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!

@Japanesejazz. Nope, mosquitoes are responsible for most human deaths

@MissMaple82

No, that should be nose! 🙄

glad you corrected that OP, cos I just about blew a gasket humming while holding my breath. My face is puce now, thanks. I will not be trying the nose...

Okay. Tried the nose. it is only impossible to hum whilst holding your nose and closing your mouth. It is fine with a small gap. I am an inveterate hummer, so this matters to me. And yes, that was a really sad statement :)

If identical twins both have a baby then they are genetically half-siblings as well as cousins.

There are those American identical twins who married another set of identical twins so their children are genetically the same as full siblings

@2catsandhappy

Your earlobes are inline with your nipples.

Nope. Well, not lying in bed they're not.

It took over 2 million years of human prehistory and history for the world's population to reach 1 billion and only 200 years more to grow to 7 billion.

@WeeWeeMe

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 that work? 🤪

High foreheads were fashionable in Tudor England and women would pluck their hairlines deliberately high.

@parietal

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

Thank fuck I'm not a ferret. I'd have died about 20 times over

The earliest recorded written use of OMG was in 1917 in a letter to Churchill

Only virgins are allowed to become admins of local Facebook groups.

Eh? How does that work?

It's explained upthread.

When you breathe in, you are breathing in a percentage of air that has been exhaled by every person who has ever existed.

Dogs can smell cancer cells long before any test can find them

Skarae brae is thought to be older than the pyramids

Dolphins have a "series of sounds" that indicate that particular dolphin in its pod (family group). Each pod also has a "series of sounds" that identify it to other pods. Since a name is nothing more than "a series of sounds," dolphins have both first and last names.

@wanttomarryamillionaire

if you look up the coordinates, Edinburgh IS further west than Bristol.

I didn't believe it until I checked it

Fat doesn’t make you fat.
Dog dewormer can cure cancers.

Poo transplants save lives.

No one born blind has ever developed schizophrenia

Washing at 40 leaves ‘fecal matter’ in the laundry, according to scientists 🤮

This is my least favourite recently learned fact 😭

@Midlifemusings

No one born blind has ever developed schizophrenia

That’s amazing. My mother had schizophrenia so I’m going to look into this fascinating fact. In the olden days aubergine was called Mad Apple by the English and not eaten for fear of madness. Apparently Grains/Wheat/Gluten cam cause Schizophrenia too

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4809873/

Magnesium is used in 300 biochemical processes in the human body.

@OurWorldIsChanging

I thought otters were rapey bastards.

New Zealand doesn't have snakes, but pigeons in NZ who haven't seen snakes for 100+ years are still scared of them.

What sort of pigeon? Ones like the ones you get in the UK (introduced to NZ) or kererū (endemic; complete fat knackers that are about twice the size of the ones found in the UK)? 🤔
Would be particularly interesting if kererū were scared of snakes...

Ducks have extremely long corkscrew shaped penises (peni?) and they will gang rape females 🤮

I also heard otters are rapey bastards.

Soils have ~ 40% less Magnesium in them than 70 years ago.