What's your favourite random fact?

Albus_Scope
Albus_Scope Posts: 11,423 Scope Online Community Coordinator
in Coffee lounge

I don't know about you, but I love silly little facts that are of no use to anyone, unless you're in a pub quiz. So I thought it could be fun for us all to share random facts that we've recently found out.

For instance, I found out today that octupi prefer to use different "arms" for different tasks. So they may only use one arm to hold a jar and another to open it.

I wonder if they use a a specific one to scratch their noses? šŸ¤”

So over to you, lovely community. Let's get a mega list of potentially useless facts!

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  • NeuroEve
    NeuroEve Online Community Member Posts: 93 Contributor

    My fun fact for this week was that a group of zebras are called a dazzle, useless but I liked it.

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 15,375 Championing

    Oranges can be green.

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 3,211 Championing

    You only live once

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 11,423 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    All excellent random facts, keep them coming folks!

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 2,118 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    A termite queen lays 1 egg every 3 seconds, 24 hours a day, for 25 YEARS.

    Iā€™ll let someone else do the maths šŸ˜‚

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,286 Championing

    The formula for WD-40 was never patented. A patent mandated publicly disclosing the list of ingredients for 25 years of sole legal rights over its use, after which anyone was free to copy it. The Rocket Chemical Company realised it would be difficult to ascertain the makeup via analysis, so opted to take the risk in order to keep the recipe a secret. It paid off!!

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 11,423 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Nice! Loving that one @Rachel_Scope

    Film fact for you. Did you know James Cameron based the alien queen in Aliens on a termite queen?

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 2,118 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    @Albus_Scope I did not know that! Iā€™m going to search for more random facts. I love them so much šŸ˜‚

    @Bluebell21 The fact that oranges can be green confused my brain a bit!

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 11,423 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Oh wow, that'll be me doing a deep dive into WD-40 later then @66Mustang

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,286 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1072270#Comment_1072270

    Not literally I hope??? šŸ«Ÿ

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 11,423 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    I expect a warm bath of WD-40 may be quite relaxing. šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 3,211 Championing

    Life's to short to worry

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,286 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1072274#Comment_1072274

    I once saw someone had left a bottle of WD-40 in the pharmacy section of a supermarket, among the cod liver oil and other lubricants

    I know people often leave stuff they've changed their mind about, bit it made me laugh, it can't have been by accident šŸ˜†

  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,896 Championing
    edited October 3

    2000 + uses for WD40

    https://www.datocms-assets.com/10845/1562642906-wd402000usesupdatedjan2017.pdf
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,286 Championing

    @Wibbles

    It's definitely a good thing to have

    I was once told that: for any single job, there's always a better product; but if you can only have one oil in your toolbox, it can can do almost anything to a decent standard

  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,896 Championing
    edited October 3

    Apart from bike chains - standard WD40 does more harm than good - it strips off oil/lubricant rather than lubricating ā€¦.. it is a cleaner !

  • vikingqueen
    vikingqueen Scope Member Posts: 1,870 Championing

    And WD-40 is short for

    Water displacement 40th attempt.

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 11,423 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    I'm learning so much from you lovely lot. This is great. šŸ˜

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 4,155 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Turtles can live up to around 150 years šŸ¢

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 11,423 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Even the teenage mutant hero ones @Holly_Scope ?

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