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What bit of random knowledge do you know?

240 replies

Yourinmyspot · 25/02/2026 11:20

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.

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BalletSki · 25/02/2026 12:02

081 811 81811 or the more modern version 0181 811 8181

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

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 25/02/2026 12:03

Sharks are shy.

Clevs · 25/02/2026 12:14

BalletSki · 25/02/2026 12:02

081 811 81811 or the more modern version 0181 811 8181

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

Edited

I remember it being 01 811 8181 first!

StinkerTroll · 25/02/2026 16:56

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

AffIt · 25/02/2026 17:04

Rats don't have gall bladders.

Thindog · 25/02/2026 17:08

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.

dizzydizzydizzy · 25/02/2026 17:10

Somalia is shaped like a V on its side

JohnTheRevelator · 25/02/2026 17:10

It takes a snail 11 days to travel one mile.

murasaki · 25/02/2026 17:15

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.

ChocolateCinderToffee · 25/02/2026 17:17

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

JohnTheRevelator · 25/02/2026 17:19

ChocolateCinderToffee · 25/02/2026 17:17

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!

SoftLass · 25/02/2026 17:20

Australia is wider than the moon

gamerchick · 25/02/2026 17:22

A pigs orgasm lasts half an hour.

youalright · 25/02/2026 17:23

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

shellyleppard · 25/02/2026 17:25

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

Knittedanimal · 25/02/2026 17:25

Badgers invented under floor heating.

Sprig1 · 25/02/2026 17:27

youalright · 25/02/2026 17:23

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

That's not generally the case.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 25/02/2026 17:28

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

DrivingonIce · 25/02/2026 17:30

Sprig1 · 25/02/2026 17:27

That's not generally the case.

I think it might just be for kidneys.

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

rugbychick1 · 25/02/2026 17:31

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

youalright · 25/02/2026 17:32

DrivingonIce · 25/02/2026 17:30

I think it might just be for kidneys.

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

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

ilovepixie · 25/02/2026 17:32

Yourinmyspot · 25/02/2026 11:20

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.

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NoYourNameChanged · 25/02/2026 17:32

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!

Danikm151 · 25/02/2026 17:34

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.

DrivingonIce · 25/02/2026 17:37

rugbychick1 · 25/02/2026 17:31

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

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