Facts You Probably don’t Need

• The largest bowling alley in the world is in Japan and has 116 lanes.

• No number before 1,000 contains the letter A.

• There were active volcanoes on the moon when dinosaurs were alive.

• Sudan has more pyramids than any country in the world.

• Tug of war was in the Olympics from 1900 to 1920. The United States swept the event in the 1904 St. Louis games.

• Baby hedgehogs are called hoglets.

• The real name for a hashtag is an octothorpe.

• A group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope.

• Around 80 percent of orange cats are male.

• Approximately one quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.

          Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.