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.

The 11+ is based on work done by Cyril Burt but he was a fraud, who lied about his methods. His work was subsequently discredited but the 11+ still continued.

You're correct! The Preston bypass part is right. I misremembered the M61 bit.

It's 2 to the power 64 (because you start with 2 then you're just doubling it 64 times) - 18 quintillion if I recall...

Okay I googled it...
18,446,744,073,709,551,616

And you're right @HeyMrScott - it's more grains of rice than on earth.

You are nocturnal if you are active at night.

You are diurnal if you are active in the day.

You are crepuscular if you are active at dawn and dusk.

Snails have 1400 teeth (saw a program saying it )
Also your foot is the length of your forearm- heel towards inner elbow and toes towards your wrist

I've read the whole thread but the only fact I'm confident that I'll remember is that kangaroos have 3 vaginas.

Sadly, I can't see that one coming up on the pub quiz.

Considering they've been around for 650 million years (fact from Google not my brain) they seem to prove brains are overrated.

Yes! Saw a programme on cani cross, where you run 5km with your dog, who not only runs the 5km but pulls you along as well, using a special harness - at the end the humans were all knackered and puffing, and all the dogs could have easily done another 5km.

Yes it is, but my brain cannot fathom why, and despite knowing it to be fact, I still don't believe it :)

I am fascinated by snails and I didn't know that. Wow.

I spent a long time reading that Wiki Monty Hall problem and my mind was spinning!

I gather that (some breeds of?) slugs have teeth all the way along their digestive tract, from their mouth to their arsehole.

It's not true. Based on that DS will be 5ft3.
Hes nearly 5ft 10 and possibly still growing.

Cows can walk up stairs but not down (apparently!).

So if you have stairs in your house, whatever you do, don’t let a cow in or you might not get it out again!

@Jewelanemone it's because the UK is almost always tilted to the right when printed on a page so that it fits more neatly - take note of where the N line is - not at the top, usually off towards 2 o'clock!

If you tilt it so the N is directly up it totally changes the perspective.

Different conspiracy theories, I don't usually discuss them as I try to convey I'm part pickle. Plus most don't have detailed perspectives of different theories.

*That I'm not half pickled by believing in them.

Cobra, as in "the Prime minister attended a cobra meeting this afternoon" is an acronym for Cabinet Office Meeting Room A.

Only 5% of the world's population have hazel eyes.

I love this!

My son used this word in his 11+ when given a picture of a storm and asked to ‘describe the scene’.

I had to google it. He got a full scholarship 😂

And their skin is black

Joseph's coat was...
Red and yellow and green and brown and scarlet and black and ochre and peach and Ruby and olive and violet and fawn and lilac and gold and chocolate and mauve and cream and crimson and silver and rose and azure and lemon and russet and grey and purple and white and pink and orange and blue.

I used to work for a bank. Can remember customers account numbers. 25 years later! J changed my phone 6 months ago Can't remember my own phone number!

There's a word for throwing someone out of a window...defenestration. I can't imagine that I would ever need to use it.

I can name all of Santa's reindeer with ease thanks to learning it in primary school some 40 years ago

Defenestration is one of Putin’s preferred methods for offing his opponents.