Today's facts: Volcanic Power; Love Apples; Picture Frames; Misnomer.; Megaschool; Tornadoes 2000; Torchweight; Ant Intelligence
Daily Facts (16 Sep 2025)
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Today's facts:
A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere
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 first product that the toy company Mattel came out with was picture frames
The Koala bear is not really a bear, but is really related to the kangaroo and the wombat.
The largest school in the world is City Montessori School in India and has over 25,000 students in grade levels ranging from kindergarten to college
898 tornadoes were recorded to have occurred in the United States in the year 2000.
The Olympic torch weighs about 3 pounds
The brain of an ant has about 250,000 brain cells
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Fact explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts.
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Daily Facts (15 Sep 2025)
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Today's facts:
Ketchup originated in China as a pickled fish sauce called ke-tsiap
Frogs do not need to drink water as they absorb the water through their skin
Baseball was the first sport to be pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated
The most common injury caused by cosmetics is to the eye by a mascara wand
"dous":tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
Huge Moore, the inventor of Dixie cups got the idea for the name from a neighboring factory, the Dixie Doll Company
The spider used in the 2002 movie Spider-Man was a Steatoda spider, not a black widow. The spider was given anaesthesia, and was then painted blue and red
Cleopatra married two of her brothers
In a lifetime, on average a honey bee produces 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey
Dexter is the smallest type of cow. This cow was bred to be a small size for household living
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Daily Facts (14 Sep 2025)
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Today's facts:
In the 1920's, Q-Tips were invented by Leo Gerstenzang who got the idea after watching his wife clean their baby's ears with cotton stuck onto a toothpick.
Eating dandelions can make you urinate more
Due to eating habits in the USA, one in three children born in the year 2000 have a chance of getting type II diabetes
Smokers are twice as likely to develop lower back pain than non-smokers
The name "Muppet" was coined by Jim Henson. The word was made from a combination of the word "marionette" and "puppet."
The stomach of an adult can hold 1.5 liters of material
One pound of maple syrup can make eight pounds of candy or sugar
Whooping cranes are born with blue eyes that change to bright gold by the time they six months old
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,silver or purple
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Daily Facts (13 Sep 2025)
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Today's facts:
Koalas sleep up to 19 hours a day
The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish
Colonel Sanders original white suit was auctioned off for $80,000 in February 2002
On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months
Moscow was founded in 1147 by Yury Dolgoruky
In 1391, China began producing toliet paper for use by its Emperors
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Daily Facts (13 Sep 2025)
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Today's facts:
The Tibetan name for Mount Everest is Chomolungma
Every three seconds a baby is born somewhere in the world
Over 50% of the wedding in the U.S. occur in the afternoon
A surfer once sued another surfer for "stealing his wave." The case was thrown out because the court was unable to put a price on "pain and suffering" endured by the surfer watching someone else ride "his" wave
The longest Monopoly game ever played was 1,680 hours long, which is seventy straight days
In Belgium, 172,000 tons of chocolate are produced in a year
Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone
Alexander the Great made his troops eat onions as he believed it would prove their vitality
Behram, an Indian thug, holds the record for most murders by a single individual. He strangled 931 people between 1790-1840 with a piece of yellow and white cloth, called a ruhmal. The most murders by a woman are 612, by Countess Erzsebet Bathory of Hungary
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Fact explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts.
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