Funny and the only truly respectable option.3.) Ever since high school, I’ve had multiple people tell me I look like Anne Hathaway. Insist there’s nothing interesting about you at all. The eeriest prediction you made that later came true (or at least partly true).Ģ8. The ONE feature you’d add to Instagram, if you were put in charge of that.Ģ7. What you did on your last ‘normal day’ pre-Covid.Ģ6. The first concert you attended as a teenager (generally gets at least a few nostalgia laughs).Ģ5. The animal you’d be if you knew you’d be reincarnated as an animal.Ģ4. The amount of prepping you’ve done for the end of the world/your strategy in the zombie apocalpyse.Ģ3. The trick here is to pick one that’s long enough to be notable, but not so long you’ll be asked to demonstrate.Ģ2.
#3 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ME MOVIE#
A poem or song or scene from a movie that you’ve memorized.
#3 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ME FREE#
Like, say, you and your friend dressed up, stood in line, and were rewarded with free Black Eyed Peas tickets from a local radio station.Ģ1. People love to commiserate about travel delays.Ģ0. 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 ever had.ġ7. (Probably don’t pick one that’s NSFW.)ġ6. Some apps organize your data for you, so you might 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, Fresh-Prince of Bel-Air, and people will be like “ha, same!” and never think of it again. Your high-school superlative.* (*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” might 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. 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 25 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) wasn’t scary enough, 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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