Can we have an "OMG I can't believe I never realised that!" thread?

[TwigTheWonderKid]

Mine is Sandie Shaw. I can't believe it had never occurred to me until tonight that her name is a play on Sandy Shore.

The Catholic Church would disagree with you, Twospaniels

www.newadvent.org/cathen/07674d.htm

A good map

www.mapsofworld.com/lat_long/united-kingdom-lat-long.html

You need to break down 'immaculate conception'...

it's not miraculous conception, it's 'immaculate'. By this, it's talking about a much grander plan which resulted in conception but began with Mary's birth (or even before that).

He whole life was supposed to be without sin... the 'perfect' conception from her own birth through to that of her child.

The Angel Gabriel was not a lover of condoms either. Coincidence?

As well as writing the screenplay to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Roald Dahl also wrote the screenplay to the Bond film You Only Live Twice. Both the book of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the James Bond books were written by Ian Fleming.

Roald Dahl also helped invent a valve that was used in brain surgery for a while, following his son’s accident as a toddler.

Cross posted with xsquared!

Another Dandelion one here! Weirdly I was trying to describe the wildflowers that are growing everywhere to my Dad yesterday. He said yes Dandelions and I said no not those the white wispy ones you blow out and make a wish too, he said yes Dandelions and I can't believe you didn't know this you are nearly 40! My husband overheard the whole thing and thinks I'm a fool haha Learn something new every day!

A few years ago, probably at least 10, our local (W Yorks) club got into some high level completion or other in Cardiff. There was lots of talk of bus trips and car sharing. Overheard in the PO “Well, sat nav says it’s going to take 5 hours to get there. That can’t be right, I’ve been to Wales before and it only took two hours”. Further conversation followed about the whereabouts of Wales. Turns out. the postmaster thought that Wales was a city. It being a whole country, a couple of hundred miles long blew his mind.

Goodness know what he though Cardiff, Swansea, Aberystwyth etc were. Villages I suppose.

Only just today have I found out that the film....
An Interview With A Vampire.
Isn't called that, it's called
Interview With The Vampire

Parquet flooring isn’t pronounced like that and you don’t pronounce canapés to rhyme with apes, slightly embarrassing situation at a swanky do at the Tate modern commenting on the lovely canAPES. I’m from Yorkshire so they let it pass as me being abut northern and uncultured.

I never knew the percentage one. Or the imperial leather one

Sandie Shaw though, it doesn't make any sense. I know that it might sound like sandy shore to some people (although not to me and millions of others) but I can't see any connection or why that's a pun

OK, I did know about dandelions, what I didn't know is that the 'fairies' that float around - similar to dandelion seeds but bigger - came from thistles. Now I used to see these all the times and was no where near any thistles so they must literally float for miles. I was in my 40s when I discovered this...

That when you need a pee in a swimming pool and head to the loo rather than wriggle out of a clingy, wet swimsuit, you can just pull the gusset to the side. That took me 47 years. What was I thinking before!

The percentages thing - OMG that is a game changer.

Sandy Shaw/Shore - because shores are often sandy. That’s all there is to it I think.

Presumably that’s why she was often barefoot when performing.

@PuppyMonkey that was the Sandie Shaw theory I posted above.

I did read the whole thread and it's only you and me I think that's made that possibly very wrong connection.

Oh, and I was born in 1960. A mere 15 years years after the end of WW2. THAT blew my mind. WW2 is proper history, not a few years before I was born!!!

@Thighmageddon I don’t understand what people aren’t getting!

@Pipandmum your post really made me laugh. Thank you😁

I am genuinely shocked to discover from reading this thread, that yellow are young and white are old dandelions.
I thought they started off as fluffy and grey/ white. Then if they’re lucky enough to survive for long enough, they grow their yellow, permanent petals. Like a duck.
Feel like an absolute tool now.

Has no one watched this before:

Probably not, cause most people aremt sad fuckers like me.

Really?? My 4 year old knows the life cycle of a dandelion

the connection between sandie shaw the singer and sandy shore - that the OP has alluded to? - like a couple of PP, I always thought the connection was that she sang barefoot. Like on a beach.

We once drove to Cardigan on holiday, and the signposts stopped saying Cardigan, while we were a fair bit away. we were getting lost looking for Cardigan. I wondered aloud where Ceredigion was, as it was quite close.

@WhenItIsOver that is manifestly not true.

How has Madagascar got that many people living there?! It’s a small island isn’t it? Full of lemurs?????

My other half didn't realise the dandelion thing either. He's quite cleaver with a phd but no one ever told him this until last week (me)!

@ememem84 it's almost 590,000 km^2 in size! UK has less than half that! I didn't realise it was quite that big either.