A world of meaningless facts

Welcome to meaninglessfacts.com, where we collect meaningless facts about everything from people and animals to crazy rules and laws.

How fast is a snail?

It takes a snail 637 years to migrate from North Jutland to Spain at a rapid pace.

An adult’s foot is always the same size as their forearm.

0.3% of men can give themselves oral sex.

Having an orgasm burns around 49 calories, compared to only 7 calories if you simulate.

The magic word agracadabra means in Arabic: Fly oh all disease from this world.

Primary school was established in 1814

A sperm cell can swim 18 cm in one hour.

There are 18,000 people per km2 in Monaco, while only 2 per km2 in Iceland. (2003)

From 1875, women were also allowed to take the matriculation exam.

An adult male elephant eats up to 270 kilos of food per day.

If we swam as fast relative to our size as the predatory bacterium Bdellavirio, we would cross the Great Belt in 3-4 minutes.