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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?

OP posts:
MadeForThis · 04/09/2018 21:58

That the name Tayto crisps come from the word Potato.

Kewqueue · 04/09/2018 22:00

I was talking to a friend of mine from Jordan about how we use Arabic numbers and I said "why don't we write them from right to left like you write Arabic?" He answered, "we do!". (And yes, I suppose it is obvious when you think about it!)

Winniewins · 04/09/2018 22:01

Eek so it wasn't until my late late twenties that I realised men don't use toilet paper when they have a wee ( it still seems weird that it's true)
That's not true!!

Shannaratiger · 04/09/2018 22:05

Never realised that Fructose, the sugar from fruit, cannot be used by the body. It goes straight to the liver and is all converted into fat!

JeSuisPrest · 04/09/2018 22:07

That Abba's "One of Us" is about the woman regretting the ending of the relationship with he lover.

I thought it was about 2 women both in love with the same man and "one of them" was lamenting that she had lost out to her love rival. A bit like "I know him so well" by EP and BD. Mind blown. Shock

TreasureInMyTummy · 04/09/2018 22:08

Eek so it wasn't until my late late twenties that I realised men don't use toilet paper when they have a wee ( it still seems weird that it's true)
That's not true!!

Isn't it ??? Oh my gosh now I'm more confused...now I feel more stupid lol so do men use it and dab the end? ( this is what I always thought and I got laughed at by friends when i ran round trying to find toilet paper for removal man who needed loo)

DobbyLovesSocks · 04/09/2018 22:09

@Winniewins
It's certainly true of my fella. He just shakes Shock

Winniewins · 04/09/2018 22:11

It's certainly true of my fella. He just shakes

Oh my goodness me...noooooooo 😂😂😂

pombal · 04/09/2018 22:14

Stop giving OP a hard time.

Try putting in a few catheters and you’ll see that not everyone is set out like a GCSE biology text book down there.

StealthPolarBear · 04/09/2018 22:17

"
Today 19:00 cloudtree

The tenth president of the united states John Tyler born in 1790 still has two living grandsons"

Just to rephrase that to what I think is more amazing

There are people alive today whose grandparents were born in the 18th century.

My grandads (still alive) grandparents must have been born near the end of the 19th century.

MitchDash · 04/09/2018 22:21

My grandfather was born in 1895. Queen Victoria was still alive.

SallyOMalley · 04/09/2018 22:22

The computers that put the lunar modules on the moon in the 60s cost millions of dollars each and were the size of a small car.

Each of those computers has just a fraction of the computing power of a standard iPhone. One iPhone has enough computing power to send millions of spacecraft from that era to the moon all at the same time.

Now this blows my mind - how they managed to send spacecraft into space using less power than the clock app on a standard mobile phone!

Thankstacheers · 04/09/2018 22:23

Heard one at work today-
People who were born in 1969 have experienced approximately 20% of all U.S. history firsthand.
***US history being since it was founded in 1776
ShockShockShock

Mrbatmun · 04/09/2018 22:25

That the name Tayto crisps come from the word Potato.

Huh? That blew your mind? Confused

Causeimunderyourspell · 04/09/2018 22:25

@NotUmbongoUnchained I only just (last week in fact!) discovered narwhals were real!! I thought they were mythical like unicorns!!

In the same vein, I thought dragons were real, I thought they were a kind of dinosaur!! Was in my 20s when I was laughed out of town for mentioning something about dragons to a very Shock face haha

NCNCNC123 · 04/09/2018 22:28

To be fair to the OP, in a few women the urethra and vagina and sort of fused, so everything does come out of one opening.

Re the killer whale - it kills whales, hence a whale killer.

I got some Canestan on prescription. Was confused that the pharmacist‘s label stated it was for vaginal use only, when the information leaflet inside said it was only to be used outside. The pharmacist agreed what their label was wrong in a way, but that not many people would understand 'vulva'.

Sarahandduck18 · 04/09/2018 22:29

The T. rex wasn’t alive in the Jurassic period.

Gone with the wind is the most successful film of all time.

Aridane · 04/09/2018 22:32

I always thought it was shake and go...

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 04/09/2018 22:38

I love the PP's DH with his one-man "Save the Terracotta" campaign. Grin Presumably some sort of confusion with terrapin going on?

TreasureInMyTummy · 04/09/2018 22:38

So is my fact a preference?

embarrasedandsore · 04/09/2018 22:42

Embarrassed to admit this but I was 19 or 20 when I realised I had a urethra - mine is hidden and on the front wall of vagina so you wouldn't know. It looks to all intents and purposes like everything comes from one place and makes catheterising very difficult (I also self catheterise). I didn't learn much about my anatomy until things started going badly wrong with it and a GP gave me a v quick lesson in the female body!!

Touchnotthiscat · 04/09/2018 22:57

I had to be told by someone that Amy Farrah Fowler was Blossom! Literally mind blown! How did I not realise???!
I did however spot that Leslie Winkle was Darlene from Roseanne!

Touchnotthiscat · 04/09/2018 22:59

I mean in The Big Bang Theory... btw

RedneckStumpy · 04/09/2018 23:04

During a 5 hour flight you are exposed to the same amount of radiation as a X-ray.

RebelRogue · 04/09/2018 23:04

Bamboo is a type of grass. I still refuse to believe tbh.