In Australia, a common Boxing day activity is surfing (+ 9 more facts)
Dec 13, 2024•8 min
Episode description
Daily Facts (13 Dec 2024)
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Today's facts:
Lake Baikal is the oldest freshwater lake on Earth, having formed between 20 and 25 million years ago
The fins of the Spiny Dogfish Shark are sometimes used as sandpaper for wood products
The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes bone which is located in the ear
In Australia, a common "Boxing day" activity is surfing
There is enough concrete in the Hoover Dam to pave a two lane highway from San Francisco to New York
Warner Brothers Corset Company created the bra cup sizing system, which is now used universally used by manufacturers
The skeleton of a spider is located on the outside of the body. The name for this is exoskelton
In Denmark, people eat about 36 pounds of candy a year. The highest consumption of candy of any country
Over 175 million cubic yards of earth was removed for the creation of the Panama Canal
A language becomes extinct in this world every two weeks
Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas.
Fact explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts.
This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios
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