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.

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.

How much candy do you eat?

Each Dane eats an average of 18 kilos of sweets a year. This is equivalent to the world’s largest container ship arriving three times a year with candy, if it is loaded to capacity.

Eyes like a dragonfly

If we had eyes like a dragonfly, we wouldn’t enjoy watching movies at the cinema, because each frame of the filmstrip would be seen as a separate slide.