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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

What strange fact have you just found out about? Mine was..

When a boxing ref says "seconds out..round 2" its not to do with time but the corner men are the 2nds and he's telling them to leave the ring....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Continuing on with boxing

George Foreman has made more money selling his grills than for his boxing career in which he was a 2-time heavyweight champion.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Since 2000 not all the humans have been on the planet Earth at the same time. This is due to the iss being occupied and always having a crew.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tinky winky (of the Teletubbies) was 11 feet tall

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"What strange fact have you just found out about? Mine was..

When a boxing ref says "seconds out..round 2" its not to do with time but the corner men are the 2nds and he's telling them to leave the ring...."

Oh bless........ x

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

I did learn something new the other day hold on ........

Mary Wolestencroft was Mary Shelly's mum.

Blew me away that I didn't realise that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The phrase Happy as Larry comes from a boxer called Larry Foley in the 1890s, before boxing was fully legalised. He won the biggest prize of about $150,000 dollars and a newspaper article in New Zealand had the headline “Happy As Larry” and the phrase stuck.

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By *an4funMan
over a year ago

london

"Since 2000 not all the humans have been on the planet Earth at the same time. This is due to the iss being occupied and always having a crew."

What about when man stepped onto the moon in 1969?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The most common metal found in the human body...

Calcium.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Brazil nuts can be sexually transmitted and could kill someone with a nut allergy x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I did learn something new the other day hold on ........

Mary Wolestencroft was Mary Shelly's mum.

Blew me away that I didn't realise that."

Ava Lovelace, the woman who invented computer programming (to work with Babbage’s difference engine) was Lord Byron’s daughter.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The suns atmosphere is 300 times hotter than its surface

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That the holes in pan handles are to hold your spoon...... I mean, who knew?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The avocado marketing board stuck the wooden ball toy inside to help its flagging sales, since then profits have gone through the roof, although they slowed in recent times when the toy become predictable and tiresome.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A xylophone is the wooden one and glockenspiel it actually the metal percussion instrument we all knew

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The reason OXO cubes are so wrapped is because you are supposed to crush them inside their individual bags (to make a pillow shape) then tear a corner and tip the resulting powder in the pot.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

‘If Big Ben is chiming slightly too early, workers add one old penny to the pendulum to slow it down.’

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"That the holes in pan handles are to hold your spoon...... I mean, who knew?

I just learned this .... FAKE NEWS...... they are to hang your pan up.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"The reason OXO cubes are so wrapped is because you are supposed to crush them inside their individual bags (to make a pillow shape) then tear a corner and tip the resulting powder in the pot. "

My GOD....... and this

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If the ketchup is reluctant to come out of the bottle, hit the “57” on the side/neck of the bottle, the resonance at that spot makes the ketchup pour.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"The most common metal found in the human body...

Calcium. "

I just learned this tooooooo ........

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"That the holes in pan handles are to hold your spoon...... I mean, who knew?

And you know spaghetti spoons with the jagged edges, The hole in the middle is meant to be the perfect portion size spaghetti.

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln

Newborn baby girls can have period.

It really shocked me when I heard it in an episode of a sitcom the other day. I googled it and it's true

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"That the holes in pan handles are to hold your spoon...... I mean, who knew?

And you know spaghetti spoons with the jagged edges, The hole in the middle is meant to be the perfect portion size spaghetti. "

My spaghetti things have several holes for one , two , three , four portions etc......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"That the holes in pan handles are to hold your spoon...... I mean, who knew?

And you know spaghetti spoons with the jagged edges, The hole in the middle is meant to be the perfect portion size spaghetti.

My spaghetti things have several holes for one , two , three , four portions etc......"

You must have a very posh spoon Granny because my spoon only has one whole.

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By *acDreamyMan
over a year ago

Wirral

"Brazil nuts can be sexually transmitted and could kill someone with a nut allergy x "

And aren't actually nuts!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Most shark attacks happen in water x

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"Most shark attacks happen in water x "

This is excellent news

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Carrots were originally purple

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Brazil nuts can be sexually transmitted and could kill someone with a nut allergy x

And aren't actually nuts! "

Why call then nuts then.Are they tree testicles x

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Eating ice cream results in drowning

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"Brazil nuts can be sexually transmitted and could kill someone with a nut allergy x

And aren't actually nuts!

Why call then nuts then.Are they tree testicles x "

Sharks teeth

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bananas aren’t actually banana’s at all, they are a nut or a seed.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My Blobby Invented angel delight after accidentally discovering it during a intimate sexual act x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The left and right edges of Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa match perfectly. So if it was on canvas instead of wood and curled into a tube it would be a seamless image.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Most shark attacks happen in water x "

I’m more concerned about the attacks that happen out of water. How does this happen

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The arrow underneath/next to your petrol gauge points to the side your petrol cap is on!

20 years of driving before I found that out!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

...keeping with boxing.

No to The Nookie

When Mike Tyson was a young, up-and-comer, he was one of the most feared heavyweight challengers the boxing world has ever boasted. At a compact 5’10”, he was quick enough to get inside on his typically larger opponents, and wreak physical havoc to devastating results. If a fight early in Mike Tyson’s career didn’t end with a KO or TKO, it was a shocker. He was, as they say, a bad man. Where did Mike get all of his punching power? According to the man himself, it was from abstaining from sex for five years. He felt that getting it on in the bedroom, before getting it on in the ring made a boxer weak and unfocused. If there’s any comparing his early career from his later career with more than a few sexual misgivings, there is something to be said about denying the nookie. Many boxers believe it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's not illegal to turn the millage back on a car but it is illegal if you don't tell someone when you come to sell it. Lol as if they would.

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By *acDreamyMan
over a year ago

Wirral

"Brazil nuts can be sexually transmitted and could kill someone with a nut allergy x

And aren't actually nuts!

Why call then nuts then.Are they tree testicles x "

It's a stupid QI type fact. Nut has a specific botanical definition. Other nuts that aren't nuts include peanuts, cashews, almonds, and even walnuts!

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

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It is illegal to eat Mince Pies on Christmas Day

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jeff Daniels only earned $50.000 for his role in Dumber and Dumber.

Jim Carrey earned $7million.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It is impossible to lick your own elbow.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"That the holes in pan handles are to hold your spoon...... I mean, who knew?

I just learned this .... FAKE NEWS...... they are to hang your pan up. "

I do both!

I stick the wooden spoon in the hole when I'm cooking.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There’s a hook to place your petrol cap (on the inside of the petrol cover )when filling the car with petrol, as opposed to faffing around with the pump and the cap and usually bank card

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Most shark attacks happen in water x

I’m more concerned about the attacks that happen out of water. How does this happen"

You need to watch the film Sharknado!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All iPhone users. When you type a message and need to correct a error back in the midst of all the words. Hold the space bar, and slide to that little error...

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By *imbobaMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

"That the holes in pan handles are to hold your spoon...... I mean, who knew?

I just learned this .... FAKE NEWS...... they are to hang your pan up. "

I thought this too but did check to see if my utensils fitted.

They don’t. Tried and tested.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"That the holes in pan handles are to hold your spoon...... I mean, who knew?

I just learned this .... FAKE NEWS...... they are to hang your pan up.

I thought this too but did check to see if my utensils fitted.

They don’t. Tried and tested.

You my good man are a fucking scientist !

Don't let anyone tell you anything different.

I'm going to do a test with my pans now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The numbers by the toaster dial represent minutes and not toastyness

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The numbers by the toaster dial represent minutes and not toastyness

Haha well I guess you could say it does both

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By *rder66Man
over a year ago

Tatooine

The shpe of your thunb is the same shape as the head of your cock.

Lets see who has a look.

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By *azkinsWoman
over a year ago

leeds

From your wrist to the inside of your elbow is how big your feet are.

Your gonna try it aren't you?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

The sun is 400 times bigger then the moon...the moon is 400 times closer to earth...thus making them look the same size....

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By *indergirlWoman
over a year ago

somewhere, someplace

"Newborn baby girls can have period.

It really shocked me when I heard it in an episode of a sitcom the other day. I googled it and it's true

It is, it completely freaked my ex out when he was doing the nappy changes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Didn't learn recently but it's my favourite factoid.

If you removed all the space between all the atoms in every living human the remaining solid matter would be the size of an average apple.

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By *oxyVikingCouple
over a year ago

East Anglia

"It is impossible to lick your own elbow. "

Our daughter can do this!! It looks absolutely ridiculous though. Freya

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Brazil nuts can be sexually transmitted and could kill someone with a nut allergy x

And aren't actually nuts!

Why call then nuts then.Are they tree testicles x

It's a stupid QI type fact. Nut has a specific botanical definition. Other nuts that aren't nuts include peanuts, cashews, almonds, and even walnuts! "

so what are the real nuts then? the only others i can think of are pistachio or monkey nuts

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln

The numbers on a toaster are the number of minutes to toast the bread... not some arbitrary "brown-ness" scale

LvM

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By *acDreamyMan
over a year ago

Wirral

"Brazil nuts can be sexually transmitted and could kill someone with a nut allergy x

And aren't actually nuts!

Why call then nuts then.Are they tree testicles x

It's a stupid QI type fact. Nut has a specific botanical definition. Other nuts that aren't nuts include peanuts, cashews, almonds, and even walnuts!

so what are the real nuts then? the only others i can think of are pistachio or monkey nuts "

Hazelnuts and chestnuts

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The numbers on a toaster are the number of minutes to toast the bread... not some arbitrary "brown-ness" scale

LvM"

Surely they are one and the same.

More minutes=Browner toast, less minutes=less brown

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln

"The numbers on a toaster are the number of minutes to toast the bread... not some arbitrary "brown-ness" scale

LvM

Surely they are one and the same.

More minutes=Browner toast, less minutes=less brown"

My god

You're right you know.

LvM

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"Most shark attacks happen in water x

I’m more concerned about the attacks that happen out of water. How does this happen"

I would assume, that some attacks could be in the boat or on the water's edge when being hauled in.

Embryonic sharks can and do eat their unborn siblings or unfertilised eggs.

Other shark facts, some 60% Viviparous sharks, that have live births. The other 40% are in the Ovoparity

Thanks to thoughtco for those factoids

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln

"Newborn baby girls can have period.

It really shocked me when I heard it in an episode of a sitcom the other day. I googled it and it's true

It is, it completely freaked my ex out when he was doing the nappy changes "

I asked my mum if me or my sister had period when we were born and she was like: "If you had what?

" apparently neither of us had it and she has never heard of it before either

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Newborn baby girls can have period.

It really shocked me when I heard it in an episode of a sitcom the other day. I googled it and it's true

It is, it completely freaked my ex out when he was doing the nappy changes

I asked my mum if me or my sister had period when we were born and she was like: "If you had what?

" apparently neither of us had it and she has never heard of it before either

My daughter produced milk.

I joked she could feed herself

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All of the Covid in the world, if collected and put together, would fill half a can.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"All of the Covid in the world, if collected and put together, would fill half a can. "

Half a can of what ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"All of the Covid in the world, if collected and put together, would fill half a can.

Half a can of what ?"

A can. Can of . Coca Cola. I call it a can because it doesn’t have any Coca Cola in it but was originally designed to hold Coca Cola. But now half of it has all the Covid in the world. A can of has Coca Cola in it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"All of the Covid in the world, if collected and put together, would fill half a can.

Half a can of what ?

Ha ha “” won’t publish. So a Fanta can then.

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By *andyblokeMan
over a year ago

birmingham

"Brazil nuts can be sexually transmitted and could kill someone with a nut allergy x "
blimey i wonder if you ate one then kissed someone with the allergy that wud kill them too?

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By *partharmonyCouple
over a year ago

Ruislip

Not a recent discovery, but I was surprised to discover that Janice Long is the late Keith Chegwin's sister.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fact. I built the Pyramids in Egypt, now aliens are taking the credit smh

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By *ensualpleasures69Man
over a year ago

leeds

If a female ferret doesn’t have sex for a year she’ll die!!

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