Facts You Probably don’t Need

• A shrimp’s heart is in its head.

• The Mona Lisa has a dedicated postbox at the Louvre for love letters.

• The word “oxymoron” is an oxymoron itself. It combines contradictory Greek words meaning “sharp” and “dull.”

• Polar bears aren’t white—they’re translucent. Their fur appears white due to light scattering, but it’s actually clear.

• The world’s largest snowflake was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. It fell in Montana in 1887.

• It is estimated that our brains can store the equivalent of 2.5 petabytes of information. That’s about 3 million hours of TV shows.

• Frida Kahlo painted 55 self-portraits.

• Your heart beats an average of 100,000 times each day.

• A watermelon is 92% water.

          Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.