Everything seems to be a bit naff at the moment, so to help try and forget about any woes you may have, please peruse this list of compelling facts I've put together.
Feel free to add your own and also to bore your friends with them -
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Dogs make cute little sneezing sounds when you play with them to tell you they are playing and not fighting.

Guinness estimates that 93,000 litres of beer are lost in facial hair each year in the UK alone.

Volvo gave away the 1962 patent for their revolutionary three-point seat belt for free, in order to save lives.

Pillow fighting is a real, recognized sport in Canada. It was founded in Toronto in 2004 by the Pillow Fighting League.

Goldfish can recognise their owners

It's highly likely your pet dreams of you in their sleep

Blood donors in Sweden receive a thank you text when their blood is used.

Since founding the Imagination Library in 1995, Dolly Parton has donated 100 million books to children.

If you have the feeling you’ve experienced an event before in real life, call it deìjaÌ vu. If you feel like you’ve previously experienced an event in a dream instead, there’s a different term for it: déjà rêvé.

‘Boring’ in Oregon and ‘Dull’ in Scotland have been sister cities since 2012. In 2017, they added ‘Bland Shire’, Australia to their "League of Extraordinary Communities."

The 100 folds in a chef's toque are said to represent 100 ways to cook an egg.

US TV show presenter Mister Rogers always mentioned out loud that he was feeding his fish because a young blind viewer once asked him to do so. She wanted to know the fish were OK.

In 1974, the Journal of Applied Behaviour Analysis published a paper titled "The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of 'Writer's Block.'" It contained a total of zero words.

Central Park's lampposts contain a set of four numbers that can help you navigate. The first two tell you the nearest street, and the next two tell you whether you're closer to the east or west side of the park (even numbers signal east, odd signals west).

Kea parrots warble together when they're in a good mood, making them the first known non-mammal species to communicate with infectious laughter.

Long before rap battles, there was "flyting": the exchange of witty, insulting verses. The verbal throwdowns were popular in England and Scotland from the 5th to 16th centuries.

An estimated 1 million dogs in the U.S. have been named the primary beneficiary in their owners' wills.

The Starry Night depicts Vincent van Gogh's view from the Saint-Paul de Mausole asylum.

Peter Durand patented the tin can in 1810. Ezra Warner patented a can opener in 1858. In between, people used chisels and hammers.

The Russians showed up 12 days late to the 1908 Olympics in London because they were using the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar.

It's illegal for supermarkets in France to waste food. Supermarkets must either compost it or donate unsold or nearly expired goods to charity.

Truman Capote claimed he was the only person who'd met John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Sirhan Sirhan.

The ampersand symbol is formed from the letters in et—the Latin word for "and."

The plural of cul-de-sac is culs-de-sac.

An episode of Peppa Pig was pulled from Australian television for teaching children not to fear spiders.

Sleep literally cleans your brain. During slumber, more cerebrospinal fluid flushes through the brain to wash away harmful proteins and toxins that build up during the day.

One April day in 1930, the BBC reported, "There is no news." Instead they played piano music.

Russian cosmonauts used to pack a shotgun in case they landed in Siberia and had to fend off bears.

In Switzerland, it's illegal to own only one guinea pig.

Elvis's manager sold "I Hate Elvis" badges as a way to make money off of people who weren't buying his merchandise.

There's a Nikola Tesla statue in Palo Alto that provides free Wi-Fi.

LEGO has a temperature-controlled underground vault in Denmark with nearly every set they've ever made.

After leaving office, Ronald Reagan was offered the role of Hill Valley's mayor in Back to the Future III