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?

Is this a wind up?

I'm with you OP....surely they do grow on trees!!

So's DS2, maybe that's it.

That was to mustbemad.

Anyone know how lentils are grown?

I've always wondered.

Pineapples Arsenals

Didn't post!

I love these threads great fun and you learn stuff!

NOBODY knows everything it's fun to keep learning.

If you're teaching your kids 9 times table use their hands/fingers.

Displayed you put down the corresponding finger for how many times 9 you want the answer for.

So palms facing you fingers splayed

1 X 9 - fold thumb 9 fingers on right = 9

2 X 9 fold forefinger - thumb = 1 unit of 10, to the right of the folded finger = 8, answer = 18 and so forth.

If you're doing bookkeeping/accounts if your figures are "out" by a number divisible by 9 chances are there's a transposed (swapped) 2 neighbouring figures somewhere.

If you're out by an even number chances are it's an odd figure that's wrong.

Doesn't ALWAYS apply but most of the time.

Lentils grow in a pod, like peas.

I did know about pineapples but had forgotten again! Was eating a salad one day and suddenly needed to know how celery grew, and then peppers! I didn't know till last year that a green pepper ripened into a yellow pepoer, then to an orange pepper, then tax-free I honestly thought they were different varieties

And I got sniggered loudly at in my pre natal class for asking what age a baby's eyes opened (in my defence, I'm a vet and puppies and kittens don't open their eyes for 7-10 days, how the hell would you know?? Wasn't in any baby books!)

And for years I thought Arkansas and "Arkensaw" were two different places...

In my early 30s my husband was shocked I had never heard of the turin shroud - at Christmas I learnt st-germain is elderflower liquor

What!!! I'm an educated 36 year old and this is news to me!

Thanks lougle

I only learned on holiday last year even confronted by a field of pineapple bushes in Cuba.

If it any consolation, most people on the day trip, of varying ages between 20-70 and from a variety of countries were all shocked as to how pineapples grew too. We all expected trees.

Platypus you're obviously more organised in your shopping than I am! I've often started with one of those mixed bags of peppers and ended up with them all yellow or red. There's some lovely chilli pepper varieties which ripen from green through purple and yellow to red - upi get all four colours on the plant at once, very pretty.

Celery is in the same family as carrot, parsnip, fennel, parsley and dill. You just eat different parts of the plant.

Figs host wasps who lay eggs in them and the figs are pollinated by the larvae. There is generally a dead wasp in figs. Figs produce an enzyme that dissolved the wasp carcass.

Very glad I don't like figs.

Certain types of cacti 'walk' also. I knew the pineapple thing from visiting the lost gardens of heligan a few years ago - I was surprised too! Apparently they were deemed very exotic and worth shedloads of money.

I once had a ridiculous conversation where a person was telling me that pineapples grew on trees. I said 'No they don't't. I have been to Hawaii and seen them growing in rows along the ground'.

He wouldn't believe me and told me I was wrong .

don't

I'm having a Day of the Triffids flashback at all this chatter about trees walking 😱

Perfectly i suspect in that case they would be labelled as cheating 😂 My DD is insistent that if she can lick her elbow she must also be able to lick her nose (like her grandad) but currently her tongue isn't long enough 😂

Email addresses aren't case sensitive.

the word gullible is not a real word and not in the dictionary

I want to double check but Im trying to stop myself..

GladAllOver
Many people don't realise that 'gullible' is not a real word and isn't in the dictionary.

Poor mustbemad17 really fell for that one!

Me? Well, for years I thought that the Hoi Polloi were upper-class, not the riff-raff.

That Evelyn Waugh was a man and that Evelyn can be a man's name at all!
A friend knew a couple both called Evelyn. They used to get called Hevelyn and Shevelyn.

Walking i'm having a slow day 😝 Some of these are making me question my entire life, they need verifying!!