Facts You Probably don’t Need

• In the U.S. in 2022, only a few dozen books sold more than half a million copies—and romance novelist Colleen Hoover wrote eight of them.

• Most versions of the classic recycling symbol are actually Möbius strips. If you follow one arrow forward, you’ll eventually return to the same arrow on the opposite side.

• The capital of South Dakota is Pierre—and when pronounced correctly, it rhymes with “beer.”

• Many car scenes in TV and film remove headrests and rearview mirrors to reduce visual obstructions and improve camera sight lines.

•  Francium is the second rarest naturally occurring element on Earth. Its most stable isotope has a half-life of about 22 minutes, and at any given time, only a trace amount exists worldwide.

•  The difference between a nook and a cranny is that a nook is a corner, while a cranny is a narrow opening or crack.

•  If the Sun were the size of a white blood cell traveling through your veins, the Milky Way would be roughly the size of the continental United States.

• Velociraptors were roughly the size of a turkey. They were even covered in feathers.

          Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.