The largest dog in the world is the Irish Wolfhound | + 9 more facts (now with more detail!) | 17 Mar 2023

Daily Facts (17 Mar 2023) Today's facts: A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having twins is 1 in 9 The stapler was invented in Spring Valley, Minnesota. Early hockey games allowed as many as 30 players a side on the ice In 1958 the United States sent three mice into space named, Mia, Laska and Benji Finnish folklore states that when Santa comes to Finland to deliver gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko instead The largest dog in the world is the Irish Wolfhound The country of Bolivia is named after a fighter Simon Bolivar A Chinese Scientist discovered that the Earth is round during the Han Dynasty by measuring the sun and moon's path in the sky. He recorded this fact down in the imperial records but went unnoticed until it was unearthed recently but Chinese archaeologists. Singer Alice Cooper once had a live chicken thrown at him during a concert in Toronto. He threw the chicken back at the crowd and all the publicity surrounding the incident skyrocketed his singing career The total volume of mail that went through the Canadian postal system in 1950 was 1,362,310,155 items Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas. Fact explanations from OpenAI GPT. This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices