Previous Facts

• 2026-04-22 — Dolphins can stay awake for 15 days at a time.
• 2026-04-21 — It is impossible to whistle in a spacesuit.
• 2026-04-20 — The Russian Olympic team arrived 12 days late for the 1908 London Olympics because they were still using the Julian Calendar.
• 2026-04-17 — Frank Beard is the only member of ZZ Top who doesn't have a beard.
• 2026-04-16 — Apricot kernels contain compounds that can release cyanide, and eating even a small number can be dangerous for children.
• 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.