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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

There are approximately 75,000,000 horses in the world (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (06 Sep 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 approximately 75,000,000 horses in the world Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable Billiards used to be so popular at one time that cigarette cards were issued featuring players Tobacco kills more Americans each year than alcohol, cocaine, crack, heroin, homicide, suicide, car accidents, fire and...

Sep 06, 20237 min

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (04 Sep 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: Eating 11 pounds of apples will make you gain one pound of weight Tacoma Narrows Bridge which was located in Washington was nicknamed "Galloping Gertie" because of the unusual way it twisted and swayed with even with the slightest winds when people would drive on it. The bridge collapsed on November 7, 1940, fortunately no ...

Sep 04, 20237 min

There is a town in Norway called Hell (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (03 Sep 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 is a town in Norway called "Hell" The honey badger can withstand hundreds of bee stings that would otherwise kill another animal The famous jewelry store Tiffany & Co. was established on September 18, 1837 in New York City. The amount of sales that were made the first day were $4.98 The size of a red blood cell is...

Sep 03, 20237 min

Most lipstick contains fish scales (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (01 Sep 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 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 longest freshwater shoreline in the world is located in the state of Michigan It requires 63 feet of wire to make a Slinky toy Scientists have actually performed brain surge...

Sep 01, 20237 min

Turtles can breathe through their butts (+ 7 more facts)

Daily Facts (31 Aug 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: German cockroaches can survive for up to one month without food and two weeks without water The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. Turtles can breathe through their butts Tasmania is said to have the cleanest air in the world In 1988, the largest ice cream sundae in history was made. It was made in Edmonton, A...

Aug 31, 20236 min

In Belgium, there is a museum just for strawberries (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (29 Aug 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: Cimeti?re du P?re Lachaise located in Paris is the most visited cemetery in the world. The cemetery opened in 1805 and has over one million people buried there, including rock star Jim Morrison With winds of 50 miles per hour, The Statue of Liberty sways three inches and the torch sways five inches Over 175 million cubic ya...

Aug 29, 20237 min

A starfish can turn its stomach inside out (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (28 Aug 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 adult electric eel can produce a five hundred volt shock, which is enough to stun a horse Archeologists report that cannabis was most likely the first plant cultivated by humans. Cannabis was used for linen, paper, and garments In ancient Greece, throwing an apple to a girl was a way to propose for marriage.. If the gir...

Aug 28, 20237 min

Platypuses mate in the water (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (27 Aug 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: Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating arealready married. Canadians eat more Kraft Dinner (Macaroni and Cheese) per capita than any other country in the world The A.A. Milne character of Winnie the Pooh made his animated film debut in 1966 in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree Badminton originate...

Aug 27, 20237 min

Cat's urine glows under a blacklight. (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (26 Aug 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 overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, England and was returned 288 years later Americans, on average, spend 18% of his or her income on transportation as compared to only 13% spent on food In India, pickled ginger, minced mutton and a cottage cheese like substance are popul...

Aug 26, 20237 min

Astronauts get taller when they are in space (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (25 Aug 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: Astronauts get taller when they are in space If all the insects in the world were put on a scale, they would out weigh all creatures Nine egg yolks have been found in one chicken egg Lake Baikal is the oldest freshwater lake on Earth, having formed between 20 and 25 million years ago All of the Peking ducks in the United St...

Aug 25, 20237 min

Oak trees can live 200 or more years (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (24 Aug 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: Cows drink anywhere from 25-50 gallons of water each day "I am." is the second shortest complete sentence in the English language The Taj Mahal was actually built for use as a tomb Bourbon was first made by a Baptist minsister from Bourbon County in Kentucky in 1789. That is where it got its name The heaviest United States ...

Aug 24, 20237 min

The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (23 Aug 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 WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer The sap of a banana plant leaves serious stains on hands and clothes that is extremely hard to remove It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year'ssupply of footballs. The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 ...

Aug 23, 20237 min

Montreal is actually located on an island (+ 7 more facts)

Daily Facts (22 Aug 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 venom of the king cobra is so deadly that one bite can kill twenty people or one elephant There was a post office on the Russian space station Mir. Visiting cosmonauts would use unique postal "markers" to stamp envelopes and other items as having flown aboard the Mir space station Montreal is actually located on an isla...

Aug 22, 20236 min

Eating dandelions can make you urinate more (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (21 Aug 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: Eating dandelions can make you urinate more On average, a man spends about five months of his life shaving There are an equivalent number of cows and people in Friesland, Netherlands Bats sleep during the day and feed at night. The place that bats sleep in is called the "roost." In a study that was done by the University of...

Aug 21, 20237 min

A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (20 Aug 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: Dairy cows can produce 20 to 35 gallons of saliva a day Even though red roses looks the same, there are over 900 different types of red roses In the U.S., approximately 46% of the chicken that is eaten by people comes from restaurants or other food outlets On average, an American makes three pounds of garbage in a day The e...

Aug 20, 20237 min

Kellogg"s started selling their most famous product, Corn Flakes, in 1906 (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (19 Aug 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 Czechoslovakia, there is a church that has a chandelier made out of human bones A rainbow can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a 6 foot-tall human jumping the length of 7 football fields Finland is also known as "the land of of the t...

Aug 19, 20237 min

Koalas sleep up to 19 hours a day (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (18 Aug 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: Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, andchocolate. Edward VIII did not officially become the King of England as he abdicated the throne to marry an American divorcee A maple tree is usually tapped when the tree is at least 45 years old and has a diameter of 12 inches A housefly can only ingest liqu...

Aug 18, 20237 min

One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (17 Aug 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 life expectancy of a $100 bill is nine years Rats can survive up to 14 days without any food If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs inthe air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg inthe air,the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horsehasall four ...

Aug 17, 20238 min

Female alligators lay about 40 eggs that hatch in 60 - 70 days (+ 7 more facts)

Daily Facts (16 Aug 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 caterpillar grows roughly 27,000 times its size when it first emerges as an egg Braces were first invented by Pierre Fauchard in 1728. The braces were made by a flat strip of metal, which was connected to the teeth by thread. On average, a Canadian girl owns seven Barbie dolls, whereas an American girl owns eight Russian ...

Aug 16, 20236 min

Every three minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (15 Aug 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: Construction on the Leaning Tower of Pisa began on August 9th, 1173 4% of an apples is made up of minerals and vitamins, and over 80% is made up of water In America, approximately 25% of kids aged 6-14 have a magaznie subscription Every three minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer German immigrant, Louis Prang was ...

Aug 15, 20238 min

The sun is approximately 149 million kilometres from the earth (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (14 Aug 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: Dipsomania refers to an insatiable craving for alcoholic beverages NASDAQ stand for, "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations." French soldiers during World War I had the nickname "poilu" which translates to "hairy one." The word "comet" comes from the Greek word "kometes" meaning long hair and refer...

Aug 14, 20237 min

In 1965, the price for an issue of TV Guide was 15 cents (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (13 Aug 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: Macadamia nuts are not sold in their shells because it takes 300 pounds per square inch of pressure to break the shell Sharks are so powerful that their bite can generate a force of up to 18 tons per square inch The Library of Congress, located in Washington D.C., is the largest library in the world The fleshy bulbs on each...

Aug 13, 20237 min

You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (12 Aug 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: You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog NASCAR stands for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing In Canada, the $1 and $2 come in the form of coins. The $1 is nicknamed a "loonie" because it contains a loon on it and the $2 is nicknamed the "twonie" because it is the equivalent of two "loonies." Ancient Egyptians...

Aug 12, 20237 min

The meaning of Siberia is sleeping land. (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (11 Aug 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: Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously Robert Wadlow is the tallest man recorded in history. He grew to be eight feet and eleven inches and weighed 490 pounds when he died The first ice hotel was built in Swedish Lapland The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letteris uncopyrightabl...

Aug 11, 20237 min

An ear of corn consists of 80% water (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (10 Aug 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 of the Bond girls in the James Bond movie, "For Your Eyes Only," used to be a man Every three days a human stomach gets a new lining Baseball games between college teams have been played since the Civil War American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class An ear of cor...

Aug 10, 20237 min

Bubble gum contains rubber (+ 6 more facts)

Daily Facts (09 Aug 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: You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido, once pinned an opponent using only a single finger "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters Bubble gum contains rubber French astronomer Adrien Auzout had once considered buildin...

Aug 09, 20236 min

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

Daily Facts (08 Aug 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: Centipedes always have an uneven pairs of walking legs The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every fivemust be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips intimes ofwar or other emergencies. Orville Wright, a pilot, was involved in the first aircraft accident. His passenger, a Frenchman, w...

Aug 08, 20237 min

A penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hour (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (07 Aug 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: According to research, the most productive workday is Tuesday and the least productive is Friday The state of California has more 7-Eleven stores than any other state. There are approximately 1,200 stores In America, the most common mental illness is Anxiety Disorders In the U.S., the milk production per dairy cow is approx...

Aug 07, 20238 min

The Mexican Hat Dance is the official dance of Mexico (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (06 Aug 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: Hundreds of years ago, only the wealthy people used to wear underwear A woman has approximately 4.5 litres of blood in her body, while men have 5.6 litres The biggest hamburger that was served was 8,266 pounds. It was made at the Burger Fest in Seymour, Wisconsin Ketchup originated in China as a pickled fish sauce called ke...

Aug 06, 20237 min

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (05 Aug 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 Great Pyramids used to be as white as snow because they were encased in a bright limestone that has worn off over the years Great Britain was the first country to issue postage stamps in 1840 A fetus starts to develop fingerprints at the age of eight weeks Singer Alice Cooper once had a live chicken thrown at him during...

Aug 05, 20237 min
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