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Unbelievable Fun Facts

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abacucat · 21/08/2018 19:48

Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
Doves are just white pigeons.
When Neil Armstrong returned from the moon, he had to go through customs.

Do you know any unbelievable fun facts?

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Pascha · 21/08/2018 22:17

The human race could have evolved one and a half times over between the eras of Stegosaurus and T. Rex.

KathrynOfArrogance · 21/08/2018 22:19

Giraffes are just long horses

ChellySmuff · 21/08/2018 22:21

Velociraptors were about the same size as chickens.

Butterflies eat caterpillars.

One man has enough sperm to impregnate every woman on earth.

Lobsters don’t age, or die naturally.

Fairyfellowsmasterstroke · 21/08/2018 22:23

NapQueen
111,111,111 × 111,111,
=
12,345,678,987,654,321

It doesn't on my calculator!!!!

I feel cheated Sad

FawnDrench · 21/08/2018 22:32

As above - my result is 12,345,666,654,321.

Saggital · 21/08/2018 22:33

Only about 15% of total animal species have been discovered. Most of those undiscovered will be quite small of course - however in 2017 at least 350 new species such as birds, lizards and spiders were discovered in the Amazon alone.

There are about five times as many stars in the universe as there are grains of sand on all the beaches on earth.

Since I have been typing this post, world population has increased by 200 people. www.worldometers.info/world-population/

Fairyfellowsmasterstroke · 21/08/2018 22:34

Yep -that's exactly what I get Fawn

sits back and wonders how many MNers are pulling up their calculator apps

ShirleyPhallus · 21/08/2018 22:42

If you shave a zebra you’d find it was all black underneath. The fur is black and the white stripes are just bits of fur without pigmentation.

ShirleyPhallus · 21/08/2018 22:42

Lobsters don’t age, or die naturally.

What.....?

DadDadDad · 21/08/2018 22:44

Portsmouth is on an island (and I don't mean the British mainland).

ShirleyPhallus · 21/08/2018 22:47

Let’s play mumsnet bingo for:

  • baby vests with the turndown shoulders
  • Portsmouth is an island
  • pineapples grow on the ground

Ok, 3....2.....1......

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 21/08/2018 22:48

You can't say 'happiness' without saying 'penis'

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 21/08/2018 22:49

Some of you just said it... Grin

Move2WY · 21/08/2018 22:49

Former US presidents are not permitted to drive themselves in public, even after their time in office has ended.

Amazing

daintydaisies · 21/08/2018 22:50

Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.

If a piece of paper was folded 42 times it would reach the moon.

Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than to the building of the Great Pyramid.

Saggital · 21/08/2018 22:50

I am waiting for the several comparisons of something to the size of Wales.

WinterBabyIsComing · 21/08/2018 22:51

@daintydaisies I don't understand the folded paper one?

KathrynOfArrogance · 21/08/2018 22:51

Wales and whales are similar in size

ShirleyPhallus · 21/08/2018 22:53

Portsmouth is on an island Grin

WinterBabyIsComing · 21/08/2018 22:54

Ok, Googled it. Weird.

byronicheroine · 21/08/2018 22:55

I think you're missing a 111, so:
111,111,111×111,111,111

BruceAndNosh · 21/08/2018 23:00

Contrary to popular belief, a tawny owl does not go t-wit t-woo

abacucat · 21/08/2018 23:01

Charlie Chaplin lost a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest.
It rains diamonds on Jupiter.
Australia exports camels to Saudi Arabia.
Cockroaches are so repulsed by humans, that if a human touches them, they run away and wash themselves

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Chocolou · 21/08/2018 23:02

Wait!!! Doves are white pigeons 😳 well I fucking never!! I never knew that.

Is this for actual real? Just I am know to be a bit gullible!!

GladAllOver · 21/08/2018 23:03

You can't say 'happiness' without saying 'penis'

True, and

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