To want to know the useless facts you store in your brain..

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The ones that never get an outting, the chance to use them has never arisen.
For instance, from the many useless facts in my brain:
The phrases "Not enough room to swing a cat" and "Don't let the cat out of the bag" are actually about a whip "Cat O' nine tails" which was kept as a warning and punishment on ships.
Oh and snails can sleep for three years.
Please release some of yours.

Argh, Briefing not Meeting!

Foal slippers - good lord they make me shudder!

I forget i know about them and then every couple of years i read about them again on 'ere. I think my brain blocks them out! 😳

There are so many of us! It pops into my head when I'm trying to go to sleep I don't think I'll ever forget it 🌈🧥

Seagulls drink seawater. They have built in desalination filters, and the concentrated saltwater comes out of their salt glands.

Hedgehogs never stop growing.
Lino is made from pine resin which is naturally antibacterial.

Pablo Escobar offered to pay off Columbia's National Debt of £8 billion if they changed the law so he couldnt be extradited to the US. They refused.

Haha! It's true. Act 3, scene 5. There are the 3 witches plus a 4th called Hecate - she is like the 'head' witch.

Guinea Pigs and Humans are the only mammals that cannot produce their own Vitamin C

I thought it was the smell of dust after rain

You are probaby be confused because you transposed the letters of eights.

Sorry, random 'be' in there.
Eights as in 8s, not a fraction of a whole.

Should fit OK in a supermarket trolley... (old thread).

Is this right, though? Hecate is goddess of witchcraft in the play, not merely head witch (and the scene may not have been written by Shakespeare).

My forearm is longer than my foot.

In Costa Rica, a crocodile lay fertile eggs despite never being in contact with a male. She had been kept in a zoo for 7 years and had never been placed with a male

Ants nod at each other as they pass by

I know every single capital city in the world

Reptiles can store fertilised eggs in their body and decide to release them.

That's actually pretty amazing. I'm going to find out more on that.

That a baby girl is born with all the eggs she'll ever have, already inside her ovaries. This means that at one point I was an egg, inside my Mum's ovary, when my Mum was in my Grandmother's womb.

My mum can remember her family all getting dressed up to drive down it the day it opened!

Ribes Nigrum is Latin for blackcurrant hence Ribena 😁

Blackcurrants were banned in the US

that’s why you can’t get Ribena products there (but I have in a little shop) and some fake Ribena nonsense

most if my family drink loads of Ribena when they are here

The nearest football ground to the River Mersey is Edgeley Park, Stockport County

@HRTQueen i am now going to lose my afternoon to google aren’t I!

“Sinn Fein” means “ourselves alone.”