Desert snails can stay in their shell for up to three years (+ 9 more facts)
Nov 20, 2023•8 min
Episode description
Daily Facts (20 Nov 2023)
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Today's facts:
The Sears Tower in Chicago contains enough steel to build 50,000 automobiles
The iron disulfide (Pyrite) is considered "fool's gold" because it looks very similar to gold.
In 1978, the World Water Speed record was made by Ken Warby from Australia. His average speed was 317.6 mph, and his jet-powered hydroplane was 27 feet long called "Spirit of Australia." Warby built the boat himself in his back yard
Desert snails can stay in their shell for up to three years
Robert Southey wrote the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" in 1834
There is a town named Dildo in the province of Newfoundland, Canada
In 1961, Italian artist Piero Manzoni packed his feces in cans, signed and mounted them, and then sold them as art
Gorillas are considered apes, not monkeys. The way to distinguish between an ape and a monkey is that apes do not have tails
The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker
In Ivrea, Italy, thousands of citizens celebrate the beginning of Lent by throwing oranges at one another
Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas.
Fact explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts.
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