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 is osteology?

Osteology – has nothing to do with cheese, it is the scientific study of bones, a sub-discipline of anthropology and archaeology.

Don’t complain about the weather

Next time you complain about the weather, think about the weather in Charrapundji, India, which gets up to 26 meters of rain per year, 37 times the average for Northern Europe.

When was the bow tie invented?

The “butterfly” swimming style was first accepted as an independent swimming style in 1952, until then it was a variation of breaststroke.