Order Mental Floss's Amazing Facts Desk Calendar to Learn Something New Every Day

Your commute, your weekend plans, and the weather are all tried-and-true topics for small talk, but that doesn’t mean you can’t meander into uncharted territory and wow your friends, family, and coworkers with some more obscure facts from time to time.

To give you some (more than 300, actually) ideas, Mental Floss has teamed up with Andrews McMeel Publishing on a desk calendar with one amazing fact for each day of 2021. If you’ve spent time on the Mental Floss website, the phrase amazing fact might sound familiar—the calendar is an offshoot of the popular Amazing Fact Generator, which has been delivering offbeat, zany, thought-provoking trivia to readers for a good part of Mental Floss’s 20-year history.

The facts themselves cover everything from pop culture to history and beyond, giving you the opportunity to discover, for example, that the little plastic "table" on top of the pizza you get for takeout or delivery is called a pizza saver, and that it was patented in 1983 by a woman named Carmela Vitale.

Some of the facts relate to their corresponding dates. On Halloween, you can kick off your morning conference call with this endearing entertainment tidbit: Children in 1966 were so distraught that Charlie Brown only got rocks in his trick-or-treat bag during It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown that they mailed heaps of candy to Charles Schulz’s office in California.

By the end of next year, you’ll be the most interesting person in your company and everyone’s first choice for their pub trivia team. The calendar is available for purchase now, and you can get details on how to order it here.