An ear of corn consists of 80% water (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts

Daily Facts (03 Sep 2024)

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Today's facts:

• Ed Cox from San Francisco invented the pot scrubbing S.O.S. pads in 1917. His wife came up with the name, which stands for "Save Our Saucepans."
• The longest distance a deepwater lobster has been recorded to travel is 225 miles
• A British term for slot machine is "fruit machine" or "one-armed bandit."
• From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size
• In 1982, a cactus in Phoenix, Arizona killed a man. David Grundman fired two shotgun blasts at a giant saguaro cactus that ended up falling on top of him
• An ear of corn consists of 80% water
• The small intestine in the human body is about 2 inches around, and 22 feet long
• Male koalas mark their territory by rubbing their chests on a tree. Male koalas have a dark scent gland in the middle of their chest
• Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation
• The highest toll paid by a ship to cross the Panama Canal was by the Crown Princess on May 2, 1993 in the amount of $141,349.97 U.S. funds

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

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