Tell me something useless but interesting I don't know. No googling allowed. Corrections welcomed.

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I love these threads so please tell me all manner of useless info. [Thanks]

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th.

Phobophobia is a fear of developing a phobia

"The seeds had been sown, as had the hem of her dress."

• that doesn't work as the past participle of "to sew" is "sewn" not "sown."

scone Plenty of people do post chocolate to Australia and manage to get it through customs, but dairy products aren't allowed, including chocolate so if customs manage to spot chocolate in a parcel, they will open and destroy it

All rainbows are double, and completely round. The colours are inverted (the red edge is the inside so from top to bottom it goes VIBGYOR ROYGBIV).

We just only see a bit of it at a time.

kinder eggs are illegal in usa. you have to go to canada for them...security threat

Bloody Australia, destroying perfectly good Chocolate, fucking heathens!!!!!

USA wouldnt approve IRN BRU for sale, because the makers in scotland wouldnt tell them whats in it.

Carrots were originally white. Then the Dutch wanted to improve them and as well as breeding them to be bigger and tastier they also decided they wanted carrots to be orange, (their national colour) so breed them to be orange.
That's why carrots are orange.

So in theory Big, my little sister when younger was almost right to call parsnips white carrots.

Some people don't like use of 'u' and see it as a relatively new shortening, as a result of texting.

The first time it was used to mean 'you' was by Shakespeare.

We had a black queen charlotte, (or regency queen) she founded kew gardens and was a feminist who believed in educating girls more then was the norm at the time. She did some pretty amazing but now not talked about stuff. She's more well known about in America where there's statues and towns named after her then England.

The fear of palindromes is aibohphobia. According to my TA, who Knows Stuff

Love this thread! Dp not so much as I keep shouting things at him

Your nieces and nephews are called Niblings!

All mens nipples are eight inches apart. Well, all.men without moobs.

Fruit bats enjoy fellatio.

I love NIblings - that is lovely.

eurochick

not on their balls.

Armadillos carry leprosy

i'm sure I heard somewhere that the distaance between your nipples is the same as the distance between the tip of your thumb and little finger when your hand is splayed (not sure how boobage factors into that equation though). Also the distance between your wrist and your elbow, on your inner arm, is the exact length of your foot.

Hippophobia is not, as I once thought, a fear of Hippos, but is a fear of horses.

If you stretch your arms out as wide as possible it is the same as your height.

A Blue Whale's heart is the size of a car

Australophobia and Novahollandiaphobia are a fear of all things Australian.

Australia was previously called Nova Hollandia, due to its Dutch explorers.

Your ears and nose never stop growing until you die