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

Spider silk is as strong as steel and as flexible of rubber, strand for strand. Spiders are amazing.

omg 😂

I've heard that Freddie Mercury is one of the backing singers on Never Let Her Slip Away but I don't know if that's true. It's a massive favourite of mine too!

Ooh, I hadn't heard that - must dig around and check it out!

In public toilets, the first cubicle is always the least used, and therefore likely to be the cleanest.

It's impossible for the human brain to imagine a new colour.

Sounded like
you were calling yourself a pig 🤣

I find that fascinating, I remember as a child trying really hard to imagine a new colour.

and yet....AND YET... did you know that whilst humans can process 3 colours (the primary, and therefore the ones that come from mixing those colours), butterflies can process 5? They can see two colours that we can't even imagine...that has always blown my brain.

Then about a month ago I discovered that the Mantis Shrimp (if you've never heard of it you should look it up, it's a bloody badass animal! Apparently certain species of it can't even be kept in captivity because they have a punch which can break the aquarium glass!!!) can process something like 16 types of color-sensitive cone cells in their retinas, which is more than any other animal.

So yeah... we can't imagine new colours, or even see some of the ones which exist and are visible to other creatures on the planet.

Dogs, as an aside, only have 2 colour receptors!

Sao Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, in South America and the second largest in the Southern Hemisphere. The majority of its residents have Italian heritage, not Portuguese. It is affirmed that there are more people with Italian heritage in Sao Paulo than there are in the most populous of the 20 regions of Italy.

SoVeryTiredAndEmotional · Yesterday 17:56
Just by looking at something, your brain knows what it will feel like if your tongue licks it.
Try it!

This had me licking a box earlier.

That sounds wrong.

Ejaculate can still have the same perfectly innocent meaning - same as intercourse can still just mean talking to other people - but people must be dirtier than they used to be, as nowadays we automatically only associate those words with ruderies!

"Yes, indeed!" I ejaculated.

Lego are the largest producers of car tyres

Bono wrote Stuck In A Moment as an imaginary conversation with his friend, Michael Hutchinson, in that hotel room 😭

How long have they been there? Since the mid to late 1940s...? (Nazis were said to have fled to South America after the war and there are areas with very large populations with "Aryan" colouring for a south American country).

The late Queen was the Duke of Normandy in Jersey from 1952 until her death.

Ahh this is just so lovely! He trusted you in the end. Absolutely beautiful.

I’ve just looked that up. Absolutely fascinating! We still have (informally) a Duke of Normandy. Magnificent.

Industrial era, late 19th century. People often do not make the connection between Italy and coffee.

There is also a large Japanese population in Brazil - again the coffee plantations.

Gaddafi once owned more than 10% of Fiat and was a Fiat 500 enthusiast.

Libya is the only country to have a flag of a single colour (green) and no symbols. It was used between 1977 and 2011. Libya was also the only country in the 20th century to have 100% of its international exports derived from a single product (oil).

I've got one more......Colin Dexter (author of the Inspector Morse books) has a cameo role in every television episode of "Inspector Morse"

In case nobody else has said it, hairspray is brilliant at getting biro stains out of fabric.

But deaf people with schizophrenia don't "hear voices", they see hands that speak to them in sign language.