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.

I just had the song go through my head after reading your post! I had an LP of the original production years ago.

Interestingly, the word 'ruminate' - meaning 'to think over' - is derived from 'ruminant' - chewing the cud.

No he isn't. At one point he refers to himself as 'the Adam of your labours' but that is not his name.

Some live in Melbourne.

During the plaugue ships with plauge had to dock outside Italian cities for 40 days. The Italian for 40 days is quaranta giorni from which we get the word quarantine.

Lots of words entered the Eglish language fron the Normans, but the Normans spoke a different dialect which is why the king was called William not Guillaume.

Not such uncommon but this is why we have different names for animals and the meat from them. The English worked with pigs, cows, and sheep, the French call those animals le porc, le bœuf and le mouton.

And all rainbows are double rainbows.

A wedgie once killed a man in Oklahoma in the USA

Which make Jon Pertwee's comment about thinking they were stupid things because all you had to do was go upstairs and they were stuffed all the more amusing!

Or whether a cloth person would fancy being used as a nappy!

That's always been my ambition ...

A word familiar if one's read about the Thirty Years War, kicked off by the infamous Defenestration of Prague in 1618.

Overqualified, I'd say!

Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickle and onion all on a sesame seed bun

If you memorised that and said it in McDonalds in the 80's you got a free burger

It just popped into my head as a very useless fact

And the first king of England was King Athelstan

Driving snakes, you say?

Here's a fact I love

When you are pregnant a tiny amount of free floating cells with your baby's DNA 🧬 can pass through the placenta into your body forever and vice Versa.

It's called Microchimerism

And for each subsequent pregnancy, cells not only pass from each new foetus to the mother but some of the previous foetus cells can be passed on to their subsequent siblings.

Via their mothers placenta

Rabbits were not, as previously thought, introduced to Britain by the Normans. They were introduced by the Romans. A rabbit bone discovered at Fishbourne Palace (which was built around 75AD) was carbon-dated and proved to be from the time, and since it showed no marks of butchery and analysis suggests it lived in a confined area, it was presumably a pet!

@Bonjovispjs me too. I still remember queuing outside a record shop with my 66p.

That’s lodged in my brain too for exactly the same reason.

I remember this from Why Don't You 🤣

Light is invisible.
If you sail due east from New York harbour the first country you come to will be Portugal.

Britain is on the same latitude as the Hudson Bay.

Edinburgh is on about the same latitude as Moscow and Copenhagen.

Anyone else just sing that. ?

My carer quite often threatens me with it. Not in a serious way before someone calls social services.

We have that kind of relationship, I once asked him to check the bathroom as I thought there was a leak.

He cam back threatening to beat me over the head with the leaek I'd left in there.

Fun fact, on the ISS salt and pepper are liquids.