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

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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?

@Rachie1986
KateMcD hold on.. I still think both those facts?

Glad I'm not the only one. The last one absolutely blew my mind and I'm almost convinced I'm still right but the maps say otherwise.

There’s a fair few “facts” on this thread that just aren’t

I'll be repeating all these facts and people will think I am even dafter than before lol

@margotsdevil there I was looking up references for the depth of Loch Ness too. Instances of mail for Falkland, Fife being sent to the Falkland Islands may have been exaggerated, but it did happen, possibly more so when the Falkland Islands were in the news.

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.

actually, contrary to katie's post, many women have a urethral opening just inside the vagina. It isn't odd, it is just slightly further down.

Doesn't mean that you only have 2 opening, as the uretha obviously connects to bladder and vagina to uterus, but it does make it less clear.

Blimey! Well I have only just found out that there can be grown women in this day and age who don't know about their own anatomy! I'm truly astounded!

However, I admit to being fully grown up before I realised that birds don't sleep in nests! I had imagined them snuggling up in their nests to keep warm in the winter!

spotted dick doesn't contain dicks,
Erm, all the ones I've been given for pudding had.

However, I admit to being fully grown up before I realised that birds don't sleep in nests!

.......oh

Dione ???

spotted dick contains raisins, or choc chips, what are you on about?

To be fair, as other women are describing, my urethra seems to be a little inside my vagina so maybe that caused my confusion.

Ps I had no idea there was so many smarmy people on mumsnet.

interesting bird fact:

when the muscles in a birds feet relax, they curl up tight. They have to exert muscles to open them out flat. That means that when they are sitting on a branch, and they sleep, and their muscles relax, they grip the branch tighter

Thank you to the others who have disclosed about their urethra being in a not so average place - felt like a freak for years tbh.
Once had to self catheterise for a year and kept jabbing at my clitoris instead!
*did have a baby bump and it was not an easy task unless carried a mirror!
Was terrified fanjo was fooked!

The ISBN numbers on books are always a multiple of 11 🤓

@80sMum and I’m truly astounded at how rude many people can be on a forum that is meant to be supportive

Honey 🍯 is the only food consumed by humans that doesn’t go off

The “Sixth Sick Sheik’s Sixth Sheep’s Sick” is the hardest tongue-twister

All babies are colour-blind when they are born

Oh God April you've reminded me of a horrendous experience in hospital with a junior doctor repeatedly hammering a catheter into my clitoris.. only when I yelped at him that he had entirely the wrong place did he stop.

To be honest even in hospital I've had doctors and nurses call my fanjo odd, they usually get 3 to do a catheter for some reason unknown to me. Nightmare. And yes self catheterising is awful, cant count the times I've hurt myself!

Hoover does washing machines too.

I (now) know Hoover is a brand and what most people call a hoover is actually a vacuum cleaner, but I still call them all hoovers. It just didn't occur to me that there would be a Hoover washing machine!

[santa]

9amtrain - they also do ovens, though I'm not too impressed with the one I've got.

Honeyis the only food consumed by humans that doesn’t go off

Sugar doesn't go off either, in fact in the UK it has no expiry date.
It goes hard and clumpy but not off.

That I am older than Nigel Farage!

Can't imagine declaring I am just going to Dyson!

I'm younger than Nigel Farage. Woop woop!

I don't think salt goes off either