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!

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Eggs came before chickens.

caranations

Eggs came before chickens“

What, chicken eggs?

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Someone has been to the chocolate story place in York I think with the Kit Kat fact! I remember thinking it was strange at the time too when I heard it. What was the water before they realised they could use failed Kit Kats?!

KitKat was invented 1935 - in fact most of favourite chocolate bars originate from that decade. Marathon and Freddo (1930), Mars Bar (1932), Whole Nut (1933), Aero and Kit Kat (1935), Maltesers and Blue Riband (1936) and Smarties, Rolo and Milky Bar (1937).

Yes, the non black medallist at Atlanta Olympics was Roger Black.

That one possibly works better spoken, as what you originally wrote was technically incorrect, because you used a lower-case 'b' when referring to Roger as 'Black'

Yes I do feel more clarification was required at the time for the medal one!! Interesting all the same though

Figs contain the decayed and absorbed corpses of the wasps that pollinated them. Yum!

I always thought that dead bodies were frozen…had a study day at local undertaker…now realise how stupid I am !

female ferrets can die from lack of sex. really - it is some hormonal thing.

If you put a £1 coin on the first square of a chess board and then doubled it for each adjacent square - i.e. 2 x £1 coins on the second square and 4 x £1 coins on the third square - by square 64, you would have a tower that reaches to the Moon and beyond.

In consumption of baked beans, the UK trumps (arf) every other country - consuming more than twice as many tins as the rest of the world combined.

Coconut crabs eat coconuts.

Humans share 50pc of our genetic make up with bananas

It’s not in the same order, so it’s not quite like saying we are 97pc the same as chimps, but STILL

Wombat poo is cube shaped

People’s like or dislike of Brussel sprouts is down to an acid in them that only certain people’s tastebuds can detect

There is only one country separating Norway and North Korea.

The last person to be guillotined by any government in the world was executed in France in 1977.

@Wendarl

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

I think that is just sea otters. Feel in love with them at Monterey Bay aquarium. They flip onto their backs with a clam and then use the stone to pry it open.

Sea lions have obvious ears - seals do not.

@Luredbyapomegranate

Humans share 50pc of our genetic make up with bananas

It’s not in the same order, so it’s not quite like saying we are 97pc the same as chimps, but STILL

Is that why people go bananas?

(Sorry. I'm too tired to be on the Internet)

The average garden snail has 14000 teeth.

@Bunty55

A boy will always be taller than his mother

I don’t think so.

Tulips keep growing when cut and put in water/vase.

Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was Moon

Hot water turns into ice faster than cold water does

Elephants are the only animal that can't jump

A dentist invented the electric chair

These are my faves at the moment. I have a diary that gives a fact a day. My mind is blown every morning

Cigarette lighters were invented before matches

Over 50% of all numbers begin with 1

The last time a person was executed at the Tower of London was in 1941

Girls are born with a million eggs in their ovaries. So you could say that if mum has a daughter she is also giving birth to her grandchildren too! That actually makes me 73 then 😄