Facts You Probably don’t Need

• Two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, future President Lyndon Johnson, then serving as a U.S. Senator, was the first member of congress to request leave to enlist in the military.

• Antarctica is the world’s largest desert, receiving less than two inches of precipitation annually — less than the Sahara.

• The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in their lifetime.

• Male porcupines initiate courtship by urinating on females.

• Oregon’s state nut is the hazelnut.

• The word LASER stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

• Emma Morano of Italy was the last verified that was born in the 1800s. She was born on November 29, 1899, and died on April 25, 2017.

• Around 70,000 years ago, there were at least four different human species living at the same time. Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo floresiensis.

          Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.