The Hundred Years War lasted for 116 years (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts

Daily Facts (25 Sep 2024)

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Today's facts:

• The name Aspirin was invented from "A" in acetyl chloride. The "spir" comes from spiraea ulmaria which is the plant that they got the salicylic acid from, and the "in" was used because back then it was popular to end the name of medicines with "in."
• The Hundred Years War lasted for 116 years
• In the movie "The Matrix Reloaded" a 17 minute battle scene cost over $40 million to produce
• The heart of an adult giraffe weighs on average 26 pounds
• On average, a car driver will swear or blashpheme 32,025 times in their lifetime while driving
• Kit Kat chocolate bar was introduced to the market in 1935
• Termites work 24 hours per day -- they do not sleep
• On average, 35 meters of hair fibre is produced on the adult scalp
• Since the United Nations was founded in 1945, there have been 140 wars
• The first formal rules for playing the sport of baseball required the winning team to score 21 runs

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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