Facts You Probably don’t Need

• The American Revolution began and ended within Mozart’s lifetime.

• Harvard University was founded before calculus was developed.

• The Simpsons first aired before the Soviet Union collapsed.

• Abraham Lincoln was alive when the fax machine was invented.

• Ruby Bridges became the first Black child to integrate an all-white elementary school in the South in 1960—and she is still alive today.

• Harriet Tubman was born during Thomas Jefferson’s lifetime and died during Ronald Reagan’s.

• In 2002, astronomers determined that the average color of the universe is a pale beige, nicknamed “cosmic latte.”

• The “M” on M&M’s candies has been printed in white since 1954; before that, it was black.

          Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.