To ask for facts. Having a miscarriage - give me fun facts and a handhold please

[Chez2306]

I'm about an hour and a half in to an induced miscarriage of baby, who had no heartbeat on scan, wasn't allowed surgical. I'm already in AGONY and very emotional so please no negative comments.

Please give me some interesting facts to help take my mind off of things. I love learning new things and it'll keep me sane.

I'll go first - did you know that originally Lara Croft was going to be called Laura and be American?

It's only recently occurred to me that Northumberland is so called as it is North Humber Land!

Norwich was the first city to use postcodes as we know them today

Australia is wider than the moon.

Handhold here from someone that has been there, more than once.❤️

I didn't know that re: Lara Croft!
Thinking of a fun fact... 🤔

Polar bears hairs are not white. They are transparent.

On the geographical theme, the oldest postbox is in Dorset

I have recently found out an interesting fact about cats. It is a common misconception that cats bring you dead prey as a "gift". In fact, cats teach their offspring to catch prey by progressively taking them through levels of challenge. First, they bring kittens dead prey to play with, then harmed by alive, and all the way to live pray which they caught but didn't harm. So the only reason humans get repeated dead prey is because we never seem to progress from this learning step.
Sorry, it's a bit morbid but utterly fascinating (to me, anyway).

52! 52 Factorial is the number of different ways a suit of cards can be ordered. It's a stupidly large number. To help visualise it

Set a timer for 52! seconds. Go to the equator and take one step every billion years. Once you have walked around the entire Earth, remove one drop of water from the Pacific Ocean. Keep walking and removing one drop of water every time you circle the globe until the Pacific Ocean is completely empty. When the ocean is empty, place one sheet of paper on the ground. Refill the ocean, and repeat the entire process (walking and draining) again, placing another sheet of paper on top of the first. Keep doing this until your stack of paper reaches from the Earth to the Sun. Then, take a look at the timer. After doing all of that, the timer will have barely moved—less than 1% of the time will have passed. You would have to repeat that entire process (stacking paper to the sun) 1,000 times over to even come close to finishing the timer.

Woodpeckers wrap their tongue around their brain to prevent headaches.
Sending love. X

No but why can I imagine my cats rolling their eyes at me and being like ‘right ffs Human let’s try this again’

If you see a big bumblebee sitting on a flower or the ground in summer and get close, point at it and it will lift a leg and point back at you. They do it to each other too. They're big on personal space, bumblebees. Also if they're on chive flowers and it starts raining, they'll shelter under the flower cluster until the rain stops.

When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, he had hoped people would answer it by saying ‘ahoy hoy’, instead of ‘hello’

Here for a handhold and to say I fell pregnant with twins 6 months after my miscarriage. Positive spin, I wouldn't have these amazing humans if I hadn't miscarried.
Try and look into the future x

That's exactly what I imagined my cat doing when I learned this 😝

Chocolate was once used as money!

The ancient Aztec civilisation valued cocoa beans so much that they used them as currency. You could literally buy things with them. For example, historical records suggest you could buy a turkey for about 100 cocoa beans or a tomato for just a few beans.

🐙 Octopuses have three hearts. Two pump blood to the gills, and one pumps blood to the rest of the body. But here’s the adorable part: the main heart stops beating when the octopus swims, which is why octopuses prefer crawling along the seafloor instead of swimming. Basically, swimming is so exhausting for them that their heart takes a break!
So when an octopus chooses to just chill and crawl around, it’s not being lazy — it’s literally better for its heart. ❤️
A good reminder for humans too: taking things slow sometimes is perfectly natural.

Sending love and strength x

Snails move at around 0.03mph - as my young piano student tells me when tell him to slow down his practice :-)

Hope you're ok - it happened to me 15 years ago, and is only a distant memory now, but was agony at the time.

from someone else who's been there.

There are large feral groups of wild peacocks in New Zealand, descended from ones brought over as status symbol pets.

Kylie was first woman to secure UK No 1 singles in four different decades.

In some years, boxing day occurs before Christmas day (well, sort of).

If a bank holiday would otherwise occur on a non-working day it gets moved to the next available working day. Therefore, when 25th December falls on a Sunday, the Christmas day bank holiday gets moved to Tuesday 27th because Monday 26th is already a non-working day due to being the boxing day bank holiday. Therefore in years when 25th December falls on a Sunday, boxing day (techincally) occurs before Christmas day.

Apparently the paste inside Kit Kats is made of squished-up broken Kit Kats that can’t be sold

Dogs use up more energy sniffing than running. Apparently ! 🤔😀

On a similar note, there were wild wallabies in the peak district that had escaped from a zoo

The joke in The Simpson's about Mr Burns being so old that he answers the phone with "ahoy hoy"

Our bodies aren't aware of our eyes, and if they were the body's immune system would attack them! 😲

Erm ahem um…
Darn it. Can’t think of a single solitary interesting fact. Less unfamiliar fact- menopausal women with fibromyalgia have issues accessing their own brain contents.