Random Fact of the Day - DailyBrain ١٧+

This app has done very well by me. I am a teacher and use it each day in my classroom; the students get so they look forward to it. However, it has lately begun repeating facts. I don't know what algorithm it uses to do its thing, but with a whole World Wide Web out there, you'd think it'd be a long time before nuggets of information became scarce.

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.

At first, I loved this app. I enjoyed receiving a new fact everyday. At least until I noticed that they’ve started repeating, which has been going on for a while now. Also, some of the sources come from strange sites and some of the links to those sources don’t work anymore. I even noticed that if I’m in the app, looking at the source, for too long it’ll crash. Some of the facts are also from the 90s and early 2000s as well and could’ve changed over time. I’d like some new and updated facts please. I don’t know if that will even happen considering the fact that the last update was 4 years ago.