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!

@SchoolRunEscapee

Since the 70's, no human has been beyond low earth orbit, which at its maximum is 620 miles into space. The moon is 238,885 miles away.

I honestly don't believe we went to the moon. When I look at the facts it is just impossible

The Eurythmics had 9 top ten hits. No two songs peaked at the same position. The only position they failed to achieve is No. 7 (they also had one number 11 hit and one number 12 hit, too)

@PinaColadaNeeded

Mick Jagger sung backing vocals on Carly Simons' hit 'You're So Vain'....once you hear it you can't unhear it!

I was like "there are no backing vocals on You're So Vain", but I've just listened to it and sure enough there is Mick Jagger.

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I didn't know the order of the alphabet for years, because I couldn't get it to fit the tune right.

I remember my piano teacher, when I was 7, bring aghast when she asked if I knew my alphabet, and I replied:"no".

She thought she was asking me if I could read.

There are marine snakes, or sea snakes, seen regularly in the waters around northern New Zealand when warm subtropical currents carry them south from out of the tropics. Maybe the pigeons have seen the marine snakes 😆

Dogs can't bark or bite while having a poo.

Robert Maxwell had a minder whose job it was to always check whether his boss had a Rimmel powder compact in his jacket pocket. He never went out without it. He also always went barefoot indoors.

[I have an extra vertebrae… maybe I’m actually part snake?]

Vending machines kill 4 times more people every year than sharks

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

Wow this blew my mind so much I had to google it and its correct.

@Teaforme123

Vending machines kill 4 times more people every year than sharks

Cos no vending machines in the sea

Competitive art used to be an Olympic sport

A chef's tall hat ( toque ) has exactly 100 pleats

In the original version of Wizard of Oz, Dorothy did not have a dog called Toto.......she had a cow called Imogene

A small blob of toothpaste on a toothbrush is called a nurdle

The cardboard sleeve that slips into coffee cups to help you pick the hot beverage up is called a zarf

Competitive art used to be an Olympic sport

Didn't they introduce mud throwing too? I seem to recall hearing that, in the early days, they wanted to encourage more African nations to take part - and they exercised their racist minds hard to think about what the Africans could relate to and have a chance at doing well in. Not that Africans are human or anything, of course, which would have meant they could run, jump, swim etc.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

Competitive art used to be an Olympic sport

Didn't they introduce mud throwing too? I seem to recall hearing that, in the early days, they wanted to encourage more African nations to take part - and they exercised their racist minds hard to think about what the Africans could relate to and have a chance at doing well in. Not that Africans are human or anything, of course, which would have meant they could run, jump, swim etc.

Having had a quick peek on the t'interweb, mud throwing was in luded in the 1904 games. It didn't involve any African nations as not many countries participated.

Have a read about the games, some interesting stuff I wasn't aware of ( and I'm a pub quiz anorak, so love useless info 😁👍 )

Bananas are actually giant herbs . I've just found out.

@FunkyPhantom

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

The shoe lace fact was an Alexa Question of The Day last week!

Some odd backing vocals. Sting on Money for Nothing by Dire Straits for a significant payoff. Jimmy Somerville on Fine Young Cannibals cover of Suspicious Minds.

More cows are killed by humans than sharks too.

@hopelessatthinkingupusernames

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

I at least knew this fact

HNRTT but has any Gary Oldman Gary Newman'd yet? And wingspan height of humans?

Talking of backing singers, it's much more widely known now, but for many years, most people didn't know that the uncredited female vocal on Meat Loaf's 'Dead Ringer For Love' was a little-known singer called.... Cher!

Just seen p12 and p11.

@MissMaple82

No, that should be nose! 🙄

I just tried it (obviously) and you can't hum and hold your breath either!

You have to play polo (the horse one, not the water one) right handed.

@Bunty55

A boy will always be taller than his mother

... nips of to Google Warwick Davis' mother....