Facts You Probably don’t Need
- Harriet Tubman was alive at the same time as both Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan.
- The word “nerd” was first coined by Dr. Seuss.
- In Germany, “Mr. Clean” is known as “Mr. Proper.”
- The Pacific Ocean is less salty than the Atlantic Ocean.
- The toy Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
- Wombat poop is shaped like a cube.
- Even if it were traveling at the fastest speed a manmade spacecraft has ever achieved, it would take 19,000 years to reach the closest star to our solar system.license plates each day.
- New York City is further south than Rome, Italy.
- African buffalo herds display “voting behavior” to indicate their travel preferences by standing up, staring in one direction and then lying back down. Only adult females vote.
- When three letter airport codes became standard, airports that were using a two letter code just added an “X”. e.g. LAX.
Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.
