To have reached the age of 38 without knowing

[lougle]

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?

As a relationship strategy, aisle altar hymn never works well.

Thanks Lougle.

That really does look weird.

Getting back to bananas did you know
A cluster of bananas are called a ‘hand’ and a single banana is known as a ‘finger’.

Wanderings, Leeds Castle is in Leeds, just the small village of Leeds near Maidstone, not the more well-known city oop north.

I thought fennel was a herb like parsley or rosemary until a couple of years ago (I'm 37)

Apparently pigs orgasms last half an hour (lucky pigs)

I also didn't know that nuts grow on trees until the last couple of years!

I was going to argue. I was convinced I'd seen a programme where a pineapple had fallen out of a tree and injured someone quite badly.

After thinking about it, it was actually a cartoon and COCONUTS dropping on their head. Causing a nasty bump.

Not interesting but my 2 pence worth!

In my next life I want to be a pig. It'd be a short life because, well bacon, but 30 minutes....

I knew the Leeds Castle thing. I knew the pineapple thing although can't really preen as like a previous poster my knowledge came from farmville
Candles though
Hyenas I wish I still didn't know
Intrigued by walking banana trees/plants though???

At a candlelit service at church last month, we all started with identical candles lit more or less at the same time, spread out on the back of each pew. I was sitting in the front row and I was intrigued why my candle burnt more quickly than the person's on my left but not as fast as the person on my right - I put it down to just random variation in the wax / wick. Until..At the end of the service I turned around to see all candles down the right-hand side had burnt to the base, while those down the left-hand side had a way to go. The only explanation was the positioning of the church heating, which meant the right-hand candles were slightly warmer, which had a subtle effect on burn rate

More likely to be the air flow , which of course could be affected by the heating. Or a draught from Windows or doors. If you blow on a candle it makes it burn more quickly .

Courgettes are baby marrow, the clue is in the names. In the UK we say courgette which is French for 'little marrow' and in Aus and US they say Zucchini which is Italian for 'little marrow'.

Everyone is born with a hole in the heart - it normally closes a few days after birth.

I was busy imagining pineapples growing in the ground like a potato... now that would have been news to me. I did not know a peanut grew underground and was a legume!

Do you know that a man once counted to 1 million. It took nearly 3 months... Seriously

Presumably that wasn't 3 months of continuous counting though... nobody can survive 3 months without sleep, they'd be dead!

6 hours a day for three months is about 2 million seconds, so I think that's doable with breaks (keeping up concentration must be hard - did he have the numbers written down in front of him? did anyone independently witness every number?).

Pointless, but doable if you have nothing else to do.

6 hours a day for three months is about 2 million seconds, so I think that's doable with breaks (keeping up concentration must be hard - did he have the numbers written down in front of him? did anyone independently witness every number?).

Pointless, but doable if you have nothing else to do.

Sorry about the double-post.

I know far too much trivia by the looks of this thread.
I am surprised Hyenas arnt extinct!
Hyenas sex organs are enlarged due to the high amount of hormones she surges into her young during pregnancy to make the cubs more aggressive so they have a better chance of survival. this makes the clitori hang several inches outside the body and mating is apparently a v. Difficult artform the males have to perfect.They frequently die during childbirth due to trying to heavy tears trying to expel the cub and have low female hormones so quite often have low fertility.
Cats penis' are barbed to trigger ovulation apparently that's why she yowls afterwards as it's painful coming out. As far as i am aware the first mating doesn't result in pregnancy and she can get pregnant by several toms. This is from childhood biology and if i am wrong cat breeders can correct me.
I know about pinapples as you can get the decorative garden mini version
i always remember Leonardo DVinci invented the scissors and still impresses me

Yes, cats can have a litter where the kittens have more than one father. It's very common.

It's hard to visualise a million. I remember a computer (90's style) at the Geological Museum, which said on a screen: here is 100 dots.
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It then showed 1000 dots; which doesn't look like many. It then said: now for a million! And the whole room lit up with dots.

It also asked questions such as: how many hairs on your head and body? 1000, 30000, or a million?

I'm 61 and always assumed that pineapples grow on trees.It isn't April 1st is it?Confused.

You know, I blame the person who named then pineAPPLES, it's their fault. Apples grow on trees so of course logic and lack of seeing them in their growing state is going to make most people associate them with trees. That and the fact they are cut at both ends so either one could have been attached. Orange and lemon trees have spikes, long deadly ones, that's something I learned last year and I learned it the hard way

Shhhsleeping that's how I tell my left from my right used to drive my driving instructor mad years ago learning to drive...

From what I understand it sounds easy because people think 1 number per second.. only that's not quite accurate when you get up to the big numbers that take a lot longer.

When I commented this morning I actually timed myself reciting "974,110... 974,111... " just to get a sense, so I thought 2 seconds per number on average was feasible. But if you don't have them written in front of you, it's probably harder to sustain that pace for hours.

DullandOld I just did that and realised what a tit I looked... must go look in that dictionary to see if gullible really isnt in it....
mered the skipper shells just reminded me about clown fish.... about the leader being female and the rest male and when she dies a male becomes female and findingnemo is inaccurate because of this as Marvin would have become nemos mum a lot of anglerfish species are predominantly female, the male of the species are born tiny without jaws so cannot feed and when the female sends off pheromones he finds her and attaches himself to her for the rest of his life giving sperm in exchange for food