What bit of random knowledge do you know?

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Mine is I can remember the barcode for a Cadbury crème egg. I worked in a co-op over twenty years ago and they often didn’t scan so you had to put the number in and I can still remember it.

081 811 81811 or the more modern version 0181 811 8181

Edited to ask, how many of you are singing that number now?

Sharks are shy.

I remember it being 01 811 8181 first!

Baby puffins are called pufflings..... you're welcome 😊

Rats don't have gall bladders.

I can't think why I remembered this fact from my long ago A level Biology. Balanous balaniodes, also known as the common barnacle. has the longest penis of any animal. Often eight times its length.

Somalia is shaped like a V on its side

It takes a snail 11 days to travel one mile.

Worms can't get asbestosis as they don't have lungs.

Thanks for that fact taking up space in my brain, best friend who works with asbestos.

Mice are permanently incontinent because they haven’t got bladders.

Ah right! So that's why when you handle them,they are constantly doing little drops of pee on you!

Australia is wider than the moon

A pigs orgasm lasts half an hour.

This might me really common knowledge but it really surprised me that when you have an organ transplant that they leave the old organ in there

White reflects heat and black absorbs it.... physics lesson circa 1983!!!

Badgers invented under floor heating.

That's not generally the case.

‘Riff-raff’ was Anglo-Saxon for ‘sweepings of rags’.

I think it might just be for kidneys.

An octopus uses his third right arm to... mate.

C6H12O6 is the chemical symbol for carbohydrate. Thanks human biology GCSE 1988/89

Yeah to be fair the dr who was telling me was talking about kidneys

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There’s 10 standard concrete blocks per m2 based on a 10mm mortar joint and, generally, 20 slates (500x250) per m2. Lots of random bits and pieces like that, I used to work as an estimator at a builders merchants!

The bobbing along under the sea song from bedknobs and broomsticks was written for Mary Poppins but not used.

My landline number from 20 years ago.

It's glucose (which is a carbohydrate, but not the only one by a long way!)