Facts You Probably don’t Need

• There are multiple active volcanoes in Antarctica.

• East Germany created its own cola drink. Vita-Cola’s sales almost disappeared after the fall of the Berlin Wall brought Coke and Pepsi into the East.

• Chipotle peppers are just smoke-dried jalapeños.

• Tickets for the first Super Bowl in 1967 were $12 and 33,000 seats went unsold.

•  The Outer Space Treaty, signed by all major space faring nations, prohibits claiming territory in space or on celestial bodies. Space is considered “the shared heritage of mankind.”

• Luxembourg’s gold medal at the 1952 Olympics was so unexpected that the organizers had neglected to give the band a score for their national anthem.

• Vultures have stomach acid so corrosive that they can even digest anthrax.

• In 1975, a physicist made his cat the co-author of a physics paper because he’d accidentally written “We” instead of “I” throughout the paper and couldn’t be bothered changing it.

Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.