Previous Facts

• 2026-06-24 — The world record for holding one's breath underwater is 22 minutes.
• 2026-06-23 — You only need to be three feet underwater to be protected from bullets.
• 2026-06-22 — The punishment for serving bad beer in ancient Babylon was drowning.
• 2026-06-19 — There is a cloud near the center of the Milky Way in the constellation Sagittarius that contains enough alcohol to make around 400 trillion trillion (biljoen biljoen) pints of beer.
• 2026-06-18 — The “mare” in “nightmare” comes from a word for a female night demon believed to sit on sleepers’ chests and cause terror.
• 2026-06-17 — In 2013, a Milan court sentenced a homeless man to house arrest. Each night, police went round to his bit of pavement to make sure he was in his sleeping bag.
• 2026-06-16 — Even when adjusted for inflation, the movie Titanic cost 50% more to make than the ship of the same name.
• 2026-06-15 — There are more than 3 million shipwrecks under the world's oceans.
• 2026-06-12 — Some of the dinosaur noises in Jurassic Park were made using recordings of tortoises having sex.
• 2026-06-11 — Penguins can drink salt water. They have specialised salt glands that filter out salt from water.