Previous Facts

• 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.
• 2026-01-28 — Pope Francis once worked as a bouncer at a nightclub in Buenos Aires.
• 2026-01-27 — Only about 20% of the Sahara is sand. The rest consists of rocks, gravel plains, mountains, dry valleys, salt flats and cracked earth.
• 2026-01-26 — There are 177,147 ways to tie a tie. However, only 85 of them are actually attractive or wearable.
• 2026-01-23 — An unpeeled orange floats on water, but it sinks once it's been peeled.
• 2026-01-22 — You can't see a polar bear with night-vision goggles.