Things you’ve only just found out

[TheChosenTwo]

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

How else would the light get in?

How else would it change size in different light levels if not a hole contracting? You know pupils are small in brught light and large in the dark / under the influence of various drugs though?

We used to sing this hymn at school assembly called I Jesus I Have Promised and there's a lyric in there "I hope to follow duly." Cue a girl in my sister's class whispering to her " who is Julie? "

This isn't new information for me, but do you know how they do laser eye surgery? They slice through the front of your cornea then fold the flap back so they can laser your eye. Then they fold the flap back over when they're done. 😱

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What!!!

Pineapples are so called because of their resemblance to pinecones.

Brunei people: maybe you're confusing it with Bahrain? They're both tiny (can't see them on an average sized world map), Muslim, monarchies, rich, high on the development index, piss poor on human rights, and begin with B.

Air Up bottles

Well I’m feeling considerably less stupid now! It’s definitely the ‘ness’ part. Inverness, Loch Ness, Durness, all in Scotland.
Ness means ‘from the headland’ which is suppose makes sense as Scotland seems to sort of splinter out into frilly edges from the mainland.

Platypus are venomous

Outrageous!!
Yorkshire will refuse you entry!

Mine's never kept in the box, I buy it perforated to alleviate most problems.

No way. Mind blown 🤯

@Haffiana goodness knows. Artists, eh? [shrug]

@PopcorningLikeAHappyGuineaPig Forty years later I (the bearer of a fairly popular-at-the-time name) still do a little smirk when we sing that. Particularly apposite as I was Head Chorister when we first sang it...

I remain unconvinced by the peppers thing.

Didn't you wonder where all those Nepalese Sherpas came from?

As a child when we sang 'There is a green hill far away without a city wall' I couldn't understand why a green hill would need a city wall in the first place.

That post menopause as well as your fanny drying up faster than the Horn of Africa and your eyes doing the same - your pubes also disappear . I’ve gone from a Kate Bush bush to a Prince William seemingly overnight. And my flaps have grown so quickly I reckon I could easily park a Mini Cooper in there without any lube whatsoever

Owned by the man who made the film....

Unless you're Band Aid and then, apparently it never snows in Africa at Christmas time. What a crock of shit. There's 54 countries in Africa and some pretty high mountains north of the equator (so winter at the same time of year as us), I'm fairly sure it snows on some of them in December.

As a young teen I was roundly mocked because I thought the Pennine way was a walk in Italy. Clearly the Apennines had lodged themselves in my brain somewhere and I’d gotten muddled, but that was definitely my most embarrassing geography mistake!

The words must have changed, maybe because of multiple people being confused! We sing 'outside a city wall'.

Compared to many on this thread I think that's quite understandable!