Underwhelming Facts

The French word for 'croissant' is 'croissant'.

Hamburger was the 11th highest-grossing arcade video game of 1982.

All school meals provided in Brunei are halal.

West Berkshire makes up over half of the geographical area of the county of Berkshire.

The original code for Doom had the wrong tenth digit for pi.

Queen Victoria, in 1899, insisted that all mentions of 'czar' be spelled 'tsar'.

The island of Nosy Be (capital Hell-Ville) has no traffic lights and is home to the world’s seventh smallest frog.

07624- numbers are reserved for the Isle of Man.

Coelophysis was the second dinosaur in space.

There are 71 books designated as National Treasures by the Japanese state.

Between 1999 and 2022, 16 clinical trials took place in the Cook Islands.

The Wear valley contains surprisingly few drumlins.

The earliest person to have died after being filmed was Sarah Whitely in 1888.

The first person to film inside a woodpecker's nest was Heinz Sielmann.

Riverside Honey holds the record for the 925-metre race at the Romford Greyhound Stadium.

81% of over-65s in Britain own a corkscrew.

Pyongyang has five pizza restaurants.

Crocodiles have teeth.

80% of the world's mustard seeds are grown in Canada.

One pound sterling is currently worth 20,517.37 Indonesian rupiah.

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