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Daily Facts

Amalia Dupray and Montgomery Jones.
Want to get smarter in less than 10 minutes? Then check the Daily Facts podcast that brings you interesting and surprising facts from around the world every day! Did you know that the longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted for 13 seconds? Or that there's a species of jellyfish that can essentially live forever? With the Daily Facts podcast, you'll learn something new and fascinating with every episode. Tune in daily and impress your friends with your newfound knowledge. Listen now on your favorite podcast platform. Hosted by Amalia Dupray and Montgomery Jones.
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Episodes

Every three seconds, a new baby is born (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (16 Dec 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: In February 1878, the first telephone book was published in New Haven, Connecticut. The book was one page long and had fifty names in it. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable." Kellogg?s started selling their most famous product, Corn Flakes, in 1906 The smallest man eve...

Dec 16, 20237 min

Whale eyes are the size of a grapefruit (+ 5 more facts)

Daily Facts (15 Dec 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: Whale eyes are the size of a grapefruit More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes Majority of brides plan their wedding for approximately 7 to 12 months An average person consumes the equivalent of 26 gallons of milk a year, including almost 28 pounds of cheese The length of a human esophag...

Dec 15, 20235 min

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (14 Dec 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth is called Arachibutyrophobia A "gelotologist" is a person who studies laughter White-Out was invented by Bette Nesmith Graham, who is the mother of Michael Nesmith from the "The Monkees." Russian I.M. Chisov survived a 21,980 plunge out of a plane with no parachute...

Dec 14, 20237 min

Termites have been around for over 250 million years (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (13 Dec 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: In the United Kingdom, three million people play bingo every year An elephant can live up to the age of seventy, or in some cases even more Termites have been around for over 250 million years Over $7 billion a year is spent on chocolates by consumers A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About ...

Dec 13, 20237 min

A diet high in fat is said to impede memory (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (12 Dec 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: The only commercial aircraft that is able to break the sound barrier is the Concorde. Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido, once pinned an opponent using only a single finger A diet high in fat is said to impede memory When a women is pregnant, her senses are all heightened The most frequent season for most suicides to occur ...

Dec 12, 20238 min

The life expectancy of a $100 bill is nine years (+ 5 more facts)

Daily Facts (11 Dec 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: Scallops have approximately 100 eyes around the edge of its shell The country with the highest consumption of chocolate per capita is Switzerland, with 22 pounds per person, per year Before the 17th century, carrots used to be the colour purple 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 The life expectancy of a $100...

Dec 11, 20235 min

Every day 2,700 people die of heart disease (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (10 Dec 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: The reason the soft drink Dr Pepper is called that is because the inventor Wade Morrison named it after Dr. Charles Pepper who had given him his first job Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996 In many of the milk ads that are shown, a mix of thinne...

Dec 10, 20237 min

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (09 Dec 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar Pretzels were originally invented for Christian Lent. The twists of the pretzels are to resemble arms crossed in prayer Better wine can be produced by the soil being of poor quality. This is because the vines have to "work" harder Vatican City is the smallest country in the wor...

Dec 09, 20238 min

The chocolate chip cookie was invented in 1933 (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (08 Dec 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: In 1755, the first Canadian post office opened in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The fist Deputy Postmaster General was American inventor Benjamin Franklin who was later dismissed for sympathizing with the American revolutionary cause The act of sneezing is referred to as sternutation Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls appeared for sale ...

Dec 08, 20237 min

A catfish has about 100,000 taste buds (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (07 Dec 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: The honey badger can withstand hundreds of bee stings that would otherwise kill another animal Lady Bugs really are not bugs. They are actually beetles and their correct name is The Ladybird Beetle The word "vamp" is used to describe the upper front top of a shoe A catfish has about 100,000 taste buds After twenty-seven yea...

Dec 07, 20237 min

The most popular brand of raisins is Sunmaid (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (06 Dec 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class The most popular brand of raisins is Sunmaid The game of squash originated in the United Kingdom. It came about after a few boys, who were waiting for their turn to play racquets, knocked a ball around in a confined area a...

Dec 06, 20237 min

The Eiffel Tower weight is approximately 9441 tons (+ 3 more facts)

Daily Facts (05 Dec 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: The longest acceptance speech in the history of the Oscars was by Greer Garson in 1942. She received an Oscar for Best Actress for the movie Mrs. Miniver, and her speech was five minutes and 30 seconds long There have been over fifty million Mr. Potato Heads sold since it came out in 1952 The Eiffel Tower weight is approxim...

Dec 05, 20234 min

The most expensive spice in the world is saffron (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (04 Dec 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: A violin actually contains 70 separate pieces of wood The food that is digested in your stomach is called "chyme." The sun is approximately 149 million kilometres from the earth At the White House, president John Adams was said to be the first to display fireworks there In a lifetime, an average human produces 10,000 gallon...

Dec 04, 20237 min

Dolphins sleep with one eye open (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (03 Dec 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: General William Booth is the founder of the Salvation Army The Welwitschia plant can live up to 1,000 years Parma ham is only Parma ham if it is made in the Parma region of Italy. The British chain supermarket Asda, made and packaged its own "Parma ham" and was successfully sued by the real Parma ham people (Parma Ham Trade...

Dec 03, 20237 min

Turtles can breathe through their butts (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (02 Dec 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: In 2001, the five most valuable brand names in order were Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, and Nokia In Czechhoslovakia, there is a church that has a chandelier made of human bones Turtles can breathe through their butts Scientists say that babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are ...

Dec 02, 20237 min

A regulation baseball has exactly 108 stitches (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (30 Nov 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: One ton of grapes can produce 720 bottles of wine Studies have shown that by putting on slow background music it can make a person eat food at a slower rate The most popular place to burn candles in the house is the living room Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse Garon, who died at birth The Crayola colour flesh was change...

Nov 30, 20237 min

Moscow was founded in 1147 by Yury Dolgoruky (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (29 Nov 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: Germany produces more than 5,000 varieties of beer and has about 1,300 breweries in country If all the insects in the world were put on a scale, they would out weigh all creatures There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day The blackberry bush is also called the "bramble." The reason why your nos...

Nov 29, 20238 min

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out (+ 4 more facts)

Daily Facts (28 Nov 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: The hormone replacement drug "Premarin" is made from the urine of pregnant horses The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out For the blockbuster movie "The Terminator," O.J. Simpson was considered to play the role of the Terminator, but ...

Nov 28, 20234 min

Catfish have tastebuds located on their whiskers (+ 6 more facts)

Daily Facts (27 Nov 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: Every 238 years, the orbits of Neptune and Pluto change making Neptune at times the farthest planet from the sun Early hockey games allowed as many as 30 players a side on the ice Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen In Italy, Santa Claus is known by the name Babbo Natale The ...

Nov 27, 20236 min

There are no snakes in New Zealand (+ 6 more facts)

Daily Facts (26 Nov 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: Jackrabbits can reach a speed of fifty miles per hour and can leap as far as twenty feet Adolf Hitler was one of the people that was responsible in the creation of the Volkswagen Beetle. He came up with the idea of producing a car that was cheap enough for the average German working man to afford. The Olympic was the sister...

Nov 26, 20236 min

In 1890, Scott Paper produced the first toilet paper to be available on a roll (+ 7 more facts)

Daily Facts (25 Nov 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: In 1890, Scott Paper produced the first toilet paper to be available on a roll Polar bears can eat as much as ten percent of their body weight in less than one hour Harley Proctor got the idea to name the soap "Ivory" while he was listening to a bible reading at a church in 1879 A white tiger can only be born when both pare...

Nov 25, 20236 min

A group of tigers is called a streak (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (24 Nov 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: The trunk of an elephant can hold up to two gallons of water The cardigan was originally made to be a military jacket made of knitted wool In a day, a mature oak tree can draw approximately 50 gallons of water Manicuring the nails has been done by people for more than 4,000 years The cross bow was invented by the Chinese an...

Nov 24, 20237 min

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (23 Nov 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: In 1916, Charlie Chaplin was making $10,000 a week, making him the highest paid actor of his time The average human has about 20 square feet of skin weighing about 6 pounds The city of Chicago has the only post office in the world where you can drive your car through Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla...

Nov 23, 20237 min

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (22 Nov 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: A Canadian, Troy Hurtubise, spent $100,000 and almost went bankrupt building a RoboCop style suit so that he could withstand a bear attack Construction on the Leaning Tower of Pisa began on August 9th, 1173 In the United States, lightning hits the ground 40 million times a year. Over one million Pet Rocks were sold in 1975,...

Nov 22, 20237 min

Goats do not have upper front teeth (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (21 Nov 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: The state of California has more 7-Eleven stores than any other state. There are approximately 1,200 stores Chopsticks originated from China approximately 4,000 years ago Goats do not have upper front teeth Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year The oldest working Post Office in the wor...

Nov 21, 20237 min

Desert snails can stay in their shell for up to three years (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (20 Nov 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. 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 l...

Nov 20, 20238 min

Roughly 44% of junk mail is thrown away unopened (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (19 Nov 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: On December 17 1991, the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Miami Heat 148-80, the largest margin of victory in an NBA game Dolphins hear by having sound waves transmit through their skull to their inner ear region From 1526 to 1707, the first six Mogul emperors of India ruled in unbroken succession from father to son According t...

Nov 19, 20237 min

Pumpkins contain potassium and vitamin A (+ 6 more facts)

Daily Facts (18 Nov 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: A can of Pepsi has 41 grams of sugar. This amount to about seven teaspoons of sugar Scatologists are experts who study feces. (aka. crap, dung, dookie, dumps, feces, excrement, etc.) In 1565 In St. Augustine, Florida the first orange trees were planted Pumpkins contain potassium and vitamin A The Mall of America, located in...

Nov 18, 20236 min

Snake is a delicacy in China (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (17 Nov 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can. The driest place on earth is Calama, in the Atacama Desert in Chile The longest engagement lasted 67 years, and the couple ended up marrying when they were 82 years old In 1657, the first chocolate house was opened in London, England. The cost of chocolate was about 13 shillings...

Nov 17, 20237 min

Cleopatra married two of her brothers (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (16 Nov 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: The name "Snickers" for the popular candy bar was named after a horse that the Mars family owned Over 40 million Americans have chronic bad breath Bhutan issued a stamp in 1973 that looked like a record and actually would play the Bhutanese national anthem if placed on a record player Each king in a deck of playing cards re...

Nov 16, 20238 min
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