Facts You Probably don’t Need
- India has the longest written constitution in the world containing over 146,000 words.
- The first and only child of a president to be born at the White House was President Grover Cleveland and First Lady Frances Cleveland’s daughter, Ester.
- The Turkish capital of Istanbul is located in both Asia and Europe.
- There are 31,557,600 seconds in an astronomical year. 31,536,000 in a standard year, and 31,662,400 in a leap year
- There are 31.5 million U.S. residents who are of Irish ancestry. That number is more than six times the population of Ireland itself.
- Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches two to six years of age.
- Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.
- The word “mortgage” comes from a French word that literally means “death ledge.”
Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.
