In last week’s Ping! competition, for your chance to win an Uber Eats voucher, we asked you to share your favourite fact. There were so many great answers, we just had to share a whole lot of them here.

Disclaimer: We have not “Fact Check” these:

• Wombats pass cube shaped poo.
• The cheesiest pizza ever had 154 varieties of cheese.
• Dogs thing fetch is a game that you made up for you and them, and they love you for it.
• The only king in a deck of cards WITHOUT a mustache is the king of hearts.
• It’s illegal to own just one guinea pig in Switzerland because they get lonely.
• A useless fact about our mascot the duck is that most male ducks are relatively silent and it is only the female that ‘quacks’.
• Many oranges are actually green
• Gnurr is the name of lint and stuff that collects in clothes
• The gestational period for a manatee is 12mnths.
• The capital of Brazil is Brasilia, not Rio.
• crocodiles are colourblind
• Kangaroos can’t jump or walk backwards
• Frogs need to blink in order to be able to swallow
• It takes 22 hours to drive from Adelaide to Byron Bay.
• France has a placed called Y
• It’s impossible to crack an egg when holding it in a closed fist
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is ‘screeched’.
• i don’t think there is any useless thing in the world
• You can fit inside a blue whales artery but if it tried to swallow you it would choke.
• borborygmi is the scientific word for describing the rumbles/gurgles your stomach makes throughout the day
• ‘Tiramisu’ means ‘pick me up’ in Italian.
• Ducks feet can’t feel the cold.
• The “Hundred Years’ War” lasted 116 years (1337-1453).
• You can only milk camels if their baby is drinking from them.
• No number from 1 to 999 includes the letter “a” in its word form.
• Carrot juice is technically orange juice…
• If you uncoiled all of the DNA in an average human body, it would be long enough to stretch from the Sun to Pluto and back 17 times 🙂
• It’s a leap year when the year is divisible by 4. But not when it’s divisible by 100. But….if it’s divisible by 4 AND 400, then it’s back to being a leap year!
• That you can’t lick your own elbow
• your ears never stop growing
• Elephant seals make fart noises with their noses
• Ancient Roman law dictates that if you call someone to witness and they refuse to show up to court, you are legally entitled to stand outside their house and scream at them for the duration of the day, but only every third day. Also, anyone who attends court as a witness but is found to have provided false information will be bound at the hands and feet and hurled off a steep cliff.
• Pavlova the dessert is named after a Russian Ballerina.
• You can eat every part of the dandelion.
• You breathe out of one nostril and it swaps throughout the day.
• Your fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand.
• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
• The panda is more closely related to a racoon than a bear.
• The word “school” is Greek for “free time”.
• All the roads change names at king william road because no one can cross the king
• Male ducks have corkscrew penises for locking into females during sex, however if a female duck does not want to fall pregnant with that male she can store his sperm down a ‘dead end’ and dispose of it later
• Ducks and puffins can swim and fly – not many other animals can do that!
• rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
• The word nerd was invented by Dr Seuss
• On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.
• some lions mate over 50 times daily
• Mummies were once used to power steam trains
• Horses and Cows sleep while standing up
• The opposite sides of a die will always add up to seven
• Edgar Allan Poe married his 13 year-old cousin when he was 27 😮
• The term that describes an irrational fear of palindromes is a palindrome! (aibohphobia)
• turtles can breathe with their bums
• Carrots are orange because the Dutch selectively bred them for their Queen.
• More than two-thirds of millennials sleep nude
• A group of hippos is called a “bloat”.
• snakes can see through their eyelids
• We drive on the left from when people rode horses, and because they were mostly right-handed they wanted the other person on their right to stab them. It just stuck when people started driving cars
• The city of Los Angele’s full name name is : El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula
• Pogonophobia is a fear of beards!
• being useless is a useless fact
• The King of Hearts is the only king in a deck of cards without a mustache.
• Mulan has the highest kill count of any Disney character!
• Stretching and yawning at the same time is called pandiculating
• Honey does not spoil. You could feasibly eat 3000 year old honey.
• Cuttlefish have three hearts, pump blue-green blood and have W shaped irises.
• The opposite sides of dice will always add up to 7
• Possum fur is hollow
• You can fold any piece of paper a maximum of 7 times
• The Eastern roman empire fell in 1453
• Playing dance music can help ward off mosquitoes
• Common sense is not very common
• a group of jellyfish is called a “smack”
• Hyena’s are more sucessful hunters than Lions and the hunters are females.
• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes 😮
• You can get a cow to walk upstairs, but not back down
• dot above i and j is known as tittle
• Japan has square watermelons
• Babies are born without kneecaps
• There’s a type of tea that used to be picked exclusively by virgins using golden scissors (the tea is called silver needles, and is a delightful light white tea blend! It’s no longer picked exclusively by virgins with golden scissors, but is still a very rare and expensive white tea)
• The paper circle punched out with a hole punch is called a ‘chad’
• The opposite sides of a die will always add up to seven
• There is only one stop sign in all of Paris.
• The loop on your belt is called the ‘keeper’
• Did you know that sharks are the only fish that blink with both eyes!
• Your fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand.
• Theres more possible ways to win a chess game than known atoms in the universe!
• himalayan salt is pink because of ferrous oxide
• Pogonophobia is the fear of beards
• Koala fingerprints look the same as human fingerprints
• Japan has the most vending machine.
• red light means stop
• Octopuses have three hearts.
• Have nothing to do
• You can’t sneeze with your eyes open
• Elephants can move their skin to crush mosquitoes between their rolls!
• The lint in the bottom of your pocket is called gnurr. ><
• Your feet grows bigger throughout the day
• Every time you lick a stamp you consume 0.1 calories!
• There’s a university in UTAH where you have to get a GP note to grow a bread because of the dress code (must be for acting or medical purposes)
• The opposite sides of a dice will always add up to seven.
• Kangaroos cant jump backwards
• Cats can’t taste sweet things because of a genetic defect.
• There’s a town in Newfoundland in Canada called Dildo.
• That the word ‘vaccine’ actually stems from ‘vacca’, which is Latin for cow; cause they used cowpox in this way against smallpox
• some children don’t grow knee caps until they are six years old!!! what
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
• The dot above the letters ‘i’ and ‘j’ is called a ‘tittle’
• A group of hippos is called a bloat
• 11 people have been born in Antarctica
• a dog can get pregnant twice in the same heat cycle, & it can be by 2 different dogs.
• The word “SWIMS” is still “SWIMS” when turned upside down.
• William the Conqueror was so fat upon death that his body burst
• A single teaspoon of honey represents the life work of 12 bees
• Camels have three eyelids to protect their eyes from sand blowing in the desert wind!
• Cats can’t taste sweet things because of a genetic defect.
• the opposite sides of a die will always add up to 7
• slugs have 4 noses
• The King of Hearts is the only king in a deck of cards without a mustache
• A tittle is the name of the dot you make on lowercase i and j: it’s a combination of tiny and little!
• Coke would be green if food coluring wasn’t added to it. EWWW!
• There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world!
• when hippos are upset their sweat turns red
• A “jiffy” is an actual scientific unit of time.
• Penguin poop has laughing gas.
• The fingerprints of koalas are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans
• Turtles breathe out of their butts!!
• The number eight is just the number zero with a belt on
• The small plastic or metal covering on each end of a shoelace is called an aglet.
• Newborns can breathe and swallow at the same time up to 7 months
• cows kill more people than sharks
• A Greek-Canadian man invented the “Hawaiian” pizza.
• Humans have fewer chromosomes than potatoes
• If you plug your nose, you can’t tell the difference between an apple, a potato, and an onion.
• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
• you burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV
• The only reason the character Spawn has a cape is because Todd McFarlane can’t draw feet, so he drew a really long cape to cover them up!
• There is a city called “Rome” on every continent except Antarctica
• My housemate and I live in the same apartment
• That no words rhyme with purple
• That dance music has been proven to scare away mosquitoes.
• the opposite sides of a die will always add up to 7!
• a group of flamingos is called a ‘flamboyance’ of flamingos
• The Cookie Monster’s real name is Sid
• The ideal height for you to drop your buttered toast from if you want it to land butter side up is eight feet.
• The average driver will spend 2 hours and 15 mins in their car kissing in a lifetime
• It takes more calories to eat a stick of celery, than it actually contains.
• A venus day is longer than a venus year.
• The tapir has the largest penis in relation to body size of any animal.
• A ducks quack doesn’t echo… they are yet to figure out why
• Elephants use their fat rolls to kill mosquitos.
• Golf balls tend to have 336 “dimples”
• The fear of long words is ‘Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia’
• the superb fairy wren’s testicles are 10% of their body weight
• If you open your eyes in a pitch-black room, the color you’ll see is called “eigengrau.”
• Every persons finger print is unique
• Sea otters hold hands when sleeping on water so they don’t drift away from each other.
• No number from 1 to 999 includes the letter “a” in its word form.
• Playing dance music can help ward off mosquitoes.
• Cats have whiskers on their paws
• Snails can sleep up to three years.
• Microscopic tardigrades have been dehydrated, exposed to the UV radiation in outer space, then returned to earth and revived to reproduce.
• nothing rhymes with purple
• you can see an owl’s eyeball through its ear
• butterflies taste through their feet!
• Ducks quacks don’t echo
• Some cats are allergic to people
• No word starts with N and ends with G periodt.
• Apple seeds contain cyanide
• Fruit are the ovaries of trees!
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
• Hippos milk is bright pink.
• If you eat your fingernails, they will grow 33% faster.
• That I love sleeping
• Snails have teeth
• Snails mate by rubbing their necks together.
• Former South Korea President MyungBak Lee uses peach colour make up foundation.
• The sound we make when we sneeze is not mandatory, as deaf people make no sound when they sneeze.
• You lose the most heat through your head
• Glenelg is the same spelt backwards.
• Grape flavoured icecream will likely never exist
• Octopuses and squid have three hearts
• My weight
• People with orange hair need 18%-20% more general anaesthetic. I checked that with some anaesthesiologists to confirm.
• Almonds are members of the peach family.
• Peanuts aren’t nuts
• Sublimation is the term describing the process of a solid turning into a gas without!!! passing through the liquid phase. Amazing!
• Playing dance music can help ward off mosquitoes
• That anywhere you are in the world, the moon is no biggee than your thumb 😉
• 30,000 rubber ducks were lost at sea in 1992
• Sebastian the crab (from Ariel) full name is Horatio Thelonius Crustatious Sebastian 🙂
• Mulan has the highest kill-count of all Disney characters
• ducks are monogamous for seasons, not for life :((
• Taste of water is its temperature
• In 2013, six people in the United States named their child “Mushroom”.
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open
• The longer word that can be made using the top row of letters on a keyboard is “TYPEWRITER” (allowing repeated letters 🙂 )
• a group of ducks is called a raft!
• They put calcium carbonate in pickle bribe to make them crunchy
• The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan
• Wombats poop is square
• oranges are not always orange
• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
• Cleopatra was alive closer to the launch of the iPhone than to the building of the Great Pyramids.
• Some ducks have up to a 10 inch corkscrew penis
• Your fingernails grow quicker than your toenails!
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
• By licking the back of a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie
• the deepest part of the ocean is the bottom
• Sea turtles sex is determined by the temperature of the sand they incubate in!
• Sloths can hold their breath for longer than dolphins
• strawberries are the only fruit with seeds on the outside
• The opposite sides of a die will always add up to seven
• You are 13.8 percent more likely to die on your birthday
• Cats can’t taste sweet things
• Can’t lick your elbow
• A greenstick fracture is not actually green
• The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
• Snails eat by licking with a rough/barbed tongue.
• In the 1960s police used to stop people who ran for exercise
• A human has fewer chromosomes than a potato.
• A strawberry is not actually a berry, but a banana is.
• The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age
• 2007 was the last year any Australian Prime Minister served a full 3-year term.
• Geese were one of the first domesticated animals (back in the Egyptian times!)
• The dots on top of the letter i and j are called ‘tittles’.
• Veins appear blue because blood carrying oxygen to different parts of the body is blue and blood full of carbon dioxide going back to the lungs for recycling is red. This is totally untrue but thanks to a useless primary school teacher I believed it for many years.
• The plastic bit on the ends of shoelaces is called an aglet.
• Otters sleep laying on their backs in rivers WHILST holding hands !!
• Carrots were originally White but were bred to be orange by artists to honour Danish Royalty
• Temper and easy to lose control
• There are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos