15 Now-You-Know General Knowledge Facts

There are many ways to enjoy this list of interesting facts, but for me the most entertaining way is to think of a few facts that you'd never considered before, and then contemplate the reasons why they are not true. I find this to be more enjoyable than contemplating the reasons why they are true, because the latter gives you an answer and the former leaves you with a mystery. There are a few points of clarification before I begin. The definition of ‘interesting fact’ is quite loose. I'm including anything that has caught my interest and made me think, even if I have no idea of why it is interesting or what the significance of it is. If I had to put a number on it, I would say there are about four hundred interesting facts in this list. Some are very strange indeed, and some are so mundane that you could write them down and enjoy this list of interesting facts in the waiting room of your doctor's surgery. But all of them are curious in one way or another.