AIBU to pick your brains for your best facts?

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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!!

No number from 1 to 999 includes a in its word form

Alaska is the only state who's name is on one row of a keyboard

The first caesarean performed by a European in Africa was performed by a female Doctor who lived life as a man.

James Miranda Steuart Barry (c. 1789[a] – 25 July 1865) was a military surgeon in the British Army, born in Cork, Ireland. Barry obtained a medical degree from the University of Edinburgh Medical School and performed the first recorded caesarean section by a European in Africa in which both the mother and child survived the operation.

Although Barry's entire adult life was lived as a man, Barry was named Margaret Ann Bulkley at birth and was known as female in childhood. Barry lived as a man in both public and private life, at least in part in order to be accepted as a university student and pursue a career as a surgeon, with Barry's birth sex only becoming known to the public and to military colleagues after a post-mortem examination.

The first Email was sent in 1971

In New Zealand, the emergency services can be reached on 999, 911 and 112 - assuming you will dial your countries emergency code if you are in a panic.

Marie Curie also invented the portable X-ray machine.

It's illegal to pee in the sea in Portugal

An ounce of narwhal skin contains as much vitamin C as an ounce of orange.

you can't sneeze with your eyes open

A baby girl is born with all her eggs, so your maternal grandmother carried you inside her body.

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive, so they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer.

^^ urgh, I was gonna type that you CAN sneeze with your eyes open, contrary to popular belief.

but you really have to concentrate to do so

Crisps all go out of date on a Saturday

At any given moment in time, you are simultaneously the oldest you have ever been, and the youngest you will ever be

Ooh and another one - there is more time separating a stegosaurus and a T-Rex, than there is separating a T-Rex and the Internet

The Emu War is my favourite story of all time.

Hyenas give birth through their clitoris 😬

The map of the uk looks like a witch riding a pig .

a bit sex-related, but curious

• a male kangaroo has 2 penises; but a female kangaroo as 3 vaginas.

• a female ferret can die from lack of sex (a hormone builds up when it is time to mate & levels don't fall until after sex. too much of this hormone is fatal).

@Thailand2017

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive, so they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer.

WTF 😂😂😂

Slugs are cannibals. They like meat with their veg.

Blood group O negative is a universal donor. Anyone can receive blood group 0 negative.

Blood group AB positive is a universal recipient, so can have donated blood from anyone.

While sloths are well known for being slow on land, covering only 0.27 kmh when threatened, they are fantastic swimmers, reaching speeds of 13.5m per minute! Also sloths are at greatest threat of attack when they poo, because they climb down to the ground to do it. I really love sloths!

@OutrageousFlavourLikeFreesias

At any given moment in time, you are simultaneously the oldest you have ever been, and the youngest you will ever be

This makes no sense, I was younger than I am now than I am now at any previous point in my whole life, so how can I be the youngest I’ll ever be at this moment in time?