Today's facts: Short-lived; Ancient Lake; Inaugural Series; Butterless milk; Spot-count; Banana-leaf; Origin: France; Pre-Civil War Peanuts; Goldstock; Wire length

Daily Facts

Daily Facts (30 Jun 2025)

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Today's facts:

• Most fleas do not live past a year old
• Lake Baikal is the oldest freshwater lake on Earth, having formed between 20 and 25 million years ago
• The first World Series baseball playoffs occurred in 1903
• Buttermilk does not contain any butter, but is a cultured milk product which is usually made from fat free milk
• In the original movie "101 Dalmatians," there are exactly 6,469,952 spots on all 101 Dalmatians as they are shown in 113,760 frames of the film combined
• In the Pacific Islands when people get burns they often use a banana leaf as treatment
• The word "Denim" comes from the French phrase "serge de Nimes" which is a fabric made in a town located in southern France
• Throughout the South, peanuts were known as "Monkey Nuts," and "Goober peas," before the civil war
• It is estimated that by the end of 2000, there has been 142,600 tonnes of gold mined in the world
• It requires 63 feet of wire to make a Slinky toy

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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