Facts You Probably don’t Need

• Bruno Mars’ birth name is Peter Eugene Hernandez.

• 2013 was the first year since 1987 to feature four different numbers.

• Costco’s hot dog and soda combo has remained at the same price since 1984.

• In Singapore, when you turn 21, you are automatically registered as an organ donor unless you opt out.

• Robert Ballard, who discovered the Titanic wreckage, was actually on a secret mission looking to search for two lost U.S. nuclear submarines.

• In the space of 11 months, Jim Carrey starred in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, And Dumb and Dumber. He was the first actor to star in three consecutive major box office hits.

• When GTA V was released in 2013, it became the most expensive video game ever made. It cost $265 million to make.

• In the late ‘80s, George Clooney bought a Vietnamese Pot-bellied pig for his then-girlfriend, and he kept the pig after they broke up. It lived for another 18 years.

• In proportion to their body weight, koalas have the smallest brains of any mammal.

Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.