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 alphabet song, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Baa Baa Black Sheep all have the same tune

Not the way I sing them.

Seriously - I have three different tunes to these, though I know two tunes for the Alphabet song, and one of them is the one I know for Twinkle Twinkle.

All Converse have a narrow, furry fabric trim all around the edge of the sole. This is so they can be classed as 'slippers' rather than trainers and thereby avoid import tax.

Imperial leather soap, you place the label downside so the soap doesn’t go soft

But that was actually in their advert "We rest on our name" (Had a super-rich family having a communal bath on their private jet, IIRC, using (of course) Imperial Leather)

Funny story about a bull...

There was one at work, and he never got sick (he was supposed to catch a disease) and because they are social animals they had to buy him a friend. He bullied the friend so had to split them up. They then had to buy the friend a companion.

Took over a decade to get through ethics committee euthanising the trio!

So now we're posting Flower Porn, are we Monkeytoes?

This thread has really fallen into the gutter!

Alaska is so wide thanks to the Aleutian Islands that it's approximately the same width as mainland USA (I was once told Alaska was wider but found other sources saying otherwise, there's not much in it either way.)

Righty-tighty, lefty loosie. " this is going to change my life! Lightbulbs, screwdrivers. sodastream gas cartridges, taps....

Just about everything, except one of your bike pedals (the left one, I think)

(Had a super-rich family having a communal bath on their private jet, IIRC, using (of course) Imperial Leather)

'Simon ... Bermuda'...

I tried the shoelace double bow thing. Doesn’t work!

@Mrsmorton
This is what I read
While Fossil tried to make a statement about sustainable leather production practice, the method of acquisition for hides to make leather seems anything but sustainable. The making of leather starts with the acquisition of raw hides and skins. When removing the hide from the animal, the animal is usually alive because “as soon as an animal’s heart stops beating, its skin will begin to rot” (Brown, 213). It is quite brutal because the animal has to endure the pain of its skin being stripped off alive. This also implies that the animal is still barely alive (if shortly) after the skin is flayed from its body. It demonstrates that the environmental burden of leather production causes the suffering and deaths of countless animals each year. Although Fossil states that they are working with Fossil Group and Leather Working Group to make their leather production more sustainable and ethical, it doesn’t specifically show how they would approach the acquisition of animal hides for leather. Regardless of their claims, leather is still a product of animal cruelty and suffering.

This is where I found it www.designlife-cycle.com/new-page-44

I was actually looking for advice on how to rescue a bag when it came up, so was thinking it was Fossil but Google seems to have chosen the page for me.

Not going to hi-jack the thread with this so will leave it at that.

For the geography nerds. Tierra Del Fuega - the bottom bit of South America is as far south as Newcastle is North.

Both are on the 55th parallel (one North and the other South).

Oh, and no matter how many times I pass through there, Pontefract is 100% in Wales and not in Yorkshire in my mind.

@PuppyMonkey
"I don’t understand what people aren’t getting! "
Not a case of not getting Sandie Shaw sounds like sandy shore, it's more of a "yes it does, and?". I think we just don't get why that's interesting, it's not a pun, just sounds the same. Maybe if she was a famous marine scientist it might be worth mentioning!!

@WhenItIsOver That is absolute bollocks. Aside from the cruelty issue, the logistics of skinning an animal alive means it doesn't make any practical sense to do so. The leather would tear, for one thing.

The Suffragette flag is green, white, violet for Give Women Votes ( bit embarrassed)

It took me ages to realise that Finisterre = Land’s End in Latin, and do, why it has so many travelling/sailing/remote place nane connections.

WhenItIsOver, that is definitely bollocks.

We butcher some of our own meat. There is nothing to stop us curing a hide removed from an animal several days after it has been killed. You get the guts out right away, but the hide can stay on until the point you start butchering.

Astonished by how many people don’t know that flowers turn into seed heads!

Rhodri- do all flower heads turn to seeds?

Flowers get fertilised with pollen and turn into seed heads or seed pods, and that’s how plants reproduce. Did people not do biology at school?

@Rhodri not all plants reproduce through seeds...some do through roots and rhizomes (or both) example...the daffodil

The Doldrums is actually a place you can get stuck in if there isn’t any wind💨 💨 and you might be there a while

Thus you’d get mood and then came the saying

@Mammatino - I used to pronounce crudités, crud-ites, to rhyme with Luddites. But partly because it was funny (I think?)

7 out of the 10 longest place names in the world are in countries where English is an official language (but not always the only official language). None of the 7 place names are actually in English.

NZ has 3 official languages.

Shocked at the dh who thought penguins were mammals, and that so many people don't know about dandelions.

I always forget Billericay isn't in Ireland too though; it sounds like it should be.

not all plants reproduce through seeds...some do through roots and rhizomes (or both) example...the daffodil

Not all plants reproduce via seeds, some eg ferns have spores instead and many have some way or another to reproduce vegetatively to produce identical clones of themselves. But flowering plants produce seeds for sexual reproduction, that's what they evolved for. ('Only' about 70 million years ago, I think) . Some cultivated varieties are sterile, and in many cases the vegetative method is easier as well as giving a consistent offspring. But daffodils can produce seeds too, even though gardeners usually cut off the head before it can set seed, so the plant doesn't waste energy which could be going into the bulb.

www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/bulbs/daffodil/daffodil-seed-cultivation.htm