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Things you’ve only just found out

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TheChosenTwo · 24/05/2023 18:35

About 2 days ago I discovered that Skegness isn’t in Scotland 😳 How did I never know this before? Embarrassingly, I’m 38 😂

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BodegaSushi · 25/05/2023 20:42

LaMaG · 25/05/2023 19:57

I was a young adult before I realised mince pies do not have minced beef. In my defence, its a stupid name

It's even called minced meat! Whyyyyy? I found this out quickly when I first moved here. Disappointing.

KirstenBlest · 25/05/2023 20:42

@EpicChaos , Shirley McLaine

@LilySavage , it looks Welsh but doesn't sound it. It's PenRITH, not PENrith.
The name is probably from Welsh.

ShandaLear · 25/05/2023 20:43

dreammattemousse · 24/05/2023 18:57

I found out the real meaning of hump day..
And yes I thought it meant sex
🤯🤯

I shared this with my DP and he said, ‘Ahh yes, and it is also hump day’, and then he winked and waggled his eyebrows lasciviously 😜

Twospaniels · 25/05/2023 20:48

funnelfan · 24/05/2023 23:13

Yes, “without” used to be used to mean “opposite to within” quite a lot, but it’s old fashioned now. I think the hymn books were updated!

These days most people are unfamiliar with the old meaning of the word. Unless you live in the town of Beverley which has a road called North Bar Within and North Bar Without, depending on whether you’re inside or outside the North Bar, which is an ancient gate to the town.

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Just outside Stamford (lincs) there is a sign for “St Martins Without”, ie St martins outside of Stamford.

ThePlasticScouser · 25/05/2023 20:48

I always thought that the 2 panels on University Challenge were on top of each other and they had to climb up some stairs at the side to get to the top level. I only found this out recently. I was always madly concerned that the ones on the top may not like heights and it may affect their performance. Also, did they flip a coin to see who was on the top?

EpicChaos · 25/05/2023 20:52

@GellerYeller Well you've definitely filled in a gap in my knowledge, so i'm pleased to finally have that mystery solved after all these years. And sympathies to @JudgeJ once again.

@KirstenBlest That's the very fella! Yes, Shirley, not Shelley W. D'oh!
Cheers for putting me right!

GG1986 · 25/05/2023 20:56

That Tina Turner is actually called Anna Mae Bullock!!!!

KirstenBlest · 25/05/2023 20:56

@EpicChaos , her real name was Shirley MacLean Beaty

Zarataralara · 25/05/2023 21:01

ABBA—- only a few months ago I found I’d had Benny and Bjorn the wrong way round for almost 50 years and had them married to the wrong female singers. How did all that pass me by?

WiddlinDiddlin · 25/05/2023 21:01

OnedayIwillfeelfree · 25/05/2023 20:39

Oysters are alive when they are served in restaurants. And they are alive for up to 6 hours in your digestive system as nobody chews them, just swallows them. If you are served a dead one they are likely to poison you.

... Yeah.. and no.

Oysters you shuck yourself are alive until you rip them out of the shell. The shell structure holds them together, without it their organs (such as they are) don't work and the act of tearing the oyster out will damage them... So they're about as alive as you might be if someone tore your flesh off your bones. Not very.

Should you manage to slice one from its shell without damaging anything at all, its dead within a few seconds of hitting your stomach acid.

Jugglingtwokidsandadog · 25/05/2023 21:03

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SomersetDreams · 25/05/2023 21:03

My pharmacist said pharmacies will be closing and people won't be able to get their drugs. Start stock-piling, it coming!!!

Lloyds 800 gone ....

SomersetDreams · 25/05/2023 21:05

IN other positive news, I just found out there is Pretty Woman The musical! lol

Its so bad it might be good! nah its a bad bad production

droghedalady · 25/05/2023 21:05

Some of these... surely no one is that dense

PyongyangKipperbang · 25/05/2023 21:07

Not RTWT but I didnt know until very recently that there is a Llandudno in South Africa! Found out as we were going to Wales on holiday and I very nearly booked an apartment on the wrong continent!

Jugglingtwokidsandadog · 25/05/2023 21:09

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sasamummy · 25/05/2023 21:10

That lichen is not a plant but a symbiotic duet of fungi and algae...seems forest school for the kids is paying off!

PyongyangKipperbang · 25/05/2023 21:23

Another one from recent years that Laila Morse (Mo in Eastenders) is Gary Oldmans sister.

MissingMoominMamma · 25/05/2023 21:34

I always thought Pen-y-Ghent was a mountain in Wales.

EpicChaos · 25/05/2023 21:40

KirstenBlest · 25/05/2023 20:56

@EpicChaos , her real name was Shirley MacLean Beaty

Yes, you're quite right. How on earth i managed to mix up old Shell with Shirl, i dunno. I could see the face but the name... Arghhh!
I only remember seeing him in one film, years after it was made, i think but didn't think he was particularly handsome, so i couldn't ' get ' why he was vain. ???

Galaxyinmypocket · 25/05/2023 21:41

Up until my 20s I thought the Disney logo said disnep.

It's usually random lyrics to songs that will catch me by surprise

Funkyblues101 · 25/05/2023 21:43

BodegaSushi · 25/05/2023 20:42

It's even called minced meat! Whyyyyy? I found this out quickly when I first moved here. Disappointing.

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They used to have minced meat in them, 150 years ago or whenever they started as a thing. It was in that programme presented by Sue Perkins and Giles Coren where they ate food from various eras.

Snowtrails · 25/05/2023 21:46

longwayoff · 24/05/2023 20:35

Over time, i have bought, probably, hundreds of rolls of cling film and foil. I have just found out that every pack has a pair of push in tabs, one at either end of the pack. These tabs hold the roll in place. WHY HAVE I NEVER NOTICED THIS BEFORE?

Oh, I didn't know that!

KirstenBlest · 25/05/2023 21:48

Thee names are quite alike@EpicChaos . He was very dishy when young I thought she said like you were walking into a yard

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Yeah, I've met adult women who think. One of them was three years into a biology degree at the time. Admittedly not human biology, but even so! I've also met women (one of whom is in my family) who think that periods and babies come out of different orifices, or that the one you (most often) have penetrated during sex is not the one your period comes out of. Even one cousin in her 20s who thought that the baby gestated in the stomach (I blame people talking about the baby growing in 'mummy's tummy', although clearly she should still have twigged by now). Poor geography is one thing, but such a basic misunderstanding of your own body is worrying.

The You're So Vain one is news to me. But I'm pretty bad for misheard lyrics so it doesn't surprise me.