Your favorite weird fact

For 80 million vehicles

Dolphins are the only other animal that have sex for pleasure

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If you circle the world with a rope near its equator, and then try and circle the world with a rope one inch off its surface at the equator....the difference between those ropes is only like six inches in length

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The opposite of Progress is Congress

Mozart was black

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The largest tire manufacturer in the world is LEGO. They produce over 320 million tires a year.

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Cute, but dumb stat. Real tires are remarkably sophisticated and underappreciated. You trust your life and the lives of your family members to them. Yet you abuse them by leaving them underinflated, you don't get your suspension aligned often enough, you forget to rotate your tires, and you let the tread get down to the threads before buying new ones. And they still keep you alive. No, I don't work for a tire manufacturer. And I'm guilty of neglecting my tires in all the ways I've listed. Thank you real tires, for keeping me alive.

When Dean Martin split from Jerry Lewis, producer Hal Wallis considered pairing Lewis w/a singer he had recently put under contract

Female penguins engage in a form of prostitution.

Researchers have repeatedly observed female penguins exchanging sexual favors with male penguins that aren’t their mates in exchange for pebbles they will use to build nests for their babies.

If you go 120 mph you cut gas consumption in half

William Shakespeare was a actually a black woman