Here is Eli's Page of Weekly Fact Archives
Week 1: 9/15/25-9/19/25
Did you know ketchup used to be a medicine for indigestion?
Week 2: 9/22/25-9/26/25
Did you know that Galium is the only metal to melt in your hand.
Week 3: 9/29/25-10/10/25
Did you know that rice is the most eaten food in the world?
Week 4: 10/13/25-10/18/25Β
Did you know that the first ever "brainrot" was a video of a baby dancing back in 1996?
Week 5:10/20/25-10/24/25Β
Video Games: Did you know that Minecraft is the best-selling video game in the world?
Dragons: The word "dragon" came from the Greek word "drakon," which means "huge serpent."Β Β
Week 6: 10/27/25-10/31/25Β
Did you know that when the company Apple was first designing a flip phone, it would look like the Apple logo?Β
Week 7: 11/3/25-11/7/25Β
Did you know that Marvel tried to trademark the word βzombieβ in 1973?
Week 8: 11/17/25-11/21/25
Did you know Waldo Waterman made the first flying car, the Arrowbile, in 1934, which functioned as both an airplane and a car? While earlier attempts like Glenn Curtiss's 1917 Autoplane were made, Waterman's Arrowbile is recognized as the first successful one.Β Β
Week 9: 12/15/25-12/19/25
Did you know an astronaut's spacesuit weighs about 280 pounds (without the astronaut) and takes nearly 45 minutes to put on, highlighting the extreme engineering involved.Β
Week 10: 1/5/26-1/9/26
Did you know Psycho (a movie not for kids) is the first US film to feature a flushing toilet.
Week 11: 1/12/26-1/16/26
Did you know grizzly bears run at speeds of up to about 35 miles per hour?
Week 12: 1/19/26-1/23/26
Did you know that the Nike swoosh was bought only for 35 bucks in 1971?
Week 13: 1/26/26-1/30/26
The name 'Google' was a typo. The founders ment to type 'Googol.'
Week 14: 2/2/26-2/6/26
Jayden: I'm from South Korea π°π·
Jaden: I read over a MILLION words in ARΒ
Week 15: 2/9/26-2/13/26
Eli M: I have been here since kindergarten. :)
Games: Bowser was supposed to be an ox.
Week 16: 2/16/26 - 2/20/26
WW2: World War II began on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, prompting Britain and France to declare war.
Cloning: The first cloning happened on July 5, 1996. It was a sheep named Dolly.
Week 17: 2/23/26 - 2/27/26
Gold: The largest gold nugget was found in Moliagul, Australia, in 1869. It is called "Welcome Stranger." It weighs approximately 2.520 ounces or 0.1575 pounds.
Space: One million Earths could fit inside the sun.
Week 18: 3/2/26 - 3/6/26
NBA/NFL/MLB/NHL
NBA/NFL/MLB/NHL: MLB is the oldest league out of those choices, founded in 1876, in Cinncinati Ohio
Week 19: 3/9/26 - 3/13/26
Rexy
Rexy is about 1 year old. She was born in March last year.
Week 20: 3/23/26 - 3/27/26
Chromebooks
The first ever launched Chromebook came out on June 15, 2011. It partnered with Samsung to make it.
Week 21: 3/30/26 - 4/3/26
Kahoot
Kahoot was created by Morton Versvik and John Brand and was released in 2017.
Week 22: 4/6/26 - 4/10/26
Bombs
The father of the modern bomb is a scientist named J. Robert Oppenheimer. The bomb was code-named: Trinity. This bomb was used in Hiroshima.
Week 23: 4/13/26 - 4/17/26
History of :)
On September 19, 1982, Scott Faulman proposed that they use the :) for sarcasm. This decision revolutionized texting (kind of).Β
Week 24: 4/20/26 - 4/24/26
WW3
If a third world war happens, Google says that the safest place will be either New Zealand, Fiji, or Chile.
Week 25: 4/27/26 - 5/1/26
βΎοΈ
A mathematician named John Wallis made the infinity icon to portray the concept of infinity in 1655.
Week 25: 5/4/26 - 5/15/26
WW1
World War 1 basically started because of a wrong turn.Β