For no reason whatsoever, here are some random bits of completely useless trivia. Feel free to astound your friends with any or all of them.
Your odds of either winning the lottery or becoming an astronaut are roughly the same (~13 million : 1).
Casu marzu, a sheep’s milk cheese enjoyed by Sardinians, is mostly rotten—and includes live insect larvae for added flavor.
While more people speak Mandarin, English is the most widely spoken, in that more countries have declared it their official language.
There are only two Shakers left in the world.
A Korean superstition holds that, if you eat damaged or asymmetrical food while pregnant, your baby will be ugly.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a Welsh railway station. The name translates to “St. Mary’s church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpooland the church of St. Tysilio of the red cave.”
