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!

Also, reading through page 24, it's only now just clicked that "lesser spotted" means rarely seen, rather than having fewer spots on it.

@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. 🙄

I thought this too!! Until now 🙂

I was in my mid twenties when I realised that the Wombles weren’t actually common. I never realised Wimbledon Common was a place...the Wombles of Wimbledon, common are we. 🤣

purplebunny2012

Your post doesn't make sense because I passed my test 20 years ago and did not need to know any of the car things.

Also, why are you so annoyed that people thought it was Knight not Night, it's just a light hearted thread.

@TeenyTinyDustinHoffman

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

I think I need to Google the actual lyrics now

And it's 'shake it up, baby' apparently

Which makes more sense now I think about it

I was in the maternity hospital with a woman who believed that she would have to puncture her nipples to allow the milk to come out. It's a good job she said it, so that she could be put right before she actually did it.

How hens mate with roosters? I sort of thought the rooster just sat on top of the eggs once the hen had laid them and then they got fertilised. I literally thought this until yesterday.

That cranberries are pond fruit.

@Feminist10101 I’m only responding to your post. Do you mean to come across so aggressively?! Whilst you may feel you’re very superior and have a right to judge so quickly and so nastily I going to suggest that you don’t. I’m virtually certain that there are many things that are common place that you are inept at starting with being tolerant and nice. No doubt you’re not the kind of person to admit it though. I hope you find the time to teach yourself and your off spring to be a little less supercilious and a little more reflective about your own obvious failings.

@Dougt

Oh yes I thought it was Knights too! Never really thought about but did have a mental image of a procession knights on horseback, draped in white satin. Probably always will now:

I only found out today that car wheels need a special key to change the wheel/tyre...
I’m pretty sure when I was shown how to change a tyre (late 90s) these didn’t exist. Had a series of older cars and never needed to change a tyre myself. But I’ve wondered what these metal cylinder things were in my last two cars which tend to be kept in the glove box. Turns out they are quite important!

Learnt this the hard way the other day, had my second hand car since March, had to get the tyres realigned and 2 new ones and when he asked for the locking nut my face was like this turns out I was missing mine, so had to buy a new one 😂

@CigarsofthePharoahs

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.

I said that Pontefract was the UK HQ of Haribo. If I didn’t, I apologise, they are definitely German, but have a big factory in Pontefract.

Hahaha88
Not a newborn and never close up enough to notice the inside of their mouths. I wasnt very interested in babies pre my own.
I thought they had four teeth like prongs to grip....
Worse as I was 38 when I had my first.

I always thought brussel sprouts grew in the ground like cabbages, and had to be carefully and indivually cut, being so small. Then one Christmas I saw on a market stall fat sticks with brussels carefully attached in a lovely spiral pattern. Asked the stall holder how long it had taken him to make the amazing Christmas brussels decorations. That was a surprise, as was his reaction.

@Acrasia

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

I've known this one since I was a child but only a few weeks ago I read that Baa Baa Black Sheep also has the same tune.

@TeenyTinyDustinHoffman Keep reading; there's more about woodpeckers. The spotted woodpecker has spots. The lesser spotted is smaller than the greater spotted.

I thought that the opening line to the Star Spangled Banner was ‘Jose can you see’. I thought it was a song designed as if the Americans were speaking to the Mexicans.

I didn’t find out I was wrong until I was in my 30s.

@TeenyTinyDustinHoffman

Also, reading through page 24, it's only now just clicked that "lesser spotted" means rarely seen, rather than having fewer spots on it.

It doesn't mean "rarely seen".

It means the smaller of 2 species of birds or animals in the same family.

The lesser spotted woodpecker is smaller than the greater spotted woodpecker; not less spotty or more shy and retiring.

@orangejuicer

I think a pony is up to 14 hands high and it's a horse above, but horsey types will correct me

Ponies are distinguished from full-sized horses based on size and stature. Ponies are smaller–under 14.2 hands–and usually stockier than horses. Ponies also often have thicker coats, manes, and tails than horses. ... Teeny tiny Miniature Horses, on the other hand, are currently bred to resemble a full-sized horse on a smaller scale.

@YellowEllis

Oh and I only found out this year that a pickle is a cucumber, and not a vegetable in its own right

I only found out this year that a cucumber is a fruit not a vegetable.

Ponies are distinguished from full-sized horses based on size and stature. Ponies are smaller–under 14.2 hands–and usually stockier than horses. Ponies also often have thicker coats, manes, and tails than horses. ... Teeny tiny Miniature Horses, on the other hand, are currently bred to resemble a full-sized horse on a smaller scale.

It's not so black and white, there are plenty fine Welsh section a's and many more show ponies/Arab crosses with legs like spindles and countless big cob and draught horses with legs like tree trunks. There are also quarter horses and thoroughbreds at 14.1 who will still be a horse and Connemara and welsh d ponies at 15hh who are still ponies. It's fair to say the size is a rough guide with some give or take and they are all the same species.

@giggly that's what the AA are for! I was not going to get my work clothes filthy trying to wrestle a wheel off when I pay through the nose for breakdown cover each month.

@YellowEllis

It always blows my mind that when you have a kidney transplant they leave your original kidneys where they are and put the new one in your pelvis. I thought my husband was having me on but it's true.

That too has totally blown my mind!!!

The “no return after 2 hours” thing

... I always thought that meant if you’re not back within 2 hrs, you are not allowed to return to your car.

So it would be clamped, forfeited, towed away, gone, no longer yours

Once, at parent evening, I returned to my car after 2hrs 15 mins and was bloody worried!

Only realised what it means since reading this thread....

(Disclaimer: not a native speaker, immigrant)

Graphista That's my all time favourite show, keep it on permament series link never tire of it, isn't Bartlett the perfect president?