CALIFORNIA: Google’s latest trick aims to entertain and amaze, if random facts push your buttons. A new dynamic box appears below a search for ‘fun fact’, ‘fun facts’ or ‘I’m feeling curious’ showing tidbits like ‘Do crocodiles cry?’.

The more curious can keep hitting the button labelled ‘ask another question’ to generate seemingly endless random facts. Each curio is pulled directly from other sites, just like Google does with other elements of its built-in encyclopaedia called Knowledge Graph or with new snippets. The validity of the trivia remains to be seen, but Google provides a link to the site whence it came so you can at least check it out. Probably safe to trust National Geographic on crocodiles, but remember 88.2 per cent of statistics are made up.