Today's facts: Temperature effect; Cosmic Mythology; Involuntary Fainting; Steepest Street; Reforestation Effort; No J; High-scoring; Lipogrammatic Novel; Unfortunate Name

Daily Facts (18 Aug 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: A baseball will go farther in hot temperature than in cold temperature It was believed by Ancient Hindus that the world was a sphere and rested on the back of four elephants, which stood on a turtle When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." Theyactually pass out from sheer terror. The steepest street in the world is Baldwin Street located in Dunedin, New Zealand. It has an incline of 38% In 1998, approximately 1.6 billion tree seedlings were planted in the United States. This amounts to about five trees per American There is no element on Mendeleev's (the current) periodic table of elements abbreviated, either partially, or fully, with the letter J. The first formal rules for playing the sport of baseball required the winning team to score 21 runs Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a fifty thousand-word novel, "Gadsby," without any word containing the letter "e." Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement." 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