Today's facts: Withdrawal Decision; Pub Diversity; Widespread Cultivation; Silent Communication; Exhaustion Triumph; Chocolate Economy; Voracious consumption; Caffeine-contrast; Rebranding Variations; Cultural Ritual

Daily Facts

Daily Facts (21 Jun 2025)

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Today's facts:

• The city of Denver was originally chosen to host the 1976 Winter Olympics, but had to withdraw because Colorado voters rejected to finance it
• In Britain, there are approximately 50,000 pubs with 17,000 different names
• There are over one billion people that are actively involved in rice growth
• Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf
• The 1912, a wrestling match in Stockholm between Finn Alfred Asikainen and Russian Martin Klein lasted more than 11 hours. Klein eventually won, but was to tired to participate in the championship match
• Over $7 billion a year is spent on chocolates by consumers
• During the high feeding season, it has been estimated that an adult blue whale can eat up to 40 million krill in one day. (Krill are shrimp like creatures)
• Coffee has about five times the amount of caffeine as a can of Coke
• When Sony introduced the walkman, it had a variety of different names in different countries. It was called "Soundabout" in the U.S., "Stowaway" in the U.K., and "Freestyle" in Australia
• In India, a 9-year-old girl was "married" to a stray dog, which tribal custom requires in order to protect a child whose first tooth appears on the upper gum

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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