FACT OF THE DAY

April 8 2022


Cucumbers have the highest water content of any vegetable.


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The production of "The Maze Runner" had to hire snake wranglers to make sure the areas where they were filming were snake free. Before filming began the wranglers found 25 venomous snakes.
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Sports
The original Stanley Cup was only seven-and-a-half inches high.
September 13 2023
Sports
Jimmy Chitwood, the hero of the film Hoosiers, only has four lines in the entire movie.
September 12 2023
Technology
If someone finds a security bug in Facebook's code than Facebook is willing to pay big bucks (like $500 or more) to you tell them about it.
September 11 2023
Animals
The world's most expensive coffee brands are made from the dung of Thai elephants.
September 10 2023
History
Cleopatra was not Egyptian, she was Greek.
September 9 2023
Psychology
When one rule seems too strict, we want to break more.
September 8 2023
Celebrities
Beyoncé cried backstage after Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift at the MTV VMA's in 2009.
September 7 2023
Sports
Golf balls can reach speeds of 170 miles an hour.
September 6 2023
History
Heroin was once a perfectly acceptable medicine. Doctors prescribed it for everything from coughs to headaches.
September 5 2023
World
Rock found at the bottom of the Grand Canyon is around 2 billion years old.
September 4 2023
Sports
Rasheed Wallace had his 2004 Detroit Pistons championship ring resized to fit his middle finger.
September 3 2023
Sports
The first American football ball was round.
September 2 2023
World
Well known German companies include Adidas, Nivea, BMW, Bayer and Mercedes-Benz.
September 1 2023
Language
London has more than 300 different language speakers.
August 31 2023
Spooky
There are over 250,000 deaths a year due to medical error.
August 30 2023
Sports
Basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
August 29 2023
United States
The U.S. city with the highest rate of lightning strikes per capita is Tampa, Florida.
August 28 2023
Celebrities
Scarlett Johansson has a twin brother.
August 27 2023
Nature
Kimolos, a Greek island, is the only place where the foam is formed when it rains. The soil comprises of soap-ish clay, something that the citizens utilize as their regular soap too.
August 26 2023