If I asked you to tell me an interesting fact about yourself...

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What would you tell me?

I had a conference call today, there was one person from each department of the large company I work for. To break the ice the senior manager asked everyone to introduce themself and give one interesting fact about themself. I despise things like that, I'm quite shy and just completely froze when it got to me and ended up introducing myself followed by 'I'm insanely shy and find things like this painful' luckily the host laughed!

So what would you say?

I had to prepare 3 of these this week for a video conference; 2 true and one false.

This is one of the true ones; I wrote an article for 'Who do you think you are?' magazine a few years ago about an ancestor with such an outrageous criminal past they had to edit parts of it before it could be published.

I was a very well known model in the 90s.
And I am incredibly shy and look every one of my (almost) 48 years, so you'd NEVER guess I'd been a model if you met me. Ten years ago, people would say, "Oh yeah. I could see you were a model." Now? NEVER! Ah well. You can't have it all, always.

@coulddowithashag please please tell this story

I usually go for the fact I can fold my ears inside out and then make them pop out.

I was once knocked down by a bus and the bus came off worse

I have a few

I speak 3 languages.

I lived in Saudi Arabia as a child.

I was once run over by a bike.

Nothing that I think other people would think is interesting, but I was one of 3 people to go to uni in my borough as a care leaver, I was fostered at the age of 13 and went or to get a law degree, I got a letter off the mayor to say how proud they were of me probably wouldn't of brought that up in a work call though.

I got married on the same day as Percy Pig.

OP - I think your answer was great, and it told me more about you than all the 'interesting facts'. It told me you are shy, but more importantly, that you have a sense of humour and are honest.
It woudl make me want to work with you

I once fell off a (small) cliff on a deserted area of a tropical island, and was only saved from the jagged rocks I landed on my back onto by the giant frying pan padded with my rucksack I had started to my back. I lay there wind for a while, which would have looked hilarious if only I hadn't been alone.... Lifeless flat on my back in a giant frying pan.

I was somebody’s phone-a-friend on Who Wants to be a Millionaire. I got called and didn’t know the answer!!

Strapped to my back! 🙄

I have nothing interesting

@MuseumOfYou our work does this a lot at HMRC, I hate it!

I've played at Lords Cricket Ground, Twickenham Rugby Stadium and my local football stadium (which was premier league at the time) but not to play sport...

I can flip my tongue on its side left and right (not sure if this is common) but everyone I've met has never been able to do it.
I've also been told I have a long pointy lizard tongue 😁

I’ve eaten the fish of death.

I’ve eaten the fish of death.

That's crazy! Is it true that the neurotoxins give the eater a sense of euphoria or a high? I guess the big question is: Was it worth it?
And did you not brick yourself a bit?

I was nervous but it was prepared by a specialist chef. It wasn’t very tasty and cosy a lot!

I have quite a few interesting facts about me. But it doesn't mean I'm an interesting person. I think people sometimes mix the two up. I agree with the beekeeper upthread. Some of my interesting facts are not suitable for work (not inappropriate, just makes me sound too self absorbed or downright fucking weird)

If I'd been on that call, OP I'd have warmed to you instantly.

Interesting facts suitable for a meeting: my grandfather designed the Cadbury's Dairy Milk wrapper, and I was patted on the head by Douglas Bader.

Not suitable for meetings: Wolverhampton motel...blind drunk...dodgy credit card...pre-op transsexual.

I have sparred some top British boxers like Billy Joe Saunders and Liam Williams. 🤷🏾‍♂️

You've all made me feel much better, some for liking my answer and others for giving me clues about the things I need to do before my next meetingn

I was on Playschool as a small child, I was "through one of the windows" as a story of a child who went shopping with their Mum, (It wasn't my actual Mum).

Mine is always I used to work in Disney world in Florida. Which always gets people going ooo and I'm pretty sure that's why I got my first job out of uni haha.

I was on Songs of Praise.

Can’t say the one I use in these situations really as last time I said it on here I outed myself

@Lyricallie I LOVE Disney can I be cheeky and ask what you did/where you worked?