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

@CanoeDoYouThinkYouAre cross post but you know the score

Oslo will be car free by 2020.

Lol at monkeys trolling us!

@peachgreen I can click my fingers without them touching my hand (admittedly have only tried it because of this thread ) and they still click. Maybe I’m a freak...

MumUndone - I think it's because scientists are able to measure the mass of the gas giants - something to do with gravity, I believe - and the mass is what it is because it's only gas. If there were a rocky middle, the mass would be different.

That's about as far as I can go for some kind of explanation.

The monkeys aren’t trolling us, we’ve trolled ourselves. Monkeys don’t really eat bananas (in the wild), or they just stuff them straight in their gobs when given them.

I recently learnt that owls have long, skinny legs

Is it only me who has never managed to click my fingers? 😦

If you hum, then block your nostrils, the sound stops

Oh and, only 1 in 10 people can lick their armpit

Giraffes hum!
Found out when googling what noise giraffes make because they appear in every single children's book and my son always asks! 😂

If you wiggle your fingers in your ears it sounds like Pac-Man

They can switch off Niagara Falls and sometimes do at night.

Tin foil is meant to be used dull side up. 😳

The game TAG actually stands for touch and go!

They can switch off Niagara Falls and sometimes do at night.

Utter rubbish. They have once in the 60s diverted the flow to the Canadian side leaving the American side dry, and they may do it again. They don’t jus5 turn it off at night on a whim, it’s a huge undertaking.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/turn-off-niagara-falls-run-dry_n_56a623e7e4b076aadcc71fbb

@Biancadelrioisback If you hum, then block your nostrils, the sound stops

but not if your mouth is open

If you hum, then block your nostrils, the sound stops
but not if your mouth is open

Do i have to do everything the internet tells me.

Yep

Until quite recently, I had no idea that the population of Madagascar was nearly 30 fucking million people. I knew it was decently populated, what I mean by that I'm really not sure, but 30 million?! I was blown away.

@Roaebud21 but it's not humming if your mouth is open?

Cheese but how do you feel about Farlington?!

Lol, it's still not but we'll keep it for the Sainsbury's (much better than the one down town).

I learned today that the word ‘sabotage’ comes from the French word ‘sabot’ meaning ‘clog’.

Fed-up workers used to drop a clog in the machine to stop it - hence ‘sabotage’.

Love me a bit of etymology.

Topseyt I can't click my fingers, or whistle.

That Glasgow is in Scotland not Ireland....I know

@lostfrequencies, @PiggyPlumPie, @Spoonsmum I was devastated to discover the truth about the Hootenany and haven't really watched it since. What's the point...of anything now?