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Every now and then, one is forced to interact with new people, be it at work or perhaps in a classroom. Most humans, even if pretty sociable, tend to struggle at making conversations immediately. Fortunately, humanity has put together a somewhat helpful method to end the awkwardness, the dramatically-named ice breaker.
Someone asked “What’s the ‘fun fact’ you use during ice breakers?” and people share their go-to piece of information. So get comfortable as you read through, upvote and perhaps save your favorite facts and be sure to add your own thoughts and examples in the comments section below.

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression I was stationed at South Pole in December of 2015. At station midnight on Dec 31st, I went out to the geographic pole marker alone. Because of this, I like to tell people I was the first person to reach the South Pole in 2016….

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression Whenever my daughter has to tell a “fun fact” on the first day of school she says she was named after Thomas Jefferson. He was named a long time ago and she was named after him.

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression Over 99% of German Shepards are dogs.

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression Platpuses are not only mammals that lay eggs and have venom, but they also make milk without having nipples. They sweat the milk out of their belly and make a bowl shape for their babies to lap it up.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because they make eggs and milk they can make there own custard

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression Baby elephants suck their trunks.

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression the papal conclave (the vote thingy to decide who’s pope) in 1294 took so long that some hermit dude named Pietro sent a letter telling the cardinals to hurry the f**k up or God is gonna smite their holy a**es. The cardinals (who were also lowkey fed up of fighting between themselves) were like ‘ok then, you should be Pope. We shall now call you Celestine the Fifth.’ And Pietro was like ‘oh s**t’. He ran away. The other cardinals were like ‘no, Celestine, don’t do that,’ and crowned him. Pietro spent a few months then made a decree saying ‘popes can resign, also stop calling me Celestine for f***s sake’ then ran away. then the cardinals threw him in prison and he died. Poor bastard.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, ran back to be a hermit, not a prisoner if I recall, but it was in territory that the Papal States f******* hated, so he was safer as long as he didn't leave, so little more than a prisoner.

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#7

This is a limerick.

(12+144+20+3×√4)/7 + 5×11 = 9² + 0

If you're having trouble, it can also be written in English.

"A dozen, a gross, and a score
Plus three times the square root of four
Divided by seven
Plus five times eleven
Is nine squared, and not a bit more."

And yes, it does actually work out correctly.

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression The inventor of match.com's wife left him for someone she met on match.com.

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#9

More of a rhetorical question:

Who’s the evil bastard who put an “s” in the word LISP?

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression Due to the shape of the North American elk's esophagus, even if it could speak, it could not pronounce the word lasagna.

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression Virtually all honey found in stores has been diluted with corn syrup, and is one of the biggest agricultural scams of all time. And all the "big brand" honey comes from India, and average 10% corn syrup.

It's been that way for years, but it's only recently gotten enough traction for the US govt. to start investigating.

Always buy your honey from a guy with a bee suit.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Luckily the EU has regulations for that kind of thing

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Wholesome fact: Male mantises mate for life.

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I was a witness on an episode of Judge Judy. I had some pretty awful neighbors and a very kind landlord, so I came along to be a witness to their property destruction and d**g use.

They ended up cutting the few things I said, so I got the full experience and none of the notoriety. Judy is a lot shorter than she looks on TV btw.

Edit: It's season 22, episode 198 for anyone who wants to check it out. "Hazmat Clean-Up, D**g Use, and the Police?!". I'm the nervous looking white guy sitting behind the old white guy landlord.

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Your chances of getting struck by lighting on the way to get a lotto ticket are better than you winning the lotto.

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression One time I plugged a USB cable in correctly on the first try.

Edit: I am 100% lying. This never happened but it’s my go to fact to get a laugh. Then I say I like dogs or something like that.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The odds of plugging it in correctly should be 50/50 going in blind, but actually it is .00013 percent. And the odds that you will have to flip it back over because you had it right the first time are roughly 99.045 percent.

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression The government is hiding a billion pounds of cheese in a cave in Missouri.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can I have the directions for that please, asking for a friend

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression The average cloud weighs a million pounds.

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression Chances of getting dismembered and devoured by a total stranger are rare, so why not come over to my place and let me show you my trophy collection.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I picked up a hitchhiker and after he settled in, he asked me, " aren't you worried about me being a serial killer?". I told him, "the likelihood of two serial killers being in the same car is statistically improbable".

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression I have 120+ first cousins.

Answering a couple questions...

These are direct first cousins.

The older siblings had 10-14 kids each. The younger seem to have figured out either birth control or self control.

My mom and her siblings all had the same mom and dad.

My dad and his siblings all had the same mom and dad.

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression The Eiffel Tower can grow six inches in the summer sun.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The same sun have no effects on men, do not try this at home.

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression I start talking about sleep apnea, then I call my cpap mask a strap on.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had sleep apnea, but I couldn't sleep with a cpap mask on. (Not discomfort, purely psychological.) So I cured the sleep apnea by losing 75 pounds instead. That never would have happened if the mask had worked for me.

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The world's largest tire manufacturer is Lego.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Really? Why would Lego manufacture the world's largest tire?

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression So if you are at dinner, and there is a bottle of A1 sauce on the table. Look at the label, on the front it states "Est. 1862." 1862 was the bloodiest year of the American Civil War. Somebody out there in the middle of the war was like you know what we need right now? Some STEAK SAUCE!

*this is from a comedian but I can't remember who. so props to that guy for noticing because it's hilarious.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Americans had nothing to do with A1 Sauce, it comes from the UK

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression Dragonflies are the most successful hunters in the animal kingdom by far. They are the only animals, other than humans, that will plot an intercept course to catch their prey, rather than just chase them down.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nope, some birds of prey and fishes also intercept their prey, but indeed dragonflies are extremely successful hunters

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression Cold coffee and warm beer have the same temperature.

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression Due to the Migratory Bird Act, it is generally more illegal to own bird bones than it is to own human bones.

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7 years ago I became an ordained minister for the sole purpose of having a "fun fact". I've not used my ordination once.

In 3 weeks I'm the officiant for my sister's wedding.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am a card carrying ordained Minister in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Since 2019. And “yes”, I have an actual card.

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression Lawrence Sperry - the man who invented autopilot for the airplane - also invented the mile high club.

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression The Dutch once did a genocide so they'd have a nutmeg monopoly. It used to be worth more than gold. Now every household has some that's often forgotten somewhere in our spice cabinet.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not in our household. Essential in mash potatoes. (but donot overdo)

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Gary Numan is a couple of weeks older than Gary Oldman.

Also Ryan Adams and Bryan Adams share the same birthday.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

and John Kennedy's secretary had the last name Lincoln ... and Lincoln's secretary had the last name Kennedy ... and both were assonated

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression John Wilkes Booth's brother saved Abraham Lincoln's son's life a few weeks before the Lincoln assassination.

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In Great Britain from the 1500s until 1901 there was a position in the royal household of official royal buttwiper. It was a Knighted position. Amongst all of the knights who had fought many battles there was that one guy whose sole function was to wipe the Kings a*s every day.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was actually a very honoured position that showed a very high level of trust as the groom of the stool was one of the only people to be allowed to be unattended with the king. As well as being responsible for the king's toilet they were a confidante and advisor as well as one of the most powerful nobles at court.

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression The largest icebreakers in the world are nuclear powered, and in 1977 one of them broke its way though the arctic ice all the way to the North Pole.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can have a trip to north pole with this very same pictured ship, which has been renewated if not like an all amenities cruise line, with a decent comfortable living spaces. Im going as soon as it will be possible. https://www.viaggiavventurenelmondo.it/viaggi/0653

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can enjoy it for me, I hate the cold and couldn't imagine going to either of the poles.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds very wasteful and damaging to the valuable arctic ice.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not really. You can't really damage the ice, once you have broken through it, it re-freezes behind the ship. The Ice isn't static at all, it is constantly moving and being broken up by the sea swells and refreezing into floes again. You can actually see in the picture where different pieces of ice with different thicknesses have broken and frozen to other pieces.

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>"Well, Pac-man was originally called Puck-man. They changed it because.. Not because Pac-man looks like a hockey puck. "Paku Paku" means "flap your mouth", and they were worried that people would change, scratch out the P turn it into an F, like..".

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With the character Will Smith in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Will is short for William.

But with the actor Will Smith, Will is short for Willard.

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My grandfather used to take over the machinist work station for the guy believed to be The Boston Strangler at the end of his shift.

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30 Fun Ice Breaker Facts People Use For A Lasting Impression The suffix “wich” is an Anglo-Saxon word meaning “place that has salt.” English towns with the suffix used to be salt producers.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, it isn't. 'wich', 'wyck' and 'wick' all derive from the Anglo-Saxon 'wīc', a generic word with several meanings such as fortified place or dwelling, town, village, farm, among others. It wasn't until the eleventh century that it came to be associated with salt production, and that was to do with the buildings associated with the salt pits rather than for the salt. There are many -wich', '-wyck' and '-wick' towns and cities in England, but only four of them have historic connections to salt.

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The speed record for fastest radio controlled [ed: model] plane is 908kph / 564 mph.

And it's held by a glider.

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The human brain named itself.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The brain and all of its neighborly body components. Couldn't have seen the brain without eyes.

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To help understand money amounts...a million seconds is roughly 9 days. A billion is 32 years.....Years!!

Edit: it's actually 11 days as I was corrected, but I think the huge difference between the two is still understood.

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I know what it sounds like for an airplane you’re in to completely lose power 5k feet above the ground.

Edit: grammar.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Me too. I have flown powered gliders numerous times and 5000 feet is typically when you cut the engine. It is also the usual height at which you release from the tug aircraft.

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As a bartender, I had a regular who would send a corn dog (cheapest item on our menu, food or drink) to cute girls at the other end of the bar. If they ate the corn dog, he had an opener. If they rejected the corn dog, he knew they sucked and he was only out $2.50.

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Your bellybutton is your original mouth.

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Lightning McQueen’s real name is Montgomery.

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I just ask "how many Wu-Tang Clan members can you name".

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ghost face killer, red, method man and ol dirty bastard all I know

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