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 often is Star Trek mentioned in the series?

Out of all the episodes and movies in the Star Trek series, the term “Star Trek” has only been said once. It happened in the 1996 movie Star Trek: First Contact where Zefram Cochrane (James Cromwell) said it.

Where exactly is the Hipparcos satellite?

The Hipparcos satellite (used to position stars) is so precise that if placed at the top of the Eiffel Tower, it would be able to distinguish between two sides of a coin standing on the edge of the Empire State Building in New York.

Convergent evolution of the car speed curve

If the curve for the development of cars’ top speed had converged with the curve for the number of calculations per second in a PC processor over the last 25 years, we would today have cars that could drive approximately 45,000,000,000,000 km/h. That’s the equivalent of driving a trip to the sun in about 15 minutes.