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Today's facts: Kerouac's Coinage; Sport Designations; Finale Novel; Chess-Complexity; Temporal disparity; Capital Establishment; Exclusive Access; Directorial Debut; Pioneering Aqueduct; Climate Warning

Published: January 23, 2026

Duration: 7:21

Daily Facts (23 Jan 2026)

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Today's facts:

The phrase "Beat Generation" was coined by Jack Kerouac when he said, "So I guess you might say we're a beat generation" in a conversation with John Clellon Holmes. Lacrosse was declared Canada's national summer sport in 1994, while hockey was named the national winter sport. Our Mutual Friend was the fourteenth and last completed novel of Charles Dickens, published in monthly installments from May 1864 to...
Today's facts: Kerouac's Coinage; Sport Designations; Finale Novel; Chess-Complexity; Temporal disparity; Capital Establishment; Exclusive Access; Directorial Debut; Pioneering Aqueduct; Climate Warning - Daily Facts