Daily Facts (09 Dec 2025)

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Today's facts:

• The Victoria line runs a remarkable 34 trains per hour, which is claimed to be the most frequent train service anywhere in the UK.
• "Seasons in the Sun" became the largest-selling single in Canadian history, with over 285,000 copies sold in a matter of weeks.
• Dylan Thomas began copying his early poems into notebooks at age 16, a practice that contributed to about two-thirds of his oeuvre.
• David Koresh, the leader of the Branch Davidians, was born Vernon Wayne Howell and memorized large parts of the Bible by the age of 12.
• Billy the Kid, also known as William Henry McCarty, was believed to have killed 21 men, but is generally accepted to have killed between four and nine.
• The Parthenon in Nashville is a full-scale replica of the original Athenian Parthenon, built for Tennessee's 1897 Centennial Exposition, and it includes a re-creation of the 42-foot statue of Athena.
• William Somerset Maugham's novel "The Razor's Edge" has been a bestselling novel of the 20th century almost since its publication, despite being panned by critics.
• Napoleon Bonaparte was born on August 15, 1769, in Ajaccio, Corsica, shortly after the island had been sold to France by the Italian state of Genoa.
• Assam tea is known for its unique growing conditions, which include a hot, humid rainy season and a cool, arid winter, making it one of the most prolific tea producing areas on earth.
• Man of La Mancha is based on Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote and is set in 16th-century Spain during the Inquisition.

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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