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.

What do humans remind you of most?

It’s common knowledge that humans share 99% of our genes with chimpanzees and gorillas, but we also share 60% genetic material with pea plants and chickens.

Where do the fewest and most people have arthritis?

Rheumatoid arthritis is one of the most common connective tissue diseases and is most common in the Prima Indians of the Americas with 5% of the population and least common in Chinese on the island of Kinmen with 0.3%.

Denmark spends little money on sexual health

In 2007, Denmark spent approximately DKK 20 million on prevention and sexual health – a figure that has fallen from DKK 30-35 million in the 1980s. This is far less than the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, for example. If Denmark were to spend as much as the Netherlands per citizen, we would have to spend five or six times as much money on prevention.