OMG I'm thick as mince

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I was just doing an online trivia quiz and one of the answers mentioned that zebra crossings are so-called because the black and white stripes resemble a zebra's coat. I can't believe that not once in my 40-odd years on this planet did I twig the connection!

What else have I missed...?

There is no CGI in Snow White.

Meant to say that in response to earlier poster. It’s animated. How could Turing have any opinion on the cgi. There was none.

Of course there wasn’t any CGI in Snow White, there weren’t any computers even remotely capable of such things in those days.
It was made using a new technique called rotoscoping though. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping

I know! See my second post.

I don’t get why people just read stuff on the internet and believe it when the very first statement is blatantly a load of rubbish.

I was confirming your second post.
I hadn’t noticed the CGI bit in the original comment.

Sorry. My mistake.

I went to Florida when I was 16 and had my mind utterly blown when I saw chickens. Turned to my Dad and exclaimed “OMG I didn’t know they have chickens in America!”
I think he was a very disappointed father that day 😂

I used to get really frustrated in primary school practicing Christmas plays because people kept singing "to you and your king"... (Even one of the teachers)
Similar when friends talked about trickle treating.

I was probably an annoying little smart arse though.

Not feeling so smart now though, this thread has made me realise I'm far too ignorant when it comes to world geography!

Okay my moment was...in my 30's, I was driving along and realised that clouds were darker towards the bottom because that's the underneath of the cloud! 😂 I still can't stop staring at them in all their 3D wonder (that realisation was this summer).

jessebuni I thought it was Canola oil, not cranola oil.

I love quizzing but you're not alone in missing things - just remember that most of us are not natural all-rounders and I'm sure you'll feel better.

Into my early 20s I thought ATM stood for ‘access to money’. My dad was an architect and was installing some in a bank one day, he howled when I brought that one up!

I think my thickest moment was crossing the forth road bridge some years back when they still had toll booths. The one to the far left had a wheelchair sign, presumably if you were disabled and needed more help from the cashier. I didn’t realise that and commented to my husband ‘oh look, there’s even a lane to yourself for if you’re in a wheelchair’. He pissed himself laughing well into Perthshire at the idea of all these wheelchairs whizzing Cross the Bridge beside the cars and trucks.

Portsea Island is an island as mentioned up thread, but the Isle of Purbeck isn’t.

I also only discovered last year ( at the age of 50) how lift buttons worked. I thought the up or down meant which direction you needed the lift to travel to get to you- how would I know which floor it was currently on? I didn't realise it meant which way you wanted the lift to travel to get to your required destination from the floor you were summoning it from!
I also only realised a few months ago that in a smart phone or tablet you could delete individual emails by swiping them. I always went into 'delete and select'.

I am only on page 3 of 9 but I have to get up so thought I’d share the (probably already shared ) info they The Beatles were originally The Silver Beetles.

Axl rose is coincidental. When he first moved to LA he started a band called Axl and took on the name ‘Axl Rose’. Eventually LA Guns and Axl Rose joined forces to become Guns n Roses. Any anagram arising is purely coincidental.

Oh and in the spirit of the thread

Three lions on a shirt
Jules Rimet still gleaming.

Not jewels remain. The World Cup is called the Jules Rimet cup. A surprising amount of people don’t know that I discovered earlier this year.

Oh my goodness. NAVY blue. I can't believe I never made the connection! and the names of the frozen characters. That's brilliant! I had worked out Adam Ant and Perry Farrell years ago though, so that makes me feel better!

It's no wonder we wait ages for lifts!

Press the direct you want to go in people

I'm confused as to how a 'peg' would go weeweewee all the way home.

I've always wondered but never remembered to look up the original names of months of the year - I know there used to be 10 months, and there's SEPTember (7) OCTober (8) NOVember (9) and DECember (10) but were there others that were like numbers (pentember anyone??) and which are the two extra ones? Anyone know?

Off to check my cotton reels and nail files now.

marmaladecats I can't believe I'm going to admit this but I thought until quite recently that it was the FOURTH road bridge, because there were another 3!!!

July and August, after Julius and Augustus Caesar are the later additions.

Axl Rose real name was William Bruce Rose but he was raised as William Bruce Bailey believing that Mr Bailey was his father. In fact he only found out the truth by accident and then changed his name to Rose (his birth name).
After discovering that his father had got his mother pregnant whist she was still at school and was a bad character he referred to himself as W Rose.
He was in a band called AXL and took that as his official name because he didn't want to have the same name as his father who was William Rose senior.

@MaryBoBerry, we say “trickletreat” to be funny, but maybe our DS will have the same epiphany when he’s 15!