Obvious things that suddenly registered to you.

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I like watching things like NCIS.

Over the years, I’ve heard the phrase watch your six and just let it fly over my head expecting not to understand it.

Literally the other day, it suddenly occurred to me…it means watch your back!!

Of course it does!

yes me too. I thought that Orientar bust be a very progressing country to have 3 kings to lead instead of one. They must all have different strengths because they all gave different gifts to a random baby in a stable!

This is my favourite.

When I was little, I thought Evita was singing to a person called Argentina and telling them not to cry.

Yep I once saw a double rainbow on aa plane, I was on the plane the rainbow was in the clouds I was looking own on. Perfect circle.

That's also why you can never find the gold at the end of one because there is no end.

I always thought it was Gisnep and the G was turned around backwards like the R in Toys R Us, to appeal more to kids.
I knew it was Disney but I thought maybe Gisnep had died and he was the true founder of Disney.

I also thought Enid Blyton was a man called Guild or Guide Blyton.

I did not know this!

If the police come to visit me, I will answer the door 2 seconds after they knock like I am stood there waiting for them, as I am opening the door I will offer them a drink, when they ask to use the toilet I will tell them the interesting stuff is in the other room if they want to snoop there instead

Note I am not talking about the genuine police, just the tv versions

If you wash berries in white vinegar, they won’t get moldy because it kills the mold spores. This blew my mind. It’s spores that make berries moldy - not age. Before I knew this, I apparently had a medieval biological view of mold as spontaneously generating inevitably with time. 😂

The "Houston we have a problem" reminds me of my mum- she messaged me last year saying "Euston we have a problem" and when I pointed out it was Houston, she adamantly told me that I'm British and therefore we use Euston. She just couldn't grasp that Houston is a place and the reasons for saying that specific phrase, and that in England we should say Euston as that's a place here that makes more sense.

I just learned of the “Shefly” trousers that zip down farther so women can pee without having to pull down their trousers. I thought that flies could only zip down so far because that was the rule of trousers! No, it’s because they’re only designed for the male anatomy. Mind blown.

I always though that the cramps came from the fact that the blood is the lining of the womb, and the cramps are contractions of the womb as it does the shedding of the lining.

There is no such thing as pineapple tree

These are going to be trending on the Baby name threads now, aren't they? 🤣

WHAT? I need to Google this as you've blown my mind

No, you're wrong, they're just more intensely dried grapes, so tiny shrivelled raisins.

Mind. Blown. 😂

I thought my sister had an amazing way of remembering the order of the 8 singles ( 45rpm records ) she played as I knew which would come next each time. Then I learnt about LPs!

@LipsSoScarlet was your ex Romanian? Because the noise you make when you sneeze in Romanian is “hapciu” (pronounced “hapchoo).

Me too!

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Well, bugger me...

You are both wrong. Currants are just a different type of dried grape. They are a small variety, hence a small currant.

In UK broadcasting we say TX minus 10 minutes which means transmission (ie - we’re on air in ten minutes). Perhaps in the US it’s just T?

Goodness, I've only just realised this now!

Barold has had me weeping with laughter. That's the best!

That the purpose of the News is to share new things with us. Probably completely obvious to everyone one else, but I feel superhuman every morning when it’s on and I now understand what it means (41yo Director of a company here 😂🤦‍♀️!)

They’re not peculiar to the U.K. market. People in Germany eat them, for example. They’re called Korinthen.