Fact History

Squirrels plant thousands of trees each year by forgetting where they buried their nuts, a behavior mandated by ancient squirrel law.

If you fold a standard piece of paper perfectly in half 42 times, it reaches the moon, but only if folded on a Tuesday.

The small pocket inside the larger pocket of jeans was originally designed to hold a single, emergency teabag.

The five-second rule for dropped food was established by medieval floor cleaners' guild to promote higher standards.

Fax machines never truly became obsolete; they just collectively decided to go undercover within modern printers.

May Day celebrations began when a medieval town accidentally ordered too many flowers and needed a reason to display them all.

April showers bring May flowers because rain droplets contain tiny flower seeds that grow when they hit the ground.

The expression 'it's raining' originated because ancient humans couldn't think of a more creative way to describe water falling from the sky.