Snake venom is ninety percent protein (+ 9 more facts)
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Daily Facts (10 Mar 2024)
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Today's facts:
- Some dolphins can swim up to 40 kilometers an hour
- The study of twins is known as gemellology
- Only female mosquitoes bite humans. Male mosquitoes live on natural liquids from plants and other resources
- Snake venom is ninety percent protein
- The reason why flamingos are pink is because they eat shrimp which have a red pigment
- The world's first underground was the London Underground in1863. It has 275 stations and 253 miles of track.
- In 1972, a gorilla by the name of "Koko" was taught ASL (American Sign Language) for the deaf. By the year 2000, the gorilla could understand approximately 2,000 English words
- An acre of trees can remove about 13 tons of dust and gases every year from the surrounding environment
- Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches
- In many of the milk ads that are shown, a mix of thinner and white paint is used instead of milk
Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas.
Fact explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts.
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