‘What’s your biggest claim to fame that nobody knows is yours?’ – 22 unlikely achievements that people haven’t taken the credit for

12.

‘You know video games adverts have the disclaimer of ‘not in-game footage’ or ‘captured on PC, not representative of gameplay’, etc? Me and my old senior producer are responsible for them having to be put on.’
–Space-manatee

13.

‘I’m the reason ice poles are still banned at my old primary school. I cut the top, squeezed the bottom, and it shot out and hit me in the eye cutting my eye ball and I had to go to hospital. That was 34 years ago.’
–franki-pinks

14.

‘Not me but my dad. When I was a kid, I wanted some Lego pieces that were different from the standard ones you could get back then in the 80s. My dad machined them for me at work and wrote to Lego about them with samples. Never heard back, but a few years later they were making them.’
–KatVanWall

15.

‘Not me but my girlfriend was one of the first people to ever play Fortnite and is technically a founder so is somewhat responsible All This Mess.’
–GrimApocrypha

16.

‘I have a definition included in Roger’s Profanisaurus. The word is ‘spreader’. I emailed it to the Viz comic before they made the collected definitions into the legendary reference book.’
–daftasamop

17.

‘Not me but one of my friends sewed the giant teabag that Heston Blumenthal used to make his giant cuppa. Also I was in the Spice Girls video for Mama but you can’t see me.’
–Embarrassed_Put_7892

18.

‘2009. At uni. One of our friends had just been to stay with his girlfriend in Stockholm. He said takeaways that delivered just didn’t exist. We came up with a business idea for a third party service to deliver food on behalf of restaurants. We all thought it was a cracking idea. We did nothing about it.

We basically came up with Deliveroo. Oh well.’
–seagulls90

19.

‘I was at college in the UK and one of my best mates asked me to come to his band rehearsals as I played keys at the time. I said I couldn’t as I had Scouts. That band is still going 30 years later, has filled stadiums, supported Lady Gaga and won numerous awards….I’m not regretting my life choices…’
–Economy-Fennel-8092

20.

‘I used to work as a reporter for a science-focused news agency. One of our Chinese freelancers got on touch in November 2019 about this weird virus that was affecting people in Wuhan. I covered the Zika epidemic before. We prepped the story and took it to our chief editor. But he rejected it as it was ‘unlikely to have international significance’.

I think I was the first western reporter to hear about Covid.’
–Zyrrus

21.

‘Not me but my parents. My dad had a music studio from the late 90’s to around 2004. My mum sang the jingle for Haribo, the ‘kids and grown ups love it so’ one.’
–HobNob_Pack

22.

‘I saw Adele on Regent Street in 2014 and said ‘Hello’. In 2015 she released the mega hit Hello. Can’t be a coincidence.’
–JCB220685

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