To have reached the age of 38 without knowing

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That pineapples don't grow on trees, but grow in the ground? I'm well educated, went to university (twice), but I had never thought about where my pineapple had come from, and it never occurred to me that the 'chopped' end was on the bottom and not the top!

What didn't you know until recently?

Viagra,if dissolved in water,will make your cut flowers stay erect for a week longer than usual........

When I was 6 my older brothers told me that pineapples grow into palm trees and I believed them for some time 🤦‍♀️
I only found out about how pineapples grow when I watched a gardening program and there was a bit about posh Victorian gardens, it was apparently on trend to have pineapple pits

51 on Thursday and it's news to me about the pineapples. I feel mildly disillusioned as I liked to think of a tree somewhere covered in big, unfeasibly shaped, spiky fruit 😆

I knew about cashew nuts as i've seen them - you can eat the fruit round the nut. It's an odd sweet sour taste and the juice stains your clothes.

I had no idea about brazil nuts, pistachios or peanuts. I'm astonished (and in my fifties)!

I've just asked my 12 year old ds about pineapples and he said in the ground and gave me a look as if to say everyone knows that then admitted he only found out last week from a McDonald's advert!

@ Chrissyhynde - I've only recently found out Luxembourg is a country in its own right, I thought it was a Swiss city !

Were you thinking of Liechtenstein, which is next to Switzerland (and does share things like a postal service, money etc as it's so small)?

Luxembourg is between France, Germany and Belgium but only if you're talking about the country - it's also a city, the capital of Luxembourg, and also a region in Belgium, the region that shares its border with Luxembourg the country... An explanation that is bigger than the country itself.

I have friends who live in Noord Holland and others who live in Zud Holland and they are quite happy for the name of their region to be used as a synonym for the Netherlands. However, yet more friends who live in the Groningen, Friesland and Brabant regions of the Netherlands get very huffy if people think they live in Holland. A bit like the English don't mind too much if the UK is called England but the Welsh and Scottish hate it.

If you are marooned on a desert island and just eat pineapples because enzymes are so strong your teeth will melt!!!!!🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍

I was always taught that a Banana was a herb?? :-)

I was watching news footage recently which showed fishermen hauling tuna fish out of the sea. I was gobsmacked because they're bloody massive. I always thought they were small fish because they come in small cans, like sardines.

To continue the fruity theme - my friend found out in her thirties that raisins are dried grapes; she thought till then that raisins were a different fruit, growing on raisin trees. She has a master’s but not in natural science obviously. 🍇

I’m 62 and i didn’t know that but, hey, even a moron like me has survived thus far into middle age, despite my collossal ignorance. I expect that any remaining years i have this side of paradise will be filled with similar epiphanies and concrete proof of my incontrovertial idiocy. I am prepared to be amazed.

karma - is that how you make a stiff drink?

I'm in my 40s and did not know about pineapples. Another interesting? fact I found out today is that almonds are seeds not nuts!

What is with angry men? Angry all the time!
I just want to turn round and drop kick him into the next millennium. He marches around the home with his high expectations and moans n grumbles. Surely to shit im not the only one bagged with the terminator 😱

Holland is a country........
It is what we call The Netherlands. It is even common to call the country 'Holland' in Holland. It's a bit like saying 'England' but meaning all of the UK (or even just all of Great Britain or just England and the Principality.......)

I found out today that most orange roughy fish (from Australia) are 100 years old - and that fishermen until 20 years ago were selling 40 year old ones in the supermarket. Used to be one of my fav fish when I lived in nz years ago. Yikes.

I love these threads

Depends what sort of tuna. Skipjack's aren't that big. Yellow fin and big eye are bigger. Albacore is quite big and bluefin are huge.
They can also go from 0 to 60 mph faster than a Porsche 911!
Birnbeck pier in Weston Super Mare is the only one in the UK joining a pier to the mainland.

Another interesting? fact I found out today is that almonds are seeds not nuts! They're drupes - a hard coated seed in the middle of a soft fruit. Like closely related apricots and peaches. Prunus persica is the peach, and we eat the fruit bit, Prunus amygdala is the almond, and we eat what would be the stone if it was a peach.

Birnbeck pier in Weston Super Mare is the only one in the UK joining a pier to the mainland. Eh??? The only one what?

The only Tuna I think....

Don't judge me. I only found out two days ago that hens are female chickens. I thought they were separate creatures that laid eggs whereas we eat chickens. The chicken and egg thing clearly passed me by. In my defence I grew up around my grandparents' farm where my uncle kept hens and roosters and they were never ever referred to as chickens. Still though

Are any nuts, nuts? So far peanuts, cashews and Brazil nuts have been exposed as imposters posing as nuts.

And now almonds!