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• The Pentagon cost $49,600,000 to build in 1941 (+ 9 more facts)

  Daily Facts (14 Mar 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: On average, a typical dairy cow lies down and stands up about 14 times a day Sharks have upper and lower eyelids, but they do not blink The Pentagon cost $49,600,000 to build in 1941 A study revealed that men that were born with a low birth weight were less likely to get married Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth Billiards used to be so popular at one time that cigarette cards were issued featuring players When Sony introduced the walkman, it had a variety of different names in different countries. It was called "Soundabout" in the U.S., "Stowaway" in the U.K., and "Freestyle" in Australia The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets On average 1,668 gallons of water are used by each person in the United States daily The White House has 35 bathrooms, 3 elevators, 132 rooms, and 412 doors in it 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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• Wild turkeys can run at speeds of up to 25 miles per hour (+ 9 more facts)

  Daily Facts (13 Mar 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 fastest speed a raindrop had reached when falling is seven miles per hour. The King Cobra has enough venom in its bite that it can kill up to 13 adults A white tiger can only be born when both parents carry the gene for white colouring Wild turkeys can run at speeds of up to 25 miles per hour Back in 1953, it took 27 hours to make one Marshmallow Peep. Now it takes only six minutes Chocolate accounts for less than two percent of the fat in the American diet A fetus starts to develop fingerprints at the age of eight weeks There are species of fish that can walk on land in search of water when its water source dries up. Some can survive as long as three days on land such as the snakehead fish Archipelago is the word to describe a large group of islands that are located close together The most diners per capita in the world are located in the U.S. state New Jersey 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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• Back in 1796, dimes were called dismes (+ 9 more facts)

  Daily Facts (12 Mar 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 Greece, the climate is so warm that many of the cinemas do not even have roofs Back in 1796, dimes were called dismes Chocolate maker Cadbury uses more than sixty thousand tonnes of cocoa each year, in the United Kingdom alone The most common pear world-wide is the Bartlett. It is bell-shaped, sweet and soft with a light green colour People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper The Angel Falls in Venezuela were named after an American pilot, Jimmy Angel, whose plane got stuck on top of the mountain while searching for gold The Chihuahua was named after the Mexican state where they were discovered Scatologists are experts who study feces. (aka. crap, dung, dookie, dumps, feces, excrement, etc.) Catfish have tastebuds located on their whiskers The most expensive spice in the world is saffron 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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• One Neptune year lasts 165 Earth years (+ 9 more facts)

  Daily Facts (11 Mar 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: One Neptune year lasts 165 Earth years Bill Russell was the first black head coach of a major league pro sports team The seventeenth president of the United States, Andrew Johnson did not know how to read until he was 17 years old Thomas Watson, who was the chairman of IBM in 1943 predicted that their would probably only be a world market for five computers. Nearly half of all Americans suffer from symptoms of burnout The U.S. paid Russia $7.2 million for Alaska in 1867 Spartacus led the revolt of the Roman slaves and gladiators in 73 B.C The electric chair was invented by a dentist Every three minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer Strawberries are a member of the rose family 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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• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar (+ 7 more facts)

  Daily Facts (10 Mar 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: Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the man who designed the Eiffel Tower, also designed the inner structure of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour Adult earwigs can float in water for up to 24 hours The first restaurant to open in Hollywood was the Musso & Frank Grill in 1919 There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar The longest fangs of a snake are found on the Gaboon Viper (Bitis gabonica), and can reach over 2 inches in length The artist Vincent Van Gogh sliced part of his ear off in madness Enough paper is recycled in the USA every day, that a 15 mile long train of boxcars could be filled up with paper. The largest LEGO castle that was ever built was built with 400,000 LEGO bricks and was 4.45 m x 5.22 m 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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