The ostrich has two toes on each feet which gives it greater speed (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts

Daily Facts (19 Aug 2024)

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Today's facts:

• Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido, once pinned an opponent using only a single finger
• The ostrich has two toes on each feet which gives it greater speed
• In 1998, approximately 1.6 billion tree seedlings were planted in the United States. This amounts to about five trees per American
• O.J. Simpson had a severe case of rickets and wore leg braces when he was a child
• A Canadian, Troy Hurtubise, spent $100,000 and almost went bankrupt building a RoboCop style suit so that he could withstand a bear attack
• The external tank on space shuttles is not painted. It is the only part of the shuttle that is lost after launch, so it is not necessary to worry about metal corrosion.
• Tiger Woods is the first athlete to has been named "Sportsman of the Year" by magazine Sports Illustrated two times
• The country with the highest consumption of chocolate per capita is Switzerland, with 22 pounds per person, per year
• A Singapore singing group by the name of "The Oriental Singers," sang non-stop for 74 hours and five minutes
• Each year approximately half of billions dollars is spent on bubble gum by the kids in North America

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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