Today's facts: Indian roots; Construction Cost; Cost-cutting; Potato-consumption; Squash-Origin; Volcanic-Toothpaste; Caffeine-contrast; Extremely rare; Earlobe-Eggcolor; Smoking-costs

Daily Facts (26 Jul 2025) [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: Badminton originates from a sport in India called "poona." The cost to build the Empire State Building was $40,948,900 American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class The vegetable that is eaten most by Americans is potatoes. On average, a person eats about 140 pounds of potatoes annually The game of squash originated in the United Kingdom. It came about after a few boys, who were waiting for their turn to play racquets, knocked a ball around in a confined area adjoining the racquets court Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpaste A person would have to drink more than 12 cups of hot cocoa to equal the amount of caffeine found in one cup of coffee Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white earlobes will produce white eggs At least 7% of all health care costs in the United States are attributed to smoking 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