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 Robinson Crusoe about?

In 1719, Englishman Daniel Defoe published a novel about an English sailor, Robinson Crusoe, who is stranded on a desert island where he must live a hermit’s life until he encounters one of the “savages”, whom he names after the day of the week of the encounter – Friday.

Snorker crashes

People who snore are statistically more likely to be involved in traffic accidents than other non-snoring road users.

Charlotte Dod, a multi-talent

British Charlotte Dod won the Wimbledon tennis championship five times, the British women’s golf championship once, silver in archery at the 1908 Olympics and she represented England at the 1899 Hockey World Cup. She was also an excellent ice skater.

What is osteology?

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

Do ostriches stick their heads in the ground?

Why do ostriches stick their heads in sand? Actually, they don’t. They’ve studied 200,000 ostriches for 8 years and not one ostrich has been found sticking its head in the ground or trying to.