What obvious adult discoveries made you feel a bit of a plonker?

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What’s something you learnt as an adult that made you think that’s completely obvious and yet I have never considered that….i feel like a bit of a plonker?

Mine was when taking tablets, the more you drink with it the better it will dissolve. I think alot of tablets are testing with the assumption people will drink 250ml alongside it.

It sounds so ignorant and uneducated, grates on me.

It's not being open about women's bodies. It's paying attention in biology class

Same here. I knew I had a vagina and a vulva but that was it.

I didn't know that an ox was essentially a job title for a cow. I always thought it was another word for a bull. Ox are usually (but not always) castrated male cattle who have been trained to pull things, but a female cow can also be an ox.

Apparently it doesn't have your chance of getting pregnant as the tube can reach over an snatch the egg from the other side.

I was surprised to learn that Hamelin (as in the Pied Piper) is a real place: Hameln in Germany. I have visited it, and there are lots of model rats, and frequent events where people dress as the Pied Piper. While the legend of the piper is not true, it might have been based on a historical event in which many children died.

Oh my goodness you’ve just traumatised me at almost 65 years old with the little piggy! I genuinely never understood the market situation! 😂 wow

I always thought that unicorns were real and lived in the Black Forest thanks to my dad. Funnily enough I thought seahorses were mythical.

Oh I feel so stupid! I didn’t get that either!

I remember the moment I realised that ....as a teenager

No, relax, the little piggy really did go to the market to shop. I remember the Ladybird book illustration, she had a basket with her.

Oh, really? Along with the skeletons of whales, mice, tigers, house flies, and kangaroos? 😂

@SweetnsourNZ EXCUSE ME?!

You can spit out the foam, @Allseeingallknowing - just don’t rinse with water - then you’ll still end up with enough fluoride on your teeth to protect them.

I think what @Bargarran refers to is the findings of archaeological digs on Mount Ararat, Eastern Turkey, that match the given length, shape, etc of said ark. So while not conclusive, people do believe that it hit there.

Oh I love this! And seahorses are mad so can see that!!

When my husband and I first cooked together he insisted that a colander was called a corinder. Had to drag him to Tesco homeware to prove it before he would admit he was wrong.

Literally found that out a few months ago ..I'm 54..

Milngavie

Id you know you know .

I only found this out just now, from you 🤣 now I'm not sure what's going on with ox tail soup, it's just cow tail soup?

I once worked with a girl who thought bread crusts were nutritionally superior to the crumb. More worryingly, this was in a restaurant and she'd previously worked in a bakery.

My late ex-husband used to do this with pain killers, antibiotics and any other medicines he had to take, despite the fact that, when we were still married, I explained to him over and over why it was a bad idea.

It was almost as if he saw it as being a macho thing and that people who drank water with pills were, somehow, a bit weak.

In later life he suffered horribly with acid re-flux and indigestion. I often wondered if it was caused by years of drying swallowing all those various pills.

Oh my god.my mum.always said chimley so I too always said it.
I was in my 30s before I realised (helped by rear watch of Mary Poppins of all things)😀

I found this one out very recently too, in my early 30s, and my mind was BLOWN.

That cows have to be pregnant in order to produce milk. No idea why it didn't occur to me before.