Something you didn’t know that blew your mind

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My Dd1 had ALL 3 years ago and needed a stem cell transplant.
We knew that her DNA would change and she would have the same DNA as her donor.
However, she’s just spent 8 days in hospital with an infection that turned into pleurisy and suspected sepsis. (Thanks to the selfish bastard who thought going to see an immuno compromised person whilst ill was nothing to worry about)
What we didn’t know was that her blood group has changed, she was O positive, she’s now O negative! The nurse showed us her records where it says “After X date (date of her transplant) ALL blood products MUST be O neg”.

Science and medicine is amazing.
Is there anything you’ve learned that blew your mind?

I never knew a penis could be a grower or a shower until I met dh at 42!!

Eh?

That's amazing, I never knew your blood could change or your dna! And the twin thing 🤯

This blew my mind the other day 😅 if you squish an oxo it turns into a little bag to poor straight in!

Pigtails - plaits, one on each side.
Ponytail - any length of hair tied up.
Bunches - divided into two and tied (like a ponytail) on each side.

At least that’s the way it is up here.

Not really fascinating but a whales Poo is pink.

After giving birth to a male, the woman will have male dna remaining inside her

Here you go...

The blood group changing is amazing, - i knew about dna changing, its been in a few criminal minds tv episodes years ago, but to be a donor in first place i thought you had to match the recipients bloodgroup, i did a donation to an anonomous match many years ago, i went on register through blood bank , and as a rare group thought that was why i had come up with as a match. Wonder is there a difference between the actual group A, B ,AB O etc ,and the rhesus factor the + and minus.
my fact that blew my mind last week and its a bit silly..
my elder dc was born in 1999, so will be 20 this december, however on new years day 2020 just a few days after her birthday she will be living in the fourth decade of her life, 90's, 00's 10's and then 20's...
ladies and gents do not do this for your own age its was too depressing...

Grower/shower thing, that's show-er to rhyme with grower.

Some men retain their erect length when flaccid, these are showers.

Others grow when they become erect. Growers.

I remember embarrassing lads in nightclubs with this question!

Wow. That’s fascinating. So with her DNA being different has she changed dramatically or at all in appearance.

It's not all DNA, technically she is now a chimera, as you described in your post. The organ that receives the stem cells has its DNA changed.

For blood to change group I'm guessing it was bone marrow that was transplanted, so the bone marrow continues to produce he blood cells the donor has, in this case O -ve.

Jodi Picoult used a bone marrow transplant as a plot twist in one of her books. The DNA taken from a victim matches that of the local priest.

There are no Roads in the City of London.

(Trivial compared with chimeras and DNA, but still quite interesting.)

Someone told me this, don’t know if it’s true, but here goes.
By the time T-Rex was roaming the planet, all Stegasaurus’ were already fossils!

I'm shocked so many haven't heard the phrase "grower not a show-er".

There's been quite a few but it's all mega simple stuff I just didn't stop and think about. The biggest one was that the moon doesn't have it's own 'light'. It's just the sun reflecting off the moon.

@foldenhoard my husband and I had never heard of that phrase until we were looking at Grohe showers for a new bathroom and googled on a lap top with no parental controls

@WarmSausageTea

Goswell Road is in the city of London since the mid-nineties so that's not true any more

Fascinating thread!

JustOneSquareofDarkChocolate 😂

That Alzheimer's UK has advice on their website for those that have transitioned and then subsequently forgot. Mind blown.

Interesting (and slightly disappointing), @readingnc - I thought it was in Islington.

Apparently the reason there weren’t any is because every street had been built and named before Road came into usage.

londonist.com/2012/08/why-theres-not-a-single-road-in-the-city-of-london

Not on the same level as this but I had my mind blown when I realised the word Kayak is a palindrome.

Some people cannot think in pictures - it's called aphantasia.

How true this is I don’t know, but
Women retain a slight bit of DNA from every man she has slept with or if you’re in a relationship each time you have sex you retain some of your partners DNA.

Bump

Today I discovered vegan wine is a thing. Finding out why blew my mind!