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!

@MissMaple82

It is impossible to hum whilst holding your breath.

I can though.

Or do you mean, like with your mouth and nose shut/closed off?

GREAT thread btw. Thank you @GlitterSquid

Your foot is the same size as the distance from your elbow to your wrist

@Tempusfudgeit

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

Seriously???????

@Awwlookatmybabyspider

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.

ALSO, there is the occasion (that happened a couple of months ago,) of twins being born not only on different days, but in different YEARS!

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jan/03/twins-born-minutes-apart-born-two-different-years

This is rare but it does happen occasionally.

Your earlobes are inline with your nipples.

Cows can go up stairs

But they can’t go down stairs
Fleas are responsible for more human deaths than every war that’s ever been fought

The Kray Twins were imprisoned in the Tower of London

@Squiff70

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.

LOL!!!!!

@MajesticallyAwkward

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!

OMG!

I am also reeling from mammoths being around when the pyramids started being built. I thought 'haha bullshit' but it's TRUE! Mammoths were around just 4000 years ago, the same time (roughly) as the pyramids would have started!

I am going to bed soon, but am getting up in the morning and writing some of these down!

There are more possible variations of chess games than there are grains of sand in all the beaches in the world

had a conversation with daughter who asked if i wish she had been born when i was younger. mind blown when i said she wouldn't have been born if i was younger -someone else would be my child

@Bunty55

A boy will always be taller than his mother

Er no. I am taller than ds (who is 23)

That nearly all of us can, quite easily, tell the difference between hot and cold water being poured

I fill and boil the kettle when I start work and mid-morning when my colleague comes in she pours it into her mug and sometimes I say "Kettle needs boiling" and sometimes I don't. She always sips it and wants to know how the hell I know when it's too cold. I just shrug but it's because it sounds different. Don't tell her, she thinks I'm psychic!

The words 'garden', 'yard' and 'horticulture' all come from the same Indo European root word.

Koalas were hunted to near extinction at the beginning of the last century, estimated 4 million killed for pelts and because they were seen as pests.

Now 30% of the current population carry a degenerative kidney disease gene inherited from a single koala as the gene pool was so small when conservation groups tried to breed the species back

Wombat poo is cube shaped

As is that of toddlers who have 'accidents' whilst sitting inside shopping trolleys (cf Mumsnet of antiquity)

Over 50% of all numbers begin with 1

When written out as words, the first number to contain the letter 'a' is 'A hundred' (or 'hundred And one', depending on whether you use the indefinite article for hundred).

When counting from zero in English, using 'standard' mouth pronunciation patterns, the first time your lips will touch is when you reach "a/one Million".

All crisps go out of date on a Saturday

Dogs developed eyebrow muscles through domestication to mimic human expressions. Wolves don't have these muscles.

I have two facts that I love. First, that my eggs that my two DC came from were formed when I was inside my own mums womb! A baby girl is born with all her eggs already in place for the future. Second one, you can age a fish by counting the rings on one of its scales, like rings on a tree. Fascinating!

@WeeWeeMe

Who is reputed to have murdered 25% of the world's population?

Cain.

Volkswagen's best selling product is a sausage

The company that manufactures the most tyres annually is Lego

Sharks will only attack you if you’re wet

(Credit: Sean Lock)

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.

I can forgive almost any false fact as long as it is hilarious!!

I know two false facts about Bob Holness and one true one.

1. He played the saxophone solo in Gerry Rafferty's 'Baker Street' (invented rumour by music journalist Stuart Maconie, which spread like wildfire).
2. He invented the all-day breakfast (asserted during an early WILTY-style game sung to the tune of Jimmy Nail's 'Ain't No Doubt' on an episode of Radio 2's fantastic 'Jamming' programme with Rowland Rivron - sadly made up, though).
3. He was the second actor to play James Bond (true - in a radio production of Moonraker).

Horses sleep standing up by locking the joints in their legs.

Neil Armstrong spelt backwards is Gnorts Mr Alien