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?

lougle

Holland is a region and former province on the western coast of the Netherlands. The name Holland is also frequently used informally to refer to the whole of the country of the Netherlands.

I’ve recently learned that Bananas don’t grow on trees (but on plants). :)

Lougle, the name of the country is The Netherlands.

Yes I didn't know the pineapple thing until not that long ago really. In my head they grew on palm type trees.

Charolais I blame Black Lace for the shocking ignorance about pineapples.

All together now...

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I'm 39 and although I knew about the pineapple thing (think I heard it on an episode of q I), I didn't know about walking bloody bananas!
I'm going to have to goofgle that later.

What the hell do you people do all day long? When you should be finding out about various fruits and nuts... well, work, raise children, volunteer. Life, basically!

I thought those berries were 'groups of drupes'.

Op
We refer to Holland as the country. It’s actually the Netherlands. Two of the provinces in NL are north and southHolland. Hence the name.

Cashew fruit is delicious!! Yes the red/orange fruit above the nut.Getting off the black skin from cashew is a tough job.
Iv harvested pineapples, so known since 12

chowmum - you might be right that hyenas are only children - from wiki: "After parturition, the pseudo-penis [ie the clitoris] is stretched, and loses many of its original aspects; it becomes a slack-walled and reduced prepuce with an enlarged orifice with split lips" Ouch!

I bet harvesting pineapples is hard but it sounds soooo romantic.

"Giving birth is difficult for female hyenas, as the females give birth through their narrow clitoris, and spotted hyena cubs are the largest carnivoran young relative to their mothers' weight. During parturition, the clitoris ruptures in order to facilitate the passage of the young, and may take weeks to heal."

I don't envy the life of hyenas!

Makes human child birth a bit more bearable 😂 Poor hyenas!!

That pineapples don't grow on trees, but grow in the ground? ....what???

I only buy them as "show pineapples" and have never eaten one.

What is a "show pineapple" ? Please don't tell me you buy it just to brighten up your fruit bowl & then chuck it away?

Charollais the crushing irony of saying 'what do you people do all day long?' while yourself pissing about posting on mumsnet threads about pineapples at 4 in the afternoon. Just like ours, your life is clearly stuffed full to the brim with high cultural pursuits and a love of learning.

Another random zoo volunteer 'fact' (i'm not at all convinced by this) is that it is entirely possible for apes to take over the planet.
I think he spent too many evenings watching Planet of the Apes

I’m 28 and only found out yesterday (from my 14 DSis no less) that Washington DC is NOT in the state of Washington, but is in fact on the opposite side of the USA, on the border of Maryland.

Don't worry. orangewasp OP says the "in" was a typo. They grow on things a bit like aloes.

Summer whaaat? Is it any wonder people like me struggle with geography ffs!!

I think we're only ignorant about things outside our normal lives. Never having seen a peanut or pineapple tree, how would I know? And it's not my life is likely to depend on knowing.

Smeaton

Sorry but it’s such a cool banana fact imo.

But whenever I think about banana facts I think of the atheist’s nightmare 🙈

well if it's any comfort I am 53 and also thought that pineapples grew on trees...

I did in fact know about pineapples, as I used to pass a pineapple plantation every day during my gap yah. But peanuts - I'd assumed they grew on branches!