Tiffany was a really common name in Ancient Rome.

European settlers committed genocide in America on such an incredible scale that the global climate cooled.

Texas is larger than any country in Europe except Russia.

Russia is actually pretty small and it almost fits inside Africa. Try it out: https://www.thetruesize.com/

EDIT: Ok I expressed myself in the wrong way. What I meant was, Russia is not as big as I thought it was. Of course, it's still really huge.

if you scramble a rubiks cube up there is a good chance that it is the first cube to be in that state. there are 43,252,003,247,489,856,000 possible states that a cube(3x3) can be scrambled up in to.

Hand sanitizer is ~120 proof alcohol. (Not a recommendation to drink it, since it's usually spiked with bad-tasting additives to keep people from doing just that. Some commercial hand sanitizers swap out ethanol for isopropyl alcohol, i.e. rubbing alcohol, which is more toxic when ingested.)

550/2 is not 225 and 77+33 is not 100

I've noticed Americans tend to be surprised that Europe is bigger than the US

Until recently the word "factoid" didn't mean a small bit of trivia. It meant something that sounded true or was accepted as a fact even though it was incorrect.

Turtles can, in fact, breathe through their butts.

We might actually not know why magnets work.

The formula used to prove the functionality of magnets can also be used to prove the existence of a theoretical state called a monopolar magnet - positive or negative on both sides. So either monopolar magnets can exist, even if in some esoteric circumstance, or we don't know why magnets work.

If your body healed as fast as your tongue you would starve to death.

Lettuces in landfills take up to 25 years to decompose.

There are four stanzas to the Star Spangled Banner (the US national anthem) and what you typically here at sporting events is only the first.

Bonus fun fact, the fourth stanza contains the line that, in the 1860s became the shorter, "In God We Trust," motto on coinage that eventually became the national motto of the US in the 1950s (which was also when it was added to paper money). That original line from the fourth stanza was, "And this be our motto - 'In God is our trust.'"

Texas is smaller than the state of Western Australia, while the USA is only slightly bigger than Australia.

The first can/tin opener wasn’t invented until about 75 years after canned food started being produced. During that time, people used hammers and chisels to open cans.

Today I learned the president of the Screen Actors Guild is The Nanny (Fran Dresher)

black holes can have any density, even lower than water