FACT OF THE DAY

January 10 2021


Each year 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.


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Sports
Regulation Major League baseball feature exactly 108 stitches.
August 4 2021
Technology
There's a computer marketed to the Amish. It has no Internet, no video, no music.
August 3 2021
For Kids
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.
August 2 2021
History
Japanese samurais disemboweled themselves with their sword (an act known as seppuko) when in danger of being captured.
August 1 2021
Technology
Google has the ability to analyze and track a person's online behavior and Google informs it to advertisers.
July 31 2021
History
Life expectancy in Ancient Rome was from 20 to 30 years.
July 30 2021
Sports
There are more than 350 dimples on a golf ball.
July 29 2021
History
Ancient Romans used a sponge on a stick to clean themselves after pooping, and shared it with everyone.
July 28 2021
Internet
Slack, the $3.8 billion startup, used to be a game developer called Tiny Speck, which made a massively multiplayer game called Glitch that shut down in 2012.
July 27 2021
Food
One fast food hamburger may contain meat from 100 different cows.
July 26 2021
History
About 100 billion people have died in all human history.
July 25 2021
For Kids
Often referred to as the father of nuclear physics, New Zealand born chemist Ernest Rutherford won a Nobel Prize in chemistry, developed a new model of the atom and mentored other scientists.
July 24 2021
Food
Pineapples are not a single fruit but a group of berries that have fused together.
July 23 2021
Psychology
No one born blind has ever developed schizophrenia.
July 22 2021
United States
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
July 21 2021
Celebrities
Ryan Gosling was only offered the role in The Notebook because the director didn't think he was handsome or cool.
July 20 2021
Celebrities
Before their huge falling out, Katy Perry used to carry a lock of Taylor Swift's hair around in her bag.
July 19 2021
History
When Columbus "discovered" the Americas, the continent was already inhabited by 90 million people which was a third of the world's population.
July 18 2021
History
Weatherman Willard Scott was the first original Ronald McDonald.
July 17 2021
History
There are more people in slavery today that at any time in human history.
July 16 2021