AIBU to pick your brains for your best facts?

[HRVY]

Hi all,

I’ve got to come up with a fact to round off a work meeting I’m presenting tomorrow. Have no idea what to go for - so AIBU to ask if you can give me any fact inspiration?!

The fact can be on anything at all. Please hit me with your fave facts (and if you can come up with a ‘story’-type fact, that would be amazing!)

Thanks!!

Have a listen to the No Such Thing as a Fish podcast. It’s the folks who set the questions on QI, and they each bring their favourite fact of the week to the podcast. Dip into any one of the hundreds they’ve done and you’ll get a gem.

Google was originally called ‘Backrub’.

Yoda and Miss Piggy were voiced by the same person

There are 4 different types of glue in a loo roll.

Thanks all! Please do keep them coming if you have any more - really appreciate your help :)

Gary Oldman is younger than Gary Newman.

The only thing strong enough to cut through tooth enamel is diamond. And decay obviously 😂

@MrsTulipTattsyrup

Have a listen to the No Such Thing as a Fish podcast. It’s the folks who set the questions on QI, and they each bring their favourite fact of the week to the podcast. Dip into any one of the hundreds they’ve done and you’ll get a gem.

Although most seem to involve penises one way or another.

Here's my pet fact;

A bumblebee buzz pollinates by vibrating her wings at approximately 420-435Hz. Middle A, the note by which the entire orchestra tunes, is currently set at 440Hz, but at the time the modern orchestra was becoming a thing, was pitched slightly lower. Usually between 430 and 435Hz.

This means that the one note, the fundamental by which all Western music was aligned, was based upon the sound of a Bumblebee in summer.

Duck Willies are corkscrew shaped. I own ducks and can vouch for this fact.

Bird's Custard was invented by Alfred Bird as his wife had an egg allergy and couldn't eat homemade custard.

@Yesitsbess

Duck Willies are corkscrew shaped. I own ducks and can vouch for this fact.

So are pigs. If you AI a sow, you have to twist the pluggy-thing into her vagina before you push the semen in...

Also, there was a battle during which a tribe of horse archers was whipping the shit out a non-horse archer army, so the other guys dressed their camels up as monstrous camelephants to scare the horse archers' horses and win the battle. I now can't see a camel without mentally adding a prosthetic trunk and ears...

in 1896, motorist Walter Arnold was caught tearing through Paddock Wood in Kent at a hair-raising 8mph, and so became the first driver in the world to get a speeding ticket.

All the planets in our solar system would fit between the earth and the moon.

Not recommended, of course.

Not only human beings, but also koalas have unique finger prints.

Wombat poo is cube shaped

Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

Facetious is the only word in the English language with all the vowels in alphabetical order.

There are 10 soviet probes on Venus.

Parisian bakers can't go on annual leave without the approval of the city officials, who need to ensure that Parisians won't suffer from a shortage of bread in summer months.

The dress Gina G wore for Eurovision was originally custom made for Cher

The longest word in English that you can type in the top row of a qwerty keyboard is typewriter

Your foot is the size of your arm from wrist to elbow.

@northernstars

Facetious is the only word in the English language with all the vowels in alphabetical order.

I'm afraid that's not true - see also abstemious.

Bisto beef gravy granules are suitable for vegans

Uranus was almost named "George".

Australia fought a war against emus and LOST.

If you push your tongue on the roof of your mouth,while eating cold food then it stops brain freeze

My favourite fact - Edinburgh is further west than both Liverpool and Bristol. (Apols there’s no story there, just geography!)