Things that are actually pretty weird when you think about them?

Fishing. Especially catching and releasing.

That your memory is only you remembering a memory. Like a photocopy that gets diluted each time.

That the cold sore virus lives dormant and then BOOM. It decides it wants to make an appearance on your lip or nose, depending on how it’s feeling.

I'm a woman who comes from a long line of women. The line goes back centuries. If I don't have a daughter, that line stops now with me.

Oh and how funny that world maps are different depending on what country you get them from. That particular country is the one in the centre. Seems obvious but looks weird.

That we are clever apes keeping other animals as pets.
That we impregnate cows to steal their babies' milk.
And on a less grim note, writing. Drawing symbols to explain our thoughts to other people. Pretty amazing really.

Also, sexual attraction between humans.

Apparently it's all about shared values!

The most unsexy explanation!

@ZoeCM I hear you! I'll never forget talking about "the internet" with my engineer father for about an hour in the mid-90s.

After he explained at length what it was all about I said it would probably never catch on!!

The existence of the Internet still blows my mind, even though it's been around for all of my life. Anyone, anywhere in the world, can read this post within seconds of me pressing "POST MESSAGE" (assuming they have an Internet connection and can read English, obviously!). Of course, it's unlikely to be read by anyone outside the UK, but it's still a weird thought.

Got another one...

Was listening to something on the radio about the first recording of a human voice.
And when a rare recording by a famous singer (Caruso possibly??) was unearthed, it turned out to be quite disappointing.

How did people hundreds of years ago know when someone was a good singer or musician?
I mean, they probably didn't have much to compare it to.
Nowadays, we have 1000s of examples but back then, if someone rocked up to your village and who was a 'celebrated' performer, you might have to take their word for it as you had no other point of reference. Same for dancers or acrobats...

That we think of our bodies as solid objects but they're not. We are just tubes with holes at each end. We put stuff it (food) and it drops out the bottom. Weird.

Cars. It’s probably your most expensive purchase after your home, they are easy to spirit away as they are literally designed to move and yet we park ‘em up in the street and leave them unattended, sometimes for days at a time. (I first had this thought in the 90s when vehicle thefts were at a historic high. I am far less worried about it now because newer cars have better security and I can afford better insurance.)

Transparent things. I've spent too long sometime reading about it, but it blows my mind that glass can be so solid and hard but light can get through every bit of it.

On that.. There's one man in my office, and 6 women. For 2 weeks before my period he's kind, caring, asking me how I am... The day my period ends and for about a week afterwards he doesn't ask me about myself. Worked with him for a few years and this is how he always is... Its weird

How on earth does he know you're on your period?!

Who decided that eating sour milk (cottage cheese) was a good idea?

That’s how I feel about cheese cake. Let’s take a beautiful sweet treat like cake and make it taste like someone mixed rancid bitter dairy into it. Oh yum.

Who decided that eating sour milk (cottage cheese) was a good idea?

Why do you buy a house in the hope that you can leave money to your children when you die?

Why are some people lucky and earn vast amounts of money due to inventing things like cabbage patch dolls, rocks, LOL dolls when they really have little purpose?

The fact that everyone wees and pooh yet we rarely talk about it.

That despite years of evolution, men are essentially still after a shag and women want to be protected and still neither gender gets each other!

How you can be in one country and it's snowing, yet 10 hours later be in another country and it's so sunny.

That you can instantly dislike someone based on their looks.

@TeamLucille

Ha ha - I was clearly rambling incoherently! It arose from a conversation I was having with my son about why he needed to take off his fuzzy warm snuggly pyjamas and put on outdoor clothes and then I realised that we are constantly swapping our comfiest clothes for less comfy ones in order to be seen in the world! Go to work in a pair of tracksuit bottoms or a onesie and everyone will call you unprofessional, even if you are much better able to focus on your work because you are comfy and not thinking about your waist band digging in/awkward bra situation/tights falling down etc. You can only really wear your comfiest clothes at home because even in the supermarket people will start a thread about you if you're there in PJs.

And the more important the thing you are doing, the more vital it is (to society) have uncomfortable clothes - getting married, going to a funeral, job interviews etc - turn up to any of those in stretchy leggings and a baggy t-shirt and you'd be an abomination!!

That we don’t really know that anything that happened before the living memory of people who were very elderly told the current very elderly is true- we only have books etc.

It could all be made up- say everything before 1830/40.

How precious existence is. ...we were the sperm out of millions to make it...

Or for eg, my ex who died in 2017 and my mate who died in 2012 where once all out having dinner together and now they no longer exist. .