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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

Sugar Bear (the mascot for Golden Crisps cereal) was born in 1963 (+ 7 more facts)

Daily Facts (12 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 most diners per capita in the world are located in the U.S. state New Jersey The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish After the U.S Civil War, about 33%-50% of all U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit Hershey's Kisses are called that becaus...

Sep 12, 20246 min

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

Daily Facts (11 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: An adult esophagus can range from 10 to 14 inches in length and is one inch in diameter In 1657, the first chocolate house was opened in London, England 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 Food can only be ...

Sep 11, 20247 min

The fear of Halloween is called Samhainophobia (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (10 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: On average, 350 squirts are needed from milking a cow to make a gallon of milk Pound for pound, leopards are said to be seven times stronger than humans In 1963, Mister Rogers was ordained as a Presbyterian minister In Czechhoslovakia, there is a church that has a chandelier made of human bones Milton Bradley originally wan...

Sep 10, 20247 min

Historically, a blue ribbon has been awarded for first prize (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (09 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: In the 20th century, over three million people have died from earthquakes In 1976, fourteen banks merged to form a bank credit card called "Mastercharge." This was later renamed to what is now know as "Mastercard." The YKK on the zipper of your Levis stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the worlds largest zipper manufa...

Sep 09, 20247 min

There are more than 640 muscles in the human body (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (08 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 mother of famous astronomer Johannes Kepler was accused of being a witch Cricket chirping can tell the temperature outside. Counting how many times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds and then adding 40 to that number will approximately tell you what the temperature is in Fahrenheit In 1281, the Mongol army of Kublai Khan tr...

Sep 08, 20247 min

Sponge Candy was invented in Buffalo, NY (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (07 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 are more than 3000 documented caves located in the state of Tennessee In the United States, lightning hits the ground 40 million times a year. Sponge Candy was invented in Buffalo, NY The most popular ethnic food in the United States is Italian food It takes the Hubble telescope about 97 minutes to complete an orbit o...

Sep 07, 20247 min

A blink lasts approximately 0.3 seconds (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (06 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: Between 1997-2002, there was an increase of 228% in cosmetic procedures in the United States Jellyfish have been on Earth for over 650 million years. This is before sharks and dinosaurs The state of Alaska has almost twice as many caribou as people Wham-O manufactured twenty-thousand hula-hoops a day at the peak of hula-hoo...

Sep 06, 20247 min

One out of four American households own a cat (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (05 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 TV commercial advertisement was by the Bulova Watch company on July 1, 1941. The watch company paid $9.00 for an announcement that was 10 seconds long The country with the highest consumption of candy at 29.5 pounds annually per person is Denmark John Van Wormer invented paper milk cartons after dropping a bottle ...

Sep 05, 20247 min

An armadillo can walk under water (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (04 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 Ribbon worm will eat themselves if they cannot find food. This type of worm can still survive after eating up to 95% of its body weight The total mileage driven by all U-Haul trucks in a year is enough to move a person from the Earth to the moon five times a day for an entire year Eighty percent of the Vanilla Beans wh...

Sep 04, 20247 min

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

Daily Facts (03 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: Ed Cox from San Francisco invented the pot scrubbing S.O.S. pads in 1917. His wife came up with the name, which stands for "Save Our Saucepans." The longest distance a deepwater lobster has been recorded to travel is 225 miles A British term for slot machine is "fruit machine" or "one-armed bandit." From the age of thirty, ...

Sep 03, 20247 min

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

Daily Facts (02 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: To make one raindrop of water, it takes approximately a million cloud droplets Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego Spartacus led the revolt of the Roman slaves and gladiators in 73 B.C There is a certain type of Hawk Moth caterpillar from Brazil that inflates its thorax, which makes its head look like a head ...

Sep 02, 20247 min

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (01 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 Bank of America was originally called the Bank of Italy until the founder, Amedeo Giannini, changed the name in 1930 Ancient Egyptians used to think having facial hair was an indication of personal neglect Mass murderer Charles Manson recorded an album titled "Lie." It is very common for babies in New Zealand to sleep o...

Sep 01, 20247 min

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

Daily Facts (31 Aug 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: Elvis Presley used to be a truck driver before he started singing Beluga whales which are also called "white whales" are not born white. They are born grey in color, and by the age of six become completely white To tell if a egg is fully cooked or raw, just spin it. If the egg wobbles then it is still raw, and if it easily ...

Aug 31, 20247 min

Tarantulas can live up to 30 years (+ 7 more facts)

Daily Facts (30 Aug 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: Wild Flamingos are pink because they consume vast quantities of algae and brine shrimp In November 1999, two women were killed by a lightning bolt. The underwire located in their bras acted as a electrical conductors, and when the lightning bolt hit the bra they left burn marks on their chest Of all the countries, Brazil ha...

Aug 30, 20246 min

Spiders have claws at the ends of their legs (+ 7 more facts)

Daily Facts (29 Aug 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 arthritis medications contain gold salts, which is used as an anti-inflammatory On September 9, 1950 dubbed laughter was used for the first time on television. It was used for the sitcom "The Hank McCune Show." Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day. The microwave oven was invented after a researcher walked by...

Aug 29, 20246 min

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (28 Aug 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 production of toilet paper in China began in 1391, which was used for the Emperors In the Netherlands, there are special traffic lanes for bicycles. There are approximately 17,000 kms of cycle lanes with special bicycle traffic lights. Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress Charlie Chaplin once lost a ...

Aug 28, 20247 min

A myrmecologist studies ants (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (27 Aug 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 parents of Albert Einstein were worried that he was mentally slow because it took him a long time to learn how to speak A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon Sylvia Plath was a famous poet who killed herself at age thirty-one by sticking her head into a gas oven On April 4, 1974, J...

Aug 27, 20247 min

A newly hatched fish is called a fry. (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (26 Aug 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: Even though red roses looks the same, there are over 900 different types of red roses Singer Billy Joel tried to commit suicide when he was 21 by drinking furniture polish The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the english language A newly hatched fish is called a "fry." 70% of the p...

Aug 26, 20247 min

One Neptune year lasts 165 Earth years (+ 7 more facts)

Daily Facts (25 Aug 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 1916, an elephant was tried and hung for murder in Erwin, Tennessee Australia has had stamps that actually look like gems. In 1995 and 1996 they used a special technology to make the stamps look like diamonds and opals. There are 293 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa Polar bears can eat as much as ten percent...

Aug 25, 20246 min

The most popular grown bulbs are tulips (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (24 Aug 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 dromedary camel can drink as much as 100 litres of water in just 10 minutes During WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become The Steagles The most popular grown bulbs are tulips According to psychologists, the shoe and the foot are the most com...

Aug 24, 20247 min

There are approximately 60 muscles in the face (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (23 Aug 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 "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Suess in the book "If I Ran to the Zoo." Polar bears have been known to swim more than 60 miles without resting Scatologists are experts who study feces. (aka. crap, dung, dookie, dumps, feces, excrement, etc.) In 1884, Dr. Hervey D. Thatcher invented the milk bottle. In Canada, the m...

Aug 23, 20247 min

Urophobia is the fear of urine or urinating (+ 7 more facts)

Daily Facts (22 Aug 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: Urophobia is the fear of urine or urinating Honolulu, Hawaii boasts the only royal palace in the United States of America Florida has twice as many lightning injuries and deaths than any other state Early sewing machines were destroyed by mobs or workers who felt their jobs were threatened by automation In 1949 UNICEF produ...

Aug 22, 20246 min

Apples are part of the rose family (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (21 Aug 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 giraffe is able to clean its ears with its own tongue The aorta, which is largest artery located in the body, is about the diameter of a garden hose The only desert in Canada is located in Osoyoos, British Columbia The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yorewhen the engines were pulled by horses...

Aug 21, 20247 min

A group of kangaroos is called a mob (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (20 Aug 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: One tree can filter up to sixty pounds of pollutants from the air each year. The planet Venus spins opposite to the other planets in the solar system The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia A group of kangaroos is called a mob A baseball will go farther in hot tem...

Aug 20, 20247 min

The ostrich has two toes on each feet which gives it greater speed (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (19 Aug 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: Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido, once pinned an opponent using only a single finger The ostrich has two toes on each feet which gives it greater speed In 1998, approximately 1.6 billion tree seedlings were planted in the United States. This amounts to about five trees per American O.J. Simpson had a severe case of ricket...

Aug 19, 20247 min

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

Daily Facts (18 Aug 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 most popular brand of raisins is Sunmaid 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 A drink used to be made by the Aztecs for the gods whi...

Aug 18, 20247 min

Another word for hiccups is singultus. (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (17 Aug 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: Another word for hiccups is "singultus." In 1565 In St. Augustine, Florida the first orange trees were planted More than three thousand people work on research in Antarctica each year Throughout the South, peanuts were known as "Monkey Nuts," and "Goober peas," before the civil war Humans are the only primates that don't ha...

Aug 17, 20247 min

Women smile more than men do (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (16 Aug 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 odds of having quadruplets are 1 in 729,000 Women smile more than men do The least likely day to eat out in the United States is Monday A survey done by Clairol 10 years ago came up with 46% of men stating that it was okay to color their hair. Now 66% of men admit to coloring their hair The average number of bridesmaids...

Aug 16, 20247 min

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear (+ 7 more facts)

Daily Facts (15 Aug 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 cat has 32 muscles in each ear Americans, on average, spend 18% of his or her income on transportation as compared to only 13% spent on food After twenty-seven years, Betty Rubble made her debut as a Flintstones Vitamin in 1996 Warner Brothers Corset Company created the bra cup sizing system, which is now used universally...

Aug 15, 20246 min

There is a town in Norway called Hell (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (14 Aug 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 average amount of time spent kissing for a person in a lifetime is 20,160 minutes Research has indicated that a tie that is on too tight can increase the risk of glaucoma in men The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes Spotted skunks do handstands before...

Aug 14, 20247 min
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