If a cockroach breaks a leg it can grow another one (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts

Daily Facts (21 May 2025)

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Today's facts:

• The youngest actress to be nominated as best actress is Keisha Castle-Hughes who was nominated at just 13 years old
• In the spring of 1975, a baby in Detroit fell 14 stories and landed on Joseph Figlock, who was walking below. A few years later it happened again. Figlock and both babies survived
• In the United States, approximately 50 million people fish per year
• There is a city called Smackover located in Arkansas
• The majority of burglaries occur during the daytime when people are not home
• The average number of pillowcases washed a day at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas is 15,000
• If a cockroach breaks a leg it can grow another one
• American novelist Mark Twain was the first known author to submit a typed manuscript
• The country with the highest consumption of chocolate per capita is Switzerland, with 22 pounds per person, per year
• A meteor has only destroyed one satellite, which was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.

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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