Previous Facts

• 2026-02-11 — Most clams begin life as males, but half of them turn female when older.
• 2026-02-10 — Samsung's first product was dried fish.
• 2026-02-09 — Astronauts' helmets contain a small piece of Velcro so they can scratch their noses.
• 2026-02-06 — Cockroaches appeared 120 million years before the dinosaurs.
• 2026-02-05 — Winnie the Pooh's real name is Edward Bear.
• 2026-02-04 — Tintin is named Tantan in Japan because the Japanese would pronounce Tintin as "Chinchin", which is slang for penis.
• 2026-02-03 — The Sami in northern Finland use a unit of measurement called Poronkusema: the distance a reindeer travels before it needs to urinate.
• 2026-02-02 — Until 1913, it was legal to send children through the post in the US.
• 2026-01-30 — A sloth can hold its breath for 40 minutes.
• 2026-01-29 — Nachos were invented in Mexico in 1943 by a man named Ignacio Anaya. His nickname was Nacho, a common short form of Ignacio.