Facts You Probably don’t Need

• Oreo filling contains no dairy, so the FDA didn’t allow it to be called “cream.” Therefore, it was named “crème” instead.

• Organ donation is on an opt-out basis in Singapore. Citizens who opt-out have a lower priority of receiving an organ should they need one.

• If you took all the gold that has ever been mined, it would fit in about three and a half Olympic-sized swimming pools.

• Until its fall in 1991, the Soviet Union banned the Ukrainian letter “g” because there was no corresponding letter in the Russian alphabet.

• The dot over the letter “i” is called a “tittle.”

• Due to the melting of arctic ice, polar and grizzly bears are mating. Their hybrid offspring are now being called “pizzly” or “grolar” bears.

• There are no bridges at any point over the Amazon River.

• In 1973, a helicopter landed in Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison exercise yard. The guards assumed it was a surprise inspection until three IRA prisoners got in and escaped.

          Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.