Tell me something I don't know...

[Waytoomanycoasters]

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

Hippos can’t swim 🦛🦛🦛

Fascinating - thank you

I have 4

Olive Oyl (Popeye) and Betty Boop were voiced by the same person. (Mae Questrel )

Fireman Sam, Norman Price and Elvis, half the trains in Thomas the Tank engine, and Robert the Robert are all the same person/ voice. (Stephen Kynman)

Baby’s father in Dirty Dancing voiced Lumiere the candlestick in the 1993 Disney cartoon Beauty and the Beast.

Julie Andrews was born Julia but advised to use Julie as a stage name.
Julia Roberts was born Julie but advised to use Julia as a stage name.

Love collating useless knowledge! 😂

And the males give birth, not the females.

Yes because they're tasty

I have a similar problem with isinglass.

One day, someone brewing beer, got ticked off with it being cloudy.

"I know. I'll add collagen from a dried fish bladder. That will probably help it clear."

(Some beers don't use this method in order to be vegan friendly).

Baby’s father in Dirty Dancing voiced Lumiere the candlestick in the 1993 Disney cartoon Beauty and the Beast

Jerry Orbach (for it was he) also starred in the original 1975 Broadway production of Chicago - and, in the original professional production of The Fantasticks, he was the first to sing the song Try to Remember. I knew nothing of this when I used to watch him as Detective Lennie Briscoe in Law and Order!

It's called castoreum and is a yellowish-brown substance located in beavers’ castor sacs (located between the base of the tail and the pelvis. It used to be used for a variety of medical uses, including alleviating headaches.
During the 20th century, the substance began appearing in some foods to add a combined vanilla-raspberry flavour. However, it's very expensive to produce, and is seldom used now.

Actual proper vanilla comes from a plant in the orchid family, but only around 1% of vanilla flavouring globally comes from vanilla orchids. Again, expensive to produce.

The alternative is a flavoursome compound, vanillin, which can be easily synthesized from various raw materials, but about 99% of that is made from guaiacol, which occurs widely in nature and is a common product of burnt wood (charcoal).

That it’s repertoire

An octopus has nine brains; one in its head and the others one in each tentacle.

Edinburgh is further west than Bristol.

King Charles has an interest in conjuring and is an honorary member of the Inner Magic Circle. This is a picture of him back in the '70s, performing the classic Cups and Balls trick to gain his membership to the famous magic club.

This stops a sneeze in it's tracks too.

This stops a sneeze in its tracks too.

Chicken eggs have a soft shell coming out. Once the egg is out the chicken and in the air it goes hard.

Strawberries aren’t berries as their seeds are on the outside but banana seeds are inside so are actually a berry.

Maybe this is well known, but I just discovered that according to Princess Diana, she and Charles met 13 times before they got married.

@teatoast8 why do you always have to be shitty about animals suffering? What do you get out of writing comments like 'because they're tasty'. 🙄

Wrong thread?

If you stare to the left (move just the eyes, not the head) and wait a few mins, you might yawn. Now do it to the right. Your neck might feel more relaxed now.

I use this technique to fall asleep faster

Really loving this thread!

We share facts/news stories/etc at dinner so been using this as inspiration! The ant one went down a storm and sparked a great chat about other animal facts we know. Turns out DS has picked up rather a lot from Octonauts 😂 Thanks all.

And I know how to spell repertoire now....what a win!

I lived in Thailand for a bit and sent a picture of a pineapple farm to a group chat. People still didn't believe me 😂

Edgelords gonna edgelord.

All eels in the world migrate to the Bermuda Triangle to mate. Regardless if they're European or American eels: doesn't matter, they all mate in the Bermuda Triangle

How weird.

Seriously?! I no longer live in London but I never noticed that!