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!

The plastic bit at the end of a shoelace is called an aglet

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache

You can type the word ' typewriter ' just using the top row of a keyboard

@Tempusfudgeit

We are closer in time to the Tyrannosaurus Rex than the T-Rex is to the Stegosaurus.

Nooooo is that seriously true?!

@Alarae

The chocolate bit inside a KitKat is made up of other rejected KitKats which have been smashed up.

Well, shit, how did they make the first ever kitkat??!

@Tempusfudgeit

We are closer in time to the Tyrannosaurus Rex than the T-Rex is to the Stegosaurus.

This fact always amazes me!

The moon is so far from the earth that You could fit all the planets between them if you placed them next to each other

No, that should be nose! 🙄

That Jack Black’s Mum helped design art of the system that helped with the Apollo 13 mission.
AND she was a ballerina and a children’s book author.

The parking token you put in to pay is not the one you get back to leave with. I had to start a thread I was so shocked.

Mount Everest was initially measured at exactly 29000 feet. They changed the height to 29002 feet so
People didn’t think it was an approximation.

(They’ve now changed it again to 29,029 but I think that’s because they genuinely think it is that high!)

Jeremy Clarkson’s mother hand made Paddington Bear soft toys for him and and sister when they were children and eventually was granted a licence by Michael Bond to produce them commercially and went on to sell millions.

If you say or think the word 'salivate ' you actually start salivating 😀

By the time tyrannosaurus’s (Rex or Regina😜) roamed the land, all the stegosaurus’ were already fossils.

The first ever email was sent in 1971

There's a book called Gadsby written by Ernest Vincent Wright in 1939 and aside from his name the book doesn't contain one letter E.

A billion seconds is the equivalent of 32 years.

Not a fact as such because it's common knowledge, but fascinating non the less. People born simultaneously can have different Birthdays due to Time Zones.

Again not a fact but It's something although obvious I've never actually thought of until recently. Our teeth are the only part of skeleton that is visible.

The nearest living descendants of the Tyrannosaurus Rex are the chicken and the ostrich

I love the one about the Stegosaurus and the Tyrannosaurus.

There have only been 80 generations (25 yrs) since the birth of Jesus.

@OurWorldIsChanging

I thought otters were rapey bastards.

New Zealand doesn't have snakes, but pigeons in NZ who haven't seen snakes for 100+ years are still scared of them.

How do you know, if there are no snakes in NZ? 🤔

Not sure how true this one is but.
The weight of a persons ashes is the same weight as they were at birth.

A litre of water weighs one kilogram

@Tempusfudgeit

Woolly mammoths still walked the Earth whilst the pyramids were being built.

Mind blown.

Ladybirds are very promiscuous and carry more STDs than any other animals.

A piece of string wrapped 3 times round your head, equals your height..

Language has evolved so that an adder and an apron were first call a nadder and a napron

It is impossible to hum whilst holding your breath I can’t be the only one who tried this 😁

If a woman is having unprotected sex with her regular partner and a new partner and falls pregnant she is more likely to be pregnant by her long term partner as his sperm will fight off the invading sperm

Opossoms never stop growing. From the moment they are born until the moment they die (even of old age) they keep growing.