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?

On these threads there is always someone who has only just discovered that the Channel Tunnel isn’t a tube lying on the sea bed but a tunnel bored through the rock of the sea bed.

Always. It’s the rulez.

Also the one about centre parks not being beneath a giant Dome?

Did no one else notice that wombats poo cubes?

Nigel Farage is only 54?! I thought he was in his 70s!!

Its amazing isn't it MrsJMartin John Tyler, born n 1790 the year after George Washington was sworn in as President, became president himself in 1841. He had his 15th child at age 68 (to a young second wife) and that 15th child also had a young second wife. She gave birth when the son was 75. So 174 years later President John Tylers grandchildren are still alive.

To be honest, I always assume people are inventing things they isn’t know. I genuinely don’t believe any adult woman of average intelligence who has urinated and had periods, let alone had sex and/or a baby, can have thought her vagina and urethra were the same thing.

Op I was reminded of this by your post. Watch from 55 seconds

@cloudtree wow! Just wow. That's messing with my head a bit. Will have to share this with everyone at work tomorrow 😃 you've blown my mind a wee bit!

All of the gold in the world (that has been mined) would fit into less than 3.5 olympic sized swimming pools.

There was a physicist on desert island discs a few weeks ago who said that it you stand outside with your hand outstretched your palm will make contact with at least 100 particles which have been travelling since the Big Bang without touching anything before. That was pretty mind blowing.

I've realised that my pinterest habit has filled my head with interesting but fairly useless facts!

My own dummy moment. I didn't realise that the ÷ symbol is just a blank fraction with dots replacing the numerator and denominator.

I only found out a couple of years back that reindeer’s are real animals!!
I had always just assumed that they were fictional characters along with Santa. Imagine my surprise one Christmas when I went to a Christmas fair and there were real life reindeers there!! Mind blown!

If you travel directly west from Paris to the sea and keep going, the first land you get to is Canada.

@NashvilleQueen wow.
In a pub quiz once I learned that giraffes are the only animals born with horns (ossicones). They're also mute.
Now I'm not sure of the veracity of this as I was pretty pissed distracted by chattering but it's stuck with me.
My other favourite is the astronaut Michale Collins took a photo of the lunar module and earth (in 1969) and consequently became the only person alive or dead to not be in the frame of the picture. Mind. Blown.

I'm not surprised at all that the OP wasn't aware of the separate openings. Anatomy teaching for anything in the pelvic region for both sexes is poor. I would imagine most men believe what the OP used to.

Think about how many grown adults use the word 'vagina' to mean both the internal and external parts. I had this conversation just recently when someone was appalled that my DD had said vulva. This person acted like DD had said a really clinical word inappropriate for her age. I literally had to explain that my DD had never seen a vagina but has seen a vulva because that's the external bit. Her mind was blown, much like the OP's. But people just aren't taught the word because in biology they only cover basic reproductive organs and in sex education they often don't bother with the anatomy side of things.

Due to recent huge world population growth, for every person alive today, 15 people have died in all of history.

When ABBA won Eurovision with Waterloo, in Brighton the UK jury gave them nil points.

The time gap between the stegosaurus and the tyrannosaurus rex is greater than the gap between the t-rex and humans. Many of the dinosaurs pictured together in books and films never would have seen each other or eaten each other

A killer whale is actually a type of dolphin. I learned this from a book that my 5 year old was reading.

@EyUpOurKid sorry but the word 'fiddle' comes from the Old English word 'fithele', meaning violin.

I like your Fidel story better though

@KingLooieCatz am assuming you're joking? I'm from there and never heard that currently wondering if I know your ex....

@InezGraves We must be due the one about envelope shoulders on baby vests too.

And the exceedingly dull one about petrol pump indicators on dashboards showing which side the flap is on.

I honestly wonder how people get through life not coming across "facts" like these which have been announced 11,887,343 times already (here and in general RL).

That Gary Delaney is married to Sarah Millican.

The car door thing has blown my mind! I also thought it was to keep children safe 😆😂