The longest travel delay you’ve ever experienced. The downside here: Be prepared for people to ask you to do it. The weirdest (nonsexual!!) thing you can do with your body. The most unusual/severe illness you’ve had.ġ7. (Probably don’t pick one that’s NSFW.)ġ6. Some apps organize your data for you, so you may as well use it.ġ4. An embarrassing piece of trivia from your Spotify or other music-streaming account. (For me, Roswell, New Mexico, for alien reasons.)ġ3. The trip you most want to take but haven’t yet. What your last meal on Earth would be.ġ2. IMO, this one could be considered a little risqué (like … where are they?), so you’ve got to feel out the office vibe first.ġ1. Personally, I once saw Lindsay Lohan smoking a cigarette on a stoop in downtown St. The best options here fit in the “ Totally Kind of Hot” category - not universal but niche relatable.ĩ. Like finding out narwhals are a real animal or finding the arrow in the FedEx logo.Ĩ. Something you were embarrassingly late to realize. Say something like The Office, Friends, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and people will be like “Ha, same!” and never think of it again. ( Unless you won, like, “Most Popular” or “Most Likely to Succeed.” No, thanks! Keep it to yourself!)Ħ. The first job you wanted when you were a little kid.ĥ. You don’t want to get too vulnerable here (“My biggest fear is death” may chill the room a bit), but if you’ve got a very specific, less common fear, like chipmunks or something, go with that.Ĥ.

Whether it’s old coins, stamps, or something less grandfatherly, this is a perfect “fun” fact.ģ. Your proudest atypical accomplishment: the year you made every recipe in Deb Perelman’s cookbook, the time you built an Ikea dresser in an hour flat, your Jenga title, your famous Super Bowl dip.Ģ. Here are 31 ideas and prompts you can keep in your back pocket for the next time you’re asked.ġ. The ideal fun fact is two things: (1) interesting enough to ensure nobody makes you do it over, and (2) not so interesting that everyone has lots of follow-up questions. It’s enough to be there to do the job for which you were hired.īut if you once again find yourself in a situation in which you must produce a fun fact - and you will - you might as well be prepared. Employers, especially, should not ask their employees to produce fun facts. This is a bad practice, a damning prompt. There will be nothing to say, and you’ll end up blurting out your dog’s breed, or the sport you used to play in high school, or something equally uninteresting and un-fun. Photo: artisteer/Getty Images/iStockphotoĪs if starting a new job (or joining a new group) weren’t scary enough, every so often you’ll be asked to introduce yourself by way of a “fun fact.” Inevitably at this moment, you will forget everything you’ve ever done, every place you’ve ever been, every one of your accomplishments.

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