Tarantulas can live up to 30 years (+ 7 more facts)
Daily Facts (10 May 2025)
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Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals
The most popular pickle is the Dill pickle
All of Chrysler's PT Cruisers are built in Mexico.
The platypus uses its bill to find animals that it feeds on. Its bill can sense the tiny electric fields that their preys emit
On average, Guinness sells 7 million glasses of beer a day
Montreal is the second largest French speaking city after Paris
Tarantulas can live up to 30 years
A galactic year is 250 million Earth-years. This is the time it takes for our solar system to make one revolution around the Milky Way Galaxy.
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6:12
Armadillos can be housebroken (+ 9 more facts)
Daily Facts (09 May 2025)
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Great White sharks have about 3,000 teeth
The male platypus has poisonous spurs on its legs
In 1978, the World Water Speed record was made by Ken Warby from Australia. His average speed was 317.6 mph, and his jet-powered hydroplane was 27 feet long called "Spirit of Australia." Warby built the boat himself in his back yard
The Taj Mahal, located in Agra, India, was actually built for use as a tomb by Mogul ruler Shah Jehan for his wife, Arjuman Banu Begum
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left
Wasps that feed on ferment occasionally get drunk and pass out
Not all polar bears hibernate; only pregnant females polar bears do
Armadillos can be housebroken
Coupons were introduced in 1894 when Asa Candler bought the Coca-Cola formula for $2,300 and gave people coupons that he had written out to receive a free glass of coke
It takes the Hubble telescope about 97 minutes to complete an orbit of the Earth. On average, the Hubble uses the equivilent amount of energy as 30 household light bulbs to complete an orbit.
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7:26
A chicken is 75% water (+ 9 more facts)
Daily Facts (08 May 2025)
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The word Thailand means "land of the free."
The first subway system in America was built in Boston, Massachusetts in 1897.
The first American astronaut in space was Alan B. Shepard Jr
In Australia, a dust-devil is called a "willy-willy
A chicken is 75% water
A group of whales is called a pod or gam
In a lifetime, on average a honey bee produces 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food
Cows do not have any upper front teeth. Instead they have a thick pad on the top jaw
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7:07
Bubble gum contains rubber (+ 7 more facts)
Daily Facts (07 May 2025)
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Bubble gum contains rubber
Studies indicate that surgeons who listen to music while they operate improve in their performance
The Tibetan name for Mount Everest is Chomolungma
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air
Snails eat with a rasping mouth called a "radula," which has thousands of teeth
Mummy powder was once thought to be a cure for all remedies. English men used to carry the powder with them in a tiny bag wherever they went
The length of a human esophagus is 25 centimeters
Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
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6:11
The sun is approximately 75% hydrogen, 25% helium by mass (+ 9 more facts)
Daily Facts (06 May 2025)
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JELL-O was declared The "Official State Snack" of Utah in January 2001
In August 1999, Lori Lynn Lomeli set a record by spinning 82 Hula Hoops at the same time for three full revolutions
Approximately 10.5 gallons of water is used in a dishwasher. Washing the dishes by hand can use up to 20 gallons of water
Other than London, Liverpool is the most filmed British city, and was used to film more than 140 films in 2002
Levan, which is located in Utah, got its name from "navel" which is levan spelt backwards. It was named this because it is in the center of Utah
2.5 cans of Spam are consumed every second in the United States
Every single hamster in the United States today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930
The most senior crayon maker Emerson Moser retired after making 1.4 billion crayons for Crayola. It was then that he revealed that he was actually colorblind
The sun is approximately 75% hydrogen, 25% helium by mass
Pepper was sold as individual grains during the Elizabethan times. The guards at the London docks had to sew up their pockets so they would not steal any of the pepper
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