Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time (+ 9 more facts)
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Daily Facts (20 Jun 2024)
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Today's facts:
- Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time
- The smallest bird in the world is the bee hummingbird. The bird is 2.24 inches long
- The first formal rules for playing the sport of baseball required the winning team to score 21 runs
- A snail can crawl across a razor blade without getting injured. This is possible because they excrete a slime that protects them
- The citric acid found in lemon juice is said to be able to dissolve a pearl
- About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light
- In Australia, a dust-devil is called a "willy-willy
- In the Sahara Desert, there is a town named Tidikelt, which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years
- In China, fish is eaten more than three times what it is in the United States
- In World War II, the German submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet
Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas.
Fact explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts.
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