Facts You Probably don’t Need
- Walmart regularly sells more bananas than any other item that they carry.
- Bryan Cranston voiced a handful of monsters on “The Power Rangers.” The blue ranger, Billy Cranston, is named after him.
- James Brown and Otis Redding both worked as background singers for Little Richard.
- Typically, a microwave uses more energy powering its clock display than it does actually microwaving.
- Segue 2 is the tiniest galaxy that humans are aware of. It’s technically a dwarf galaxy located about 110,000 light-years away and it only contains 1,000 or so stars.
- When you get a kidney transplant, they don’t get rid of your old kidney. Rather, it is usually left in place unless there is pain or signs of an infection.
- Easter has landed on April Fool’s Day five times since 1900 including as recently as 2018. It will happen again in 2029.
- A group of flamingos is known as a flamboyance.
Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.