Things I’ve just learnt

[hopeful777]

I just found out you can’t put a chopping board in the dishwasher unless you want it to break 😕

as my family are now laughing at me, it made me wonder what other things have people learnt in adulthood that maybe others assume should be intrinsically known?

That one is remunerated for work (paid), not renumerated.

@thisplaceisweird

That on the weather app, where it has percentages, that’s the chance of rain and not how rainy it’s going to be (ie 100% rainy is very strong torrential rain, 10% rainy is just a bit of a drizzle).

WRONG it's the coverage in an area (usually the area highlighted on the map as they talk about it) - e.g. 40% of that area will get rain

Not in the UK, according to the Met Office, who should know. "Certainly for the Met Office app, the percentage of rain means the chance of rain at that time for that location.

"So 60 percent means a 60 percent chance of rain, 40 percent chance of dry.

"There are different ways of expressing percentages and in the USA they do use the area one, but generally not here in the UK." See here

@LimaCharlieHotelPapa

WHAT?! I missed that thread, you're saying some people wipe it sitting down?! shock I can't imagine the octopus gymnastics of that but I'm going to have to try it now I know it's a thing

Standing up seems MUCH more difficult. I didn't realise adults actually did that? Surely your bum cheeks are more closed standing?? Sitting they're nicely open.

@RandomBasic

"Dishwashers normally have a set of spray arms. One spray arm is placed at the bottom while the other is positioned beneath the upper tray."

That makes no sense. When you're heading to the south coast, you're facing south, not north???

@CafeCremeMerci I know! Drove me batshit trying to explain it to her.

I’m reading Bill Bryson’s Neither Here Nor There and have learned today that Hamburg is nearer to England than it is to Munich.

@Havanananana

That Edinburgh is farther west than Bristol

Which is true - as is the fact that the capital of Scotland is further north than the capital of Denmark

And the Shetland Isles are nearer to the Arctic Circle than Oslo.

@Soubriquet

Moose will dive down in the water to reach rich green grass.

Orcas will be in the water waiting for a chance to have a nice moose meal

Whaaaaat??!

And the Shetland Isles are nearer to the Arctic Circle than Oslo.

Than Oslo is
Or
Than they are to Oslo

Is ‘the Shetland Isles’ the correct term?

Im still reeling from the MN post when someone had only just realised rear car number plates were yellow despite having driven for a number of years.

Peanut butter is too dry to go off

That wolves and foxes are different things

@godmum56
OMG! I've got a guterman thread right next to me from sewing my sons trousers and I'm amazed

After a random conversation with my teenager I've only recently found out some people have straight public hair....!

I learnt that that many countries I thought were a certain size because of "normal" maps have been totally misrepresented through out my school days and adult life!!!
www.natureindex.com/news-blog/data-visualisation-animated-map-mercater-projection-true-size-countries

@pawpaws2022

That even when you've been stabbing avocado stones for years, a knife will still slip, go through your hand and be stopped by a bone Also hitting the bone really bloody hurts

ouch! It also hurts when it misses the bone and comes out the other side of your palm ::(

In my twenties I thought porn stars pretended to have sex by putting it between her legs, otherwise that would mean having lots and lots of partners. 🤣🤣🤣

@15MinutesOlder

Im still reeling from the MN post when someone had only just realised rear car number plates were yellow despite having driven for a number of years.

I can understand not really registering such trivial information. It took me a long time to realise that black means diesel and green means petrol. I’m just not that into colour coding. No wrong fuel disasters yet you’ll be disappointed to hear. That foreign lorries have a different number on the back was a disappointing discovery following an accident when one didn’t stop.

That you shouldn’t put something plastic in white spirit to clean the paint of it.

I came back to a disintegrated nailbrush.

😳

I'm crying laughing at 'seedy fences' 😂😂😂

@ThankYouStavros

That wolves and foxes are different things

What?! We have urban foxes wandering in and out of our garden in London. I'd be a bit more concerned if I thought they were wolves.

Also asked my mother is a 3 bird roast meant chicken, pork and beef. I surprise myself sometimes

Last year I discovered that green, red, yellow, and orange peppers are not from different seeds. It's the same pepper, just picked at a different time.

Yeah, Gasp0de, I genuinely had no idea that they were different things. It makes me laugh now thinking about it. I was in my 30s when I found out. And also thought I’d see Wooly mammoths at the safari park. It’s crazy because I’m actually quite intelligent and then have these blind spots 😂

For years I thought capers and gherkins were sea animals like some sort of sea slug.