Today's facts: Record Fangs; Nutty flavor; Octothorpe name; Health claim; Tragic Frequency; Telekinesis.; Vast Barrier; Counterfeit Crisis; Pioneer Host; Sugary Beverage

Daily Facts

Daily Facts (09 Jul 2025)

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Today's facts:

• The longest fangs of a snake are found on the Gaboon Viper (Bitis gabonica), and can reach over 2 inches in length
• Fried spiders taste like nuts
• The pound key (#) on the keyboard is called an octothorpe
• In the early nineteenth century some advertisements claimed that riding the carousel was good for the circulation of blood
• Every eleven minutes in the U.S., a woman dies of breast cancer
• Psychokinesis refers to the ability of moving objects through psychic power
• The Great Wall stretches for about 4,500 miles across North China
• Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War
• The first female guest host of Saturday Night Live was actress Candace Bergen
• A can of Pepsi has 41 grams of sugar. This amount to about seven teaspoons of sugar

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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