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!

@timeforanewstart

A turkey crown isn't that when you buy it rolled and boneless ?

No, it's the breast still on the bone, with the legs and wings removed.

Laughing out loud at the tinsel turkey crown! Yup, it's a smaller cut of the breast on the bone, no wings or legs.

@carlaCox

It's the tinsel hat that the Christmas turkey wears, as an emblem of its importance on Christmas day...

Ah I should have guessed! Thanks!

OK OK I'm sorry. It's actually the beautiful, glittery, sparkly, specially designed spiky bejewelled contraption the turkey sits on, as the centre of the table decorations, at Christmas dinner...

@DixieLandReject

I'm 33 and didn't know that Bob Geldof was Irish until very recently.

Why would you know that?

Presumably if you'd heard him talk you'd have realised but he's hardly a public figure anymore, seems a bit of a niche thing to be surprised that you didnt know.

Your native kidneys are (usually) left in because there is no point in the added trauma of removing them. They are left exactly as they were, sometimes they are even functioning at 1 or 2% so still producing a small amount of urine therefore need to be plumbed in.
If you have polycystic kidney disease or kidney cancer then they are removed (not always at the same time) if they are causing issues.
The native kidneys that have stopped functioning still have a blood supply and are not dead, they are just not performing their filtering function properly, hence the kidney failure.
Over time they usually shrivel and are eventually absorbed into the body as any other dead cells e.g. leaked blood in a bruise or any body cell that is old and being replaced in the constant turnover of cells happening all the time...
The donor kidney is connected to the blood vessels and ureter in the pelvis by making an incision and grafting the vessels on, therefore there is no need to remove the native kidneys to make the connection, unlike the heart liver or lungs.
Your body doesn’t communicate with a specific kidney, messages are sent through the blood by hormones so any kidney, native or donor, will respond to the hormonal instructions i.e. produce more or less urine…

@Knickerbockerglories

WOW. So it's like a kidney graft, rather than a transplant. That's amazing. And much less gross if they're still connected to the blood supply and not just floating about dead. I feel much better about it now. The phrase 'native kidney' made me laugh - I hope I'm not offending anyone who's had to go through having a new kidney.

Ok so someone just said Pontefract is the home of Haribo?
Really??
I thought it was Japanese, but I honestly don't know why I thought that.

Haribo are a German company

Haribo (/ˈhærɪboʊ/ HARR-i-boh) is a German confectionery company founded by Hans Riegel Sr. It began in Kessenich, Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia. The name "Haribo" is an acronym formed from Hans Riegel Bonn. The company created the first gummy candy in 1922 in the form of little gummy bears called Gummibärchen.
Number of employees: ~7,000 (2018)
Founder: Hans Riegel Sr.
Founded: December 13, 1920; 99 years ago

I've had to change a wheel 4 x in 30 + years of driving. That included the time DH had an interview & went out to a flat tyre.
He took my car, I changed the wheel on his and dropped the punctured one off at the tyre centre on the way to work.

So not a regular occurrence, but one that is useful to be able to do, as I'd prefer to change it and be on my way than wait for a breakdown service.

And anyone who has taken a recent driving test may have been asked to show the examiner how to check the engine oil...

@Judashascomeintosomemoney

My one is, I genuinely always thought the song was Knights in white satin. It never occurred to me that satin would be really crap armour. Nights makes so much more sense. 🙄

Til right this moment I thought it was Knights in white satin.... dress down Friday perhaps.... Dammit!

I didn't know pineapples grew in the ground until a trip to The Eden Project 10 years ago, I thought they grew on trees!

@habibihabibi

I genuinely though babies were born with milk teeth until I had my first

To be fair some babies are born with teeth. My ex was. Not a full set mind!

Oh dear, that's all I want to say

Just found out that dolphins can’t breath underwater and they sleep. 🙈

I only realised the other week that Mr Bean is the same actor Edmund in blackadder, my husband thought I was joking I really didn’t associate being the same person 😂

@BusyEmz

Just found out that dolphins can’t breath underwater and they sleep. 🙈

They are mammals so of course they can't !

Alphabet to Row your boat... Mind Officially Blown.

Most of that video was decidedly tedious though

And I do wish people would sing nursery rhymes at a proper pitch for children (hint: a good fifth higher than that) and why do a video of yourselves singing when one of you can't stick to the key

Oh, and the other thing: the Twinkle tune is supposed to be zee not zed because it rhymes!

I know a tune for the alphabet which is None Of These.

Baa Baa Black Sheep is not the same as Twinkle Twinkle. Line one is very similar, lines two and three are identical, and line four is completely different. BBBS doesn't have lines five and six.

And my versions of Little Bo Peep and Jack & Jill are completely different tunes.

I'm unconvinced about the chicken.

@Mollymissy

I only realised the other week that Mr Bean is the same actor Edmund in blackadder, my husband thought I was joking I really didn’t associate being the same person 😂

Really? He has a very distinctive face? My DH does think I'm weird though because I am exceptionally good at recognising faces.

I love this thread, I was quite shocked about the little piggy not going shopping to the market.

@Eckhart, yes exactly, it's a graft really. It sits at the front of your abdomen in your pelvis (you can even see/feel a bulge sometimes) and is quite a distance from your own kidneys.... it's amazing really

@Prokupatuscrakedatus

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Drenthe
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Groningen
Flevoland
Friesland
Limburg
Noord-Brabant
Noord-Holland
Overijssel
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I knew the distinction between Holland and the Netherlands, but why is there no Zuid-Brabant?

zuid brabant is in belgium.

I thought everyone knew about the Statue of Liberty 🗽

@Rockbird

I don't know what it is about that song, but I have yet to meet anyone who doesn't think it's Knights, including me!

The song is called Nights in White Satin, so you're all being utterly ridiculous. I really hope the useless car people don't drive as you legally can't pass your practical driving test without showing you know this

I have, for most of my life, been singing (badly) Twist and Shout as "We're shaking a baby now, shaking a baby..."