Australia is wider than the moon. (Only found this out when having a debate at work with a colleague who loves a bit of flat earth theory!)

Southampton got £86m for finishing stone cold last in the English premiership.

Here's one:

Two's a couple; three's a crowd.

An NBA basketball court is smaller than a Premier League penalty box.

Men can't touch their ear with their elbow.

Interesting AND amazing - the guy rescued at 28,000ft carried off the mountain on a sherpa's back - that's phenomenal BTW - watch the vid...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-65773723

comment by Melbourne Red (U5417)
posted 1 minute ago
An NBA basketball court is smaller than a Premier League penalty box.
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Are premier league penalty boxes superior to anyone else's?

Danny Baker created/invented the original 606.

Talking of Danny Baker, it was on his podcast with Gary Lineker that I found out about the Dali/Chupa Chups fact.

comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Melbourne Red (U5417)
posted 1 minute ago
An NBA basketball court is smaller than a Premier League penalty box.
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Are premier league penalty boxes superior to anyone else's?
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Well it's a professiona, regulation sized penalty box...

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 4 minutes ago
Men can't touch their ear with their elbow.
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Well, I just hacked my arm off and did it so how stupid do you feel now?

Three types of animals don’t have blood or any sort of analogue: flatworms, nematodes and the family of animals including jellyfish and corals.

Some others, like spiders, have something similar to blood called haemolymph, which is still pumped around by a heart, but fills the animal’s body cavity rather than flowing around a circulatory system.

The key difference between haemolymph and blood is that haemolymph doesn’t carry anything like haemoglobin, meaning that it isn’t responsible for working with a respiratory system to transport oxygen around the body. Instead, spiders breathe (or perform gas exchange) through the skin around their bodies.

And when you flush a spider down the toilet () it can survive despite the fact that spiders are unable to breathe in water. Why? Because spiders are able to use residual oxygen in tiny pockets of air which have been trapped between their hairs when dunked in water, kind of like a scuba diver using an oxygen tank, absorbing the O2 before expelling CO2 the same way. Pretty cool.

(But pls do not flush spiders down the toilet, thx.)

comment by Melbourne Red (U5417)
posted 7 minutes ago
An NBA basketball court is smaller than a Premier League penalty box.
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Lazy cants.

comment by Melbourne Red (U5417)
posted 2 minutes ago
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Had to look that up as it seemed so ridiculous, NBA court is narrower but it's a lot longer and is a lot larger by area

Japan has over 200 flavours of Kit Kats
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Japan has over 300 flavours of Kit Kats

comment by Clever - son son son - 'Ten Haaaagendas please' of the year Runner Up 2021 (U18599)
posted 35 minutes ago
Australia is wider than the moon. (Only found this out when having a debate at work with a colleague who loves a bit of flat earth theory!)
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When the moon is overhead you weigh a little less than you do when it isn't

John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth president of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845.

He still has one living grandson:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Ruffin_Tyler

comment by ☼ Great_Red_Shark ☼ (U1711)
posted 3 hours, 47 minutes ago
Japan has over 200 flavours of Kit Kats
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Japan has over 300 flavours of Kit Kats
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Both correct

comment by Two Balls, One Saka (U19684)
posted 4 hours, 43 minutes ago
comment by Melbourne Red (U5417)
posted 2 minutes ago
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Had to look that up as it seemed so ridiculous, NBA court is narrower but it's a lot longer and is a lot larger by area
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I was referring to the 18 yard box. It’s smaller. Almost. As wide but not as long.

https://twitter.com/JohannWindt/status/1564805891278667777

comment by Melbourne Red (U5417)
posted 24 minutes ago
comment by Two Balls, One Saka (U19684)
posted 4 hours, 43 minutes ago
comment by Melbourne Red (U5417)
posted 2 minutes ago
An NBA basketball court is smaller than a Premier League penalty box.
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Had to look that up as it seemed so ridiculous, NBA court is narrower but it's a lot longer and is a lot larger by area
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I was referring to the 18 yard box. It’s smaller. Almost. As wide but not as long.

https://twitter.com/JohannWindt/status/1564805891278667777
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Yeah sorry I'm really confused now, not sure what measurements I found earlier but found these just now (along with your link)
Football, penalty box 40.2m by 16.5m
NBA court 28.7m by 15.2 m

Much smaller!

There are 13 countries on the Equator -São Tomé and Principe, Gabon,
Republic of the Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda,
Kenya, Somalia, Maldives, Indonesia, Kiribati, Ecuador, Colombia, and
Brazil.

A horse has 4000 teeth.

Pele's mother is still living at the age of 100.

Here’s one I just learnt.

The KFC official Twitter page just follows 11 people. 6 of them are random men whose names all start with Herb and the remaining 5 are each of the individual Spice Girls.

So just herbs and spices. Genius.