Facts You Probably don’t Need

• Coffee comes from coffee beans, which are actually the seeds of a fruit called the coffee berry.

• One light year is about 5.88 trillion miles. A light year measures distance, not time, and is the distance light travels in one Earth year.

• The voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse were married in real life.

• Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire. It was established around 1096.

• Before it became X, the Twitter bird had a name. It was Larry. Named after Larry Bird, the basketball player.

• Sperm whales have the largest brain of any animal. The second largest belongs to the orca.

• Although there have been incidents in captivity, there are no verified reports of a killer whale killing a human in the wild.

• A group of porcupines is called a “prickle.”

• A single spaghetti noodle is called a “spaghetto.”

          Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.