Please provide my with your irrelevant knowledge. Random facts you never get to use in real life, yet you memorised?

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dragonfly forty-six Profile

Sea Otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift away from each other.

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Ancient Hippy answered

There are 5,280 feet in a mile.
There are 43,560 square feet in an acre.

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Ancient Hippy
Ancient Hippy commented
1760 is 1/3 of 5280.
Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
True that. And, for the sake of those youngsters who never had to learn it, it's the number of yards above sea level an aircraft has to fly in order for its passengers to join the Mile High Club.
Ancient Hippy
Ancient Hippy commented
Oh wow, THAT I did not know.
Bikergirl Anonymous Profile

" Did you know the human head weighs 8 pounds?  "

(Factoid from the movie "Jerry Maguire")

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Kristen Storm answered

My 2 are:

A crocodile can't move it's tongue and cannot chew.

And most lipstick contains fish scales.

Didge Doo Profile
Didge Doo answered

From memory? Yeah, well, we did that at school in my day. But here's one that's more appropriate to the modern world ... Even though you might have to think about it for a bit.

There are only 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't.

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The government will allow a certain amount of insect parts, mouse and rat droppings in ground wheat / flour.

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Gena Lorainne answered

My latest one is that the corona of the sun is more than 200 times hotter than the surface of the sun and that makes no sense in physics at all -  heating stuff more than the source of the heat.
Good stuff.

Ray Dart Profile
Ray Dart answered

There are no wild honey bees in Europe. There are "escapees", but their colonies almost never survive as long as a year.  So, if you see a honey bee on your flowers, it almost certainly belongs to someone.

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