38 Useless Facts You Don’t Need to Know
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- Racecar is the same spelled backwards. That’s called a palindrome. Also, rotator, refer, rotor, and wow.
- Odd-numbered freeways go north and south. Even-numbered freeways for east and west. 101 north. 5 north, 580 east, etc.
- 92% of statistics are made up on the spot. Including the one I just stated.
- All the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20
- The United States had a $10,000 bill at one point. $500, $1,000, and $5,000 too. Check eBay.
- Neo is an anagram for ‘One’.
- You’ll fall asleep, on average, in seven minutes
- The ‘dot’ over ‘i’ is called a tittle
- In South America, oranges are green.
- Pretty much every single person in South Park is voiced by only two people.
- According to Swiss mortality statistics from 1968 to 2008, you are 13.8% more likely to die on your birthday.
- Those metal dots on your jeans are called rivets.
- Scientist Dan Frost made diamonds out of peanut butter.
- A group of hippos is called a bloat.
- The holes in your shoes that you stick shoelaces through are called eyelets.
- Pogonophobia: The fear of beards.
- If you yawn and stretch simultaneously, you are pandiculating.
- The metal part between your eraser and the wood on your pencil is called a ferrule.
- A flamboyance is a group of flamingos.
- You spend approximately 3 hours on the toilet each week.
- A group of pugs is called a grumble.
- The YKK on your zipper stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikigaisha. You’re welcome.
- A jiffy is one trillionth of a second.
- There are about 336 “dimples” on a golf ball.
- The sleeve that you get for your hot Starbucks beverage is called a zarf.
- -40 in Celsius and Fahrenheit are the same.
- The infinity sign ∞ is called a lemniscate.
- Some of the most expensive coffee in the world is actually poop.
- Dr. Seuss invented the word ‘nerd’.
- Seth MacFarlane is at least Peter Griffin, Stewie Griffin, Brian Griffin, and Glenn on Family Guy.
- The lint in your pockets is called gnurr.
- You produce about 5 lbs of trash every day.
- You remove six pounds of poop from your body every week.
- A lot of people directly descended from Genghis Khan.
- The french bulldog is born by c-section and inseminated artificially.
- The most common password is 123456. If this is you, get a new password, now.
- The sun is 99% of our solar system’s mass.
- Nobody owns Antarctica.
