What's your favourite random fact?

Holly_Scope

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1072319#Comment_1072319

I sure hope so! 😅

OverlyAnxious

I recently learnt that the word for night in many languages is just the letter N followed by the letters of their word for number 8. Can't believe I'd never noticed or been made aware of it before! 😮

English - N+Eight - Night
French - N+Huit - Nuit
German - N+Acht - Nacht
Italian - N+Otto - Notte
Spanish - N+Ocho - Noche

Albus_Scope

That's actually blown my tiny little mind @OverlyAnxious 🤯

Rachel_Scope

Animals can be allergic to humans!

kc1978

That the human body contains a blood vessels which have a total combined length of nearly 100,000 miles enough to circumnavigate the earth at the equator 4 times.

And

Humans are the only species known to blush in social situations.

Finally

Although not visible by the **** eye humans have a faint bioluminescent glow.

Wibbles

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1072312#Comment_1072312

Tortoises live even longer - up to 250 years - perhaps Turtles should away from water, if they want a long life !

Albus_Scope

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1072464#Comment_1072464

Those are some fab facts, I love learning! Thanks @kc1978 😁

MW123

Nature inspired Velcro, after a walk, an engineer noticed burrs stuck in his dog’s coat, and the blueprint for Velcro was born.

Albus_Scope

I think that's a great reason to get out into nature more @MW123 we may discover the next big thing!

durhamjaide2001

leopard poo smells like popcorn

Albus_Scope

I have suddenly gone off popcorn. 😆

durhamjaide2001

I'm so sorry