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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

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4:00

Lady Bugs really are not bugs. They are actually...

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2023/07/05

Daily Facts (05 Jul 2023) [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 greatest mountain range is the Mid-Ocean Ridge, extending 64,374 km from the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean Lady Bugs really are not bugs. They are actually beetles and their correct name is The Ladybird Beetle The papaya tree is known as "the medicinal tree" in some cultures because it?s seeds and leaves have

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5:26

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world (+...

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2023/07/04

Daily Facts (04 Jul 2023) [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 Sears Tower located in Chicago, Illinois is made up 76,000 tons of steel Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class Many cancer patients that are treated with

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5:53

Ants do not sleep (+ 6 more facts)

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2023/07/03

Daily Facts (03 Jul 2023) [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 Connecticut Toy maker, Herobuilders, sells action figures of President George W. Bush, Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, which are all major figures tied to the September 11, 2001 WTC attacks During one seven year period, Thomas Edison obtained

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7:15

Walt Disney was afraid of mice (+ 9 more facts)

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2023/07/02

Daily Facts (02 Jul 2023) [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 television show to show any portion of a toilet was on "Leave it to Beaver." After fighting for ten weeks to show the toilet, CBS would only allow the producers to show the toilet tank, and not the whole toilet A violin actually contains 70 separate pieces of wood Club Direct, a travel insurance company in

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4:39

The first American astronaut in space was Alan B....

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2023/07/01

Daily Facts (01 Jul 2023) [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: Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream. This was the only vegetable flavoured ice cream produced. However, they discontinued it since they thought it would not sell well The first American astronaut in space was Alan B. Shepard Jr An adult esophagus can range from 10 to 14 inches in length and is one inch in diameter

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4:23

Every day, over 1,300 babies are born prematurely in...

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2023/06/30

Daily Facts (30 Jun 2023) [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: Every day, over 1,300 babies are born prematurely in the USA The longest acceptance speech in the history of the Oscars was by Greer Garson in 1942. She received an Oscar for Best Actress for the movie Mrs. Miniver, and her speech was five minutes and 30 seconds long Every square inch of the human body has about

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4:58

LSD is made from lysergic acid, which is found in...

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2023/06/29

Daily Facts (29 Jun 2023) [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 one day, a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes. This amounts to approximately two kilograms in a year In a day, kids in the U.S. that are between the ages of 2 - 8 spend 28 minutes of their time coloring LSD is made from lysergic acid, which is found in ergot, a type of fungus A small drip from a faucet can waste up to

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6:10

In the United Kingdom, three million people play...

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2023/06/28

Daily Facts (28 Jun 2023) [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 firefly is about seven days. During these days, they are busy trying to find a mate The aorta, which is largest artery located in the body, is about the diameter of a garden hose Castaways Travel, a Houston-area travel agency, offers an all-nude flight to Cancun Mexico. Once the plane reaches cruising

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7:52

Pomology is the science of growing an apple (+ 9 more...

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2023/06/27

Daily Facts (27 Jun 2023) [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: "Pomology" is the science of growing an apple The most reproduced image in the world is Mickey Mouse, which can be found on over 7,500 different items The first human heart transplant happened on December 3, 1967. Unfortunately the patient only lived for eighteen days, succumbing in the end to pneumonia The first letter

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8:00

An elephant cannot jump (+ 9 more facts)

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2023/06/26

Daily Facts (26 Jun 2023) [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 orca whale can hold its breath for up to 15 minutes Germany produces more than 5,000 varieties of beer and has about 1,300 breweries in country An elephant cannot jump The Australian box-jellyfish has eight eyes The real name of actress Whoopi Goldberg is Caryn Elaine Johnson The fur of the binturong, also known as

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8:07

The Pentagon has 284 restrooms (+ 9 more facts)

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2023/06/25

Daily Facts (25 Jun 2023) [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: Dexter is the smallest type of cow. This cow was bred to be a small size for household living A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere A Canadian Tour company offers a two-day course in igloo building The Pentagon has 284 restrooms In 1953, racecar driver Tim Flock raced at Nascar

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7:58

The capital of Burkina Faso is Ouagadougou (+ 9 more...

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2023/06/24

Daily Facts (24 Jun 2023) [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 "umbrella" is derived from the Latin root word "umbra", which means shade or shadow There are some bananas that are red instead of yellow A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in relation to its size The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people The hippopotamus has the

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8:00

Mosquitoes prefer children over adults (+ 9 more facts)

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2023/06/23

Daily Facts (23 Jun 2023) [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: Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic The kidneys filter over 400 gallons of blood each day The first movie to ever cost $100 million to make is Terminator 2: Judgment Day in 1991 On average, he ratio of yellow kernels to white kernals in a bag of popcorn is 9:1 "dous":tremendous, horrendous,

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7:23

There are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world...

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2023/06/22

Daily Facts (22 Jun 2023) [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: Approximately 200 pets are buried in a pet cemetery out of the thousands of pets that die each day In Canada, men are three times more likely than women to have seen a doctor in the last year There are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year There is an organization called SCROOGE in Charlottesville,

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6:45

A group of crows is called a murder (+ 7 more facts)

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2023/06/21

Daily Facts (21 Jun 2023) [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 group of crows is called a murder Broccoli was first introduced into France during the royal marriage of Catherine de Medici to Henry II of France People still cut the cheese shortly after death George Washington had teeth made out of hippopotamus ivory The risk of cardiovascular disease is twice as high in women that

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7:58

The word Karate means, empty hand. (+ 9 more facts)

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2023/06/20

Daily Facts (20 Jun 2023) [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: Tug of war was an Olympic event from 1900-1920 Every year approximately 3,000 people choke to death 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

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8:10

A human eyeball weighs an ounce (+ 9 more facts)

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2023/06/19

Daily Facts (19 Jun 2023) [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: More than 100 professional cyclists participate in the Tour de France every year and the race is over 3,200 kilometers Since the United Nations was founded in 1945, there have been 140 wars A seven year old boy was the first person to survive the Horeshoe Falls (Niagara Falls) in just a life jacket In the Netherlands,

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8:15

Traveling by air is the safest means of...

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2023/06/18

Daily Facts (18 Jun 2023) [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: 98% of houses in the United States have at least one television set Every single hamster in the United States today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930 The all-time most nominated Grammy artist with 77 nominations is Quincy Jones Traveling by air is the safest means of transportation. The longest

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6:30

Fido means faithful in Latin (+ 7 more facts)

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2023/06/17

Daily Facts (17 Jun 2023) [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: Roughly 44% of junk mail is thrown away unopened In one minute, the heart of a giraffe can pump 160 gallons of blood Japan has approximately 200 volcanoes and is home to 10% of the active volcanoes in the world The music group Simply Red got its name from band member Mick Hucknall, who has red hair Fido means faithful

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8:19

18% of an Americans income is spent on transportation...

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2023/06/16

Daily Facts (16 Jun 2023) [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 pound of whole milk cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is needed The two top toys in 1950 were Silly Putty which sold for $1, and Crayola crayons which sold for 50 cents For the blockbuster movie "The Terminator," O.J. Simpson was considered to play the role of the Terminator, but producers did not choose him as

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