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!

Damn, the only time I didn't Google something 🤣just seen it on Facebook... I feel so naive 🤣🤣

The stories of Frankenstein and Dracula were created in the same room at the same time.

OK, a group of Pugs is called a Grumble.

Where is the sea of tranquility?
On the moon 🌙

Now I know this video is very tongue in cheek. But if you look just after 2 min 10. This factory stacks the sandwich so you'll get two different sarnies in a packet.

If you look at approx 3 mins 45. This machine cuts one sandwich in half and then flips one onto the other and they'll end up in the same packet....

@BoredZelda

Sorry but that's totally wrong. Frankenstein was published in 1818 and Dracula was written in the 1890s.

Also Matt Dillon is in the Fairy Tale of New York video and giraffes only have 7 neckbones

It'd take about 30 years to travel to the Sun in a plane. It'd take about 9 million years to travel to the Sun's nearest neighbour on the same plane.

The one is like is that water based mammals (dolphins etc) have tails which move in up/down motion as it’s important that they move upwards to come up for air. Fish, on the other hand have tails which go left/right motion, so easy to tell which is which.

@NEUserNamesNotTakenJeez

Damn, the only time I didn't Google something 🤣just seen it on Facebook... I feel so naive 🤣🤣

That is absolutely INSANE @Cam77. Is that honestly true? It’s difficult to comprehend the magnitude of things until you read things like that.

Sorry but that's totally wrong. Frankenstein was published in 1818 and Dracula was written in the 1890s.

It isn’t “totally” wrong.

Lord Byron and Mary Shelly were challenge to a fiction contest where she came up with Frankenstein, he came up with “A fragment of a novel” which was the first story ever to introduce a vampire. This inspired the short story “the vampyre” which was written by Polidori, which concept in turn was taken by Bram Stokers to create Dracula.

Love threads like this!

Michael Stipe from REM was originally cast to play Kevin Spacey’s part in Se7en

According to a book my 7 year old brought home from school - dolphins are types of whale! This may be a common known fact but my tiny mind was blown 😆

[quote Pinkstegosaurus]@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles I’m sure I read somewhere that astronauts get slightly shorter after time in space (potential misremembering!!) so perhaps balance out time on the rack with moonwalking night shifts?[/quote]
Other way round. Lack of gravity decompresses the spine, so astronauts come home taller!

My favourite:

Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landings than to the pyramids being built.

@WeeWeeMe

All the men's sprint medals at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics were won by black athletes except one, and the winner of that, was black as well.

Don't understand???

@Florabritannica

Over 50% of all numbers begin with 1

This can't possibly be true!

Love this thread!

Who was he? Are there books/films etc about him or by him?

Not as far as I know. Many sources say he was an Italian soldier, but according to others, he was an Austrian liaison officer. I just hope it’s a true story because it makes me smile!

There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches in the world.
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HeyUpits2022

There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches in the world.“

There are more neurons in our brains than both.

Giraffes are the only animals to be born with horns.
This photo always blows my mind too. Michael Collins taking a pic of buzz aldrin and Neil Armstrong in the moon lander with a tiny earth in the background. In a similar vein to an earlier fact on here - women pregnant with girls have the eggs of their future grandchildren in them. Michael Collins is the only human not in the frame of that picture. All material needed for human life/creation is there in the frame of that picture, dead people, alive people, people yet to exist...and Micheal Collins is out of frame.

@houseonthehill

Only uncircumcised men are allowed to be Morris Dancers.

Is that really true? I can't believe it because how would they know?

Surely you don't apply for the "job" and they ask? I've never heard of any other job application where they ask you if you're circumcised!!!

Michael Collins is the only human not in the frame of that picture. All material needed for human life/creation is there in the frame of that picture, dead people, alive people, people yet to exist...and Micheal Collins is out of frame.

That’s pretty cool.

@SpikeySmooth

If you give birth on a London Underground station, the baby gets free travel for life.

Noooo. Really????!!!

@Elderflower14

Read on a little further - it's all explained.

@buddylicious

It was a joke - the poster made that clear in their next post almost straightaway.

If you give birth on a London Underground station, the baby gets free travel for life.*

Noooo. Really????!!!

I think this is an urban myth. There’s only ever been 5 babies born on the underground (although there are likely to have been some more in WW2 when the stations were used as shelters Jerry Springer claimed to be one of those) But there in nothing in TFL’s policies that state this.

People always say the same for airlines, but none have ever confirmed that policy.