Previous Facts

• 2026-02-25 — A human liver can grow back even after 75% of it has been removed.
• 2026-02-24 — Magnolias are the oldest surviving flowering plants; they first appeared 100 million years ago.
• 2026-02-23 — Danny DeVito is a qualified hairdresser.
• 2026-02-20 — Ozzy Osbourne worked in a morgue and a slaughterhouse.
• 2026-02-19 — Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter. He was fitting a door when George Lucas asked him to audition for Star Wars.
• 2026-02-18 — A bite from the Brazilian wandering spider results in an erection that lasts for several hours.
• 2026-02-17 — Spiders can survive for hours underwater by entering a self-induced coma.
• 2026-02-16 — The Marianas Trench in the Pacific is so deep that a coin dropped into it from the surface will take more than an hour to reach the bottom.
• 2026-02-13 — Only 5% of the world's population has ever been on an aeroplane.
• 2026-02-12 — 80% of plane crashes occur in the first three or last eight minutes of a flight.