Daily Facts (17 Aug 2024) [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. Today's facts: Another word for hiccups is "singultus." In 1565 In St. Augustine, Florida the first orange trees were planted More than three thousand people work on research in Antarctica each year Throughout the South, peanuts were known as "Monkey Nuts," and "Goober peas," before the civil war Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms oftheir hands. A "gelotologist" is a person who studies laughter Scientists say that babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed Owls swallow their prey whole because they have no teeth. After approximately 12 hours they cough up the feathers, bones, and fur in a shape of a football pellet A cow has four compartments in its stomach If all the strawberries produced in California annually were put side by side, they would wrap around the Earth fifteen times 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices