10 UNNECESSARY STUPID FACTS YOU'RE GLAD TO KNOW NOW

Well. You would think that after a week or ten the weird trinkets and facts would start to run out. But no. The world is a crazy place and useless info can be found on every street corner. Did you know that…

1. The lighter was invented before the match?

2. And that a starfish has no brain?

3. To lose one centimeter from your waist, you need to burn 1.8 kilograms of fat. That's about six thousand calories. In other words, about eight hours of running. Yikes.

4. In Volendam and surrounding areas, more cocaine and ecstasy is used daily than in London, Paris, and Milan.

5. The first man to survive a fall from Niagara Falls later died after slipping on an orange peel. How unfortunate.

6. If you are blind, you cannot have a fear of heights.

7. Ironically, but true: drowning is the biggest danger in the desert. It hardly ever rains there, but when it does, huge amounts of water rush into valleys. And that water ends up on unsuspecting people who never expected so much water could flow in that spot.

8. If you think that ‘Holland’ is another word for ‘the Netherlands’, then you are mistaken. Holland consists of the Dutch provinces of North and South Holland. This region was economically strong in the past and was often equated with the Netherlands, which is incorrect.

9. There are 1,281 bridges in Amsterdam.

10. Um. There really is something like a Ben & Jerry’s graveyard. When an ice cream flavor is discontinued, it is laid to rest in the specially created 'ice cream graveyard' next to the B&J factory in Vermont. The flavors Wavy Gravy, Turtle Soup, What a cluster, and many others are already buried there. HAHA. Sorry. How fun it would be to visit there once.

a photo of Kiki where she is laughing.