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!

@Midlander88

Door entrance keypad code numbers can be entered in any order and still open the door.

Found this out in my last job when one person thought the code was 1066 and someone else thought it was the other guy's birth year.

If it's a mechanical one yes, not if it's digital.

Although I wonder just how old was your colleague if he was born in 1606/1660. Or was he a time traveller from 6016?

So vampires… when did zombies start getting written about?

And doorpads - I thought that was just our crappy office door!

@AdmiralCain

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

Wouldn't you already be a red splat from your body decompressing in the vacuum without a suit?

Portsmouth is an island. I learnt that on a previous thread.

This one is more tenuous, but France has a border with Brazil.

Burntisland isn’t an island and it’s not burnt.

Thanks to Sir David Attenborough, I didn't know fungi could take over an insect and use them to get fed until said insect dies!

@Wendarl

Otters have favourite stones, that they keep in a special little ‘pouch’ under their arm

Reminds me of my son and his favourite stone which was called Bonting. He keeps it in a box🤣

Hello KittenKong. Your dad is correct. The haggis is eligible for disability parking due to the 2 short legs. I’m thinking this may only be in the highlands I’ve not heard of it in the lowlands. Perhaps your dad knows?

Kitten Kong, I seem to recall Burntisland name has something to do with the smell of burnt fisherman’s huts or nets. It’s something like that.

Every atom in your body came from an exploding star. The atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than the atoms in your right hand...

Er... think the crisp one is wrong?!
I was just telling my children these facts and they refused to believe this one. They insisted on checking every bag in our house and have found 2 bags that don't follow the Saturday Best Before Date!

Spiders have paws!

We as far removed from the year 1970 as 1970 was from 1918.

If you are born in Korea on 31st December, you will turn two the following day.

In "Korean age" you turn one the day you are born, and everyone ages one year on 1st January.

David attenborough said on one of his Green Planet documentaries that, when he was born (May 1926) the World population was 2 billion, and at the time of the program was then 7.5 billion.

I cannot forget that. The carbon footprint/climate-change lot ignore that a burgeoning population is accellerating overcrowding, starvation, conflict, illegal immegration and fossil fuel problems and no-one wants to address that. In another 90 years, at that rate, this planet could be struggling with a population of 25 billion.
Everyone will be at everyone else's throat if that happens, it will be a very different world and very unpleasant to be in.

@Dnaltocs

When a haggis is born, it cries for iron bru for its first drink. Later it will accept the mothers milk.

😂

@SnoozeAllDay

A can of Diet Coke will float in a bath. A can of Coke will sink in a bath.

How odd!

A baby puffin is called a puffling.

Elizabeth II has been on the throne for over a quarter of the time that the Unites States has been a country. Queen 70 years, US existed 246 years. I don’t know why that fascinates me so much.

Need to mark this.

@Topazmumma

Every atom in your body came from an exploding star. The atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than the atoms in your right hand...

But how?

I've heard this before and it always completely baffles me as to how.

I should probably Google this but I'll probably end up down a huge rabbit hole.

X percent of Y is the same as Y percent of X. Mind was blown when I learned this.

@NeverDropYourMooncup

Although I wonder just how old was your colleague if he was born in 1606/1660. Or was he a time traveller from 6016?

Maybe he (or his daughter) was born on the first of June in 2006 or 1960? (1/6/06, 1/6/60)

@MissMaple82

It is impossible to hum whilst holding your breath

Sure I just did that.

Double the height of your two year old is their fully grown height.