Facts You Probably don’t Need
- The last president that wasn’t a Republican or Democrat was Millard Fillmore in 1853.
- According to some theories, the T-Rex lacked the ability to roar. If it wasn’t silent, it likely could only hiss like a crocodile.
- Minecraft is the best-selling video game in history.
- Tattooing was illegal in NYC from 1961-1997.
- The drug lord Pablo Escobar offered to pay off Columbia’s $10 billion foreign debt in order to avoid extradition.
- In 2014, an L.A. memorial tree dedicated to George Harrison was killed by an infestation of beetles.
- Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.
- A mantis shrimp can swing its claw so fast it boils the water around it and creates a flash of light.
- James Madison was the shortest president, standing at just 5’4”.
Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.
