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.

The world's whole population could fit in the Loch Ness 15 times over but only 260 million people could stand on the surface.

Pirates wore eyepatches so one eye was always ready to see in the darkness below deck

Wow!! I so hope that's true!
Favourite so far anyway.

Queen Elizabeth II was a fully qualified military mechanic.

Queen Salote's name is Tongan for Charlotte

There are complete replicas of WW1 trenches buried underground on military land not far from Stonehenge. They were used as training grounds before going off to the Western front.
DH was part of the team that uncovered them in 2016, he had to check the land for unexploded munitions before Phil Taylor and his archaeology team could dig.
There was also a motorbike buried in there and a section of graffitied wall that was carefully taken off and sent to a Canadian school - one of their teachers had put his details on it in 1916.

The equals sign was invented in Wales

”Disposable” coffee cups were invented in 1908.

Petrichor is the word for the lovely scent you get when rain falls on warm dry ground.

Lucky miss piggy.🐷💥

Neil Sedaka wrote Is this the way to Amarillo

Bunny Wailer wrote The Electric Slide!

Beedlebum, Beedlebum, 353-8111

Beethoven was once arrested as a tramp.

01 811 8055

Swap shop by any chance?

I can recite the books of the Bible too! Did you learn the song? I sing it to myself when I can't sleep. Also the NATO phonetic alphabet.

It didn’t impress my niece very much but the difference between a million and a billion is a lot more than I realised. One million seconds is about 11 days. One billion seconds is over 31 years.

The Brass Monkey bit is not true. Canon balls were stored on wooden racks.

What?? Surely not? They can’t just be leaving a random, unhooked lung to rot in your chest cavity? When things have been disconnected they don’t get blood flow anymore so would surely become necrotic?

I still remember the cost of half a pound of butter in Sainsbury’s in summer 1967 - I had a holiday job on the checkout and must have rung up hundreds. No such thing as scanning barcodes then.
It was 1/4.5d. (One and fourpence halfpenny.)

@youalrighti checked and only kidneys are left behind. Everything else is usually removed and replaced.

Every packet of crisps will expire on a Saturday. I read this on mumsnet.

OOh no! I didn't know there's a song! Does it go to a well known tune?

The lions on the base of Nelson's column were cast with metals salvaged from French ships captured during the Battle of Trafalgar.

Thank-you that makes more sense although I still think its weird