Daily Facts

Daily Facts (12 Feb 2026)
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The Jewel of the Nile is a sequel to the surprise-hit film Romancing the Stone, which was 20th Century Fox's answer to Raiders Of The Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom.
Roger Federer became the third male player in the Open Era to achieve 1,000 career match wins.
Goliath was a Philistine warrior who stood over nine feet tall and wore armor that weighed 125 pounds.
Ivory Coast won their first Africa Cup of Nations since 1992 by defeating Ghana 9-8 in a penalty shootout after a goalless match.
100 puls equal 1 afghani in Afghanistan.
Thailand offers over 3,699 discount hotels, making it one of the world's most popular travel destinations.
Robben Island has served multiple purposes throughout its history, including housing a hospital, mental institution, leper colony, and military base, in addition to being the prison where Nelson Mandela spent 18 years of his incarceration.
Hamadryas baboons can live in troops of several hundred individuals, showcasing complex social behaviors that include forming smaller groups called One Male Units (OMUs) for foraging.
Ralph Vaughan Williams volunteered for military service at the age of forty-two during the First World War, joining the Royal Army Medical Corps and later becoming a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery.
The Battle of Sidi Barrani resulted in the British capturing 38,300 Italian prisoners while suffering only 624 casualties.
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Daily Facts (11 Feb 2026)
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The Swedish monarchy, which has traditions dating back more than a thousand years, changed its order of succession in 1980 to a fully cognatic system, allowing the eldest heir to inherit the throne regardless of gender.
Doris Speed received more fan mail than any other actor on Coronation Street during her twenty-three years on the show.
The definition of a good midwife has evolved from an emphasis on physical characteristics and moral appraisal in the past to a focus on theoretical knowledge, clinical competencies, and communication skills in contemporary practice.
Bud Collyer logged more hours as Superman than any other actor in history, voicing the character in approximately 2000 radio episodes and several animated series from 1940 to 1951.
The death of Möngke Khan in early 1260 prompted a pullback of Hülegü’s army, leading to a smaller Mongol force advancing on Egypt.
Betsy Ross was paid by the Pennsylvania State Navy Board on May 29, 1777, for her work making American flags, indicating her involvement in the production of early American flags.
Jean Metzinger was a key figure in the development of Cubism and co-authored the first major treatise on the movement, titled “Du ‘Cubisme’,” in 1912.
Milton Bradley's first game, The Checkered Game of Life, was designed with a moralizing purpose, where landing on negative squares like "crime" would move players backward in "life," while positive squares like "honesty" would advance them.
"Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose is a 2004 book co-written by Paris Hilton and Merle Ginsberg."
Collagen is the most abundant protein in mammals, making up about 25% to 35% of the whole-body protein content.
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Daily Facts (10 Feb 2026)
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The kingdom of Navarre reached its zenith under Sancho III, who ruled over nearly all of Christian Spain during his reign from 1000 to 1035.
About 25 million meteors enter the Earth's atmosphere every day, with approximately 1 million kilograms of dust settling to the Earth's surface daily.
The Curie family has produced five Nobel laureates, including Marie Curie, who was the first woman to present a Physics dissertation and a double Nobel laureate.
The term "astronaut" was coined in 1929 in science fiction and popularized by the U.S. space program starting in 1961.
The South Downs National Park covers an area of 627 square miles and is home to around 120,000 people.
The BBC sitcom "Marriage Lines" ran for five series and forty-six episodes between 1961 and 1966, originally debuting with a pilot episode in 1961 before a full series premiered in 1963.
Sunflowers can be categorized into open-pollinated, hybrid, and pollenless varieties, each offering diverse colors, heights, and flowering habits.
Wilfred Owen was killed in action just one week before the end of World War I, causing news of his death to reach home as the church bells declared peace.
Johnny Rotten, the former punk icon, starred in a £5 million television commercial for butter, marking his first appearance in an advertisement.
Fan Si Peak, at 10,312 feet (3,143 metres), is the highest point in Vietnam.
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Daily Facts (09 Feb 2026)
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Dutch MP Geert Wilders, who faces trial for inciting hatred in the Netherlands, has been banned from entering the UK due to public security concerns, despite being invited to show his controversial film linking the Koran to terrorism in the House of Lords.
Some biologists believe that there are more bobcats in the United States today than in colonial times.
In "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," Harry Potter is unexpectedly entered into a dangerous magic tournament despite being too young, as the Goblet of Fire spits out his name without his consent.
Gabon enjoys a per capita income four times that of most sub-Saharan African nations, despite high income inequality leaving a large proportion of the population in poverty.
The USS Nautilus became the first vessel to achieve submarine transit underneath the North Pole in August 1958 during a mission named Operation Sunshine.
"Go Set a Watchman," Harper Lee's second novel, was completed in the mid-1950s but remained unpublished for 60 years.
Marc Chagall was appointed Commissar for Art in 1918 and founded the Vitebsk Popular Art School, where he served as director until 1920.
BBC Worldwide is the main commercial arm and a wholly owned subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
The response to the 1989 EXXON VALDEZ oil spill led to the unprecedented development of a "National Programmatic Agreement on Protection of Historic Properties During Emergency Response Under the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan."
The system of imperial units was first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824, which replaced the Winchester Standards that had been in use since 1588.
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Daily Facts (08 Feb 2026)
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Bolton FC is commonly known by the nickname "Trotters."
Minos became one of the three judges of Hades in Greek mythology.
The Sioux believed that white buffaloes were the most sacred animals in the world and therefore never hunted them.
The production of Casino Royale (1967) was so chaotic that it involved multiple directors, and significant changes were made throughout filming, including firing the main star Peter Sellers before completing his role.
In 1544, Italian herbalist Pietro Andrae Matthioli referred to tomatoes as "pomi d'oro," or apples of gold, likely due to the first European tomatoes being yellow.
The heavy white Embden goose can weigh up to 34 lbs, while the tiny white Czech goose weighs only 9-11 lbs.
Only in Wales, and some parts of Scotland and Ireland, is an edible seaweed known as laver gathered and processed commercially, commonly eaten as laverbread with bacon.
The operetta Die Fledermaus, composed by Johann Strauss II, was initially misunderstood as a failure after its première on April 5, 1874, running for only sixteen performances due to scheduling conflicts, but it was later reinstated at the Theater an der Wien.
Dick Grayson first appeared as Robin in Detective Comics #38 in 1940, created to lighten the tone of Batman stories and appeal to younger readers.
The women's strike at the Dagenham Ford plant in 1968 directly led to the Equal Pay Act of 1970, marking the first legislation in the UK aimed at achieving equal pay for men and women in comparable jobs.
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