12 Dino-Shaped Nuggets of Trivia Fresh From the Toaster Oven

At high enough doses, by which I mean doses that are incredibly medically inadvisable, nutmeg can cause psychedelic hallucinations.

Most people are familiar with the basic roman numerals, but there’s a modifier they might not know, partly because huge numbers are much better expressed in other ways. A horizontal line over a numeral means to multiply that number by 1,000.

Travelers to France or Italy may have been unfortunate enough to accidentally scald their hands on a letter-labeled faucet before figuring out that “C” doesn’t stand for “cold” over there, but for chaud or caldo, meaning “hot” instead.

The original, iconic hockey mask worn by Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th series is a Detroit Red Wings goalie mask.

College Park Airport, in College Park, Maryland, has been operating since 1909.

The first home video game console isn’t from any of the companies you’d expect, and it isn’t Pong. It's the Magnavox Odyssey, released in 1972.

The sea otter is the largest member of the weasel family.

The scientific name of the gorilla in question? Gorilla gorilla gorilla.

Jean Lafitte was a pirate (or privateer, if you asked him) who the British military asked for help attacking the U.S. from the Gulf of Mexico. Lafitte instead warned the U.S. of the impending attack, an act that eventually earned him the honor of becoming the namesake of Jean Lafitte National Park and Preserve in Louisiana.

Despite its reputation, California isn’t the most earthquake-prone state in the U.S. That honor belongs to Alaska.

In the Siege of Vicksburg, Grant stole a black pony from the estate of Joe Davis, Jefferson Davis’ brother. What did he name the little pony? Jeff Davis.

Housecats are actually “crepescular,” meaning that their most active hours are around the periods of dawn and dusk.