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

[IseeNarcPeople]

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.

That's bloody scary!

Yup. Use cloth people!

I learnt this from Doctor Who.

Volkswagen, Audi. Seat and Skoda are all owned by Audi

@Nodeepdiving OMG that's a brilliant one, totally bonkers. Love it!

There's another crazy stats one about gameshows and your stick or twist options that one I'm still dubious about!

I can remember the names of pretty much every child in each of my classes at primary/secondary school, in the order in which the register was taken, and the registration number of the car my family had when I was 5... and yet I constantly forget what I went into a room for. Gotta love midlife!

Neil Tennant from the Pet shop boys was the editor of smash hits.

Margaret Thatcher was on the team of scientists who developed the technology to make Mr Whippy ice cream.

Not sure if this is true, but I like it anyway and want it to be true. Bottles are 75cl cause this was the average lungful of air back when bottles were blown by mouth. I didn't want to put that "fact" here as I don't want someone to tell me it's wrong, but if it is true then it's a good but useless fact

The M61 (Preston bypass) is the oldest motorway in the UK.

Daleks can go upstairs. I distinctly remember seeing a dalek kind of floating up the stairs when watching Dr Who in the 60s.

Something to do with the East opening of the Panama Canal being further West than West opening. I'm sure someone will be along to explain it better in a minute 😊

I had to learn Albert and the lion in Yr 5 at school for a play and I remember that. I tell the dc it at bedtime just so I can feel it has some use and not just taking up random space

Not too sure if a baby would enjoy a cloth person

Which one??

I think that it’s that the Pacific end of the Panama Canal is further west than the Atlantic end.

Further east not west 🙄

The opposite of hibernate is estivate, in other words, sleeping through summer.

This was also my nemesis as a child and is probably the only times table I can now instantly recall at any given moment!!

Also not a fact, but I can remember all the words to 'It's 'Orrible Being In Love When You're 8 1/2' which is definitely useless.
There is important information displaced by that nonsense!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TWte2_oDsX0

I'm guessing the game show one is the Monty Hall problem? A well known statistical puzzle. From Wikipedia:

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

In the Braille alphabet, the letters A-J are formed from combinations of the top four dots in the Braille cell (dots 1,2,4,5). Letters K-T are the same as letters A-J but with the addition of dot-3. Letters U, V, X, Y Z are the same as letters A-E but with two additional dots (dots 3,6). Letter W is out of sequence because the alphabet is essentially French (c.f. Louis Braille) and they didn't use a W so it had to be added later.

Let's go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over.

Almost correct. 😉

Volkswagen, Audi, Seat, Skoda, Porsche, Ducati, Lamborghini & Bentley are all owned by Volkswagen AG Group.

Shakespeare invented the names Miranda and Jessica.

J.M. Barrie invented the name Wendy.

B&Q stands for Block and Quayle after the founders Richard Block and David Quayle. Not Better and Quicker as my Dad told me.