10 UNNECESSARY TRIVIA FACTS YOU'RE GLAD TO KNOW NOW

’In the evening, you are about two centimeters shorter than in the morning, Bangkok is actually not called Bangkok at all, and omphalophobia is the fear of navels. The world is a crazy place and useless info can be found on every street corner. Did you know for example that…

1. September is the most expensive month of the year? Yep, not December. In September, most people have their birthdays too, by the way. Maybe you already felt it in your wallet. Just one more day, guys!

2. An old cheese cannot just be called an old cheese. No, a cheese is only officially an old cheese if it has matured for one year. If a cheese has matured for less time, then it is extra mature, mature, young mature, or young cheese.

3. Oh, and speaking of cheese: one of the most expensive cheeses costs no less than a thousand euros per kilo. It's a Serbian specimen, by the way, made from donkey milk called ‘Pule’.

4. All pandas in the world come from China. Yes, even the pandas in Ouwehands Zoo. The pandas are rented by China for a period of ten years at a time. Countries pay about one million dollars per year per panda. Say whuut.

5. Maybe you also want to know that the eye of an ostrich is bigger than its brain.

6. It is quite difficult to become a sushi chef as a woman in Japan. It makes no sense, but men once decided that women's hands are warmer (because they are more emotional?!) and thus make the sushi too warm when preparing it. Pffff.

7. Sad and uh gulp... Did you know that an average of a hundred people choke on a ballpoint pen each year?

8. The dog breeds Chow-Chow and Shar-Pei are the only breeds with a black tongue. All other dogs have a pink tongue, just like humans.

9. All polar bears are left-handed. Oh, and maybe even weirder: polar bears are not white at all. The hairs of the animal appear white due to the reflection of the sun, but are actually transparent. Under their fur is a black skin, which makes them look white to us, get it?

10. One of the oldest people ever, Jeanne Calment, smoked for no less than ninety-six years of her life and ate a kilo of chocolate per week for a long time. She lived to be 122. Side note: she came from a filthy rich family and never had to work. Something about life goals.

Happy Sunday!