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!

Im sure Mike Nesmiths mum invented Tippex.

My useless fact is Madonna sang on Sooner or Later which won the only Oscar for best song for Stephen Sondheim.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the safety match. Maybe. I might have made that up.

Im sure Mike Nesmiths mum invented Tippex.

Yes, that one is very well documented as true - although she called it liquid paper, so I don't know if that became Tippex or if Tippex was a copy, rival brand that then took over as the generic name.

Sounds like she made an absolute fortune from it - meaning that Mike certainly never needed to rely on all the money he made himself as a Monkee!

@FunkyPhantom

The space between your eyebrows is called the glabella

The little plastic thing that sits in a pizza box is called a box tent

The wire cage that holds a cork in a bottle of champagne is called an agraffe

And the pizza box tent (also known as the pizza saver) was invented by Carmela Vitale.

John Finnemore wrote a song about her.

@Awwlookatmybabyspider

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.

Your last fact made me think of

Jacques Arago wrote about travelling round the world without using the letter A in 1853.

@ThoseWhoDance

Spiders have paws!

That's unbearably cute!

@AuxArmesCitoyens

Jacques Arago wrote about travelling round the world without using the letter A in 1853.

Except for in his surname?

Yep, no getting around that.

Richard Osman's House of Games tonight
True or False - A human has as many vertebrae in their neck as a giraffe
I knew the answer thanks to this thread

Almost 70% of Sweden is covered in forests!

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@BluTangClan

Una Healy from 'The Saturdays' invented the trainer's with the wheels in the bottom, to get around quicker when backstage at concerts.

They were actually invented by Roger Adams in the 1990s.

Heelys...

heelys.com/pages/about-us

The distance from your middle finger to the other with arms outstretched to the side is your height...

Your hands represent the size of your lungs...

Anatidaephobia is the fear of feeling as though somewhere in the world there is a duck watching you.

@fluffynotebook

Anatidaephobia is the fear of feeling as though somewhere in the world there is a duck watching you.

I so want this to be true.

Having not believed you and checked it out, I'm now reminded of two very handsome ducks who hang out on Millbank, near Vauxhall Bridge. I swear they never take their eyes off MI6 building. I have meetings near there and they are always there. I once heard a dad explaining very earnestly to his small boy that they were Russian spies.

Almost 70% of Sweden is covered in forests!

Somebody was watching Brad and Barney a few hours ago!

@wineosaurus4

All crisps go out of date on a Saturday

Nope

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

Almost 70% of Sweden is covered in forests!

Somebody was watching Brad and Barney a few hours ago!

There's more iron in a pint of Guinness than a bag of nails.

(Actually I made that one up.)

@Grumpyoldpersonwithcats

A swan is the only bird with a penis. You've clearly never seen an excited male duck .

Most male birds don't have a penis, but some do including swans, ducks, geese and a few others.

Bloody hell I’ve just found out that ducks are apparently one of the most well endowed species of all vertebrates.

Moths don't have stomachs
Babies don't have knees

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles

There's more iron in a pint of Guinness than a bag of nails.

(Actually I made that one up.)

Reminds me of how they used to say Guinness was good for breastfeeding 😂 (in the 90s).

It was certainly a lovely reward to have a glass of Guinness and a Mars Bar in between feeds but can't say for sure it was doing either of us any good 😂

@MostIneptThatEverStepped

Oh yes, and of course PAL dog food ' Prolonged Active Life '

I'm not sure that's a 'fact' either.

[quote TwoLeftSocksWithHoles]@MostIneptThatEverStepped

Oh yes, and of course PAL dog food ' Prolonged Active Life '

I'm not sure that's a 'fact' either.[/quote]
Eh? I never mentioned dog food.
The Guinness thing is definitely not a fact.