Bangalore: Did you know that dancing makes you smarter? Or that the average person spends 40 minutes a day blind? How many of us are aware that like LOL is now a word in the Oxford English Dictionary, or that indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution? 20 year old Kris Sanchez owns UberFacts, the Twitter account full of interesting, yet unimportant facts (whose page views incidentally went up from around 56,000 views to 291,000 odd views in less than a month).

UberFacts was brought into existence when Sanchez, being a college student, was trying to kill time by looking for interesting facts. According to an excerpt of his interview with ZD Net, Kris Sanchez credits the exponential recognition of his account to the decision he made to switch between time zones. He had a number of international followers who didn’t get to see updates as regularly as Americans, so he stayed up tweeting at night in order to see that they did. He also replied to comments from his personal twitter account, a move that not many popular accounts make. Replying to comments on UberFacts from KrisSanchez made him disown anonymity, but “It’s nice to be able to communicate back!” he said.

One can’t help noticing that none of UberFacts’ facts come from any specific categories. Kris writes them as he comes across them: when he’s reading a book on the train or from random questions that get answered by Googling them. Since they’re new and interesting facts, Sanchez says it is almost impossible to run out of stock. They are also intriguing enough to make readers switch to read off his tumbler account on which he provides detailed (scientific) explanation for his tweets.

The top 100 popular accounts on Twitter, according to twitaholic.com, excluding those belonging to celebrities, comprise of news firms’ and magazines’ accounts (CNN, New York Times, TIME and E!Online), and tech giants’ accounts (Twitter, Twitpic, Uber Social and Google).
OMG Facts is one account that made it to the top 100 on Twitter, without fitting into any of the above categories.