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.

Thanks 👍🚂

Damn! Why did the careers advisor never tell me this!!

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Is that something about doors and you should always pick the other one?

FOUR witches??? This is astonishing information. Do you have proof of this?!

Nobel prizes.

Only 5 people have won two Nobel prizes:
Barry Sharpless
Linus Pauling
John Bardeen
Frederick Sanger
Marie Skłodowska Curie

Perhaps appropriately for the audience, the last was the first woman to win a Nobel prize, the only person to win Nobel prizes for two different sciences (physics and chemistry), the first to win one twice, and part of the most en-Nobeled (see what I did there..) family of all time, winning two herself, her husband one, her daughter one and her son-in-law one (Irene and Frederick Joliot-Curie). Furthermore, her first Nobel prize came about as her husband Pierre complained to the committee that she had been equally involved as himself and Henri Becquerel.

Only Linus Pauling of the above won each of his Nobel prizes on his own.

If you get a chess board and put one grain of rice in a corner square, two grains in the next square, 4 in the next square and keep doubling as you fill all the squares, there wouldn't be enough rice in the world to complete the last square.

@MissJoGrant yet it’s still missing junction 7

Me too! I often wonder what useful I formation has fallen out of my brain in order to retain this. "It was red and yellow and green and brown and scarlet and black...."

Is that 64 to the 64th power?

Various family car number plates, melting point of lead.

can’t do it now but could tell quite a few cars at night by pattern/layout of lights.

All sorts of bits of data just under the surface all but bursting to come out.

Preston bypass is part of the M6.

I'm so glad I didn't know this growing up in the seventies.

Daleks went upstairs in the 80s in The Remembrance of the Daleks. Cracking story and Sophie Aldred caused permanent hearing loss to a Dalek actor after being told she'd be beating an empty Dalek but in fact he was inside.

An isobar is a line of equal atmostpheric pressure - learnt in Geography or science at age 13 or so - never forgot !

Jellyfish don't have brains but can make decisions

And Cardiff Central station has a platform 0

This one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem

St Bridget is the patron saint of milkmaids.
The man in the raincoat in the original Rupert Bear programme was called Drizzle (I told my friend that last week and she said, 'thanks for that completely USELESS piece of information', so I guess it qualifies!)

I just had to check and discovered that I still correctly remember that the ionisation energy of a hydrogen atom is 13.6 eV (electron volts).

I learnt it in a quantum mechanics course (physics degree) some 30 years ago. The lecturer was big on getting us to estimate things and understand that there were very few things we needed to know to be able to derive a surprising amount of useful information. He practically drilled the above fact into us :) The exam was open book, too.

Wow this one has blown my mind! So is a make kangaroo involved at some point to kick things off? Do they need a regular dose of sperm to make these babies? I'm off for a Google!

That should be male kangaroo not make 🤦‍♀️

Signs of inflammation: redness, heat, swelling and pain. Practically the first lesson on the first day of my nurse training, and only Alzheimers will ever be able to erase it from my memory, and maybe not even that.

Horses drink between 40 and 70 litres of water per day, depending on the heat/weather and work/exertion. I learnt this in 2009 when the water pipe to the stables froze and had to cart all their water 300 metres up a steep hill on a sledge every day. And then I remembered this lesson the following winter when the same thing happened again.

The average pet dog has a VO2 max around 3 times greater than the very best human athletes.

If you speak Breton you can make yourself understood to a native Welsh speaker / vice versa (I have done this, it’s wild)

Phosphorus is a yellow non-metal that burns in air.

O-level chemistry. 1983.