Daily Facts (13 Jan 2024)

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Today's facts:

• In Britain, one out of every four potatoes is eaten in the form of french fries
• There is a "cemetery town" in California named Colma. Concerns about the public health, crime, and the need for space forced the city of San Francisco to outlaw burials in 1902. The city of Colma, which is five miles south of San Francisco, was established to bury the dead. The ratio of dead to living people is 750 to 1
• Gorilla gorilla gorilla is the scientific name for the animal gorilla
• There was a molasses flood in Boston on January 15, 1919 that killed 21 people and injured 150 people
• There is a muppet named Kami that appears on the South African version of the T.V. show "Sesame Street" that is HIV-positive
• Not all polar bears hibernate; only pregnant females polar bears do
• Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning
• Ian Fleming named his character "James Bond" after real-life ornithologist and author
• The first words that Thomas A. Edison spoke into the phonograph were, "Mary had a little lamb."

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

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