What's your favourite random fact?

Albus_Scope · October 2

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? 🤔

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

NeuroEve · October 2

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

Bluebell21 · October 3

Oranges can be green.

Amberpearl · October 3

You only live once

Albus_Scope · October 3

All excellent random facts, keep them coming folks!

Rachel_Scope · October 3

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

I’ll let someone else do the maths 😂

66Mustang · October 3

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 · October 3

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 · October 3

@Albus_Scope I did not know that! I’m going to search for more random facts. I love them so much 😂

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

Albus_Scope · October 3

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

66Mustang · October 3

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1072270#Comment_1072270

Not literally I hope??? 🫟

Albus_Scope · October 3

I expect a warm bath of WD-40 may be quite relaxing. 🤷‍♂️

Amberpearl · October 3

Life's to short to worry

66Mustang · October 3

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 😆

Wibbles · October 3

2000 + uses for WD40

https://www.datocms-assets.com/10845/1562642906-wd402000usesupdatedjan2017.pdf

66Mustang · October 3

@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 · October 3

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

vikingqueen · October 3

And WD-40 is short for

Water displacement 40th attempt.

Albus_Scope · October 3

I'm learning so much from you lovely lot. This is great. 😁

Holly_Scope · October 3

Turtles can live up to around 150 years 🐢

Albus_Scope · October 3

Even the teenage mutant hero ones @Holly_Scope ?

What's your favourite random fact?

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