Here are some random facts for you.
1. The piece of metal on the end of a pencil that holds the eraser is called a “ferrule.” It’s also the metal piece that holds the bristles of a brush to its handle.
2. “Oppenheimer” is the highest-grossing movie that never hit #1. It made $330 million at the box office in 2023 but peaked at #2. And the buzzsaw it ran into was: “Barbie”. (Remember? “Barbenheimer“!)
3. Over half of the edits on Wikipedia are made by less than 1% of its users, and one 41-year-old man named Steven Pruitt is responsible for creating 33,000 articles, and making more than 6 million edits. In fact, he’s made at least one edit to one-third of all the articles. (Here’s an old interview from 2019.)
4. When margarine was first created, it was illegal to make it the same color as butter, so manufacturers dyed it yellow. But eventually margarine became more popular than butter, so butter manufacturers started dying their butter yellow.
5. Even viruses can catch viruses. The first virus that infected other viruses was found in 2008.
(Wikipedia / Box Office Mojo / Wikipedia / The Society Pages / Live Science)
