12 Pieces of Trivia the ‘Antiques Roadshow’ Guy Just Informed You Aren’t Worth Jack Squat

It's called quinine, an ingredient that was originally included to help British soldiers fend off malaria.

Cheez Whiz was created by a man named Edwin Traisman, who, as if he hadn’t already done enough for junk food, also helped develop the process McDonald’s uses for their French fries.

It was only added in 1954, in a bill signed by Dwight Eisenhower.

The Hoth scenes in Star Wars were filmed on a glacier in Finse, Norway, which now holds its own “Visit Hoth” festival.

The famous landmark was stored under the floorboards of a church in Allentown, Pennsylvania to avoid it being melted down for British weapons.

It’s not all about length, after all. The widest river in the world is the Amazon, reaching seven miles across at its widest point.

We all know ostriches are speedy creatures, but if you’ve ever wanted to know an actual number, it’s 43 miles per hour.

As if not enough people were getting it confused with Washington, D.C. already.

The stalwart Honda Accord was the first Japanese car manufactured in America, in a plant in Marysville, Ohio.

Dr. Pepper was invented, and first served, at Morrison's Old Corner Drug Store in Waco, Texas.

It seems a little weird, given that there’s not a single W in the word “tungsten.” It’s because the W comes from an earlier, German name for the element: Wolfram.

It's “virus.”