Random Fact of the Day - DailyBrain

I am a teacher. I have been using this app for several years and even though I have new kids each year, the teachers that I work with have noticed the repeats. Not sure why it is using same facts. Please fix because my students love it! My fellow teachers like it too!

I’m a fan of random, useless facts that are interesting to read and think about. However, it irks me when said facts are not entirely accurate. For instance, a couple days ago there was a “fact” that popped up that said something to the extent of “a chess knight can move to each square on a chess board only once.” I’m a chess player myself and such a statement struck me as odd because there is nothing in the rules that says that once one moves a knight to a certain square, one can never move it back. Fortunately, there was a link to a Wikipedia article on the knight’s tour chess puzzle, where one takes the knight on a complete tour of the board and only touches each square one time. The statement would have been accurate if it read, “In the knight’s tour, it is possible to touch each square on a chess board with the knight exactly once.” Not only that, but every so often there appeared a fact that made me feel dumber for having read it. I don’t have an example because I did my best to purge my memory of such. So, although somewhat fun, I deleted this app because I can get more accurate and enlightening random facts elsewhere.

Awesome range of knowledge to learn from this app!