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

[Pombearsandnaiceham]

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!

If you squished all the planets in the solar system next to each other, they would comfortably fit between the Earth and the moon. That's how far it is to the moon.

If you sail due east from New York the first country you come to will be Portugal.

Awesome stuff, keep them coming

Blackcurrants were banned in the USA in the early 20th century as they could carry a disease that was a threat to the logging industry. They are being reintroduced in some places now but some states still have a ban. That's why purple is always grape flavour rather than blackcurrant over there!

Babies don’t have kneecaps.

bananas are a herb
there is no centre to the Universe

Hyenas give birth through their clitoris.

You can cure a goldfish of constipation by feeding them a frozen pea.

@TheGirlWhoLived I was about to say 'blue whale poo is pink'... I think we might have the same book!

Pineapples are a multi fruit. They are a collection of individual berries all stuck together. The pineapples we eat have no seeds because the presence of seeds affects the taste.

Colleague sent me this the other day. Seriously weird fact, but pretty amazing too!

www.sciencenews.org/article/water-beetle-frog-eaten-alive-escape-death-butt-excretion

Edinburgh is further west than Bristol.

Lollipop is the longest word you type with your right hand

Female birds (don't know name) lay eggs , pee and poo through the same hole (called something and I can't remember that either)

In Patagonia in South America they speak Welsh.

@Marmite27

My brother sent me this the other day...

What about all the manned space ships? It would be earlier surely.

Male cats have barbs on their penises. 🙀

I didn’t question it

Astronauts have to be careful taking their socks of when they are at the space station because all their hard skin delaminates and just flakes off!!!

Sloths are amazing swimmers and can stay under water for up to 40 minutes at a time.

@drinkingwineoutofamug

Female birds (don't know name) lay eggs , pee and poo through the same hole (called something and I can't remember that either)

** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloacaa*

Not just birds.

The Roman main drain was (it's still there and functioning I think) called the Cloaca Maxima

The scientist who invented the lobotomy won the Nobel Prize for his discovery

Kangaroos have 3 vaginas.

You can’t sneeze with your eyes open.

Ladybirds smell with their knees and taste with their feet.