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!!

In 1848 the Hungarian freedom revolution against the Habsburgs was defeated.
The leaders were killed and the Austrians celebrated by toasting with tankards full of beer over the dead bodies.
Because they clinked their cups together the Hungarians vowed to never do that for the next 150 years.
And we didn't.
We'd toast with any other alcoholic beverage but not beer.

From 1998 it was acceptable to toast with beer again, but a lot of people still view it as unpatriotic. I've never done it and never will.

there's your story & fact @HRVY

The population of vultures in Asia has decreased by 95% since the early 1990s, largely owing to veterinary use of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac. Diclofenac is toxic to all animals' kidneys, but particularly to birds'. Vultures eating carcases of animals that were treated with diclofenac receive a lethal dose.

The decline in vulture numbers has been so great that cultures who traditionally practised sky burial (exposure of bodies to be consumed by vultures) can no longer do so.

www.4vultures.org/2016/08/24/decline-of-indian-vultures-forced-the-parsis-to-change-their-traditions-and-accept-cremations-as-an-alternative-to-sky-burial/

@Thailand2017 that’s really interesting.

My dd always says her favourite war is the Aussie Emu war.

In 1477, King Edward IV banned cricket as it interferred with his archery practice.

What's the presentation about? It might impress them if you have a fact on a related topic.

If you travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Panama Canal you assume it's an east to west journey. You actually transit in a north-west to south-east direction.

You can't go into space if you still have your appendix

Cornflakes were developed to suppress sexual desire. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg

@TheLittleRedToothbrush

Oooh I got one that really impressed me ! If You hold your arms out stretched straight to the side and measure this it's the same as your height! Fact

Except when you have some genetic conditions, such as Marfan's syndrome. Then your arms are often much longer.

The location of the Islets of Langerhans

Is in your pancreas

Woodlice can't wee!! They only have a mouth and not a bottom!!

And another.... Barry Scott off the Cillit Bang adverts does not exist!! It is a fictitious character played by an actor! You could stun your colleagues into silence with that mind blowing revelation.

@Classica

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

And custard powder is highly explosive in the right cobditions.

500 million years ago Scotland was separated from England and Wales by the ancient Lapetus Ocean and for most of the last billion years, Scotland was joined to America and Greenland, separating 60 million years ago when the North Atlantic began to form.

@enterusername

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@choosername1234 not heard that before, amazing!
Although sadly I don't think it's my appendix holding me back from space travel.

The world's longest commercial domestic passenger flight occurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The flight, operated by Air Tahiti Nui, was between Papeete in French Polynesia and Paris in Metropolitan France, traversing a distance of 15,715 kilometres (9,765 mi; 8,485 nmi) and taking 16 hours, 20 minutes.[2] It is considered a domestic flight as French Polynesia forms an integral part of the French Republic.

@Yesitsbess

Uranus was almost named "George".

Australia fought a war against emus and LOST.

I saw this on YouTube. There's a guy who does amazing animated history videos, this one was hilarious.

Mookie81

Yesitsbess

Uranus was almost named "George".

Australia fought a war against emus and LOST.

I saw this on YouTube. There's a guy who does amazing animated history videos, this one was hilarious.

Link please?

You can't go into space if you still have your appendix

why?

Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landings than she did to the building of the great pyramid.

Octopuses have three hearts

When Paul McCartney wrote the song 'Yesterday' he had the tune but not the lyrics so it was originally music set to the words 'scrambled eggs'.

Very few pennies were minted in 1933 and only a few of those minted went into circulation. In the month before decimalisation on 15th February 1971 an ad agency was creating an advert for a financial company. The ad featured a pyramid of pennies all face up. They asked people in the office for pennies to take the picture. When they printed the photo one of the pennies in the photo was a priceless 1933 one.

@LucysSkyDiamonds

Mookie81

Yesitsbess

Uranus was almost named "George".

Australia fought a war against emus and LOST.

I saw this on YouTube. There's a guy who does amazing animated history videos, this one was hilarious.

Link please?

Emu war!

@awaketoosoon

You can't go into space if you still have your appendix

why?

In case you need an appendectomy. It's an avoidable disaster!