What's your favourite fact?

[GlitterSquid]

Fill me full of your favourite facts. The more obscure, the better!

My favourite all time fact is that two halves of a supermarket sandwich are never from the same sandwich and are each another half of another pair. Unbelievable.

I met a grown man who didn't know peanuts grew underground recently too, which pleased me.

Enlighten me further!

Octopuses like to punch fish for fun

Deaf people cannot lip read better than hearing people Some lip patterns look the same when they mean different things.

Get a mirror and lip pattern (speak but with no volume)

Beans

Meat

and Van Gough

Ciabatta was invented as a jealous response to the popularity of the baguette.

It's illegal to own a lone guinea pig in Switzerland because they'll get lonely.

If you outstretched your arms and measure from finger tip to finger tip... the measurement should also match your height.

Ah, fascinating - thanks a lot for explaining that, Seraphina1993

Octopuses like to punch fish for fun

Are you sure they're not just trying on new gloves for size?

Or maybe fish are extremely annoying....

The average number of legs that we all have is fewer than two.

There is more computing power in a birthday card which sings Happy Birthday when you open in than existed in the world in 1950 (according to the fun facts on my Octopus energy account).

John Tyler, the 10th US President, was born in 1790. One of his grandsons is still alive.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

The average number of legs that we all have is fewer than two.

I guess the average person has one boob and one bollock!

@AutomaticMoon

Ducks have extremely long corkscrew shaped penises (peni?) and they will gang rape females 🤮

I also heard otters are rapey bastards.

Female ducks also have two entrances. If she does not wish to be pregnant by the male who is raping her, she will send his penis down a dead end tube. If she does, she will allow it into the proper tube.

Female rabbits can reabsorb their embryos if the conditions are not favourable for rearing young. Why couldn't such a gift have been given to the human race?

This is not just rabbits. Quite a few animals share this trait including elephants. Imagine being an elephant, pregnant for 22 months and then deciding at the last minute that it isn’t a good idea to have a baby, and then reabsorbing it.

Female Dragonflies will fake death to avoid males from mating with them.
This is only successful about 60% of the time which means that 40% are either necrophiliacs or very clever

@princesssparklepants

If you outstretched your arms and measure from finger tip to finger tip... the measurement should also match your height.

I read this a while ago, me and dh have a running joke that my arms are abnormally short so measured us both... mine are around 5/6cm less than my height but his were almost 20cm longer! He's a tall guy, but apparently is more mr tickle in proportion

Chainsaws were invented for use in childbirth

@user1471604848

And "ba ba black sheep" is also the same tune

No it's not

Forceps were invented in the 1500's and were so successful in difficult deliveries that the inventor's family insisted that the forceps were hidden in boxes and mothers were blindfolded so that no one could see how they worked and copy the design

The air pressure at the top of mount Everest is less than at sea level so water boils at 72 deg C. This is called the armstrong limit.
The air pressure on Mars is so low Water boils at body temperature if you just walked around the water in your eyes, mouth and Lungs would boil.

A ducks quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

@buddylicious
And "ba ba black sheep" is also the same tune
No it's not

Ah come on, SURELY everyone sings it
ABCD,EFGHI
JKLM,NOPeeeee
QRSTU,VWXYZ
And one for the alphabet who lives down the lane!

The National Animal of Scotland is the unicorn. Possibly because the unicorn is the enemy of the lion and England had already chosen the lion

If you were in space and you found yourself without a space suit and oxygen wasn't a problem! you wouldn't freeze to death quickly it would take about 8 hours. because it's a vacuum of -270c it doesn't matter. There's no loosing heat by conduction as it's a vacuum, there's no loosing heat by convection as it's a vacuum. You'd only loose heat by infrared which happens slowly

Liechtenstein’s last military engagement was during the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, when 80 men were sent to guard the Brenner Pass between Austria and Italy. 81 men returned, because there were no casualties and they made a friend on the way.

@Cattenberg

Liechtenstein’s last military engagement was during the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, when 80 men were sent to guard the Brenner Pass between Austria and Italy. 81 men returned, because there were no casualties and they made a friend on the way.

I love this.

'Captain, we found him on the way home, can we keep him? PLEASE?'

[quote HelloFrostyMorning]@Seraphina1993

You start with about 4 million eggs at birth but you lose hundreds of thousands before puberty where you have around 300k left. You lose about 1000 a month at that stage. By 30 you have about 72k. Only 1 or 2 of the best of the batch are released each month though. I guess we're just born with a lot of duds.

OH MY ACTUAL GAWWWD!

I totally 100% did NOT know that. I thought we were born with 400 to 500 eggs and that was it. I just looked this up and it's true.

I am nearly 60 and I never knew this. What is my life?! 😳[/quote]
How do you lose them though? And why?

Only uncircumcised men are allowed to be Morris Dancers.