Facts You Probably don’t Need
- The Caesar salad was invented in 1924.
- The average golf ball has 336 dimples.
- Ryan Reynolds paid $10,000 of his own money for the right to wear a shirt with The Golden Girl’s Bea Arthur on it in Deadpool. Arthur’s estate agreed for a donation in that amount to a charity of their choosing.
- Over sixty percent of the world’s lakes are located in Canada.
- The International Space Station orbits Earth approximately every 90 minutes.
- When Dutch biking company VanMoof began shipping their bikes to the USA, a lot of them were arriving to their new customers damaged, so they decide to put an image of an expensive, flat-screen television on the cardboard boxes. Doing so saw an 80% decrease in damage.
- The real name for a hashtag is an octothorpe.
- No number before 1,000 contains the letter A.
Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.