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!

Ayurvedic practitioners will sometimes prescribe eating beef for some time, even though it’s a mainly plant based treatment modality.

@AmysBeehive

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

I had to check, couldn’t believe it 🤭

Slow Loris have poison in their armpits and they have to lick their armpit and then bite somebody to make us of it.

Toxoplasma Gondi brain parasite changes human behaviour and some countries are thought to have 50% of population infected.

Great thread op. I didn't know over half these facts 🤯🤯🤯

You are shorter in the afternoon than you are in the morning.

@Florabritannica

Over 50% of all numbers begin with 1

I feel that this can't be true

You can’t change sex. Not very extraordinary or funny but needs to be said.

@Florabritannica

Over 50% of all numbers begin with 1

No

Pineapples don’t grow on trees. They grow in fields.

@QueenFool

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!

Bizarrely, I only found this out when I was getting my kidney transplant!

I assumed they'd take the poorly functioning ones out, but it's an additional unnecessary surgery. So the nice fat healthy new one is at the front on the right, and the two shrivelled old ones are still sitting there at the back not doing anything.

That pain you get in your mouth when eating a pineapple is because the pineapple is also trying to eat you.

I still don't get the 50% of all numbers start with 1 one.

Peanuts aren’t nuts

@MissMaple82

It is impossible to hum whilst holding your breath

Yes you can!!

Strawberries are the only fruit to grow its seeds on the outside of their skin.

@Bunty55

A boy will always be taller than his mother

Tell that to Tyrion Lannister.

There are deer and other animals that lived where the boarder with eastern Germany used to be, with electrified fences and barbed wire, they live on both sides of the boarder but won't cross it even though they are too young to have seen the fences.

A group of kittens is a kindle.

Sting sang the line, "I want my MTV", in the Dire Straights song, Money for Nothing.

It is impossible to lick the outside of your own elbow.

There is a McDonald's in every continent except the Antarctica.

Beatrix Potter was a scientist who studied fungi and submitted a research paper to the Linnean Society. It tok them until 1997 to issue a posthumous apology to her for the gender discrimination which prevented them treating her research with the recognition it deserved.

She used her earnings from books and illustrations to buy up farms to give to the National Trust to preserve the Lake District, was a Herdwick sheep farmer and was a huge benefactor for the Nurses' Trust.

A person’s fingerprints are developed when they are in their mother’s womb. They are made by where they placed their fingers on the wall of the womb

@StarryNightSparkles

Great thread op. I didn't know over half these facts 🤯🤯🤯

You are shorter in the afternoon than you are in the morning.

Unless you work permanent night shifts or spend your day on a medieval rack. What if you did both?

@Punkypinky

I still don't get the 50% of all numbers start with 1 one.

I think that is was a slightly mangled misremembering of Benford's law

@Monitaurus

You can’t change sex. Not very extraordinary or funny but needs to be said.

It really doesn’t.

A moonbow is a rainbow produced by moonlight rather than direct sunlight.