Daily Facts (30 May 2025)

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Today's facts:

• Seven asteroids were especially named for the Challenger astronauts who were killed in the 1986 failed launch of the space shuttle
• The Olympics were originally held for the Greek god Zeus
• The football team Green Bay Packers comes from a meat packing company called Acme Packing
• The citrus soda "7 UP" was created in 1929. The original name of the popular drink was "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda", but it got changed to "7 UP."
• The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service
• Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do
• Author Dr. Seuss wrote the book "Green Eggs and Ham" because the editor made him a bet that he could not write a book, which contained less than fifty words
• Urophobia is the fear of urine or urinating
• Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes
• A group of people that are hired to clap at a performance are called a claque

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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