AIBU to ask you to tell me things that you learned way too late in life *lighthearted*.

The petrol gauge thing has been true on every car I've ever driven (10?).

The toast thing, I don't reckon it's always minutes but I do think it's related to time. So if yours goes 1-10 it won't be 10 minutes, but maybe every number adds half a minute or something? Mine definitely takes longer on a higher setting but I have never timed it to see if it's in whole minutes (it goes 1-5).

Wolverines are real.

Nothing to add, just bookmarking! Love this thread!

I'm 26 and was just thinking about this today. Things I've learnt so far:

1- Take care of myself first. I was a huge people pleaser. It was always about other people and being the best I could for them and doing things they wanted to because I couldn't say no.
2-don't settle for flaky friends. don't make others a priority for people who see you as an option.

3.from Maya Angelou: "when someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.". No second or 4th chances

1. love is not enough if he does not respect you. real men don't play abusive mind games or ghost you.

1. I have severe depression- it's okay that the dishes haven't been washed yet or if the clean washing hasn't been folded away and are still up 3 days later.
2. read more.

The petrol gauge thing is like the numbers on toaster (them being minutes). It comes on everytime on these threads. Neither is a universal truth (Or my toast would take AGES).

1754?! Well I never.

So the assumption that it would be visible from the moon came well before our capacity to check

I wonder where the myth came from?
The main measurement that people associate with the Great Wall of China is that it's almost 22 000 km long. They see that as a huge number, therefore it must be visible from space. They forget that it's only a few metres wide and looks like a river from space. In 1754, William Stukeley wrote, "This mighty wall of four score miles [130 km] in length is only exceeded by the Chinese Wall, which makes a considerable figure upon the terrestrial globe, and may be discerned at the Moon."
Even from low earth orbit it's almost invisible. You would need to have eyesight several times better than normal and perfect weather conditions to see it from low earth orbit.

Ilearned on here that car fuel gauges have a little arrow pointing to the fuel cap side. At my age, it's good to have a reminder.

Myth unfortunately.

My car (not exactly new) has an arrow on the fuel gauge.

I thought a bowling club was a club for ten pin bowling. I didn't realise there was another type of bowling and they played outside.

I knew Durham was a place in England but thought County Durham was in Ireland.

I think I'm acceptably intelligent; having the odd lapse of reality is what makes this thread lighthearted and funny!

I checked the petrol gauge thing in DW car - was disappointed to find no little arrow!

Couldn't really point to many US states, and didn't realise Alaska didn't join till over 30.

Stumped to think of anything light-hearted but I'd say listen to your inner voice, that gut feeling or instinct. There are times to ask advice but sometimes you must be your own counsel - the trick is to tell the difference.

NordicNobody I believe the Great Wall of China is just about visible from low earth orbit, but not from further out (for instance, the moon).

But lots of other human structures are visible from low earth orbit. Many more so than the Great Wall.

I wonder where the myth came from?

Queenoftheblitz that’s not true about marrowfat peas.

From Wikipedia (but also confirmed elsewhere)

Marrowfat peas are green mature peas that have been allowed to dry out naturally in the field, rather than be harvested whilst still young like the normal garden pea. They are used to make mushy peas[1] and also the snack food wasabi peas.[citation needed]

Marrowfat is a traditional, starchy, large-seeded variety of pea[2] (Pisum sativum var. medullare.)[3] The word was coined around 1730 from marrow + fat.[4]

Like a previous PP i was shocked when my dentist told me not to rinse after brushing. Im still getting my head around it, cos my mouth is then filled with dirty, toothpaste and all minty

Ummm.... @Punta‘s DH is mistaken. There IS a difference in cut and tailoring, which is the main reason they ask which side a man dresses. Knowing they won’t get an unexpected handful of penis is just an added bonus.

Also I bet you there are a fair few Americans who couldn't plot Florida and California correctly on a map.

Very few I would think. We start learning the states in the second grade. We might get confused by some of those in the middle that are sort of rectangular and square shaped, but we can always be counted on to know California and Florida.

Marrow fat peas are cooked in bone marrow. I always thought they were so named cos they are big.

That I’ll never look as slim and young as I did as a teenager. Also that it doesn’t matter.

I wasted time thinking I had lots of flaws and hid in baggy clothes (blame the 90s) and awful make up (heather shimmer lipstick and too thick concealer because I thought I needed to). Looking back I was quite pretty!

Learnt from MN actually, that you do not need to peel the heads and remove mushroom stalks 😫 All those wasted minutes

I learned on here that car fuel gauges have a little arrow pointing to the fuel cap side. At my age, it's good to have a reminder.

I think that's where I must have learnt it from. Making my life that much harder for myself for so many years! It's been a revelation

I recall someone saying that on a previous thread Cellardoor23. But they also confessed they were a nurse - all those ointment they must have found awkward to open!!