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!

@OutrageousFlavourLikeFreesias

In the video for "Fairytale of New York" the boys from the NYPD choir turned out not to know the words to Galway Bay. So instead, they're singing the Mickey Mouse Club song ("who's the leader of the gang, who's great for you and me...?")

Also the NYPD don't have a choir, they have a marching band.

When Mariah Carey did her family tree it turned out she's related to Ashley Cole.

In some species of shark the babies eat each other before they are born

@cdba88ba I did see something on the TV jus now about this actually!

Sorry @cdba88 that^ was in response to this (about midwives leaving the profession...)

because it's bloody awful at the moment! I'm not yet qualified, but already burnt out. Staff are leaving and taking early retirement at alarming rates. It breaks my heart when I have no choice but to give shit care to women, and that's the real kicker!

Here's another fact: In 2021, 57% of midwives surveyed said they were considering leaving their job in the next year.

@foxgoosefinch

Figs contain the decayed and absorbed corpses of the wasps that pollinated them. Yum!

Does this mean that figs aren't vegan?

@Migrainesbythedozen

Tomatoes are fruit. But they clearly don't belong in a fruit salad.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting them in a fruit salad.

Does this mean that figs aren't vegan?

I think I've seen it argued that they're fine, because the wasps aren't being in any way exploited - they're using the fig.

”Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting them in a fruit salad.”

And philosophy is wondering whether that means ketchup is a smoothie.

”No, that poster is correct, There is only one country separating Norway and North Korea. (Russia obvs!)”

Thank you! That was my fun fact and I couldn’t believe it when I heard it either.

It might look like Finland is in the way but in fact Norway has a tiny sliver across the top which directly borders Russia.

Does this mean that figs aren't vegan?

I guess strictly not! 🤣

More people are killed by cows than sharks each year.

Will be fuming if anyone disputes this as it's my fave ever fact 😆

Love this thread.

@SecretKeeper1

*”Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting them in a fruit salad.”*

And philosophy is wondering whether that means ketchup is a smoothie.

@PleaseReferToMeAsBritneySpears and @SecretKeeper1 Good one! Had a good old chuckle.

In the video for "Fairytale of New York" the boys from the NYPD choir turned out not to know the words to Galway Bay.

I always assumed they were really grumpy and were actually singing "Go away!"

The main predator of the moose……is the orca

Love this post !
But the dried figs are now freaking me out

x percent of y is the same as y percent of x.

@1FootInTheRave

More people are killed by cows than sharks each year.

Will be fuming if anyone disputes this as it's my fave ever fact 😆

Love this thread.

Another one for you 👍

More people are killed by coconuts than sharks each year 😁

Flames don't have shadows.

@NEUserNamesNotTakenJeez

Flames don't have shadows.

They do.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than in plane crashes.

That is why you should never try to fly a donkey.

We needed this thread when we were all making quizzes in lockdown 1

@danadas

More people are killed annually by donkeys than in plane crashes.

That is why you should never try to fly a donkey.

When a honey bee stings you, it dies. We all know that but the cause of death isn't the sting falling off, it is that as the bee flies away, the sting remains in you, but is attached to the bee's innards so it disembowels itself as it flies away.

Your tongue print is as unique as your finger print, it's also the only muscle that is only attached at one end.

Giraffes have the same number of vertebrae in their necks as we do: 7

A group of crows is called a murder of crows, a group of owls is called a parliament of owls. Also, owl legs freak me out