Daily Facts (25 May 2025)

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Today's facts:

• The origins of the soldier term "G.I." is an abbreviation for "Government Issue," which was stamped on all government kits supplied to recruits in the US Army during World War II
• There are about 61,300 pizza restaurants in the United States of America
• In 1958, the Crayola crayon color "Prussian Blue" was changed to "Midnight Blue" by the request of teachers as kids could not relate to Prussian history
• There are over 2,000 different types of cheese in the world
• Former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suffered a nervous breakdown in 1836
• The reason why the Mexican sombrero hat is so wide is to provide shade for the entire body
• The coliseum in Rome was used regularly for about 400 years
• One of the Bond girls in the James Bond movie, "For Your Eyes Only," used to be a man
• Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise

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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