Daily Facts (20 Nov 2023) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: The Sears Tower in Chicago contains enough steel to build 50,000 automobiles The iron disulfide (Pyrite) is considered "fool's gold" because it looks very similar to gold. In 1978, the World Water Speed record was made by Ken Warby from Australia. His average speed was 317.6 mph, and his jet-powered hydroplane was 27 feet long called "Spirit of Australia." Warby built the boat himself in his back yard Desert snails can stay in their shell for up to three years Robert Southey wrote the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" in 1834 There is a town named Dildo in the province of Newfoundland, Canada In 1961, Italian artist Piero Manzoni packed his feces in cans, signed and mounted them, and then sold them as art Gorillas are considered apes, not monkeys. The way to distinguish between an ape and a monkey is that apes do not have tails The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker In Ivrea, Italy, thousands of citizens celebrate the beginning of Lent by throwing oranges at one another 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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