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.

My fave fact is that there are more trees on earth than stars in the Milky Way and it’s not even close - billions and billions more. Blows my mind!

Sorry to disagree but ice-cream can melt at room temperature

I have a real 'thing' about knives in the dishwasher, they HAVE to go blade down or in the top rack.

My mother once stabbed herself in the wrist emptying the dishwasher.

Then when I was working in the NHS we had a toddler who had been running round the kitchen while a parent was emptying the dishwasher, the toddler tripped and landed on a knife that was blade up.

You know how small a child's torso is? This child basically had a tour of the hospital trying to find the damage. X-rays, ultrasound, echo, CT... somehow the blade missed every organ and the child was sent home.

Please, and I know I am being preachy, put knives blade down in the dishwasher.

No blind from birth person has ever been diagnosed schizophrenic.

And the London store Liberty was built using timbers from two decommissioned 19th Century Royal Navy ships, the HMS Hindustan and the HMS Impregnable.

The store founder had the vision that the shop would be like a land docked ship in the middle of the city, showcasing the finest in art and design. It has a weathervane of the ship the Mayflower on the roof, as well.

A collection of Ladybirds is called a Lovliness! Perfect name for perfect insects!

Rabbits are not native to the UK, but were brought over by the Romans for food and fur.

It's a great word isn't it? Hoglets!

Sardines and pilchards are both the same species of fish.

Really? They were definitely reported several days apart. Diana was 31st August 1997 and Mother Theresa was early September.

My nephew had a kidney transplant and now has three.

An octopus has 3 hearts, two stop beating when it swims.

But if you haven't already come across it, please do read 'Wifedom', about the first Mrs.Orwell (or Mrs Blair really - a student who had had Tolkein and other Oxford authors as tutors and lecturers in her turn). There's some interesting considerations about 1984 in it.

It’s because they put the new kidneys at the front of your body, just “re-wiring” them from your old ones, so makes no sense to open you up again to take old ones out. Learnt this from a woman who’d just had a transplant - it was also a shock how many anti-rejection tablets she was on afterwards.

That Mr Bean is an alien, which explains the start of the show where he is beamed down!

Emperor Penguins completely shed all their feathers which become disheveled and ineffective after the winter, and completely regrow beautiful new feathers.

I can name all the countries of the world and their capitals.

I do, but mainly because I'd rather be holding them by the handle when I put them in or pull them out. I understand awful accidents happen but that still doesn't answer my question: how common are they?

Isn't it just 😂. My mind is so full of utterly irrelevamt shit that I can't remember where I put the car fob

And people will spend more if they are labelled sardines. Some clever cornish fishermen who couldn't give pilchards away renamed them 'Cornish sardines'.

Sorry no idea. But surely if there ever was a need for a public information film this is it.

This is absolutely fascinating.

About 20 years ago, my friends SIL came home to find her DH with a knife in his chest unconscious in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor.

She called 999, he was rushed off to hospital with her in the ambulance. Police in attendance, he was a Police officer so there were concerns he'd been targeted by an intruder somehow and the DW was also looked at suspiciously for obvious reasons.

Once he came out of surgery and was well enough to say what had happened, it was a freak knife sticking up out of the dishwasher accident. He was emptying the dishwasher, slipped and fell onto a large blade.

Something I discovered through researching family genealogy; prior to 1920 divorce in England was the preserve of the wealthy and all cases had to be heard in the high court in London with only specific reasons for divorce granted.

So for the working classes it was frequent that people committed bigamy if a first marriage had failed for any reason and it was widely socially accepted. Particularly if the 1st marriage ended due to abuse, adultery, or abandonment.

I found two ancestors in the early 20th century who'd married bigamously when a first spouse was still alive and no divorce had taken place.

I know all the specs and perfect serves for Wetherspoons (kitchen and bar). When I get a pint of corona and the lime is in the wrong place I do twitch a bit. I know that’s fucking ridiculous tho.