Daily Facts (27 Nov 2025)

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Today's facts:

• On October 27, 2011, a fifteen-foot Burmese python in the Florida Everglades was found to have swallowed a 76-pound doe, which led to the snake being shot by wildlife officials after they noticed its unusually large midsection.
• Sam Burgess was considered one of the biggest cross-code flops in history after leaving rugby league to play rugby union for just one year.
• At their peak in 1967, The Monkees outsold The Beatles and The Rolling Stones combined.
• Francois Mitterrand, leader of the Socialist party, was elected president in May 1981, marking the first socialist government in the Fifth Republic of France.
• A.A. Milne's stories about the adventures of Christopher Robin and his toy animals, particularly Winnie-the-Pooh, have endured into the 21st century as timeless classics of children's literature.
• The badminton net is 5 feet & 1 inch high on the edges and 5 feet high in the center of the court.
• Brazil was one of the last countries in the western hemisphere to abolish slavery, doing so on May 13, 1888.
• The soft pedal, or una corda pedal, on a grand piano shifts the entire action slightly to the right, allowing hammers to strike only two of the three strings for a note, which softens the sound and modifies its tone quality.
• "The Curse of Frankenstein is notable for being Hammer Film Productions' first color horror film and the beginning of their Frankenstein series."
• The last time Royal Assent was given by the Sovereign in person was in 1854.

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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