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Facts you've recently found out that have blown your mind?

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Allthatglittersisgold · 04/09/2018 17:18

Ok so I will kick this off. I clearly did not pay attention during sex ed cos here I am mid 30s just finding this out.

Your pee and your period come out of 2 different bits.

Astonished when I found this out today reading reviews on moon cups.

Anyone got any to add?

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SwedishEdith · 05/09/2018 12:46

Yes, all Frank Farian's vocals.

BabyCobra · 05/09/2018 12:47

Dogs can only sweat through the pads of their paws. Nowhere else on their body sweats. The only other way they release heat is through panting.

Hence why so important to help keep them cool in summer. A good way to cool down a dog is to put their paws in cold water.

BabyCobra · 05/09/2018 13:02

Hitler failed the entrance exam to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. He wanted to be an artist. After failing the exam he turned to politics instead.

I always wonder who marked his exam and whether they realise the pivotal role they had in world history.

Tinkerbellisnotafairy · 05/09/2018 13:06

Not so much mind blowing fact, but how gullible I was as a child - my brother was given a piece of volcanic rock, and he told me NEVER to touch it, as if it was dropped on the floor, it would start a volcano.

I literally went YEARS without going near it as I was terrified I would bring about the end of the world. I was in my late teens when I realised he was completely taking the piss Blush

OP - I'm sure there are lots of things that people didn't know that other people would laugh at them for. You don't know what you don't know!

duvetdaysgone · 05/09/2018 13:22

Years ago I was told that the fire engine with the extendable ladders attached was called a Simon Snorkel. I thought it was a wind up so called the local fire station where a lovey engineer confirmed it for me. Iv never felt so chuffed & daft at the same time 😂

TheMythicalChicken · 05/09/2018 13:26

Your pee and your period come out of 2 different bits.

Nope. Not for everyone. My urethral opening is inside my vagine. Sometimes when I wear tampons and they slip down a bit, they get filled with urine.

OutComeTheWolves · 05/09/2018 13:34

@DRE56322 my dad told me that too and very recently told me off for doing it. I wonder if it used to be illegal!

c190 · 05/09/2018 13:52

I found out a couple of weeks ago that to open those little plastic tubes of sherbet you don't need to snip the top with a pair of scissors, but squeeze it in the right way and it will open really easily! I am 44!

PhilomenaButterfly · 05/09/2018 15:52

Redneck that's depressing. I have a tiny brain. 😭

PhilomenaButterfly · 05/09/2018 16:02

That's a relief Harley! My brain's bigger than I thought! 😂

margotsdevil · 05/09/2018 17:29

@KingLooieCatz sorry I meant the bit about Falkland!

Standbyyourmammaryglands · 05/09/2018 17:31

I though prunes and dates were the sane thing - till last night Blush

KateMcD451 · 05/09/2018 18:14

*Your pee and your period come out of 2 different bits.

Nope. Not for everyone. My urethral opening is inside my vagine. Sometimes when I wear tampons and they slip down a bit, they get filled with urine.*

Yeah but that's like saying, "Humans have 4 fingers and a thumb" - "Nope. Not everyone. I was born with 3 fingers and a thumb." That may be the case but the basic biology is 4 fingers and a thumb.

There's lots of variations in how people are born or how people are due to accidents or injury etc. but there is still a basic biology and it's that women have a hole to pee and a hole for the vagina.

ComtesseDeSpair · 05/09/2018 18:24

Pete Tong is a real person. I thought he was just a rhyming slang expression and then I went to a club where he was DJing and my mind was blown.

SentToTheSynByn · 05/09/2018 18:33

@Allthatglittersisgold did you mistake yourself for a chicken? Pee, poo and eggs all come out the same way.

When I was a child I thought there were only pee and poo holes. I remember hoping the baby comes out of the poo hole as the pee hole would have been eye watering Hmm

I am old and we didn't talk about vaginas and vulvas such things in those days. In fact I don't think vulvas had even been invented back then.

Cottonsheets · 05/09/2018 18:34

jayzed- I cannot stop laughing.

HuntIdeas · 05/09/2018 20:17

To be fair, urine and sperm come out of the same hole. So it’s not inconceivable that a vagina could work the same way

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Allthatglittersisgold · 05/09/2018 21:32

Exactly @huntideas. To be honest I'm still a bit confused and need to do some reading probably. Having a baby.....leakage as a result.....different holes....... confused.

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LincolnshireYellowBelly · 05/09/2018 21:47

A square is a rectangle. What I thought was a rectangle is an oblong.

LincolnshireYellowBelly · 05/09/2018 21:48

Also Freddy and Andrew Flintoff are the same person

Rachie1986 · 05/09/2018 21:52

KateMcD hold on.. I still think both those facts?

Rachie1986 · 05/09/2018 22:03

dustarr nooooo way!

WhippetyStourie · 05/09/2018 23:44

On the getting pregnant when already pregnant - I know a couple who had IVF, only one embryo was implanted but she gave birth to b/g twins. One baby was conceived naturally very soon after the procedure. Apparently they were advised by the clinic to have sex ASAP as it helped the body to accept the implanted embryo and increased the chances of success. It certainly did!

SentToTheSynByn · 05/09/2018 23:48

All righty

maddjess · 06/09/2018 01:37

Amelia medically means child born without limbs.

Melina means blood in stools