Facts You Probably don’t Need

•  The only word in the English language with three sets of consecutive double letters is “bookkeeper.”

• Peacocks sleep in trees.

• In the UK, Heinz has reported that soup sales tend to rise roughly 3 percent per 1 °C drop in the temperature.

• The Caribbean nation Jamaica gets its name from the Arawak word “Xaymaca,” meaning “land of wood and water.” Meanwhile, Jamaica, Queens, derives its name from a Lenape word, “Yamecah,” meaning “beaver.” Although they share the same spelling in English, their origins are completely independent.

• The chemical element tungsten is also historically known as wolfram, which is why its symbol on the periodic table is W.

• The word “apron” originally came from the Old French “naperon” meaning “small cloth”. Through common speech over time, “a napron” was misheard as “an apron,” and the altered form stuck.

• The small dots that show the numbers on a die are called pips.

• The PG‑13 rating was introduced in 1984 in response to parental outcry over the level of violence in movies like “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and “Gremlins,” which had been rated PG despite intense sequences. “Red Dawn” became the first film released under the new PG‑13 rating.

Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.