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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

Ants do not sleep (+ 6 more facts)

Daily Facts (03 Jul 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 Connecticut Toy maker, Herobuilders, sells action figures of President George W. Bush, Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, which are all major figures tied to the September 11, 2001 WTC attacks During one seven year period, Thomas Edison obtained approxi...

Jul 03, 20236 min

Walt Disney was afraid of mice (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (02 Jul 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 first television show to show any portion of a toilet was on "Leave it to Beaver." After fighting for ten weeks to show the toilet, CBS would only allow the producers to show the toilet tank, and not the whole toilet A violin actually contains 70 separate pieces of wood Club Direct, a travel insurance company in Britain...

Jul 02, 20237 min

The first American astronaut in space was Alan B. Shepard Jr (+ 4 more facts)

Daily Facts (01 Jul 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: Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream. This was the only vegetable flavoured ice cream produced. However, they discontinued it since they thought it would not sell well The first American astronaut in space was Alan B. Shepard Jr An adult esophagus can range from 10 to 14 inches in length and is one inch in diameter Re...

Jul 01, 20235 min

Every day, over 1,300 babies are born prematurely in the USA (+ 4 more facts)

Daily Facts (30 Jun 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 day, over 1,300 babies are born prematurely in the USA 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 Every square inch of the human body has about 19,000,000 ...

Jun 30, 20234 min

LSD is made from lysergic acid, which is found in ergot, a type of fungus (+ 5 more facts)

Daily Facts (29 Jun 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 one day, a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes. This amounts to approximately two kilograms in a year In a day, kids in the U.S. that are between the ages of 2 - 8 spend 28 minutes of their time coloring LSD is made from lysergic acid, which is found in ergot, a type of fungus A small drip from a faucet can waste up to 50...

Jun 29, 20235 min

In the United Kingdom, three million people play bingo every year (+ 7 more facts)

Daily Facts (28 Jun 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 lifespan of a firefly is about seven days. During these days, they are busy trying to find a mate The aorta, which is largest artery located in the body, is about the diameter of a garden hose Castaways Travel, a Houston-area travel agency, offers an all-nude flight to Cancun Mexico. Once the plane reaches cruising alti...

Jun 28, 20236 min

Pomology is the science of growing an apple (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (27 Jun 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: "Pomology" is the science of growing an apple The most reproduced image in the world is Mickey Mouse, which can be found on over 7,500 different items The first human heart transplant happened on December 3, 1967. Unfortunately the patient only lived for eighteen days, succumbing in the end to pneumonia The first letter Van...

Jun 27, 20238 min

An elephant cannot jump (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (26 Jun 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: An orca whale can hold its breath for up to 15 minutes Germany produces more than 5,000 varieties of beer and has about 1,300 breweries in country An elephant cannot jump The Australian box-jellyfish has eight eyes The real name of actress Whoopi Goldberg is Caryn Elaine Johnson The fur of the binturong, also known as the "...

Jun 26, 20238 min

The Pentagon has 284 restrooms (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (25 Jun 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: Dexter is the smallest type of cow. This cow was bred to be a small size for household living A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere A Canadian Tour company offers a two-day course in igloo building The Pentagon has 284 restrooms In 1953, racecar driver Tim Flock raced at Nascar with a ...

Jun 25, 20238 min

The capital of Burkina Faso is Ouagadougou (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (24 Jun 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 word "umbrella" is derived from the Latin root word "umbra", which means shade or shadow There are some bananas that are red instead of yellow A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in relation to its size The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people The hippopotamus has the capa...

Jun 24, 20238 min

Mosquitoes prefer children over adults (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (23 Jun 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: Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic The kidneys filter over 400 gallons of blood each day The first movie to ever cost $100 million to make is Terminator 2: Judgment Day in 1991 On average, he ratio of yellow kernels to white kernals in a bag of popcorn is 9:1 "dous":tremendous, horrendous, stupendous,...

Jun 23, 20238 min

There are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (22 Jun 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: Approximately 200 pets are buried in a pet cemetery out of the thousands of pets that die each day In Canada, men are three times more likely than women to have seen a doctor in the last year There are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year There is an organization called SCROOGE in Charlottesville, Virginia ...

Jun 22, 20237 min

A group of crows is called a murder (+ 7 more facts)

Daily Facts (21 Jun 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 group of crows is called a murder Broccoli was first introduced into France during the royal marriage of Catherine de Medici to Henry II of France People still cut the cheese shortly after death George Washington had teeth made out of hippopotamus ivory The risk of cardiovascular disease is twice as high in women that sno...

Jun 21, 20237 min

The word Karate means, empty hand. (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (20 Jun 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: Tug of war was an Olympic event from 1900-1920 Every year approximately 3,000 people choke to death Canadians Scott Abbott and Chris Haney invented Trivial Pursuit. They were planning on playing Scrabble and realized that some of the pieces were missing so they came up with the idea of making their own game; Trivial Pursuit...

Jun 20, 20238 min

A human eyeball weighs an ounce (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (19 Jun 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: More than 100 professional cyclists participate in the Tour de France every year and the race is over 3,200 kilometers Since the United Nations was founded in 1945, there have been 140 wars A seven year old boy was the first person to survive the Horeshoe Falls (Niagara Falls) in just a life jacket In the Netherlands, there...

Jun 19, 20238 min

Traveling by air is the safest means of transportation. (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (18 Jun 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: 98% of houses in the United States have at least one television set Every single hamster in the United States today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930 The all-time most nominated Grammy artist with 77 nominations is Quincy Jones Traveling by air is the safest means of transportation. The longest recorded d...

Jun 18, 20238 min

Fido means faithful in Latin (+ 7 more facts)

Daily Facts (17 Jun 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: Roughly 44% of junk mail is thrown away unopened In one minute, the heart of a giraffe can pump 160 gallons of blood Japan has approximately 200 volcanoes and is home to 10% of the active volcanoes in the world The music group Simply Red got its name from band member Mick Hucknall, who has red hair Fido means faithful in La...

Jun 17, 20237 min

18% of an Americans income is spent on transportation (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (16 Jun 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: To make one pound of whole milk cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is needed The two top toys in 1950 were Silly Putty which sold for $1, and Crayola crayons which sold for 50 cents For the blockbuster movie "The Terminator," O.J. Simpson was considered to play the role of the Terminator, but producers did not choose him as th...

Jun 16, 20238 min

7 out of 10 people believe in life after death (+ 3 more facts)

Daily Facts (15 Jun 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: Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star According to Scientists, vampire bat saliva is the best known medicine for keeping blood from clotting. 7 out of 10 people believe in life after death Milk chocolate was invented in Switzerland by David Peter in 1876 Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ni...

Jun 15, 20234 min

Dogs can be trained to detect an upcoming epileptic seizure (+ 4 more facts)

Daily Facts (14 Jun 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 oldest bird on record was Cocky, a cockatoo, who died in the London Zoo at the age of 82 Dogs can be trained to detect an upcoming epileptic seizure DC-10, the name of an airplane stands for "Douglas Commercial." The number one cause of rabies in the United States are bats Approximately 25,000 workers died during the bu...

Jun 14, 20235 min

The official state mammal of Texas is the armadillo (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (13 Jun 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 women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder The Sears Tower in Chicago contains enough steel to build 50,000 automobiles The official state mammal of Texas is the armadillo In Quebec, Canada, an old law states that margarine must be a different colour than butter Chocolate was used as ...

Jun 13, 20238 min

People who studies laughter are called a gelotologists. (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (11 Jun 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: By walking an extra 20 minutes every day, an average person will burn off seven pounds of body fat in an year The steepest street in the world is Baldwin Street located in Dunedin, New Zealand. It has an incline of 38% Bananas trees are not really trees. They are considered to be giant herb plants People who studies laughte...

Jun 11, 20238 min

There are about 6,800 languages in the world (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (10 Jun 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 microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket Back in 1953, it took 27 hours to make one Marshmallow Peep. Now it takes only six minutes The average height of an NBA basketball player is 6 feet 7 inches Apple seeds are poisonous as they contain a cyanide compou...

Jun 10, 20238 min

On average, the rainfall across the Amazon is 7 feet annually. (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (09 Jun 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 amount of blood a female mosquito drinks per serving is five millionths of a liter A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will on average lose two teeth every ten years The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia The reason the Animal Crackers box is desig...

Jun 09, 20238 min

1 out of every 4 kids in the USA is overweight (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (08 Jun 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: 1 out of every 4 kids in the USA is overweight Food can only be tasted if it is mixed with saliva 3000 children die every day in Africa because of malaria The pound key (#) on the keyboard is called an octothorpe In a pack of Skittles candy, there is an equal 20% distribution of each flavour Chedder cheese is the best selli...

Jun 08, 20238 min

On average, a strawberry has 200 seeds on it (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (07 Jun 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: It takes about three hours for food to be broken down in the human stomach The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119, which is 176 verses The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing The human brain has about 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) neurons On average, a strawberry has 200 seeds on it An acre of trees...

Jun 07, 20238 min

The most common name in the world is Mohammed (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (06 Jun 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: Chicago has the largest cookie factory, where Nabisco made over 4.6 billion "Oreo" cookies in 1997 The most common name in the world is Mohammed Just by recycling one aluminum can, enough energy would be saved to have a TV run for three hours. In 1938, Cliquot Club ginger ale was the first soft drink to be canned 65% of the...

Jun 06, 20237 min

Rabbits can live up to ten years (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (05 Jun 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: By donating just one pint of blood, four lives can be saved A diet high in fat is said to impede memory One-third pound stalk of broccoli contains more vitamin C than 204 apples In gangster slang, a boxing match that is fixed is called a "barney." Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms oftheir han...

Jun 05, 20238 min

Nerve cells can travel as fast as 120 metres per second (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (02 Jun 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 most dangerous job in the United States is that of a fisherman, followed by logging and then an airline pilot Iguanas can recognize their human handlers and greet them differently, compared with strangers Some people drink the urine of pregnant women to build up their immune system There are approximately 90 people that...

Jun 02, 20238 min

Isaac Newton used to be a member of parliament (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (01 Jun 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: 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 Association) Of married couples, 70% of men and 60% of women have cheated on their spouse Isaac Newton used...

Jun 01, 20238 min
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