Random facts you have only recently discovered

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I found out only yesterday you are not allowed to take photos of the Eiffel Tower at night...mind totally blown

Mine is: What is the oldest University in the Americas?
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San Marcos in Lima Peru, founded in 1551.

Just because monkeys peel from the bottom end, doesn't mean it's right.
I mean, no disrespect to monkeys, but they haven't evolved as far as us!

Oh my Dualit toaster the dial is in minutes BTW - they don't pretend to tell you "brownness"

Danny devito is a qualified hairdresser
George bush was a cheerleader in high school
Alligators have permanent erections

The Cleopatra one - no way?!

Moose can dive up to 6m.

Cranberry's are harvested by flooding the fields and the berries float on the surface as they have a little air pocket!

*The “pineapples grow on the ground” and “center Parcs isn’t under a glass dome” crew will be along soon!

And “Gibraltar isn’t an island”!*

But (most of) Portsmouth is!

But Molly isn’t minutes = brownness? So the longer the toast is in there the browner it gets??

When you click your fingers the sound is from your middle finger hitting your hand not your finger and thumb

Loubuz No it isn’t

The sweat band around the wrist is also so you can wipe your nose on it whilst running.

I guess calling it a 'snot band' never took off.

In most cars, if you unlock your car with the fob, then hold down the unlock button again all of the windows will roll down.
I have tested this out on my car and have never felt the need to again.

Em All of Portsmouth is an island. Anywhere off the island is not Portsmouth. Especially Cosham!

"Snot band"
made me choke on my drink!
I'm never calling them anything else again!

@standstilling Yes it is!

Microblading

I have only very recently discovered that this is actually something to do with eyebrows.

In as much as I had thought about it at all, if pressed would have guessed something to do with in-line skates or scooters (but had noticed there did seem to be a lot of threads than I would have expected about skating!)

But Molly isn’t minutes = brownness? So the longer the toast is in there the browner it gets??
Yes but with my Dualit (newer/other models may be different), it doesn't pretend to know how brown stuff will get. So you have to know: slice of normal bread 2 minutes to correct brown, crumpet a little less, sugary waffle - even less (I tend to use toaster bags), frozen bread maybe 3 minutes etc.
But the numbers do just refer to minutes - its a mechanical timer and can even be replaced.

That the 'gas giant' planets like Jupiter are just gas all the way through. I thought it was a bit of swirly gas above a normal hard planet (technical terms)

@peachgreen Have we discovered that it is for some people and not for others? Like that tendon in your wrist that has evolved away for some people?

If I hold my finger and thumb away from my hand, the click sound is still there.

completely do we actually know they're gas all the way through?

@standstilling How can you hold your finger and thumb away from your hand? Isn't that just your finger and thumb rubbing together?!

It really gets on my tits that they pretend that Jools Holland NYE show is live!

In the Netherlands it's considered extremely rude and inappropriate to say that you are hungry

I’ve never heard that one before - but perhaps I’m just extremely rude and don’t know it!

It’s certainly true that children didn’t used to be able to complain of being hungry around their grandparents, otherwise you’d get a half-hour lecture about how ‘during the war we knew what real hunger was, we had to eat tulip bulbs’ (true fact but not really of interest to the grandchildren )

@emwithme cosham isn't Portsmouth