A human eyeball weighs an ounce (+ 9 more facts)
Mar 17, 2024•8 min
Episode description
Daily Facts (17 Mar 2024)
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Today's facts:
About two hundred years before the birth of Christ, the Druids used mistletoe to celebrate that winter was approaching
A human eyeball weighs an ounce
Mr. Butts invented the game SCRABBLE. The game was originally called "Criss Cross Words."
It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation
Unlike other four legged mammals, kangaroos cannot walk backwards
Construction workers hard hats were first invented and used in the building of the Hoover Dam in 1933.
The name Hasbro was invented by the name of the founders: HASsenfeld BROthers
The first American celebration of St. Patricks Day was at Boston in 1737
There is a city called Smackover located in Arkansas
On average a person passes gas 14 times a day
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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