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.

The bigger the black bib on a male sparrow is the more kudos he has with his local ladies! Fact!........

There's no such thing as useless knowledge. I might have thought that knowing that the first four presenters of The Generation Game were Bruce Forsyth, Larry Grayson, Brucie again, and then Jim Davidson would have been useless but it's just got me 3 virtual points and bragging rights against DH while watching Only Connect.

They're qualified to run for public office then

Oh and a foal is born with their adult size legs......

TRex lived closer to the existence of mobile phones than to Stegosaurus.

Being true to my username there.

This is my favourite: before humans could reliably write, they knew how to graft trees (ie. grow a par tree spliced onto a quince rootstock). They basically made aliens!

Wouldn't that be COMRA?

Labradors are from Newfoundland and Newfoundlands are from Labrador!

Was it in The Night Before Christmas rhyme?
They are all named there.

Think the B stands for briefing

Gorillas know to chew leaves from a specific tree and rub it on their limbs if they are suffering from arthritis/inflammation (although I'm sure they only know it as PAIN

First single I ever bought 😁

Most mammals take the same level of time to empty their bladders - approx 21 seconds. The bigger the animal, the bigger their bladder but also the bigger/wider their urethra!

Randomly I remember a friends dads number plate from years ago, never attempted to remember it,

To 'go for a burton' doesn't mean that the precariously placed item will fall quickly and suddenly.
It was coined in WW1 after Burton Ale and was used to say someone was missing/presumed dead.
John: "where's Tim?"
Sheila "he's gone for a Burton (Ale)"

(Tim is presumed MIA).

Edinburgh Waverley has 20 platforms, Leeds has the highest number of platforms (outside London) in England not in the UK. Waterloo has the most platforms with 24.

This explains my Westies skin problems

I've always been under the impression that petrichor is the smell of the earth after it has rained.

Specifically earth that was dry because it hasn't rained in a while. Which might explain why I can't smell petrichor now!!

Yasss... There's the three that are unimaginatively named first, second, third witch and then there's Hecate, Queen of the witches. There is speculation that the scene she appears in wasn't actually written by Shakespeare though.

Haha, yes I do vaguely recall that one from school.

Which of my factoids was it that made you laugh?

That hurts my head. Is it actually true? I don't have the mathematical sense to work it out.

The original meaning actually sounds strangely comforting.

"Wherefore" in Juliet's famous "Romeo, O Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" means why, not where - she's asking why he is Romeo (a Montague, and thus forbidden), not where he is!

IseeNarcPeople I've been using it in the wrong way forever but yesterday DS and I picked up a pizza. He put it on the dashboard and I said 'don't put it there it'll go for a burton". He asked me where the saying came from and I Googled it. I'll probably still use it wrongly but I'm glad I know it's real meaning and etemology.

You can't fold a piece of paper more than 7 times is something I know but still can't fathom how it's true.