Call me an autistic savant, but I happen to love interesting factoids. You know the kind of ones that, even if you were the prime prosecution witness in a gripping court case, you couldn't help but recount, at random? Love 'em. That's why I'm presenting you with eighty of the best right here. Enjoy, nerds!
1. Tomato ketchup was once sold as medicine.
2. Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
3. Cabbage is 91% water.
4. Henry Ford never had a driving licence.
5. A pig always sleeps on its right side.
6. Benito Mussilini would ward off the evil eye by touching his testicles.
7. The ferret was domesticated 500 years before the cat.
8. Apollo had twenty seconds of fuel left when it landed.
9. In 1915, William Wrigley Jr sent chewing gum to everyone in the phone book.
10. The oldest word in the English language is 'town'.
