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:
- The fleshy bulbs on each side of your nose are called the Alea (AY-lee) singular Ala (AY-luh)
- The fur of the binturong, also known as the "Asian Bear Cat," smells like popcorn. The scent is believed to come from a gland located near the tail
- Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, JohnHancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, butthe last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
- The first music video ever played on MTV Europe was by Dire Straits, "Money For Nothing."
- There is a "cemetery town" in California named Colma. Concerns about the public health, crime, and the need for space forced the city of San Francisco to outlaw burials in 1902. The city of Colma, which is five miles south of San Francisco, was established to bury the dead. The ratio of dead to living people is 750 to 1
- The U.S. paid Russia $7.2 million for Alaska in 1867
- The Beatles have sold more records than anyone else with over a billion worldwide
- In 1884, Dr. Hervey D. Thatcher invented the milk bottle.
- In a five card poker game there are 2,598,960 possible hands
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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