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!

A bit like saying East Anglia is the same as England.
In many Slavic languages, the name for England is Anglia (or similar). Almost a perfect parallel to Netherlands / Holland.

Oh wow i wrote this last night while a bit tipsy (and eating rice) and have finally gone through all the comments!

So I know rice is grown but I just can't picture it, how it looks on a plant 🙈
I will Google

Love some of these responses, (and relate to more than I care to admit!)

@SusannahSophia

Raisins and sultanas are dried grapes, it’s true, but currants are dried currants, as in blackcurrants and redcurrants.

According to Google, currants are dried small Zante grapes.

@TheChippendenSpook

I didn't know until this week that the Statue of Liberty was made of copper and was therefore originally copper coloured and it turned to its greeny colour over time.

I used to think it was made out of some sort of crock as a child. its the same colour as out old bathroom so I thought it was like a bathroom tile?

@ReallyLazy

Killer whales (orcas) are a type of dolphin. All dolphins are whales, not all whales are dolphins. There are whales with teeth that 'dolphins' fall in to and whales with the filter mouths. Filter mouths are just whales, not dolphins.

Misread this and thought you were saying the Dolphins get eaten by whales with teeth...

I thought it was Gilbert and Sullivan for years.
My geography is appalling and I'm still not convinced Timbuktu is real. Also Transylvania until I met someone from there and had to keep a very straight face. The kidneys being left in thing is freaking me out, and I'm a nurse! Imagining rotten kidneys floating around inside...

@Nanny0gg

Just curious,

How does #Knights in white satin, never reaching the end...
make any sense?

They're on a very difficult quest. Obviously...

I got a better one - my ex thought that the pill prevented pregnancy by making the taker grow a sort of skin across the cervix!

This is sort of true though. The hormones in the pill create a mucus layer over the cervix that blocks sperm (and obviously the pill stops ovulation happening).

@Bikingbear

Some of these are crazy, Piggy going to market, Seconds out, kidneys, that's weird.

But I've a question why is it THE Netherlands, we never say THE France or THE Germany, but people talk about THE USA or America, never THE America?

Maybe because they're plural? The NetherLANDS. The United STATES of America. It works when you think of it like that. I'm not sure why The Ukraine seems to be said though.

@RainbowsAndFrogs

Oh wow i wrote this last night while a bit tipsy (and eating rice) and have finally gone through all the comments!

So I know rice is grown but I just can't picture it, how it looks on a plant 🙈
I will Google

Love some of these responses, (and relate to more than I care to admit!)

Rice is a type of grass. People used to think that instead of migrating birds just buried themselves in the mud (despite never being stood on) Edward Jenner (of small pox vaccine fame) discovered they actually flew away with the seasons. I think they used to think barnacle geese hatched out of barnacles-hence the name. I never knew bananas grew upwards on the plants until we went to Lanzarote and visited a plantation; from the shape, you'd think they hung down.

I only realised recently that the charity combat stress is for the armed forces. I've already read combat as a verb so I thought it was a charity aiming to combat stress for all stressed people rather than a noun describing stress caused by combat.

@LethargicLumpOfLockdownLard if you mean the songwriters it is Gilbert and Sullivan. Unless you’re referring to something else?

"I thought it was Gilbert and Sullivan for years".

There was a Gilbert and Sullivan. W. S Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan wrote The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance etc. Mike Leigh directed a great film about them - Topsy Turvey starring Jim Broadbent.

The 70s singer/songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan changed his first name from Ray to Gilbert as a play on their names.

As a child I got confused by there being both a Mr Spock and a Dr Spock.

@PrinnyPree

That the numbers on the toaster dial indicate time (ie minutes) rather than levels of toastiness.

DS14 and I were arguing about this the other day. He said minutes and reckons he has timed it, I thought it was levels. DH says it isn't minutes on all toasters, just some of them. I'm not sure who is right.

midnightstar66

Ruck => Rücken => back => so actually a backsack

Now I have to find out what the Him in Himbeere is for...

There's an arrow next to the petrol sign in cars which points to which side the filler cap is on.

Having driven an automatic for 20 years I only realised there was a lever to over-ride the auto feature and change the gears manually.

I thought "albeit" was pronounced "al-bite" and even dictated it to my secretary that way . Lovely lady didn't say a word, just typed it!

Akansas was in my mind "Ar-kan-sus" and not "Ar-ken-saw".

Sure there's others.

*midnightstar66

Ruck => Rücken => back => so actually a backsack

Now I have to find out what the Him in Himbeere is for...*

You just never know when this knowledge could turn out to be useful! 😆

Roses the petrol arrow thing isn’t true of all cars, in mine the arrow is the wrong side!

@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 did this last week. I woke up and had to google it... Told my DH ... he looked at me like 🤨

@EasternDailyStress

That the Sahara Desert isn't just a big patch of sand, but has entire countries in it.

Really? No... Surely? Not even sure where it is, to be honest. Africa?

dirtyminded I had the same heated conversation with DP.

As a child I always thought “cease” was pronounced like seize. Only found out when another child was reading aloud in class and pronounced it correctly. I’m still grateful that I didn’t get that particular bit to read.

@cariadlet

"I thought it was Gilbert and Sullivan for years".

There was a Gilbert and Sullivan. W. S Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan wrote The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance etc. Mike Leigh directed a great film about them - Topsy Turvey starring Jim Broadbent.

The 70s singer/songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan changed his first name from Ray to Gilbert as a play on their names.

As a child I got confused by there being both a Mr Spock and a Dr Spock.

Ahh OK, I didn't realise there were both Gilbert and Sullivan and a Gilbert O Sullivan.

I also thought it was Franks and Artra for years. Not Frank Sinatra.

When I first read the original Harry Potter all those years back I thought Hermione was said hermi- own. It was several years later that i heard someone say herm eye onay and was grateful I'd never said it out loud to anyone.

Not even sure where it is, to be honest. Africa

It's massive.