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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

A snail can sleep for 3 years (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (07 Oct 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 most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10 There is a doggy disco held in Italy every year where owners can dance with their dogs Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball The word Lethologica describes the state of not remembering the word you want to say The planet V...

Oct 07, 20237 min

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (06 Oct 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 dime has 118 ridges around the edge Black pepper is the most popular spice in the world On average, an ear of a corn has 16 rows and approximately 800 kernels The story of Mulan had been told in China for almost 1,500 years before Disney decided to make it into an animated movie The revolving door was invented in 1888, by...

Oct 06, 20237 min

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a disease caused by ticks (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (05 Oct 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 last land battle of the U.S. Civil War was fought in Texas The reason why bubble gum is pink is because the inventor only had pink colouring left. Ever since then, the colour of bubble gum has been predominantly pink Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a disease caused by ticks In 1992, approximately 750 deaths occurred in ...

Oct 05, 20237 min

An average person laughs about 15 times a day (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (04 Oct 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 average person laughs about 15 times a day Romans used to believe that walnuts could cure head ailments during the Renaissance, since their shape was similar to that of a brain In a year, Americans eat approximately 20 billion pickles According to psychologists, the shoe and the foot are the most common sources of sexual...

Oct 04, 20237 min

1 out of 350,000 Americans get electrocuted in their life (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (03 Oct 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: Wild Flamingos are pink because they consume vast quantities of algae and brine shrimp In the last 30 years, only seven people have been killed by a polar bear in Canada 1 out of 350,000 Americans get electrocuted in their life The dromedary camel can drink as much as 100 litres of water in just 10 minutes In 2002, the most...

Oct 03, 20238 min

Britons eat over 22,000 tonnes of french fries a week (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (02 Oct 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: Prosopagnosia refers to the inability to identify people by their faces. In severe cased prosopagnosia a person may not be able to identify themselves in a mirror Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump." Mars is the home of Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in our solar system The 20th president of th...

Oct 02, 20238 min

Every person has a unique tongue print (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (01 Oct 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: Native Americans used to use pumpkin seeds for medicine On September 7, 1997, the first flight of the F-22a occurred. Every person has a unique tongue print In London, during rush hour traffic moves on average at 13 kilometres an hour Next to bone marrow, hair is the fastest growing tissue in the human body Actor Richard Ge...

Oct 01, 20237 min

On average, Guinness sells 7 million glasses of beer a day (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (30 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: In a day, kids in the U.S. that are between the ages of 2 - 8 spend 28 minutes of their time coloring Jellyfish have been on Earth for over 650 million years. This is before sharks and dinosaurs Before soccer referees started using whistles in 1878, they used to rely on waving a handkerchief In the 18th century, potatoes we...

Sep 30, 20237 min

The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (29 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: The earliest known example of an organized market for equities dates from Rome, second century B.C A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years Every year Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes, 1,000 of which measure above 3.5 on the Richter scale The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards ...

Sep 29, 20237 min

Lachanophobia is the fear of vegetables (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (28 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: Castaways Travel, a Houston-area travel agency, offers an all-nude flight to Cancun Mexico. Once the plane reaches cruising altitude, you are allowed to take off all your clothes and roam about the cabin Male owls weigh less and are smaller than female owls Chedder cheese is the best selling cheese in the USA Turkeys can ha...

Sep 28, 20237 min

Turkeys have a wingspan of approximately 4.5 feet (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (27 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: The word "walkman" was included in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1986 Turkeys have a wingspan of approximately 4.5 feet In a lifetime, the average house cat spends approximately 10,950 hours purring During World War II, Kit Kat was unavailable due to milk shortages, so the chocolate bar was made without milk Hydrogen gas...

Sep 27, 20237 min

The country of Fiji is made up of 332 islands (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (26 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: The expression cooked "al dente" means "to the tooth." What this means is that the pasta should be somewhat firm, and offer some resistance to the tooth, but should also be tender Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry One-third po...

Sep 26, 20237 min

The oldest known disease in the world is leprosy (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (25 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: The oldest known disease in the world is leprosy The fastest flying butterfly is the Monarch, which has been clocked with a speed as high as 17 miles per hour The name of the squiggly line "~" is called a tilde Sylvia Plath was a famous poet who killed herself at age thirty-one by sticking her head into a gas oven The pound...

Sep 25, 20238 min

Approximately 75% of human poop is made of water (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (24 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: A rose imprint that was fossilized in a slate was discovered in Florisant, Colorado, which is said to be thirty-five million years old One out of five people that eat ice cream binge on ice cream in the middle of the night. The person is usually between 18 - 24 years old The movie "Cleopatra" cost $44 million to make in 196...

Sep 24, 20237 min

A myrmecologist studies ants (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (23 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: Annually, an Australian eats 15 kg of bananas, which comes out to 27 meters of bananas More than three thousand people work on research in Antarctica each year The word "laser" stands for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission by radiation." A lifespan of an eyelash is approximately 150 days A myrmecologist studies ant...

Sep 23, 20238 min

Polar bears can smell seal from 20 miles away (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (22 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: Asparagus comes in three colors: green, white and purple 3000 children die every day in Africa because of malaria The only South East Asian country that has never been colonized by a Western Power is Thailand Copper is the second most used metal in the world. In 1936, the first practical helicopter was invented. It was the ...

Sep 22, 20237 min

Women blink nearly twice as much as men (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (21 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 substance in the skin of the African clawed frog that helps in fighting infection The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day. Eyebrow hair lasts between 3-5 months before it sheds Elephants have been known to learn up to 60 commands ...

Sep 21, 20238 min

Enamel is hardest substance in the human body (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (20 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: Panthers are known as black leopards, as they are the same species of leopard. If looked at closely, black spots can be seen on a panther The Canandian province of New Brunswick had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839. The only bone fully grown at birth is located in the ear The full name of the Titanic ship ...

Sep 20, 20237 min

The study of ants is called Myrmecology (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (19 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: On average, a typical dairy cow lies down and stands up about 14 times a day In the game of Monopoly, the most landed on properties are B&O Railroad, Illinois Avenue, and "Go." Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses The only sound Seahorses make is a small clicking or popping sound during feeding or courtshi...

Sep 19, 20238 min

In 1681, the last dodo bird died (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (18 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 over 200 parts in a typical telephone American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class Five thousandths of a millimeter is the tolerance of accuracy at the LEGO mould factories In 1681, the last dodo bird died The average person spends two weeks of their life k...

Sep 18, 20238 min

One billion seconds is about 32 years (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (17 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: One billion seconds is about 32 years The tridacna clam can grow up to four feet long and weigh up to 500 pounds There is a certain species of kangaroo that is only 2.5 centimetres long when it is born The world's first underground was the London Underground in1863. It has 275 stations and 253 miles of track. On average, Am...

Sep 17, 20237 min

Emus cannot walk backwards (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (16 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: When Nylons first went on sale in the United States in 1940, four million pairs were sold in only a few days The turkey was once nominated to be the official bird of the United States Emus cannot walk backwards The nut "filbert" got its name from St. Philbert which is celebrated on August 22nd, which is also when the nut ma...

Sep 16, 20236 min

Only 4% of babies are born on their actual due date (+ 4 more facts)

Daily Facts (15 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: Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure At the 1960 Winter Olympic Games, Walt Disney was head of the committee that organized the opening day ceremonies Only 4% of babies are born on their actual due date The largest known hailstone to have fallen was in Germany in 1925, which weighed close to f...

Sep 15, 20235 min

Most toilets flush in E flat (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (14 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: The act of stretching and yawning is referred to as pandiculation The largest coral reef in the world is the Great Barrier Reef located in Australia. The reef is approximately 2023 kilometers long Dandelion root can be roasted and ground as a coffee substitute On average, a hen lays 300 eggs per year The first World Series ...

Sep 14, 20237 min

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

Daily Facts (13 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: Franklin Pierce was the first U.S. President to have a Christmas tree in the White House Found in Argentina, the ornate horned frog can eat an entire mouse with one swallow Pikeville, Kentucky consumes the most Pepsi per capita then any other American city The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in...

Sep 13, 20238 min

A group of larks is called an exaltation (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (12 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: When a predator is chasing an impala, a type of antelope, it runs in a zig zag formation jumping as high as three metres A female ferret can die if she goes into heat and cannot find a mate Annually Americans eat 45 million turkeys at Thanksgiving Approximately 1-2 calorie are burned a minute while watching T.V Sharks are c...

Sep 12, 20237 min

Iguanas can stay under water for up to thirty minutes (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (11 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 45 billion fat cells in an average adult It is estimated that over fifty-four million people died in World War II, which was the bloodiest war in history Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression than men in the United States During the high feeding season, it has been estimated that ...

Sep 11, 20238 min

A butterfly can see the colors red, green, and yellow (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (10 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: The reason the Animal Crackers box is designed with a string handle is because when the popular circus theme was introduced in 1902 they thought it would also be a good idea to package them with a string as a Christmas novelty so they could be hung from Christmas trees The most dangerous job in the United States is that of ...

Sep 10, 20237 min

A cow releases about 125 gallons of gas per day (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (09 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: A yawn usually lasts for approximately six seconds A cow releases about 125 gallons of gas per day Wheel of Fortune star Vanna White holds the record for putting her hands together approximately 140,000 times to clap A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine Colonel Sanders traveled over 250,000 miles a year visit...

Sep 09, 20237 min

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

Daily Facts (08 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: In ancient Egypt, the only person who was allowed to wear cotton was the High Priest In an average lifetime, people spend four years traveling in cars and six months waiting for red light to turn green The only woman that has appeared on a U.S. paper currency is Martha Washington A diet high in fat is said to impede memory ...

Sep 08, 20237 min
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