Fascinating Facts and Trivia

The longest music performance began on 5th September 2001 in a church in Germany and will end in the year 2640. The performance is called ASAP (As slow as possible).

There actually aren’t “57 varieties” of Heinz ketchup, and never were.

Company founder H.J. Heinz thought his product should have a number, and he liked 57.

Hint: Hit the glass bottle on the “57,” not the bottom, to get the ketchup to flow.

The original name for the search engine Google was Backrub.

It was renamed Google after the googol, which is the number one followed by 100 zeros.

The green code in The Matrix was actually created from symbols in the code designer’s wife’s sushi cookbook.

“Almost” is the longest word in English with all the letters in alphabetical order.

It is estimated that millions of trees are planted by forgetful squirrels that buried their nuts.

The iconic stone heads protruding from the ground on Easter Island are familiar to most, but many don’t realize what lies beneath the surface.

In the 2010s, archaeologists studying the hundreds of stone statues on the Pacific Island excavated two of the figures, revealing full torsos, which measure as high as 33 feet.

“Wait,” you're probably thinking, “I had pear cider last week.”

Actually, “cider” is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented apples, and only apples.

Alcoholic beverages can be made from pears, but that drink is known as “perry.”

The drink was popular in England for centuries but fell out of favor during the second half of the twentieth century. That turned around in the 1990s when the drink was rebranded as pear cider.

Talk about having to go!

Wood frogs in Alaska have been known to hold their urine for up to eight months, sticking it out through the region’s long winters before relieving themselves once temperatures increase.

The urine actually helps keep the animal alive while it hibernates, with special microbes in their gut that recycle the urea (urine’s main waste) into nitrogen.

When we breathe in and out of our nose during the day, one nostril does most of the work at a time, with the duties switching every several hours.

This “nasal cycle” is dictated by the same autonomic nervous system that regulates heart rate, digestion, and other unconscious bodily functions and is the reason why—when our nose gets stuffed up—it does so one nostril at a time.