Please share your mind boggling ponderings.

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My baby is 8 months old and I find myself staring at him, thinking 'I GREW that!' I made those tiny fingers and tiny toenails. My human body actually produced another human. It's just amazing when you sit at think about it.

And what's really blown my mind is thinking that I was born with all my eggs, all ready and waiting to go - it's like I carried DS around with me my whole life until one day that particular egg desended and it met that 1 particular sperm which made DS. If it had been any of the other eggs, I could have a completely different baby!

Women's bodies are amazing.

Please share your own equally pointless but also mind bending ponderings.

We all have genetic similarities to a banana.

Why are oranges called oranges but bananas aren't called yellows?

Yet cabbage, beans and sprouts are all called greens and limes arent called greens.

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@DarcieStarlight rolling them I their own baby 😂😂😂good point!

I find it bizarre to think that everything I eat and drink goes inside my clothes and I carry it around with me.

It’s also weird to realise that every human that ever existed has lived on this small ball of rock that we call The Earth. Plato, Tutankhamun, Sinatra... any person you can name, lived here on this same tiny blue and green dot in space where we live now.

The food questions and the structural engineering questions are easy though surely. No one woke up one day and knew exactly how to build a bridge or create a chicken Kiev. It's all down to trial, error, mistakes, luck, chance, coincidences, learning, persistence and determination over a very long period of time.

Why was "car" not a word until the 20th century? I mean it's a pretty obvious basic collection of letters, why wasn't it already used for something else?

Why does your nose run but your feet smell?

History and archaeology, when they’re excavating a site, where did all the dirt come from? There are layers and layers of it.

Me and DH were discussing the other day, how do they put music onto records? Pieces of plastic with loads of tiny notches (to put it crudely) and you scratch a pin round it and it plays a song Also the same for cassettes, music goes onto a bit of tape then plays

Why was "car" not a word until the 20th century? I mean it's a pretty obvious basic collection of letters, why wasn't it already used for something else?

Ooh.

Mine is similar to a previous post about bread, only it's how did cake happen?

My brother has two daughters. His grandchildren are basically already there....

Why was "car" not a word until the 20th century?

It was. The Latin word Carrus had been used for centuries to mean a vehicle with wheels, as had the English Carre meaning a wheeled cart.

I find it odd that when something is proven scientifically we all accept it and stop questioning it but I wonder if someone else discovered a different method to prove the same thing if our entire understanding of life would become different. I wonder if we’ve stopped questioning some facts that have been proven but actually they’re not quite right and if we got them right more issues and problems we face could be solved.

As I was waiting to cross a road yesterday, a man wearing a top hat and carrying a croquet mallet cycled past on a penny farthing, which made me wonder whether you can do a track stand on a penny farthing and, if not, how do you stop at a red light?

Carrus and carre aren't car though!

In French, "car" means "because"; so that obvious collection of letters did mean something!

All the weight we lose is exhaled. I vaguely thought it just burned off, but apparently not!

@Bellybootcut There are people buried everywhere. Our neighbours found 5 skeletons in their garden - est.2000 years old.

Yes I'm aware of that wanderings, username checks out ;-) I'm talking about English. OK so here's another one along the same lines. Bash, bish, bosh, bush all became words, why didn't besh?

Besh. Sounds like you'd eat it.

I'll have the steak, rare, with some wild besh and the peppercorn sauce.

if scientists and learned men have such power and knowledge why do they use that to make horrible things like bombs and weapons of mass destruction instead of curing cancer or other bad diseases?

That the stars that we see in the sky now probably arn t there any more because it takes so many millions of light years for the light to reach the earth ,that fact always blew my mind in physics .

@SerialNameChanger X Rays and radiation = witchcraft. I know because I did A Level Physics last year (which I barely understood but somehow got a decent grade in )

That babies are born with both sets of teeth tucked away. My adult teeth are so big, and babies are so little How crowded it must be in their skulls! I used to think teeth grew, I don’t know why it took so long for me to realise you can’t “grow” teeth!

What? Babies are born with their full size adult teeth in their jaws?

That can't be right???!!