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Tell me something I don't know...

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Waytoomanycoasters · 11/09/2024 22:11

What's the best/most outlandish/favourite fact in your repatoire?

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Paisleydad · 11/09/2024 23:58

There is no dark side of the moon. We only ever see one side of it but the sun doesn't.

If you cut a worm in half, you don't get two worms. You get two halves of one dead worm. (This is more of a childhood fable really).

poppyzbrite4 · 12/09/2024 00:05

Otters have a pocket for their favourite stone.

OhNotAgainTimothy · 12/09/2024 00:15

Wombat poo is cube shaped. I don’t imagine that is terribly comfy on the way out.

BloodandGlitter · 12/09/2024 00:20

Earwigs don't have sex. They don't actually even meet. The male leaves sperm sacks laying around and just hope the females find them.

FoxtrotOscarKindaDay · 12/09/2024 00:25

-40°C and -40°F are the same temperature

AuntieMaud · 12/09/2024 00:25

My real name is Jemima Flipflop the 3rd

TwigTheWonderKid · 12/09/2024 00:28

No human has ever died from a tarantula bite.

Dartmoorcheffy · 12/09/2024 00:30

FoxtrotOscarKindaDay · 12/09/2024 00:25

-40°C and -40°F are the same temperature

I didn't know that.

I knew 28c was equivalent to 82f though.

I'm.old enough to usually think of the weather in Fahrenheit

Puzzlemad · 12/09/2024 00:31

Venus is the only planet to spin clockwise
The rings of Uranus are along it's poles, not it's equator.

TooYoungToJoinGransnet · 12/09/2024 00:32

Seahorses don't have a stomach and neither do I.

Puzzlemad · 12/09/2024 00:33

Strokes and heart attacks are more common on a Monday.

Moier · 12/09/2024 00:36

Male bottlenose dolphins are generally bisexual - but they do go through periods of being exclusively homosexual.

Moier · 12/09/2024 00:39

Allodoxaphobia is the fear of other people’s opinions.

Moier · 12/09/2024 00:39

Google Images was created after Jennifer Lopez wore the green dress at the 2000 Grammys.

IHaveNoMoreFucksToGive · 12/09/2024 00:43

There are more RTA's on a Monday morning

TwigTheWonderKid · 12/09/2024 00:45

The survival rate for resuscitation outside hospital is just 10%, regardless of age.

LozzaChops101 · 12/09/2024 00:46

• Humans exist closer in time to T-Rex than T-Rex did to Stegosaurus!

• Abraham Lincoln could potentially have sent a fax to a Samurai warrior - they all existed at the same time.

• Jack the Ripper was killing women the year the Nintendo company was founded.

They are my three current favs!

OooohAhhhh · 12/09/2024 00:52

Déjà vu is caused by a temporary malfunction of the brain - it's storing what is happening in the area of the brain responsible for long term memory - so you haven't experienced it before.

OooohAhhhh · 12/09/2024 00:55

We share 50% of our DNA with a banana

JaneJeffer · 12/09/2024 01:04

A tennis one: Julia Apostoli (Stefanos Tsitsipas' mother) beat Irena Zvereva (Alexander Zverev’s mother) in the final of what was the last tournament either of them ever played.

SkiingIsHeaven · 12/09/2024 01:29

Cows have a best friend. They choose to sleep in the same stall together each night. The farmer does decide who sleeps with who.

Waytoomanycoasters · 13/09/2024 09:09

OooohAhhhh · 12/09/2024 00:52

Déjà vu is caused by a temporary malfunction of the brain - it's storing what is happening in the area of the brain responsible for long term memory - so you haven't experienced it before.

That's a great one!!

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GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 13/09/2024 09:11

‘Riff-raff’ is of Anglo-Saxon origin and originally meant ‘sweepings of rags’.

AnneLovesGilbert · 13/09/2024 09:14

Everyone gets asparagus wee. Only a third of people can smell it.

HP sauce is named after the Houses of Parliament.

The ploughman’s lunch was created by a cheese marketing board. It’s not that old.

Sunlight gets rid of tomato stains on pale fabrics.

AnneLovesGilbert · 13/09/2024 09:15

SkiingIsHeaven · 12/09/2024 01:29

Cows have a best friend. They choose to sleep in the same stall together each night. The farmer does decide who sleeps with who.

I love that. And still people eat them 😢