Daily Facts (14 Jul 2024)
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Today's facts:
Male sea horses are the ones that get impregnated rather than the females. Males have a pouch on their belly that provides incubation for the female?s eggs and they can have up to 1500 babies at one time
The Nobel Peace prize was first awarded in 1901 to Jean Henry Dunant, who was the founder of the Swiss Red Cross
In Britain, one out of every four potatoes is eaten in the form of french fries
In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles
In Denmark, people eat about 36 pounds of candy a year. The highest consumption of candy of any country
The ancient Greeks had a fascination with the planet Mars. They attributed the planet to Ares, their god of war, because of its red colour
Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever
Shridhar Chillal from India is known to have the record for the longest fingernails in the world, which were each at least three feet long
To make butter more attractive in colour, carrot juice was used by people in the Middle Ages
Almonds are members of the peach family
Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas.
Fact explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts.
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