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.

Will Young won the first series of Pop Idol on the same day that Princess Margaret died.

Cadbury’s flakes don’t melt.

Gary Oldman is younger than Gary Newman.

Pharmaceutical company Johnson and Johnson is named after three brothers with the surname Johnson.

Mountain goats are not related to 'goat' goats.

Foals are born with tentacles on their feet called foal slippers (amongst other things).

Liechtenstein's National Anthem is sung to the same tune as "God save the King"

The letters of Uxbridge can be rearranged to spell big durex.

My landline number (and those of my two best friends) from 40 years ago!

35985 34253 and 34292

Thanks brain, any chance of swapping those for my current one?

Wasn't Boris Johnson MP for Uxbridge? Can't think why I made the connection . . . . .

C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley shared the same death date as President J. F. Kennedy.

If you go for a holiday with Forest Holidays and attend the Quiz Night you will probably be asked which colour of M&M's there are least of

The answer is brown

Only in certain cases (usually kidneys), most of the time old organs are removed

There are no capped England football players who are turning 50 this year/were born in 1976

I can remember the dewey code for every subject of book in libraries. I did work experience at 14, then a Saturday job at 15 then full time to 20 before moving to a different career altogether.

I've not been in a library since.

I'm 54.

But I couldn't remember the word 'dewey' so had to Google it 🫣😆

I’m fairly sure that’s rubbish.
The baby smell is left over amniotic fluid and some waxy thing that protects the baby in the womb.

I remember the one before that 0181 811 8055

You’re physically not the same person than you were a year ago, your body replaces itself constantly but at different rates

Most of Earth and the sea is still unknown. There are entire mountain ranges underwater we’ve never properly seen. We know more about mars than our own seabed 😬

Foal slippers are called Eponychium 😀

A seagull isn't an actual species and neither is a pterodactyl

@NormasArsethe banana plant is a herb, the fruit is a berry.

We ALL tried the humming!

The east end of a city ie Glasgow, London is the poorest as the prevailing wind is west to east therefore all the smog, factory smoke etc.... blew that way

Apart from your teeth!

There are 17 types of shark that only eat krill. ( Told to me last week by a 6 year old. I'm sure she is right!)

Guinea pigs are the only animals, besides primates, who carry the genetic defect of not producing their own vitamin C, so can get scurvy like us!

Ah yes! Another fact, there is current research in stem cells and gene therapy that may one day let humans regrow teeth. No more implants or dentures. It’s been successful in pigs and mice

Great thread!