One out of four American households own a cat (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts

Daily Facts (05 Sep 2024)

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Today's facts:

• The first TV commercial advertisement was by the Bulova Watch company on July 1, 1941. The watch company paid $9.00 for an announcement that was 10 seconds long
• The country with the highest consumption of candy at 29.5 pounds annually per person is Denmark
• John Van Wormer invented paper milk cartons after dropping a bottle of milk one morning. The bottle broke spilling the milk everywhere. That annoyance was enough for Van Wormer to come up with the idea.
• Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of snot
• A famous bullfighter, Lagarijo, killed 4,867 bulls in the 19th century.
• 98% of brown bears in the United States are in Alaska
• Scientists with high-speed cameras have discovered that rain drops are not tear shaped but rather look like hamburger buns.
• A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks
• One out of four American households own a cat
• The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma

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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