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.

When is Easter Sunday?

Easter Sunday is always the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox.

Dangerous matches?

Matches were invented in 1805. But it took 39 years to develop the harmless matches we know today.

How many galaxies are there in space

Since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched, it has been discovered that there are 10-50 billion galaxies in space. Each galaxy contains between 50 and 100 million stars and an unknown number of planets.

Irish immigrants

In the years between 1820-1860, Irish immigrants never made up less than a third of the total number of immigrants in the US.