Facts You Probably don’t Need

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

• The expiration date on a water bottle is not for the water, but for the bottle itself.

• The distant part of the sea that appears hazy and seems to merge with the sky is called the offing.

• The Earth’s volume is approximately 1.086 × 10²⁷ cubic centimeters.

•  Louis XIX was king of France for just 20 minutes.

•  The fear of phobias is called phobophobia.

• 2520 is the smallest number that has 1 through 10 as factors.

• If all the land on Earth had the same population density as New York City, there would be about 5.3 trillion people on Earth.

• The Moon is approximately 1.28 light-seconds away from Earth.

• There is a city in Turkey called Batman.

          Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.