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These twelve Fact-of-the-Day entries were randomly selected from our archive for your enjoyment. Use the fields below to search for a specific entry or date.

December 02, 2017
All the gifts in the Twelve Days of Christmas would equal 364 gifts. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
February 27, 2021
The 1927 Girl Scouts manual featured the first official recipe for S'mores. Provided by FactRetriever.com
March 18, 2018
One billion people worldwide do not have access to safe drinking water. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
August 27, 2016
Italian food is one of the most popular restaurants for a first date. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
October 18, 2019
Mexicans drink more Coke than any other country in the world. Mexicans drink about 745 Coke beverages per year. Americans drink about 401 Coke products a year.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
July 16, 2020
German blondes were taken captive during the Roman era and had their hair cut off to be made into wigs for fashionable ladies. Successful wars were a source of a large influx of blonde hair. Provided by FactRetriever.com
January 08, 2015
The Mississippi River carries an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of nitrogen pollution into the Gulf of Mexico each year, creating a dead zone in the Gulf each summer about the size of New Jersey. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
August 05, 2010
The oldest living things on Earth are believed to be single-cell prokaryotes, more commonly known as bacteria. Scientists have discovered fossils of such prokaryotes from roughly 3.5 billion years ago. - Provided by RandomHistory.com
July 24, 2022
It has only been 20 years since the non-native quagga mussel was accidentally introduced into Lake Michigan, but experts say that the entire bottom of the 100-mile-wide lake is covered by trillions of these mussels. Provided by FactRetriever.com
February 06, 2017
The largest U.S. bill ever in circulation was the $10,000 bill, which was issued until 1945. As of May 30, 2009, only 336 of these large bills have been known to survive. Salmon P. Chase is depicted on the bill. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
March 08, 2018
In 2005, a typing error caused Mizuho Securities Co. to lose at least $225 million on a stock trade in Japan. The company accidentally sold 610,000 shares at 1 yen (less than a penny) when it actually intended to sell 1 share at 610,000 yen (or $5,041). - Provided by FactRetriever.com
November 02, 2011
Jazz is a musical form, often improvisational, developed by African-Americans and influenced by both European harmonic structure and African rhythmic complexity. It also is often characterized by its use of blues and speech intonations. Blues denotes a secular folk music of African-Americans. It has origins in the Mississippi Delta in the early 20th century. - Provided by Reference.com





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