Share your interesting facts or things that you learnt recently that you didn’t expect to learn!
I’ll start:
Hippo milk is pink!
Film industry fact
The Dollys that are used to put cameras on were based on a designed to load bombs onto aircraft.
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The best before date on crisps in the UK is always a Saturday.
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is this true!? this sounds so made up 
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The Ethiopian calendar has 13 months.
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Thats so cool!
is there a reason it has 13 months?!
From theculturetrip.com:
"From the naming of the weekdays to that of the 12 months of the year, the Ethiopian calendar is greatly intertwined with biblical anecdotes. The first day of the week for instance, called Ehud , translates as ‘the first day‘ in the ancient Ge’ez language, the liturgical language of the Ethiopian church. It is meant to show that Ehud is the first day on which God started creating the heavens and the earth.
Owing to its complexity, Ethiopians call the method used to calculate the calendar Bahere Hasab, or ‘sea of thoughts’. The calendar system starts with the idea that Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden for seven years before they were expelled for their sins. After they repented, the Bible says that God promised to save them after 5,500 years.
The Ethiopian and Gregorian calendars both use the birthdate of Jesus Christ as a starting point for their calculations. The difference in the two calendars is because alternate calculations are used in determining this date. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church believes Jesus Christ was born in 7 BC, 5,500 years after God’s promise to Adam and Eve."
Incidentally, this means that Ethiopia is about 8 years behind the rest of the western world.
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Other date fact: Up until 1989, Kodak (the camera film company) used the International Fixed Calendar which has 13 months all of 28 days, whilst running their business.
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In september 1752, the world skipped a few days, and the date went from the 2nd to the 14th!
Handy, closer to payday
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You can use the word ‘and’ 5 times consecutively in a sentence and be literally correct.
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missed your birthday though 
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On commercial aircraft, above some windows, there is a black triangle. This is the best place to view the wing from, should the crew need to view the wing from inside the plane. They are called the William Shatner Seats.
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The first product to be sold with a barcode was Wrigley Gum
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Mercedes has three e’s in it and they are all pronounced differently.
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fun fact about bar codes: scanners read the white lines, not the black ones
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this is hurty to think about
Takes a few goes to get your head around it that’s for sure