Daily Facts (10 Oct 2024)
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Today's facts:
The difference between horns and antlers is that horns never stop growing and antlers shed and grow every year
The USSR launched the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, in 1957.
In WWII, when allied armies reached the Rhine River the first thing men did was pee in it. This was pretty universal from the lowest private to Winston Churchill (who made a big show of it). Gen. Patton had himself photographed in the act
African Baobab tree's circumference can reach 180 feet. If the trunk is hollow, 20 people would be able to fit inside of it.
Uranus has 27 moons
Ian Fleming named his character "James Bond" after real-life ornithologist and author
In 1958, the United States Coast Guard off western Greenland measured the tallest known iceberg at five hundred and fifty feet
Four billion pounds of watermelon were grown in the United States in 1999
The word "dexterity", to do with skill is related to the right hand. The opposite of the word "deter" is "sinister", to do with evil, it is related to the left hand
Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas.
Fact explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts.
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