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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 honey bee has four wings (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (12 Nov 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 lifespan of a rhinoceros is generally 50 years Popeye is 34 years old, weighs 158 lbs, and is 5 feet 6 inches tall You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television Brazil produces the most oranges in the world The most common name in the world is Mohammed A honey bee has four wings The fleshy bulbs on eac...

Nov 12, 20247 min

There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle (+ 5 more facts)

Daily Facts (11 Nov 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: People have the tendency to chew the food on the side that they most often use their hand There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle Water that is safe to drink is referred to as POTABLE The official state tree of Illinois is The White Oak "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive doub...

Nov 11, 20245 min

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

Daily Facts (10 Nov 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 accent that Mike Myers used for the character Shrek came from the accent that his mother would use when she was telling him bedtime stories when he was a child Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses Dandelion root can be roasted and ground as a coffee substitute The capital of Burkina Faso is Ouagadougou The...

Nov 10, 20248 min

Every second, 630 steel cans are recycled (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (09 Nov 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: Bats sleep during the day and feed at night. The place that bats sleep in is called the "roost." Vampire bat saliva has been responsible for many advances in research into stroke recovery In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a huntinglicense. People whose mouth has a narrow roof are more likely to snore. T...

Nov 09, 20247 min

Whale eyes are the size of a grapefruit (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (08 Nov 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 50% more males that are left handed compared to females Each nostril of a human being register smell in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left. However, smells can be detected more accurately when made by the left nostril Mules have one horse and one donkey for...

Nov 08, 20247 min

An elephant cannot jump (+ 7 more facts)

Daily Facts (07 Nov 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: Walmart-mart sells more apparel a year than all the other competing department stores combined Scientists have determined that having guilty feelings may actually damage your immune system Barney, the famous dinosaur that entertains kids is from Dallas There are more than 50 different types of pumpkins. Some of them have na...

Nov 07, 20246 min

All penguins live south of the equator (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (06 Nov 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: From all the vegetables, beets contain the most sugar One million cloud droplets are needed to make enough water to produce one raindrop. Bugs Bunny was originally called "Happy Rabbit." LSD is made from lysergic acid, which is found in ergot, a type of fungus There are three golf balls sitting on the moon An American chews...

Nov 06, 20247 min

Caterpillar means hairy cat in Old French (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (05 Nov 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 about 6,800 languages in the world The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day According to research, the most productive workday is Tuesday and the least productive is Friday More than half the time spent in United States courts is cases that involve automobiles There are 315 species of...

Nov 05, 20247 min

Great White sharks have about 3,000 teeth (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (04 Nov 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 USS Abraham Lincoln has five gymnasiums on the ship and a basketball league with 22 teams In the movie "Babe", the piglet was played by over 30 different piglets they outgrew the part so quickly during the production of the film It takes about three hours for food to be broken down in the human stomach Great White shark...

Nov 04, 20247 min

The first United States president to visit China was Richard Nixon (+ 7 more facts)

Daily Facts (03 Nov 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: It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times There are mirrors on the moon. Astronauts left them so that laser beams could be bounced off of them from Earth. These beams help give us the distance to the moon give or take a few metres. The Spring peeper (a frog) can s...

Nov 03, 20246 min

The Tibetan name for Mount Everest is Chomolungma (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (02 Nov 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: Lake Malawi has the largest number of fish species in the world A dog by the name of Laika was launched into space aboard the Russian spacecraft Sputnik 2 in 1957 The Tibetan name for Mount Everest is Chomolungma The game of squash originated in the United Kingdom. It came about after a few boys, who were waiting for their ...

Nov 02, 20248 min

Heavier lemons contain more and tastier juice (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (01 Nov 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: Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China Russian I.M. Chisov survived a 21,980 plunge out of a plane with no parachute. He landed on the steep side of a snow-covered mountain with only a fractured pelvis and slight concussion There was a book written fourteen years before th...

Nov 01, 20247 min

850 peanuts are needed to make an 18 oz. jar of peanut butter (+ 8 more facts)

Daily Facts (31 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: Amazingly, goalies in the National Hockey League played without masks until the year 1959 In 1876, Maria Spelterina was the first woman to ever cross Niagara Falls on a high wire An alligator has about 80 teeth in its mouth at one time. An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime The Kodiak, which is native to Ala...

Oct 31, 20247 min

The human liver performs over 500 functions (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (30 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 2001, the five most valuable brand names in order were Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, and Nokia Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs. Barbie was invented by Ruth Handler after watc...

Oct 30, 20247 min

Platypuses mate in the water (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (29 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 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." In a lifetime, an average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva During the holiday season, approximately $220 million worth...

Oct 29, 20247 min

Los Angeles is the most polluted city in the USA (+ 6 more facts)

Daily Facts (28 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 pig on record was a Poland-China hog named Big Bill, who weighed 2,552 lbs The candlefish is so oily that it was once burned for fuel Los Angeles is the most polluted city in the USA Common pesticides such as roach, termite and flea insecticide can be found in the bodies of majority of Americans Due to the defor...

Oct 28, 20246 min

On average a person passes gas 14 times a day (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (27 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: Herbert Hoover, who was the 31st president of the United Stated, turned over all the Federal salary checks he received to charity during the 47 years he was in government The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time The real name of actress Whoop...

Oct 27, 20247 min

You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog (+ 6 more facts)

Daily Facts (26 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 longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog Bill Gates began programming computers at age 13 Racecar driver Lee Petty once left a pitstop and did a full lap at Nascar with a pit crew member still on the hood During a typical...

Oct 26, 20246 min

In a month, a fingernail grows an eighth of an inch (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (25 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: Washing machines use anywhere from 40 to 200 litres of water per load In a month, a fingernail grows an eighth of an inch Eating about twenty tart cherries a day could reduce inflammatory pain and headache pain A galactic year is 250 million Earth-years. This is the time it takes for our solar system to make one revolution ...

Oct 25, 20248 min

The country of Fiji is made up of 332 islands (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (24 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 waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100-watt bulb for five hours Teflon was accidently discovered by scientist Dr. Roy Plunkett while he was conducting a coolant gas experiment in 1938 The early occurrence of a fetus yawning is at eleven weeks after conception Albert Eins...

Oct 24, 20247 min

On average, a strawberry has 200 seeds on it (+ 5 more facts)

Daily Facts (23 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 France is Mont Blanc, located in the Alps. People with darker skin will not wrinkle as fast as people with lighter skin On average, a strawberry has 200 seeds on it In the Pacific Islands when people get burns they often use a banana leaf as treatment In 1960 there were 16,067 gambling slots in Nevada. ...

Oct 23, 20245 min

A cow averages 40,000 jaw movements a day (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (22 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: Desert snails can stay in their shell for up to three years The strongest gust of wind was recorded at the Mount Washington Observatory on April 12th, 1934, and measured 231 miles per hour. In 1796, Napoleon was only 26 years old when he took command of the French Army of Italy Leonardo Da Vinci never signed or dated his mo...

Oct 22, 20247 min

Most American car horns honk in the key of F (+ 6 more facts)

Daily Facts (21 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: People of Salt Lake City eat the most lime-flavoured gelatin Jell-O in the United States The Koala bear is not really a bear, but is really related to the kangaroo and the wombat. Most American car horns honk in the key of F Jewelers Tiffany & Co., based in New York, are responsible for making the Super Bowl trophy Astr...

Oct 21, 20246 min

Pearls melt in vinegar (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (20 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: Some people start to sneeze if they are exposed to sunlight or have a light shined into their eye Scientists have actually performed brain surgery on cockroaches A rabbit is not able to vomit The longer white infants from low-income families are breast-fed, the less likely they will be overweight as young children, research...

Oct 20, 20247 min

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

Daily Facts (19 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: Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, andchocolate. Coca-Cola was the first soft drink to be consumed in outer space More pollution is emitted from the average home compared to the average car. The first German car to be built solely outside of Germany is the BMW Z3. Approximately 71% of American ch...

Oct 19, 20248 min

Rice is thrown at weddings as a symbol of fertility (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (18 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: Keeping your car tuned up is a good way to save on gas. A car that is tuned up is 9% more efficient on gasoline. In 2000, there were 1,579,566 drug arrests in the United States. Of those, close to half were for marijuana In China, people eat a bar of chocolate for every 1,000 chocolate bars eaten by the British Before air c...

Oct 18, 20248 min

The peanut is not a nut, it is actually a legume (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (17 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: Frogs do not need to drink water as they absorb the water through their skin Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine when it was initially introduced It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignore...

Oct 17, 20247 min

The Golden Gate Bridge was first opened in 1937 (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (16 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 Apollo 17 crew were the last men on the moon Every second, two Barbie dolls are sold somewhere in the world The average medium size piano has about 230 strings The average lifespan of a human taste bud is ten days 500,000 kids in the US live in same sex households The Golden Gate Bridge was first opened in 1937 In one n...

Oct 16, 20248 min

The name for insect poop is frass (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (15 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 fall of 30 feet can be survived my most cats The story of Mulan had been told in China for almost 1,500 years before Disney decided to make it into an animated movie In the United States, the first cookbook was published in 1796 and it contained a recipes for watermelon rind pickles Shakespeare invented the word "assassin...

Oct 15, 20247 min

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

Daily Facts (14 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 General Lee cars used in the popular show The Dukes of Hazards were 1969 Dodge Chargers Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category Peanut butter is an effective way to to remove chewing gum from hair or clothes Buttermilk does not contain any butter, but is a cultured milk product whi...

Oct 14, 20247 min
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