Facts You Probably don’t Need
- For the first 22 years of its history, Georgia banned all lawyers from the colony. In 1733, Georgia’s founder James Oglethorpe denounced them as a “pest and scourge of mankind.”
- Canada has the most doughnut shops per capita of any country in the world. Japan has the second most.
- In 2007, Daniel Radcliffe wore the same outfit each time he left a theatre for six months straight so the paparazzi would not be able to use a new photo of him.
- Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World, took LSD before he died and he passed away tripping.
- Crows are generally monogamous. They raise families together and help each other raise their young ones.
- Between 1920 and 2000, the man hours required to produce a ton of steel reduced by a factor of 1,000.
- Play-Doh was originally created as a wallpaper cleaner, but the company changed course when coal began to be replaced as a home heating source.
Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.
