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In China, September 20 is Love Your Teeth Day. (+ 6 more facts)

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Daily Facts (01 May 2024)

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Today's facts:

  • The human brain has about 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) neurons
  • In China, September 20 is "Love Your Teeth Day."
  • From 1939 to 1942, there was a undersea post office in the Bahamas
  • A drink used to be made by the Aztecs for the gods which had the ingredients of ground cocoa mixed in with spices and corn
  • There is a "cemetery town" in California named Colma. Concerns about the public health, crime, and the need for space forced the city of San Francisco to outlaw burials in 1902. The city of Colma, which is five miles south of San Francisco, was established to bury the dead. The ratio of dead to living people is 750 to 1
  • During World War II, the 2nd Polish Corps had a brown bear named Wojtek, who helped move boxes of ammunition during the battle of Monte Cassino
  • Throughout the South, peanuts were known as "Monkey Nuts," and "Goober peas," before the civil war

Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas.

Fact explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts.

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