Tacos Oscar isn’t just a restaurant: it’s a hyper-intense learning environment that puts Six Sigma to shame. A truly global enterprise, our restaurant serves as an intellectual hub that out-thought-leads, out-synergizes, and out-disrupts even the most venture-capitaled venture capitalists. Under the dark tutelage of Oscar “Quizmaster” Michel (the 1996 Jr National Champion in Trivial Pursuit), we’ve assembled a cadre of incredible facts to enliven the senses and expand your mind. Exfoliate your brainspace with this captivating list of incredible facts that Oscar has personally put together for you, our beloved customers. 

  • Owls don’t have eyeballs.
  • Snakes can burp fire.
  • 40 million years ago penguins were 6 feet tall.
  • There are 20,000,000,000,000,000 ants on Earth
  • The 100 folds in a chef’s toque are said to represent 100 ways to cook an egg.
  • In curling, good sportsmanship and politeness are essential.
  • Velociraptors were slightly bigger than chickens.
  • There is no specific time zone at the South Pole.
  • Each limestone/granite block that makes up the Great Pyramid of Giza weighs 2.5 tons. And there are 2.3 million of them. Yes, you read that correctly.
  • Sandra Bullock was almost “Neo” in The Matrix.
  • On statues, a horse’s legs tell you how the statue figure died.
    • If a horse has both its front legs in the air, then the person died in battle.
    • If the horse has one of its front legs in the air, they died of wounds received from a battle.
    • And if the horse has both its front legs on the ground then the person died of natural causes.
  • “OMG” was first used in writing in 1917.
  • A tiger’s roar can be heard up to two miles away.
  • Your nose and ears never stop growing.
  • Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest!
  • Belgium once tried using cats to deliver mail.
  • 10 gallons of carrot juice will kill a person.
  • An Italian punk band once ate spaghetti on stage instead of playing any songs.
  • Dolph Lundgren has an IQ of 160.
  • For their first month of living, babies only see in black & white.
  • Psycho (1960) was the first film to ever show a toilet flushing.
  • Each glass of water you drink almost certainly contains a molecule of water that passed through a dinosaur.
  • Your feet and hands contain more than half of the bones in your body
  • In the 14th century, a pig was executed in France. It attacked a child and was tried at court.
  • Koalas and human beings have very similar fingerprints. So similar, in fact, that koalas have confused crime scene investigators.
  • There is a festival in Thailand where monkeys are given a huge buffet of food!
  • The band Pearl Jam was originally named Mookie Blaylock
  • Pigs have no sweat glands. It’s why they coat themselves in mud!