The Barbie doll has more than 80 careers (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts

Daily Facts (22 May 2025)

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Today's facts:

• The candlefish is so oily that it was once burned for fuel
• The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined
• Emilio Marco Palma was the first person born in Antarctica in 1978
• Every year Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes, 1,000 of which measure above 3.5 on the Richter scale
• The Barbie doll has more than 80 careers
• Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury
• Botanically a rhubarb is a vegetable. It was changed to a fruit in 1947 by a U.S. Custom Court
• The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that it breaks the sound barrier. The crack of the whip is actually a tiny sonic boom.
• The name Hasbro was invented by the name of the founders: HASsenfeld BROthers
• The risk of cardiovascular disease is twice as high in women that snore regularly compared to women who do not snore. updated

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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