Random Facts no one needs to know

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The song 'Spirit In The Sky' is the only song to have reached Number one in the UK charts on three seperate occasions with three different artists recording. Starting in 1970 with Norman Greenbaum, then in 1986 with Doctor and the Medics and again in 2003 with Gareth Gates.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

There has been a church on the site of Manchester Cathedral since the Norman Conquest

North American Aviation's early 1960s XB70A which would droop its wingtips and literally surf its own shockwave while at speed had the lowest L/D ratio of any manned supersonic vehicle - even to this current date!

Not sure if anyone's said this already.

Random, pointless and rather gross:

A male dolphin's penis is prehensile, meaning it can use it like a tail to pick things up etc.



Strange that after kindergarten, primary school, high school and a little tertiary education, that's what I remember.

I shed.

80-90% of household dust is human dead skin.

A 19th-century Danish schoolmaster spent a lifetime calculating Pi to 800 decimal places. A computer checked his figures in only a few minutes... and they were correct.

You'd have thought he'd have had better things to do with his time, wouldn't you?

The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight,
arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.

Although difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos.

Two pencil tips cannot touch point to point.

WW IIs fastest airplane was Messerschmidt's 163 Komet, a rocket propelled tailless interceptor.

I weigh a healthy, jolly 210 lbs.

Atoms are filled with empty space.