things you didnt know, but should... mine is rice :/

[RainbowsAndFrogs]

i honestly have just had to google how rice is made. i wasnt sure if it was man made or grown. i know
i knew but wasnt 100%

honestly i have A levels and generally educated, although apparently not as much as i thought?

please tell me im not alone!

I have seen quite a number of things on this thread that I didn't know before and I too thought it was Knights in White Satin.

'Knights' might not make sense, but neither does 'nights'; it was the 60, most song lyrics made no sense whatsoever.

When you cry you also get tears in your nose and throat.

Netflix - I didn’t know they were so lacking in any ethics whatsoever. Thankfully one of the few in the country not subscribing so not a hypocrite😅....total sad reflection of society’s inability to live a #kind life 🙈🙈🙈🙈

[quote OwlBeThere]@YesPleaseMary because it’s the one connected to the bladder 😂😂😂😂

@Eckhart I had a hysterectomy and they left my ovaries in, some years later I had some stomach issues and they sent me for a scan and well, let’s just say ovaries that are not connected to anything don’t stay put, one was right down in my pelvis, the other somewhere higher up but ON THE SAME SIDE!
They also told me that day that even thoughit wasn’t likely it was ‘theoretically’ possible for an egg from those ovaries to be fertilised and start developing. I sent my then husband off to get the snip three weeks later I was so freaked out! I’m still not sure if he was serious![/quote]
It is. I have one ovary on one side and one Fallopian tube on the other but could still get pregnant. The body goes all out to ensure conception.

@Feminist10101

Come on, you expect us to believe that you don't understand why everyone's not training their children in all trades?

Do you know many real people?

Thousands. And as a senior HR professional I despair at a large percentage of them.

Yes but are any of them your friends?

My one: I thought hr people were supposed to be empathetic and to help employees with problems

Also, I'm pretty sure the original kidneys are still attached and not floating freely round the body.

@FoxyTheFox

My 6yo can dismantle a chest of drawers with an electric screwdriver and not with my blessing

In the song "This little piggie...", the piggie that went to market was not going shopping.

😱

Until my mid-teens, I thought the phrase “dilute to taste” on a bottle of squash was a warning that the squash tasted dilute (ie too strong to drink) rather than an instruction to water down the squash to how you'd like it to taste.

Lol, 'friends'....

@alexdgr8

i didn't realise that at a boxing/wrestling match, at the beginning of each round when they say, seconds out ! round 2, the seconds are people who support assist the contenders. like in duelling. i'd assumed it was an antiquated way of saying, time's up.

I didn't know that either!

I think I was in my teens before I realised that the Wombles were from Wimbledon Common, not that they themselves were common

I used to think it was the Wombles of Wimbledon, coming are we. As in here we come, the Wombles of Wimbledon. I had no idea what a common was either.

*  this I noticed a place called Zeeland. Wondering if New Zealand was named after this place. Different spelling I know but*

Abel Tasman was the first European to reach NZ according to history, he was Dutch. It's why we have the Tasman sea between Oz and NZ, Tasman national park, Tasman lake etc and why the Aussies have tasmania.

I was 40 when I realised that you sing the alphabet to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

@Acrasia

I was 40 when I realised that you sing the alphabet to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

Oh my god. How have I never linked these.

@Henio

I've been spelling whisky wrong my entire life up until a few days ago

It's 'whisky' in Scotland and its whiskey' in Ireland.

@CloudyGladys

Until my mid-teens, I thought the phrase “dilute to taste” on a bottle of squash was a warning that the squash tasted dilute (ie too strong to drink) rather than an instruction to water down the squash to how you'd like it to taste.

I thought it meant you weren't allowed to taste it straight from the bottle, because it was dangerous if you let it pass your lips undiluted.

I also thought everyone in a courtroom had more or less the same, interchangeable job, and that anyone in a wig was a judge. I was in my early twenties and observing a trial for a postgraduate course when I discovered this wasn't the case. Fortunately I was not a law student.

I know why we all think it’s Knights in White Satin.

I downloaded this on something highly questionable 20 odd years years ago to put on my playlist, and whoever had uploaded it originally had incorrectly spelt it Knights.
I bet we all downloaded that same link 🤣

Literally sat here reading through some of these and going "hey dh did you know this, I didn't" a few he didn't either including the statue of liberty and knights/nights in white satin.

Mines more misheard lyrics.
I thought I was "they paved paradise, we put up a fucking fight"
I was 8 and sang that to my dad, I got in so much trouble for swearing 😂 until I looked up the lyrics last year I was still singing that (I'm 30 now)

I think I was in my teens before I realised that the Wombles were from Wimbledon Common, not that they themselves were common

Maybe a whole generation of us just thought they were common wombles - that is how it was sung though wasnt it! I reckon we were just duped plus I had no idea what a common was

"Wombles of Wimbledon (slight pause...then )
Common are we"

The kidney thing is going round and round my head

The "seconds out" one amazing!

I was far older than I should have been when I found out radiators have water in them, and also, but on a completely different subject that glacé cherries are actually cherries, not just sweets you put on cakes.
On the horse/pony subject I thought they died if they lay down. I blame Enid Blyton and Malory Towers for that one.

When I saw a picture of a cashew nut growing. Mind blown.

Last year I found out that Mallorca and Majorca were the same place.

I'm 52 and have two masters degrees.

(Neither is in geography)

@IHaveBrilloHair

I was far older than I should have been when I found out radiators have water in them, and also, but on a completely different subject that glacé cherries are actually cherries, not just sweets you put on cakes. On the horse/pony subject I thought they died if they lay down. I blame Enid Blyton and Malory Towers for that one.

Only when they have colic and not always, at least I think that's what the books said.

@Goingdooolally I've just done some googling. Who knew? I had never heard of a cashew apple.

OMG! I feel so ignorant now!

I didn't know what graffiti was until I went to University and saw it explained on the back of a bog door.

Nights in White Satin refers to sexy time upon satin sheets, doesn't it?