Approximately 7.5% of all office documents get lost (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts (11 Jan 2025)

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Today's facts:

• Mangos are valued for their reputation as an aphrodisiac in countries such as Guatemala and India
• Of all the golfers in Canada, 71.4% golfers are male, 28.6% are female
• Termites have been around for over 250 million years
• The Beatles have sold more records than anyone else with over a billion worldwide
• Toronto was the first city in the world with a computerized traffic signal system
• In February 1878, the first telephone book was published in New Haven, Connecticut. The book was one page long and had fifty names in it.
• Approximately 7.5% of all office documents get lost
• Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991. And, rightfully so
• The United Parcel Service shipped the killer whale Keiko (star of Disney movie "Free Willy") from Mexico City to Newport, Oregon in 1998
• The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses everyletter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/twxcommunications)

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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