No president of the United States was an only child (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts

Daily Facts (10 Apr 2025)

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Today's facts:

• Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue more than any other color
• The name for Ivory Soap was inspired by a verse from the Bible. Harley Proctor got though of the name when the minister read from Psalms 45:8, "All thy garments smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia, out of the ivory palaces whereby they have made thee glad."
• No president of the United States was an only child
• Vasaloppet, which is located in Sweden is the oldest, longest, and the biggest cross-country ski race in the world. Every year, 14,000 people compete in the race
• The highest point in France is Mont Blanc, located in the Alps.
• Honorificabilitudinitatibus is the longest English word that consists strictly of alternating consonants and vowels
• The town of Churchill, Manitoba, located in Canada, is known as the "Polar Bear Capital of the World"
• France is known as the perfume capital of the world
• Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on its runways to scare birds away
• The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is one of the few places in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane

Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas.

Fact explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts.

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