10 random fun facts to have on hand at your next dinner party

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 25 random fun facts to have on hand at your next dinner party

During lock down, we found ourselves engaging in all the quizzes. We're talking easy ones, hard ones, family-friendly ones - even dedicated picture rounds and fashion quizzes. But now that restrictions are beginning to ease, we've found ourselves kind of... missing the random knowledge we were gaining from jumping on Zoom with our pals every week.

Anyone else? Yes? If you feel the same, maybe you need some random and fun trivia in your lives to fill the quizzing gap. Perfect for pulling out at your next dinner party.

  1. 1.Avocados are a fruit, not a vegetable. They're technically considered a single-seeded berry, believe it or not.
  2. 2.The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer, due to thermal expansion meaning the iron heats up, the particles gain kinetic energy and take up more space.
  3. 3. Trypophobia is the fear of closely-packed holes. Or more specifically, "an aversion to the sight of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes or bumps." No crumpets for them, then.
  4. 4.Australia is wider than the moon. The moon sits at 3400 km in diameter, while Australia’s diameter from east to west is almost 4000 km.
  5. 5.'Mellifluous' is a sound that is pleasingly smooth and musical to hear.
  6. 6.The Spice Girls were originally a band called Touch. "When we first started [with the name Touch], we were pretty bland," Mel C told The Guardian in 2018. "We felt like we had to fit into a mould."
  7. 7.Human teeth are the only part of the body which cannot heal themselves. Teeth are coated in enamel which is not a living tissue.
  8. 8.It's illegal to own just one guinea pig in Switzerland. It's considered animal abuse because they're social beings and get lonely.
  9. 9.The Ancient Romans used to drop a piece of toast into their wine for good health - hence why we 'raise a toast'.
  10. 10.The heart of a shrimp is located in its head. They also have an open circulatory system, which means they have no arteries and their organs float directly in blood

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