Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts

Daily Facts (16 May 2025)

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Today's facts:

• Gorilla gorilla gorilla is the scientific name for the animal gorilla
• The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns
• An adult "Gold Frog" measures to be 9.8 millimeters in body length
• Iguanas can recognize their human handlers and greet them differently, compared with strangers
• You can send a postcard from Hell. There is a small town located in the Cayman Islands called "Hell." They even have a post office
• In 1998, approximately 1.6 billion tree seedlings were planted in the United States. This amounts to about five trees per American
• Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since
• Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class
• The banana was officially introduced in 1876 in the U.S. at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. The bananas were wrapped in tinfoil and were sold for 10 cents each

Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas.

Fact explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts.

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