Random facts you have only recently discovered

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I found out only yesterday you are not allowed to take photos of the Eiffel Tower at night...mind totally blown

My car does the window thing, found out by accident sitting on my fob one day.i believe It's for hot days to let the heat out before you open the door.

My car doesn't do the window thing. I get nothing but disappointment from these threads

I did like the 142,857 thing though. There's even a pattern when you multiply by 8 and beyond but you do have to start adding digits together!

@RiaOverTheRainbow *you can't sneeze in your sleep
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that's how I know my kid is pretending to be asleep

An oak tree was apparently called a ach (not sure of spelling) tree. Hence we get acorns and not oakcorns .
The word beam comes from Medieval times when they called wood a beam. So if you say you have wooden beams it's wood wood.

That tress literally grow out of thin air, by removing the carbon from carbon dioxide in the air.

That all the water on earth is actually older than the planet, it came from comets.

My car doesn’t do the window thing.

What do you mean center Parcs isn't under a dome? It is? Or at least the tropical water paradise is? Or do you mean that it isn't because it's only the tropical water paradise that is?

Centre Parks had an advert in the 80s/90s advertising it with a big glass dome. I thought for at least 20 years the whole place was in some big massive glass dome.

My French husband puts the cursor between red and orange and green and blue in a different place than I do, so I call things orange / blue and he calls them red / green.

What? I don't understand this!

I mean that if there's something that's on the cusp between red and orange he'll call it red and I'll call it orange. Same for green and blue. The cutoff point between colours varies between languages.

@Omega369 no one said this thread is about new facts it's about facts new to individuals- calm down and well done for learning a fact in school.

I found out putting bananas in the bowl with the rest of your fruit makes your fruit all mouldy!

That sawyer word being someone who saws. I had a similar epiphany over the word ‘seer’ being someone who sees (the future etc.)

Some species of tarantulas will have a frog as a pet

The tarantulas lay their eggs in the ground and occasionally insects will feast on the eggs.

The insects are too small for the spider to kill, so the spider will get themselves a pet frog to kill the insects.

In return, the frog is protected from predators and gets a steady diet of insects

This is crazy!

I read this on a similar post a while ago so it's shamelessly stolen from that -

John Tyler, 10th US president, born 1790 has 2 living grandsons

Not sure if this has been posted upthread, but I always tell the kids in my class to peel their bananas like a monkey if they can’t open them the usual way. It always works! Using both index fingers and thumbs, squash the end of the banana then pull apart. Easy peasy!

That a kiwi is the size of a chicken! I always thought they were small, about the size of a garden bird.

Mouth the word 'colourful' and that looks like 'I love you.'

@frecklesforever
Kiwi the bird - I thought you meant the fruit! I was going to say we never get them as big as chickens round here...

Wow that car window thing is TRUE!?!. How did I not know that??..

That cinemas really dont care if you sneak in your own sweets. And here I was feeling like an MI5 agent all these years...

And now dp's mind is blown too!

The union jack is actually called the union flag. It only becomes the union jack on a naval war ship when it is flying on the mast.
It can also be, incorrectly, flown upside down.

Portsmouth isn't an island. It is an area of Portsea Island