20 Off-The-Wall Facts That Jumpstarted Our Camaro

If I had a penny for every time I heard someone say, ‘Oh, that’s just a fact!' then I'd be able to afford a cup of coffee. Fact is an old-fashioned word, isn't it? It comes from the Latin word faciendum, meaning something which must be done. Facetiously, one of the definitions of fact in the Oxford English Dictionary is ‘something which is to be done.’ And yet there are all these people who enjoy this list of interesting facts, and they say to me, ‘Oh, that’s just a fact!' And I have to say, ‘No it isn’t. It's something which must be done.' The very word fact itself is an interesting one. As a noun it means ‘something which is fixed or certain’. As a verb it means ‘to give firm shape to (something)’. It's a noun which gives us the word ‘facet’ - ‘a polished surface’. Uhhh … on second thought, ignore all that, I'm sure I'll edit it to be actually accurate when I sober up. Anyway, here's that list: