Previous Facts

• 2026-04-15 — The guillotine was last used in France in 1977.
• 2026-04-14 — In the late Middle Ages, you could pay taxes with beer.
• 2026-04-13 — New York gets 15 times as much snow as the South Pole.
• 2026-04-10 — In 2011, a Georgian woman, digging for copper to sell as scrap, sliced through a cable and cut off the whole of Armenia from the Internet.
• 2026-04-09 — The pistol shrimp uses jets of water to generate a sonic boom as loud as Concorde's.
• 2026-04-08 — Your brain uses less power than the light in your fridge.
• 2026-04-07 — In 2010, a traffic jam near Beijing in China stretched for 100 kilometres and lasted nine days.
• 2026-04-06 — The amount of gold in one human body is 0.2 mg; to mint one gold sovereign would need 40,000 people.
• 2026-04-03 — There is enough gold in the Earth's core to coat its entire surface to a depth of 1m.
• 2026-04-02 — 80% of the world's gold was created by earthquakes.