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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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VictorianScreenTime · 13/09/2024 19:38

Fromage · 13/09/2024 19:38

I mean how in the fuck do people find this shit out. At what point would you have an exsanguinating patient and a jizzing fish in an operating theatre together.

What a time to be alive.

PMSL😂😂😂

Alltheyearround · 13/09/2024 19:39

Puzzlemad · 12/09/2024 00:33

Strokes and heart attacks are more common on a Monday.

oh why? Monday = stressful?

CombatBarbie · 13/09/2024 19:39

Jellyfish are technically immortal. Don't know they exist nd can regenerate back to earlier forms of itself.

ZeusandClio · 13/09/2024 19:39

Fromage · 13/09/2024 19:38

I mean how in the fuck do people find this shit out. At what point would you have an exsanguinating patient and a jizzing fish in an operating theatre together.

What a time to be alive.

🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

CraverSpud · 13/09/2024 19:40

CharlotteRumpling · 13/09/2024 17:53

The bestselling crime novelist, Ann Perry, committed a murder in her youth in New Zealand. She changed her name and moved to the UK after serving her sentence, but was eventually uncovered after she had already written several books. The whole story of the murder was told in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures.

Mammoths were still roaming the earth at the time the Great Pyramids were built.

Heavenly Creatures is a brilliant film- Kate Winslet plays Juliet Hulme (Ann Perry) one of her first roles- I had forgotten about it may try to rewatch it.

Puzzlemad · 13/09/2024 19:41

Alltheyearround · 13/09/2024 19:39

oh why? Monday = stressful?

That's the theory

BobbyBiscuits · 13/09/2024 19:43

If you feel nauseous, place your finger horizontally between your upper lip and nose and press down.
As long as you're not sick with food poisoning or a bug, this really helps nausea. From migraine, tiredness, anxiety, hangover etc.
I could not believe it. I used to get physically sick really easily but this helps so much.

marcopront · 13/09/2024 19:43

The first thing bought by East Germane entering West Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall was bananas.

GladPinkShark · 13/09/2024 19:44

poppyzbrite4 · 12/09/2024 00:05

Otters have a pocket for their favourite stone.

What?

Fescue · 13/09/2024 19:45

Fromage · 13/09/2024 19:38

I mean how in the fuck do people find this shit out. At what point would you have an exsanguinating patient and a jizzing fish in an operating theatre together.

What a time to be alive.

You either are involved (eg doctor) or are curious and find knowledge (all of us are programmed to learn). I asked about my medical treatment and learned that I was receiving rats anti-bodies and some other things that I will not repeat here. I spent months learning about my condition because I was curious. I know more than my GP.

Curiosity is better than X.

thesnailandthewhale · 13/09/2024 19:46

A couple of Dirty Dancing related ones ...

Penny (knocked up dancer) was married to Richard Marx (Right Here Waiting / Hazard singer)

Dr Hausman is the voice of Lumiere in Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Be our Guest)

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 13/09/2024 19:48

Alectrona · 13/09/2024 16:55

Repertoire is spelt like this, not with an a 😁

Beat me to it!

Saturdayblurs · 13/09/2024 19:49

CharlotteRumpling · 13/09/2024 17:53

The bestselling crime novelist, Ann Perry, committed a murder in her youth in New Zealand. She changed her name and moved to the UK after serving her sentence, but was eventually uncovered after she had already written several books. The whole story of the murder was told in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures.

Mammoths were still roaming the earth at the time the Great Pyramids were built.

Mammoths were still roaming the earth at the time the Great Pyramids were built.

Actually they were already extinct, and considerably beforehand.

Arlanymor · 13/09/2024 19:49

GladPinkShark · 13/09/2024 19:44

What?

I didn’t know that either, but I did know the saying “wetter than an otter’s pocket” as a phrase when it’s raining really heavily.

Newsenmum · 13/09/2024 19:49

Fromage · 13/09/2024 19:33

Picture a pineapple growing on a pine tree, see it in your mind's eye, think of an advert for Caribbean holidays........ Pineapples do not grow on trees. They grow out of the ground, on a stalk.

The Mandela effect is when everyone remembers something and considers it a fact....only we're all wrong. Like the pineapple thing.

The Mandela effect is named after Nelson Mandela, because there was a time when loads of people "remembered" him dying in prison.

Yeah why do we all think that? And why the pineapple thing?

Newsenmum · 13/09/2024 19:51

AnneLovesGilbert · 13/09/2024 09:15

I love that. And still people eat them 😢

It’s worse when we eat their best friend. 😢

Rummly · 13/09/2024 19:54
  • Oasis have reformed.
  • VAT will soon be charged on school fees.

Just a couple of facts that I thought had slipped under the radar on MN.

HarpieDuJour · 13/09/2024 19:55

Ducklings don't quack, they cheep. The quacking comes much later.

GladPinkShark · 13/09/2024 19:57

Feral cats don’t usually meow. If a feral cat meows at you, it’s likely a stray cat. Cats meow to communicate with humans.

Clingfilm · 13/09/2024 19:57

SoVeryTiredAndEmotional · 13/09/2024 17:56

Just by looking at something, your brain knows what it will feel like if your tongue licks it.
Try it!

Ha ha, I just looked at everything in the room, you're right. Then I licked the cushion to prove myself right, the daft sod I am 🤣

partiallydeflatedbutoptimistic · 13/09/2024 20:03

Piggy's can't look up to the sky

Dali designed the chupa chips logo

Queen Elizabeth was a rained mechanic

wineosaurus4 · 13/09/2024 20:03

All crisps go out of date on a Saturday.

Free Willy was a dolphin (all killer whales are).

Your tongue rests on the roof of your mouth.

partiallydeflatedbutoptimistic · 13/09/2024 20:03

partiallydeflatedbutoptimistic · 13/09/2024 20:03

Piggy's can't look up to the sky

Dali designed the chupa chips logo

Queen Elizabeth was a rained mechanic

*chupa chups logo

Yourinmyspot · 13/09/2024 20:04

That you inhale 25 sextillion molecules of oxygen every time you breathe in. That’s so many that in one day you will inhale a molecule from every person that’s ever lived. And everyone who will ever live will breathe in a bit of you.

GladPinkShark · 13/09/2024 20:04

GladPinkShark · 13/09/2024 19:57

Feral cats don’t usually meow. If a feral cat meows at you, it’s likely a stray cat. Cats meow to communicate with humans.

We have an old cat who doesn’t shut up. Talks all the time.

We also had a feral cat living in our garden for years. Completely wild, you couldn’t pat him, he just growled even though he could clearly see I was giving him food and drink as I did several times a day. I think it was after three years, he was waiting in the same place in the garden and I opened the door and talked to him as always. Then out of nowhere, he looked at me and tried to meow. It was a very coarse and weird meow, but still. It was such a beautiful moment to me.