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What's your favourite fact?

638 replies

GlitterSquid · 09/02/2022 20:19

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!

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WeeWeeMe · 09/02/2022 21:49

@Oliack1417
"A piece of string wrapped 3 times round your head, equals your height"

Does that include wrapping it around the tip of your nose, cos'in that case I'm 8 feet tall!

Squiff70 · 09/02/2022 21:53

I'll love this thread! When I was at uni many years ago I read a book full of false facts about penguins. The whole book was utterly silly and absolutely hilarious. The only false fact I remember from the entire book was that penguins are magnetic, so if you spin them round three times, they always face North.

WeeWeeMe · 09/02/2022 21:54

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.

QueenFool · 09/02/2022 21:54

This is probably not that interesting, but I was surprised when I first heard.

Embryonic kidneys begin development in the pelvis and move to the lumbar/thoracic region in the third trimester.

And when a kidney is transplanted, the original kidneys are left in place where possible and the new kidney is placed in the pelvic region. Easier to connect to blood vessels and the bladder down there I suppose!

lonelyplanetmum · 09/02/2022 21:54

In 1982 we were as close in time to the middle of WWII as we were to today.

AllThingsServeTheBeam · 09/02/2022 21:55

The t-rex fact has ruined me! I am going to blow my 8 year olds mind in the morning

wusbanker · 09/02/2022 21:56

1/3 of the world's supply of hazelnuts is purchased by Ferrero, who own Nutella

1/6 of the world's supply of hazelnuts is farmed in one small village in Turkey

Ilikecheeseontoast · 09/02/2022 21:57

Am loving this thread!

restingbface · 09/02/2022 22:01

The Eiffel Tower “grows” 6 inches in the summer.

MajesticallyAwkward · 09/02/2022 22:04

Sharks have been around longer than Saturn's rings.
Sharks date back around 450 million years while Saturn's rings are at most 100 million years old. Sharks also predate dinosaurs and trees!

Ofcourse91 · 09/02/2022 22:06

The only member of ZZ Top without a beard is Frank Beard.

wusbanker · 09/02/2022 22:07

WeeWeeMe sorry if I'm being thick but could you break that down please? I don't get it

Christmaswindows · 09/02/2022 22:07

A cats mouth carries more bacteria than a rat.

MajesticallyAwkward · 09/02/2022 22:10

@Christmaswindows

A cats mouth carries more bacteria than a rat.
Read that as my cat was licking me 🤢😂 if her breath wasn't bad enough already
Leilala · 09/02/2022 22:11

The main pelvic nerve that supplies sensation to the genitals is called the Pudendral nerve which is Latin for shameful, it’s always amused me.

StrandedStarfish · 09/02/2022 22:12

In the Treaty of Versailles, North Schleswig went to Denmark

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 09/02/2022 22:13

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.

Eh?! How does the bit from the word 'except' change anything that wasn't already clear at the end of the word 'athletes'? Am I being dim?!

AffIt · 09/02/2022 22:14

Rats don't have gall bladders.

One in four animals is a beetle.

BoredZelda · 09/02/2022 22:16

It takes 500 pints of blood to pass through a cow’s udder to produce 1 pint of milk. Milk is simply a rearrangement of the nutrients of blood.

Heytheredemons · 09/02/2022 22:17

@Alarae

The chocolate bit inside a KitKat is made up of other rejected KitKats which have been smashed up.
Surely that's a bit of a paradox. How can you create a kit kat filling made up of rejected kit kits if a kit kat had never been invented, until they were invented and at that point the rejected kit kat wouldn't be a available to become the filling, ahhhhhhhh my brain hurts
Seraphina1993 · 09/02/2022 22:19

Scuba is an acronym:

Self contained underwater breathing apparatus

Tempusfudgeit · 09/02/2022 22:20

Cleopatra is closer in time to the iPhone than the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

BlueRaincoat1 · 09/02/2022 22:21

The Jamaican flag is the only national flag not to contain red, white or blue.

CorneliusVetch · 09/02/2022 22:21

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

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.

Eh?! How does the bit from the word 'except' change anything that wasn't already clear at the end of the word 'athletes'? Am I being dim?!

I think what this means is all medals - gold silver and bronze - were won by black men in all of the sprint events except the 110m hurdles, where the bronze was won by a white man. However in that event the gold medal was won by a black man.
KittenKong · 09/02/2022 22:28

I always wanted a wooly mammoth as a child.