Useless trivia and facts

TinyArtist

The oldest person to have ever lived (whose age could be authenticated) was a French woman named Jeanne Louise Calment. Calment was 122 years old when she died in 1997.

According to my dad, I had a great uncle who lived to be 115!

TinyArtist

Sliced bread was first manufactured by machine and sold in the 1920s by the Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri. It was the greatest thing since…unsliced bread?

I prefer to hand slice my own.

TinyArtist

The Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu, who lived in the 1700s, reportedly invented the sandwich so he wouldn’t have to leave his gambling table to eat.

Talk about lazy!

TinyArtist

The first college football game was played on November 6, 1869, between Rutgers and Princeton (then known as the College of New Jersey). It was played in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and was won by Rutgers.

TinyArtist

Experiments in universities have actually been carried out to figure out how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop, both with machine and human lickers (because this is important scientific knowledge!). The results ranged from 252 to 411. |

Now that's a huge difference in licks!

TinyArtist

The Four Corners is the only spot in the US where you can stand in four states at once: Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.

TinyArtist

Canada is south of Detroit (just look at a map).

TinyArtist

The oldest living land animal is a tortoise named Jonathan, who turned 192 years old in 2024. He was born in 1832 and has lived on the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean sincelinks!

Imagine how many family generations he would of been passed down to.

TinyArtist

Bats are the only mammals that can actually fly.

And they scare the bejeezus out of me!

TinyArtist

Wombats are the only animal whose poop is cube-shaped. This is due to how its intestines form the feces. The animals then stack the cubes to mark their territory.

Ok that's TMI