Pigeons can see ultraviolet lights (+ 9 more facts)
Nov 02, 2023•7 min
Episode description
Daily Facts (02 Nov 2023)
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Today's facts:
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined
Rice is thrown at weddings as a symbol of fertility
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since
There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of two hundred people
The word "maverick" came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan, refused to brand his cattle. Eventually any unbranded calf became known as a Maverick
The first theatre to show motion pictures was the Nickelodeon on June 19, 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was opened by Harry Davis on Smithfield Street
When telephone companies first began hiring telephone operators, they chose teenage boys for the job. They switched to women because the teenage boys were wrestling instead of working and pulling pranks on callers
A small drip from a faucet can waste up to 50 gallons of water daily, which is enough water to run a dishwasher twice on a full cycle
There are more chickens than people in the world
Pigeons can see ultraviolet lights
Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas.
Fact explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts.
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