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?

I hope IN the ground was a typo...

cashews and Brazil nuts are weird definitely never eating those again ugh!

Pate is nice. Liver is gross. There's nothing wrong with holding both these opinions at once.

I keep finding out about pineapples then forgetting again. My brain clearly thinks they should grow on trees.
I found out recently on MN that the state of Arkansas in the US is pronounced 'arkinsaw'.

Do all cashews grow with scary faces!?

Ooh yes, bananas are berries, aren't they? But strawberries and raspberries aren't berries, because their seeds are on the outside.

You can do a cool trick with bananas. Get a needle and thread, and push it through from one side of a banana to another, then again to the next side and so on until you've gone around all the sides, then finally put the needle from the last side through the first hole, then pull the thread so you draw the thread through the banana flesh and out through that one hole. Repeat that several times down the length of the banana. When you peel the banana, it will be sliced.

I found out that the last time anyone walked on the moon was 40 - FORTY - years ago... seems an awfully long time.

I only know about pineapples because I saw an Elvis Presley film on TV when I was a kid set in Hawaii where he sings in a pineapple plantation!

Peanuts aren't actually nuts.

Well, as hyenas are born almost fully developed - with teeth - something seems a little weird there I'm guessing hyenas are only children

In the ground was an autocorrect, promise 😋

Having googled cashews I see that the seed case is highly poisonous but the toxin is destroyed by roasting. How did they find this out?

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

I find that entertaining. Probably because I’m from Switzerland ;)

But ‘we’ (well. Not the whole country but a rather well known bakery chain) do have Luxemburgerli, which are small macaroons...

*macarons.

Chowmum it definitely made me cringe! Totally the wrong fact to spout in order to impress a group of mum's with babies, put it that way!

I also didn't know that bears give birth in hibernation. I want to be a bear

Wait, Holland isn't a country?? Since when?

The clocks go back an hour for 5 months only (Nov to March). They go forward for 7 months (April to October).

The long summer days are just around the corner!

It used to be quite complicated though:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Summer_Time

That the tags on Kickers represent port (left/red) / starboard (green/right).

I'm 57 and just found out about pineapples 😂😂😂. I guess if it was a quiz question I'd have guessed at ground grown rather than tree grown but not something you ever think about really. (And I consider myself reasonably intelligent lol)

I've got to 37 and just found out about pineapples, various nuts and that a banana tree walks! (It's that age again....)

What the hell do you people do all day long? The ignorance is astounding.

Strawberry is a "swollen receptacle" - it's the swollen tip of the stem (where the flower was attached), with the seeds on the outside. Raspberry and blackberry are clusters of drupes if I remember correctly - a drupe is a seed with a hard shell and a soft bit round the outside, like plum, almond, peach.

So, yeah, peanuts aren't nuts, but most "nuts" aren't nuts. Almond is a drupe, as are walnuts and pecans. Brazil nuts are seeds within a capsule. Hazelnuts are nuts, though.

Chow
Milk teeth are razor sharp. Ouch sore nipples.

what the hell do you people
Do all day long? The ignorance is astounding

I can't speak for everyone, but i walk around with my head in a bucket so as to avoid walking trees