Tell Me A Fact

[Hopkirk]

Tell me something interesting, that I don't know.

I'll start.

On the London underground there are two separate stations, both called Edgware Road.

[chelle7272]

In China you need permission from the authorities to reincarnate https://foreignpolicy.com/2007/08/29/china-bans-unauthorized-reincarnations/

[McMouse]

Elephants can’t jump

[Khandro]

ken; //The German for contraceptive pill is antibabypille//

It's even worse for nipple: Brustwarze (breast wart) !

[Patsy33]

The Netherlands is so safe, it imports criminals to fill jails.

[THECORBYLOON]

KEN, not sure about their hearing better with one foot in the air but this explains a bit more.

https://www.kqed.org/science/1926248/how-elephants-listen-with-their-feet

[Ken4155]

"Elephants can't jump". Thought that was 'White men'. :-)

[jno]

the guidance computer on Apollo 11 had less computing power than a 2004 TI calculator

https://psmag.com/social-justice/ground-control-to-major-tim-cook

[davebro]

Mercury & Bromine are the only elements that are liquid at standard temperature & pressure.

[JimF]

"Elephants can’t jump"

And they're the only mammals with four knees.

[Patsy33]

There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world.

[Ken4155]

Led Zeppelin dropped the 'a' from 'Lead' to avoid any mispronunciation.

The Irish get through 50 beer mats per person per year.

As much Prosecco is drunk each year in the UK as the annual rainfall on Wembley Stadium.

Woodpeckers bang their heads into trees at 15mph, 12,000 times a day.

Britain exports more than 50,ooo boomerangs to Australia every year. (Wonder if any come back?)

[Patsy33]

Pope Francis used to be a nightclub bouncer..

[1ozzy]

A wombats poo is cube shaped.

If you painted the required number of dots on each face you could play craps with them.

[Khandro]

Vimto - does anyone remember it? I read;

'It was invented in Manchester in 1908, was exported to Saudi Arabia in the 1920s, where it became, and still is, a staple of Iftar, the evening meal during Ramadan.'

[Ken4155]

An ostrich has only two legs but also possesses 4 kneecaps.

[ichkeria]

You mean the stuff that's on supermarket shelves all over the UK?

Re the OP, Hammersmith is the same

[dustypuss]

You get wetter running in the rain than you would if you just walk

[goodgoalie]

...not according to this:
https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/do-you-get-wetter-if-you-run-or-walk-in-the-rain/

[Zacs-Master]

The colour orange is named after the fruit, not the other way around.

[nescio]

copper, caesium and gold are the only metallic elements which are not silver/grey in appearance