Daily Facts (28 Mar 2023) Today's facts: Anti-American demonstrators protesting in Bangladesh after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks carried posters of Osama bin Laden sitting alongside Bert, a beloved Sesame Street Muppet character On April 4, 1974, John Massis of Belgium pulled two New York Long Island railroad passenger cars totaling 80 tons with a thick rope, with a small bit attached, using only his teeth In humans, the epidermal layer of skin, which consists of many layers of skin regenerates every 27 days 93% of all greeting cards are purchased by women Before 1859, baseball umpires were seated in padded chairs behind home plate The Kodiak, which is native to Alaska, is the largest bear and can measure up to eight feet and weigh as much as 1,700 pounds Pilgrims did not eat potatoes for Thanksgiving as they thought they were poisonous The human body makes anywhere from 1 to 3 pints of saliva every 24 hours The word vaccine comes from the Latin word "vacca," which means cow. This name was chosen beacause the first vaccination was derived from cowpox which was given to a boy On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper right-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas. Fact explanations from OpenAI GPT. This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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