Stuff (trivia) that you should have known but didn't...

[LikeDylanInTheMovies]

At the age of 36 I've discovered that

1. Shirley McClaine and Warren Beatty were brother and sister

2. Camels store fat and not water in their humps.

People I've told about my discoveries have universally responded with 'well yeah, everyone knows that'.

Any other factoids you were well behind the curve with?

Erinsborough is based on an anagram of neighbours

That has actually blown my mind!

This thread has made me smile - love Mia sorella & neighbours especially.

Everyone on earth is born with the ability to wiggle their ears, but if you don’t learn how early on, the muscle atrophies and you can’t learn any longer.

If your petrol gauge doesn't have an arrow on it, does it have an image of a pump with the pump nozzle on the side which has the filler cap?

Bingo!

I didn't know you could microwave bacon or that you could toast potato waffles.

Erinsborough is based on an anagram of neighbours

But their aren't enough Os or Rs to make neighbours.

desolate there's only 1 R and O in Neighbours...

'based'

Australians are probably a bit more free and easy with their anagrams.

'Strewth Bruce, so what if it's missing a few letters. Don't be such a dag'.

Balls, I meant to make Erinsborough.

Either way it doesn't work as an anagram.

Not trivia, but I do wish I lived in the UK, if only to have cheese & onion crisps. Here in Canada, we have ketchup

Shtoppen I'll send you some over... Nobody in my household eats them.

Don't tease me, not

I would have a house full of happiness. I swear, between my DS and me loving Doctor Who, Sherlock and Torchwood, and DD living for CBeeBies programming, I fear we may only be accidentally Canadian.

Heck, we lived in London on the River Thames for 3 years (just not the one in SE England).

For those of you who are adamant that blue is the correct crisp packet colour for salt and vinegar crisps I present to you Australia's bizarre choice of colour:
www.google.com.au/search?q=smiths+salt+and+vinegar&client=safari&hl=en-au&biw=320&bih=460&prmd=isvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwizx5WZkcfOAhVIE5QKHcTmAfQQ_AUICCgB#imgrc=p_BCr3hlDbKRiM%3A

Pink!!

But pink is for prawn cocktail! Everybody knows that!

Camels actually get more water due to storing fat than they would storing water.
Fats are made up of a compound of hydrogen and carbon. When the fat is burned by the body, oxygen combines with the hydrogen to create water in the body.
Burning 1kg of fat creates more than 1kg of water.

Bugger chickens laying soft or hard eggs... I seem to have a fact in my head that chickens are androgynous???? Or have both dicks and cunts? Or can fertilise their own eggs?

Something like that.

Oh, I had to explain to someone that eggs need to be fertilised to grow into chickens.

Chickens have one orifice used both for laying eggs and for weeing and pooing. Is that what you meant? Because all that other stuff - no!
And for the poster whose hens lay soft shelled eggs - could they be stressed because you are watching them lay? They like a bit of privacy.

Another 'i never knew that's moment from watching the Olympics tonight (indirectly). My wife commented that it was a pity Mark had to wait around for Colin now the swimming has finished.

I hadn't realised that Colin Jackson and Mark Foster are a couple and have been together for years. They both seem lovely and very well matched.

"Dicks and cunts". How lovely.

enough

Eh? What is that in reference to?

For years I thought it was 'light saver', not 'lightsaber'. I've also just learnt a prune is a dried plum - I always thought it was a fruit in its own right.

I also remember Dh having a lovely conversation on the phone to the hotel when we were planning our wedding - we want a wedding dinner not a breakfast Also bil thought wedding favours were where you call people up to ask them for a wedding related favour eg drive aunt mabel to the church.

Also that Timbuktu is a real place - I used to think it was just a saying.

squoosh, as an Aussie, that made me genuinely lol.