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.

Who won the first World Cup at 17?

Pele won his first World Cup at the age of 17.

The height of the Eiffel Tower varies by 20 cm, depending on the weather.

Wolfenstein 3D is a computer shooter game made by ID software and published on May 5, 1992 for DOS.

American psychologists have calculated that children in the US have seen over 8,000 murders on television by the age of thirteen (2001).

In foggy weather, drivers misjudge their speed and drive up to 50% faster than they think.

There were 14 counties and 275 municipalities in Denmark in 2003.

At the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, only 241 athletes participated.

The world’s smallest helicopter (that can fly) measures just 24 millimeters in length and 8 millimeters in height.

Gletsjer (previously spelled gletscher) is a German word used in Danish – other Nordic words for glacier are jøkel and bræ.

Wildebeest eat grass 16 hours a day.