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.

Puck-Man or Pac-Man?

PAC-MAN was originally going to be called PUCK-MAN, but it was changed because scratching the P would give it a more unfortunate meaning.

The different populations of world history

In the year 0, the Earth was populated by around 300 million people; 1000 years later, the world’s population had grown by 10 million, but after the Middle Ages, growth accelerated. In 1500, the number was 500 million and in 1800 it was one billion. In 2007, there were approximately 5.8 billion people on earth and in 2009 we had reached 6.5 billion.

The banana fly from the inside

An average fruit fly becomes an adult in just over 2 weeks and measures about 3 mm when fully grown. The female lays around 400 eggs in each clutch.