Facts You Probably don’t Need
- Leonardo da Vinci’s last words were, “I have offended God and mankind, by doing so little with my life.”
- A typical microwave oven consumes more electricity powering its digital clock than it does heating food.
- Michael Jordan would practice with strobe lights on so that he wouldn’t be distracted by camera flashes during a real game.
- Aldous Huxley was injected with LSD on his deathbed and essentially tripped into death.
- Olivia Wilde’s real name is actually Olivia Jane Cockburn.
- Only about 130 people in the United States are licensed to fly blimps, only 17 are paid to do so full-time. Blimp pilots are more exclusive than NASA astronauts.
- Mick Jagger has a great-grandchild that is older than his youngest child.
- South Korea has a different age system than we do. Koreans are considered 1-year-old when they are born, then everyone gets one year older every New Year’s Day.
- The Dutch city of Utrecht celebrated George Orwell’s 110th birthday by putting party hats on surveillance cameras.
Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.
