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 is feta made?

Feta cheese is originally made from sheep’s milk, but in Denmark it’s made almost exclusively from cow’s milk with an enzyme added to change the flavor and white dye.

The Milky Way

The Milky Way consists of approximately 100 billion stars in a disk-shaped spiral with an extension of about 100,000 light years.

How much grain is eaten?

Humanity eats approximately 1.2 billion tons of grain per year. If we laid the grain out as a 15 cm wide and 2 meter high wall, it would reach around the equator.

How long have ants been around?

American scientists have found 7 ants in a lump of amber, aged approximately 92 million years, which is over 50 million years more than previously thought to have existed.