Today's facts: Vastness.; Alaska Purchase; Christmas Pioneer; Diminutive Record; Versatility; Spring Peak; Elephant Execution; Precision Timekeeping; Financial struggle; Sustainable Innovation

Daily Facts

Daily Facts (05 Jul 2025)

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Today's facts:

• If all the cars from the U.S. were taken and lined up from bumper to bumper, there would be enough cars to go to the moon from earth and back.
• The U.S. paid Russia $7.2 million for Alaska in 1867
• German immigrant, Louis Prang was the first to bring Christmas cards to America
• The smallest man ever was Gul Mohammed (1957-1997) of India, who measured 1 feet, 10? inches
• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
• The most frequent season for most suicides to occur is in the spring. The winter months have the lowest number of suicides
• In 1916, an elephant was tried and hung for murder in Erwin, Tennessee
• A cesium atom in an atomic clock that beats over nine billion times a second.
• George Washington had to borrow money to go to his own inauguration
• Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste

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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