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In need of a 5* fact! Anyone with a brilliant fact they’d like to share?

288 replies

Pombearsandnaiceham · 04/08/2020 08:08

Hi everyone,

Sorry for a very boring AIBU but does anyone have any interesting facts they’d like to share? I need a good fact for a work meeting this morning - any ideas?

Thank you!

OP posts:
SummerHouse · 04/08/2020 08:09

Dolphins sleep one half of their brain at a time.

Bmidreams · 04/08/2020 08:10

And I've gone blank...

Antarctica is the driest continent.

TheGirlWhoLived · 04/08/2020 08:10

Wombat Poo is cube shaped

TanteRose · 04/08/2020 08:11

An octopus has three hearts, nine brains and blue blood.

ihatethecold · 04/08/2020 08:11

The Ivy League colleges on the east coast of America were funded and built because of heroin.

OliviaBenson · 04/08/2020 08:12

Edinburgh is further west than Liverpool. Blows my mind!!

Pinkywoo · 04/08/2020 08:13

Hippos make their own sunscreen by sweating a red oily substance that protects their skin from the sun, apparently that's where the phrase "sweating blood" comes from.

VanilIaSugarr · 04/08/2020 08:15

Victorian urinals which are decorated with bees are done so because the Latin word for bee is “apis”.

NorthernBirdAtHeart · 04/08/2020 08:15

The collective name for Ladybirds is Loveliness. A loveliness of ladybirds! 🐞

BluebellsGreenbells · 04/08/2020 08:15

Florence nightingale invented the Pie Chart

violetbunny · 04/08/2020 08:16

Pineapples grow in bushes, not in trees.

Whatthebloodyell · 04/08/2020 08:21

Less time separates us from T. rex than separated T. rex from Stegosaurus.

And less time separates us from
Cleopatra than separates her from the building of the pyramids.

Nairobiblue · 04/08/2020 08:21

@OliviaBenson

Edinburgh is further west than Liverpool. Blows my mind!!
Oh my goodness, that's an amazing fact!
Daftasabroom · 04/08/2020 08:22

Slugs have shells on the inside.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 04/08/2020 08:25

Peanuts grow underground and are not nuts but legumes

Pineapples grow on bushes not trees.

Original poster
Pombearsandnaiceham · 04/08/2020 08:26

Thank you everyone!! Going to go for the Cleopatra fact, I think - thanks @Whatthebloodyell!

OP posts:
Marmite27 · 04/08/2020 08:27

My brother sent me this the other day...

In need of a 5* fact! Anyone with a brilliant fact they’d like to share?
ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 04/08/2020 08:28

Glasgow is further north than Moscow

ToomuchtimeonNetflix · 04/08/2020 08:28

Walker’s crisps always go out of date on a Saturday

hungrywalrus · 04/08/2020 08:29

Giraffes and humans have the same number of vertebrae. Obviously theirs are longer.

There are more people living in Jakarta than in the whole of Australia.

Scautish · 04/08/2020 08:30

Pirates wear eye patches not because they are injured but for when they raid a ship, they can go below deck where it’s all dark, swap the patch to the other eye and the newly uncovered eye can see as it’s already adjusted to the dark.

SinkGirl · 04/08/2020 08:31

I would be unable to stop myself from trolling this by saying something obviously nonsensical and seeing if anyone noticed :D

trappedsincesundaymorn · 04/08/2020 08:37

Jellyfish don't have a brain.

Goatinthegarden · 04/08/2020 08:38

@Scautish

Pirates wear eye patches not because they are injured but for when they raid a ship, they can go below deck where it’s all dark, swap the patch to the other eye and the newly uncovered eye can see as it’s already adjusted to the dark.
REALLY?!? 😮

I hope this is true!

thegreenlight · 04/08/2020 08:39

Oxford University is older than the Mayan Empire.

A Tyrannosaurus rex is closer in time to an iPad than a stegosaurus.

Cleopatra was closer to us in time than the pyramids.

Gary Oldman is younger than Gary Newman.