What random pieces of trivia have you learned lately?

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I just learned that Frankie Valli doesn't sing the lead on Oh What A Night. The drummer, Gerry Polci does, and what a voice he has, I'm not a Four Seasons fan so didn't question it but listening to it now it's really obvious that it's a different person.

What random things have you discovered lately?

I just learned Norway shares a border with Russia; Sweden doesn’t.
I guess I’ve never squinted at the top of the map.

One of my absolute favourite songs, so I knew that one! There are three separate singing voices on the track (you probably already know that, now).

Watch the music video for it - definitely 70's cool!

Can't remember any of mine right now - I constantly look things up when I wonder about them so I learn lots of random things all the time.

That there are 13 stripes on the American flag from Ant & Dec's Limitless win and the man knew the answer because he saw it on The Simpsons

I've just learnt about the existence of coypu... a large rodent capable of swimming from France to Jersey.....

Not trivia at all , but I learnt how to download an app today without a much younger person showing me how ..

It may sound like total gibberish, but the famed (or infamous) Minions of the Despicable Me franchise speak an actual language. The directors combined Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Filipino (Tagalog), French and Russian to create Minionese.

That we breathe in so many molecules of oxygen in a day that in 24hrs we breathe in the same molecule that anyone who has ever lived breathed in at some point. From now until the end of time someone every day will breathe in one of the molecules from you. I find that mind blowing and oddly comforting.

One of my absolute favourite songs, so I knew that one! There are three separate singing voices on the track (you probably already know that, now).

I've just watched the video. I'm amazed by how many great voices they have in one band. I think I actually prefer Gerry's voice to Frankie's though the combination is incredible.

Peanuts aren't nuts.

Elvis wasn't a song writer, and he contributed to only 4 songs in his whole career.

All the street names in the estate I grew up in are 1 word (apart from the main road the estate is named after and 1 other one for some reason I couldn’t see).

I appreciate this is very niche but it blew my mind I lived there for 20 odd years and didn’t have a clue 😂

Gosh I watched the musical jersey boys and didn't know that

Japan used to occupy Korea, stripped it of its resources and left average Koreans in crippling poverty. Koreans who moved to Japan as a result were horrendously discriminated against, harming their social mobility. Despite generations being born in Japan, never having seen Korea, they were not allowed citizenship/passports

Broccoli and cauliflower are man made. They were bred from a cabbage type plant called the Brassica oleracea.

Gosh I watched the musical jersey boys and didn't know that

I really need to watch that musical.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=mTUhnIY3oRM You can see exactly who sings what in the music video.

Thanks all. I'm learning a lot today.

This very obscure - that Bailey bridges were invented by a chap called Bailey and the prototypes were built in Christchurch, Dorset. There's even a pub named after him/his bridges.

Every lighthouse has a different flash cycle/pattern

This is quite silly on my part. I always thought cous cous came from a plant (I know technically it does as it's made from wheat), like rice or quinoa or something, not manufactured like pasta.
Found this out a couple months ago.

That everything is made of atoms, including the human body, yet atoms are mostly empty space. In other words, we are mostly nothing. We’re “ghosts,” as Marcus Chown puts it.

That we are made of atoms, but not the same atoms. When you celebrate your 70th birthday, your body is made out of completely different atoms to the ones that made you on your first day at school. The same is true of cells (well, 99% of them).

That a massive percentage of our cells aren’t human. We’re full of bacteria, but they aren’t ‘us’.

Our body is made of a combination of stardust and Big Bang dust. But the atoms in your right hand are made of atoms from a different star to those in your left hand.

Pigeons make milk in their throats, feed it to offspring, and defecate when taking off when in a threatening situation to make themselves lighter. Thanks Kids for telling me that!

That Margaret Thatcher invented Mr Whippy ice cream and Rodger Moore (claimed to have) invented the Magnum

That lollo rosso lettuce is named for (just died) Gina Lollobrigida.

My mum passed away abroad last week and therefore I’ve learnt that there is an international undertaker and that in Spain the death certificate needs to be signed by a judge.

Baby Puffins are called Pufflets (Stephen Fry said so, so it must be true😄)