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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

Reindeer like to eat bananas (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (13 Oct 2024) [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 average, a hen lays 300 eggs per year Many cancer patients that are treated with chemotherapy lose their hair. For some when the hair grows back, it can grow back a different colour, or be curly or straight Some dolphins can swim up to 40 kilometers an hour Natural gas does not have any odor. In order to detect a gas lea...

Oct 13, 20247 min

The Snickers chocolate bar was invented in 1930 (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (12 Oct 2024) [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 largest volcano known is on Mars: Olympus Mons, 370 miles wide and 79,000 feet high, is almost three times higher than Mount Everest The first known American novelist to hand in a manuscript that was typed was Mark Twain. His typewriter was a Remington No.1, which was invented by Christopher Sholes and Carlos Glidden. I...

Oct 12, 20247 min

A slug has four noses (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (11 Oct 2024) [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: Coffee beans were chewed for more than 400 years before the first cup of coffee was brewed A slug has four noses In 1923, the first neon sign was introduced in the U.S. Two neon signs were sold to a Packard car dealership for $24,000 which read, "Packard." Every year, more than one million miles of Twizzlers licorice is mad...

Oct 11, 20247 min

Uranus has 27 moons (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (10 Oct 2024) [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 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 pri...

Oct 10, 20247 min

Eyebrow hair lasts between 3-5 months before it sheds (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (09 Oct 2024) [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 blue whale is the loudest animal on the earth. Its whistle can reach up to 188 decibels On average men spend 51 minutes a day grooming themselves In Quebec, Canada, an old law states that margarine must be a different colour than butter Eyebrow hair lasts between 3-5 months before it sheds Arnold Palmer was the first pl...

Oct 09, 20247 min

On average a business document is copied 19 times (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (08 Oct 2024) [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 chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having twins is 1 in 9 The reason why bubbles are round is because this is the most efficient shape that the soap film can take for the amount of air trapped inside Someone ...

Oct 08, 20248 min

Basketball superstar Wilt Chamberlain holds 56 NBA records (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (07 Oct 2024) [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 first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver". From 1526 to 1707, the first six Mogul emperors of India ruled in unbroken succession from father to son Lightning strikes the Empire States Building about seven times a year The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda mov...

Oct 07, 20247 min

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (06 Oct 2024) [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 States, 8.5 million cosmetic surgical and non-surgical procedures were done in the year 2001 Researchers have developed odourless socks. The sock fabric is made by attaching molecules that contain chlorine called halamines to textile fibers An average home creates more pollution than does the average car Behra...

Oct 06, 20248 min

Native Americans used to use pumpkin seeds for medicine (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (05 Oct 2024) [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 monogram "RR" for Rolls-Royce has never been altered, except for when Sir Henry Royce passed away in 1933. Then it was changed from red to black. It was during World War II that clothes with elastic waists were introduced. This is because the metal used in zippers was badly needed for the war The five Olympic rings repr...

Oct 05, 20247 min

Fido means faithful in Latin (+ 6 more facts)

Daily Facts (04 Oct 2024) [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 loss of eyelashes is referred to as madarosis Back in 1796, dimes were called dismes Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth Fido means faithful in Latin Stewardesses is one of the longest words typed with only the left hand Every year, surgical tools are left in approximately ...

Oct 04, 20246 min

Eating eight strawberries will provide you with more Vitamin C than an orange (+ 5 more facts)

Daily Facts (03 Oct 2024) [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 slowest growing finger nail is on the thumb nail and the fastest growing is the finger nail on the middle finger 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 re...

Oct 03, 20245 min

The majority of cats do not have any eyelashes (+ 7 more facts)

Daily Facts (02 Oct 2024) [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 highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado In 1946 Danon Yogurt were the first to add fruit to commercially produced yogurt in U.S The majority of cats do not have any eyelashes In 1902, the game table tennis was brought to the U.S. from Europe by Parker Brothers Black pepper is the most po...

Oct 02, 20246 min

55,700 people in the US are injured by jewelry each year (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (01 Oct 2024) [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 average 1,668 gallons of water are used by each person in the United States daily The reason why flamingos are pink is because they eat shrimp which have a red pigment There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000 In China, fish is eaten mo...

Oct 01, 20247 min

The garfish has green bones (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (30 Sep 2024) [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 is a town in Texas called Ding Dong. In 1990, the population was only twenty-two people The dot that appears over the letter "i" is called a tittle In 1962, the first Wal-Mart opened up in Rogers, Arkansas Devon, England has about 33,000 miles of hedgerows, more hedgerows than any other country Actor Sylvester Stallon...

Sep 30, 20247 min

The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (29 Sep 2024) [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: Soil that is heated by geysers are now making it possible to produce bananas in Iceland There are some types of chocolates that are actually good for the arteries and heart The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs The Simpsons is the longest running prime-time animated series on television history Every second there are 41...

Sep 29, 20247 min

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (27 Sep 2024) [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 citric acid found in lemon juice is said to be able to dissolve a pearl In order to scare away predators, Giant petrels, a type of seabird, throw up all over the intruder Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated In the United States, you are more likely to be killed by a bee sting than a shark attack The hump of a cam...

Sep 27, 20247 min

The Bible has been translated into Klingon. (+ 6 more facts)

Daily Facts (26 Sep 2024) [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: When the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, received an alarming number of threatening letters, soon after her husband became President at the height of the Depression, the Secret Service insisted that she carry a pistol in her purse The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war Elvis ha...

Sep 26, 20246 min

The Hundred Years War lasted for 116 years (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (25 Sep 2024) [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 Aspirin was invented from "A" in acetyl chloride. The "spir" comes from spiraea ulmaria which is the plant that they got the salicylic acid from, and the "in" was used because back then it was popular to end the name of medicines with "in." The Hundred Years War lasted for 116 years In the movie "The Matrix Reloade...

Sep 25, 20247 min

The Coca Cola company offers more than 300 different beverages (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (24 Sep 2024) [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 Coca Cola company offers more than 300 different beverages Bobby Carpenter was the first American player to score 50 goals in a season Tomato ketchup is a good conditioner for the hair. It also helps get the greenish tinge that some blonde haired people get after swimming in water with chlorine in it Oral-B were the fir...

Sep 24, 20247 min

There are no snakes in New Zealand (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (23 Sep 2024) [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 word, tattoo originated from the Tahitain word "tattau" which means "to mark." There are no snakes in New Zealand Boxing champion Gene Tunney taught Shakespeare at Yale University In 1905, the first pizzeria in the U.S. opened in New York City An average driver spends approximately 2 hours and 14 minutes kissing in thei...

Sep 23, 20247 min

Emus cannot walk backwards (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (22 Sep 2024) [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: Dogs can be trained to detect an upcoming epileptic seizure An oyster can change its gender Wendel Clark holds the record for the longest span between NHL All-Star appearances, with 13 years (1986-1999) Another way to say "every 9 years" is Novennial The silk that is produced by spiders is stronger than steel In 1926, a wai...

Sep 22, 20247 min

The Nobel prize was first awarded in 1901 (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (21 Sep 2024) [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: 7 out of 10 people believe in life after death More than $1 billion is spent each year on neck ties in the United States An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged. They all taste sweet An artist from Chicago named Dwight Kalb created a statue of Madonna made out of 180 pounds of h...

Sep 21, 20247 min

Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (20 Sep 2024) [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: Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them The fat from sheep, which is called tallow can be used to make soap and candles The stringy thing that is seen in egg whites is called "chalazae." In Britain, there are approximately 50,000 pubs with 17,000 different names In Belgium, 172,000 tons of chocolate are produced i...

Sep 20, 20247 min

There are some ice creams that are 75% air (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (19 Sep 2024) [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 human body makes anywhere from 1 to 3 pints of saliva every 24 hours The reason why the Mexican sombrero hat is so wide is to provide shade for the entire body On December 17 1991, the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Miami Heat 148-80, the largest margin of victory in an NBA game A butterfly has to have a body temperature ...

Sep 19, 20247 min

Pigeons can see ultraviolet lights (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (18 Sep 2024) [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: Pigeons can see ultraviolet lights According to the American Institute of Stress, job stress approximately costs the U.S. industry over $300 billion dollars per year There are more than 2,000 different varieties of cheese in the world The word "vamp" is used to describe the upper front top of a shoe In the movie "The Exorci...

Sep 18, 20247 min

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (17 Sep 2024) [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 first subway system in America was built in Boston, Massachusetts in 1897. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister The Indian election in 1984 was the largest election of any country. Over 379,000,000 voters were eligible to vote at over 480,000 polling stations Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle A chicken loses ...

Sep 17, 20247 min

Taipan snakes have 50 times more toxic than a cobra snake (+ 4 more facts)

Daily Facts (16 Sep 2024) [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 word Lethologica describes the state of not remembering the word you want to say The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want The first music video ever played on MTV Europe was by Dire Straits, "Money For Nothing." The name Hasbro was invented by the name of the founders: H...

Sep 16, 20245 min

There are some bananas that are red instead of yellow (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (15 Sep 2024) [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: Namco, who are the manufacturers of Pac Man the video game, has estimated that the original arcade game has been played over 10 billion times by individuals On average, a Canadian girl owns seven Barbie dolls, whereas an American girl owns eight Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression than men in the Unite...

Sep 15, 20247 min

Rats can survive up to 14 days without any food (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (14 Sep 2024) [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: Rats can survive up to 14 days without any food The name "Muppet" was coined by Jim Henson. The word was made from a combination of the word "marionette" and "puppet." In 1886, Coca-cola was first served at a pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia for only five cents a glass. A pharmacist named John Pemberton created the formula for ...

Sep 14, 20247 min

Centipedes always have an uneven pairs of walking legs (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (13 Sep 2024) [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: Female alligators lay about 40 eggs that hatch in 60 - 70 days You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider The list of ingredients that make up lipstick include fish scales The two factories of the Jelly Belly Candy Company produces approximately 100,000 pounds of jelly beans a day. this ...

Sep 13, 20248 min
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