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!

Took me far too long to realise it was Disney and not Disnep. I thought it was just one of those weird things where it's spelled the "french" way or something. Like whole Chomondley is pronounced Chumley thing

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Me too!

I was amazed when I realised in my early twenties 😂

Ned and Nellie come from when people still used thee and thou. They are affectionate ways of saying "My/mine Edward" or My/mine Ellen". I think it's rather sweet.

I still don't really get how aeroplane stays up or how high rise flats don't fall down. But shhh, or one of my very technical children will insist of explaining and then checking my knowledge by asking me to explain back to them. (I dug my own grave with that one...). I my defence my subject is English 🙈

Squares are rectangles.

So many typos- argh!

Capers aren't fish???????!

I never understood why Toilet Duck would go through the trouble to make a bottle with a nasty s-shaped neck. Looked like a Design Fail. Until I realised it was so as to deposit bleach under the rim of the toilet. What blew my mind even more was that you actually had to clean under the rim😱

You know those films / mini series, covering 50 years or something?

I thought they had to wait for the cast to age

Was in my 20s before it dawned on me that they used different actors...

Also in my 20s when I realised "Amazing Grace" wasn't about Grace Darling

You are both correct and wrong, but anyway, this explains. There are grape currants, but there are also dried red or black currants

www.healthline.com/nutrition/raisins-sultanas-currants

Thanks.

I don’t remember being taught this when I was a child though, but now, thanks to Miss Cooper I know all about it!

Nights not knights
Satin as in sheets I assume.

But certainly not jousting (unless that is a euphemism)

Good luck with that one, my pub quiz team refuse to accept it, and I was a Head of Maths, they also refuse to accept that a bird is an animal. Apparently my talkng about classification of living and non living etc. is just me being a smart arse!

I didn't know that!

I am 43 and just found this out, from my dad, today!

I thought it was knights in white satin as well, always picture them with billowy satin sleeves upon horseback..I'm 45.

I work in EYFS and we teach this but I’m sure that I wasn’t taught this? I’m 47 - I just misremembering?

I thought Gill must be short for Gillary (like Hilary) 😂

I thought that dandelions (yellow ones) and dandelions (the ones you blow to tell the time) were different plants with the same name. Until last year. I’m 36.

Exactly! In black and white slow motion, riding over sand dunes or heroically into battle.
But no.

I actually once saw Corinth grapes in a supermarket. They are tiny, smaller than blueberries.

This thread is an awful lot of education for a Saturday night half a bottle in type thing, so I'm justgoing to say i only just learned that jim is the shortened version of James. James is one syllable ffs, who the hell decided Jim was the way forward from that?

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Smarties used to have questions on the pack and you could open the tube to find the answer.. I think they once claimed 'octopuses' had 6 legs!

Are we in the same WhatsApp group...? 🤔

I didnt realise until my thirties that "birthday suit" meant naked. I thought it meant your best clothes Like when I was a child when my mum used to make me dress in my best clothes for special occasions such as my birthday. I remember as clear as day the moment the penny dropped. Looking back i think I've disappointed a few men in my time turning up in my best gear