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Today's facts: Virus Synthesis; Tanning Odor; Rainless Desert; Microbial abundance; Transportation Priority; Iconic success; Rhinoceros-longevity; Endurance Record; Vast Network; Internal flowering.
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Daily Facts (03 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:
- Following directions off the Internet and chemicals obtained from a mail order company, a team of U.S. scientists created an identical copy of the polio virus.
- Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process
- In some parts of the Atacama Desert it has never rained
- There are 10 million bacteria at the place where you rest your hands at a desk
- Americans, on average, spend 18% of his or her income on transportation as compared to only 13% spent on food
- Over 250 million Slinky toys have been sold since its debut in 1946
- The lifespan of a rhinoceros is generally 50 years
- The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 480 hours held by Dennis Easterling, of Atlanta, Georgia
- There are approximately 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body
- There are no blossoms on the branches of a fig tree, instead it is inside the fruit
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
912 episodes
Manage episode 497996786 series 3470831
Daily Facts (03 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:
- Following directions off the Internet and chemicals obtained from a mail order company, a team of U.S. scientists created an identical copy of the polio virus.
- Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process
- In some parts of the Atacama Desert it has never rained
- There are 10 million bacteria at the place where you rest your hands at a desk
- Americans, on average, spend 18% of his or her income on transportation as compared to only 13% spent on food
- Over 250 million Slinky toys have been sold since its debut in 1946
- The lifespan of a rhinoceros is generally 50 years
- The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 480 hours held by Dennis Easterling, of Atlanta, Georgia
- There are approximately 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body
- There are no blossoms on the branches of a fig tree, instead it is inside the fruit
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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