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

Along the same vein, @chomalungma, there's a desert in England! Learnt that ages ago. As a non-Brit living in the UK, whenever I mention it to a Brit, they look at me like I'm crazy. Love the look on their faces when I'm proved right :)

We have rainforests in the UK, too.

Am I the only person who can lick their elbow?!!

That little arrow at the size of the petrol pump pic on the petrol gauge in your car is to tell you what side the petrol cap is on 😱😱😱
Literally found that out this week!
Mind. Blown 🤯🤯🤯

Cerberus (three headed dog) translates to 'Spot'

The arrow on the petrol dial thing us NOT true

@chomalungma

I did know the mercury fact but only cause I was a solar system geek as a child BUT I only recently learnt that Venus is hotter than Mercury.

That little arrow at the size of the petrol pump pic on the petrol gauge in your car is to tell you what side the petrol cap is on

It might be on your car but it's not a universal "thing" although I think newer cars have a different indication of which side it is

My 2015 car has the arrow my old 2004 car didnt

Did nobody else learn it as 'my very early morning jam sandwiches usually nauseate people'?

I was taught ‘my very early morning jam sandwich usually needs pepper’

I'm afraid I'm really going to lower the tone, but I use ' men very easily make jugs serve useful nocturnal purposes.'

Today I learned that 'swingers' have pineapple-shaped door-knockers as a discreet signal to others!

Or pampas grass in the front garden ...

My old 2003 car had the petrol cap arrow - my current 2013 car doesn’t.

And I won’t tell you how long it took me to work out where the petrol cap was on DH’s car the first time I had to fill it up (I had to send DS out to locate it in the end).

You can work out any number up to 10 in the 9 times table by holding down the finger of the number you're trying to multiply 9 by and counting the numbers on the left and right of it.

Hold all fingers in front of you on both hands, hold down the number of the finger you're trying to multiply by. The number of fingers left of the held down finger is the 10s and the number of fingers right of the held down finger is the units.

Eg if you want to know the answer to 9 x 3 and you hold down your third finger, there are two to the left of this (20) and 7 to the right (7) so answer is 27.

This works for any number up to 10. Mind blown.

Today I learned that 'swingers' have pineapple-shaped door-knockers as a discreet signal to others!

This seems unlikely. What happens when they sell the house? Do they take it with them when they move? Wouldn't that be weird?

And if you were a swinger walking down the street would you really spot a pineapple door knocker and think ooooh I'll do and knock on that door without knowing who lived there?

Did nobody else learn it as 'my very early morning jam sandwiches usually nauseate people

I was taught ‘my very early morning jam sandwich usually needs pepper

I used to use "My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas". Now it's just "Nachos".

DH taught me:
Mary's Virgin Explanation Made Joseph Suspect Upstairs Neighbour
At least it's memorable!

I am so pleased that I got it right in my guess for where the UK's desert is! But I have been there.

Our physics teacher taught us “My van every morning just starts up no problem”.

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There is also a pair of glasses lurking in each book somewhere. We always had to find the glasses before we could read the book

I learned, "My very earnest man just sent us nature's plan."

Many volcanos erupt mouldy jam sandwiches under normal pressure

I learnt
Many Volcanoes Erupt Mouldy Jam SUN (clearly the inventor of the mnemonic was ahead of the game in 1980 when it came to whether Plute was a planet or not as it was ignored and you just had to remember it).
I taught my class
Many Very Energetic Martians Jumped Straight Under Nine Planets.

Pre Pluto argument. It helped remember which M was Mars and how many planets in the system.

Well... I've just discovered that there are more mnemonics for the order of the planets than there are planets.