The human heart weighs less than a pound (+ 9 more facts)
May 17, 2025•7 min
Episode description
Daily Facts (17 May 2025)
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Today's facts:
In China, people eat a bar of chocolate for every 1,000 chocolate bars eaten by the British
The USS Abraham Lincoln has five gymnasiums on the ship and a basketball league with 22 teams
Tomatos were once referred to as "love apples." This is because their was a superstition that people would fall in love by eating them
The oldest inhabited house in Scotland is the Traquair Castle. The castle has had 27 kings as visitors
The reason why golf balls have dimples on them is because it helps in the ball to move a farther distance by reducing drag
The best selling game in history for coin-operated machines is Pac-Man
The Hubble telescope is so powerful that it is like pointing a beam of light at a dime that is two hundred miles away.
The human heart weighs less than a pound
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
There are more Subway restaurants in Canada than there are McDonald restaurants
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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