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Today's facts: Oily Fuel; Siberian impacts; Ham Madonna; Kangaroo-Joey; Television-viewing; Water-rich; Loonie-Twonie; Myth debunked; Eyebrow-Space; Infamy Day
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Daily Facts (27 Aug 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 candlefish is so oily that it was once burned for fuel
- Two objects have struck the earth with enough force to destroy a whole city. Each object, one in 1908 and again in 1947, struck regions of Siberia. Not one human being was hurt either time
- An artist from Chicago named Dwight Kalb created a statue of Madonna made out of 180 pounds of ham
- A baby kangaroo is called a joey
- On average, 81% of Americans 16 years of age and older watch television at least once in a day
- Canada has more inland waters and lakes than any other country in the world
- In Canada, the $1 and $2 come in the form of coins. The $1 is nicknamed a "loonie" because it contains a loon on it and the $2 is nicknamed the "twonie" because it is the equivalent of two "loonies."
- St. Patrick never really drove out any snakes from Ireland. This story was an analogy of how he drove paganism out of Ireland
- The space between your eyebrows is called the Glabella
- On Sunday, December 7, 1941 at 7:55 AM, the attack on Pearl Harbor commenced
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
936 episodes
Manage episode 502661001 series 3470831
Daily Facts (27 Aug 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 candlefish is so oily that it was once burned for fuel
- Two objects have struck the earth with enough force to destroy a whole city. Each object, one in 1908 and again in 1947, struck regions of Siberia. Not one human being was hurt either time
- An artist from Chicago named Dwight Kalb created a statue of Madonna made out of 180 pounds of ham
- A baby kangaroo is called a joey
- On average, 81% of Americans 16 years of age and older watch television at least once in a day
- Canada has more inland waters and lakes than any other country in the world
- In Canada, the $1 and $2 come in the form of coins. The $1 is nicknamed a "loonie" because it contains a loon on it and the $2 is nicknamed the "twonie" because it is the equivalent of two "loonies."
- St. Patrick never really drove out any snakes from Ireland. This story was an analogy of how he drove paganism out of Ireland
- The space between your eyebrows is called the Glabella
- On Sunday, December 7, 1941 at 7:55 AM, the attack on Pearl Harbor commenced
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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