Facts You Probably don’t Need

• Australia is wider than the moon.

• The Michelin Man’s real name is Bibendum, or Bib for short

• There are 32 muscles in a cat’s ear.

• Saudi Arabia imports most of its camels from Australia, which has the world’s largest wild camel population.

• Seattle is further north than all of Maine and most of the population of Canada..

• You can estimate the air temperature based on how frequently a cricket crickets using a scientific principle called Dolbear’s Law. For a rough estimate in degrees Fahrenheit, count the number of chirps a single cricket makes in 15 seconds and add 40.

• Sharks have been swimming our oceans since before the rings formed around Saturn.

• Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film “Psycho” was the first movie to show a flushing toilet.

          Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.