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 just love seeing how words are derived from other words. It's fascinating.

I could easily do a whole thread discussing this!!

Oops I posted after only reading half the thread and haven't been back until now and realise the Baa Baa Black Sheep thing has already been discussed only a few posts above mine

Definitely alone.

When I was young, well early teens, I thought you had two holes. One for poo and one for babies and wee. I remember being confused about a tampon. Many many years later my friends fella thought so too and he was in his thirties. I almost wet myself.

Haha we are a wondering family, many car conversations and googling for answers. We've had can farts spread covid and we're do lentils come from? The answer is possibly but as you usually have pants on so it's a mask for your behind and lentils grow in pods like peas,

@Grapewrath

I thought a scampi was a fish. I genuinely thought fishes called scampi swam in our seas

One = scampo Many = scampi

@RandomLondoner

Found out today tomatoes are native to the Americas so there was no tomato sauce in Italy until 16th C.

Even more interesting to me is that potatos come from Americas, so were unknown in Europe before then.

From wikipedia

Potatoes were introduced to Europe from the Americas in the second half of the 16th century by the Spanish.

I remember in the first series of Blackadder, Baldrick was obsessed with turnips. Maybe that's because he lived before the potato age.

"Potato?" "Thanks, I don't"

I have to say that I learned more British history from Blackadder than I ever did from school!

Turnips make me unsociable hahahaphaffoooops

Always knew it was Nights in white Satin.

Omg to nights in white satin I have always imagined the Knights. I have just asked DH and he said definitely Knights - have learned something today

@PenCreed yes to the Wombles!! I thought the same as in:
The Wombles of Wimbledon,
Common Are We

I spent too many years believing the outer hebrides didnt exist. It was a name to suggest a far flung place.
I couldn't have been more surprised to learn it is neither fictional nor far flung.
It took me too long to discover that most tortoise shell cats are female, and the rare ones that are male are usually sterile!

@YellowEllis

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

Botanically its not a vegetable. Its a fruit

I'm glad to know I'm not the only person disappointed by the lack of Pontefract cakes available in Pontefract. I gave up and got liquorice twists in the end.

I imagine the reason lots of people think Pontefract is in Wales is because lots of Welsh place names include Pontefract, which just means bridge in Welsh - and French, and similar in Latin, and so is also where Pontefract gets its name.

I know how to change a wheel, but wasn't physically able, last time I needed to. When I first got a car, I did a car maintenance course at evening classes, and the main message I got was, understand what to do, so you know what the people in the garage or wherever are telling you - but if someone else offers to do the dirty work that you know needs doing, then accept the offer. Let them worry about disposing of old oil and so on.

@chomalungma

But the pp are having these checked, they just get someone else to check it

I suppose it depends when they get them checked and how often. It's really easy to just pop the bonnet, check the oil, screen wash and coolant.

A bit harder to do the tyre pressure though. But can be done when you fill up at a garage.

You can buy a tyre pressure gaguve and keep in your car. You can check pressure anywhere. Technically you can put air in it anywhere if you jave a portable compressor.

@Eckhart

But whales are mammals ..they are aquatic mammals

The preachers don't live on manic street?! I thought they were those mad people that shout about god on the street??!

@YellowEllis

Not mine, but this thread has reminded me and it's made me laugh all over again. I was meeting a friend for coffee once and she rang me to say she was running late as couldn't park, I said there had been plenty of spaces in the retail park car park and she said she couldn't park there as she would only be 45 mins as had to do school run. I questioned what she meant and she genuinely thought the "no return within 2 hours" parking sign meant she couldn't return to her car, not that she couldn't leave and come back and park there again within 2 hours. It was so bloody fun to see her realise it. Apparently she used to set a timer on her phone when shopping to make sure she didn't leave the car park too soon and get fined

I love this - bless her

@Feminist10101

Anything to do with cars. Can't change tyres, check oil or even pop the bonnet!

Can’t? My 10 year old DD can do those things. She can also identify all of the warning lights on the dash, knows most of the rules of the road and different speed limits and the basics of how the engine, clutch and brakes work.

There’s absolutely no reason anyone old enough to drive can’t do the things you’ve listed.

There’s also no reason anyone old enough to have children can’t have manners.

@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. 🙄

Me too. You just burst my bubble

[quote LaVieEstBelle159]@PenCreed yes to the Wombles!! I thought the same as in:
The Wombles of Wimbledon,
Common Are We [/quote]
So glad it’s not just me!

Although obviously I’m now wandering the house singing that.

@ThroughThickAndThin01

It’s not Knights

It is in my head and forever shall be so :)

@ConstantlySeekingHappiness

That the phrase is actually... “you’ve got another THINK coming”

And not.... “you’ve got another thing coming”

Which I think I’ve been saying incorrectly my entire 30 years.

Me too

@dingit

When I first went through the channel tunnel I genuinely thought I would see fishes swimming over my head like at an aquarium Fil couldn't stop laughing.

That' what my DD thought - but she was 5!

Still not sure Narwahls are real. Can't believe the old kidneys are left behind - don't they take up valuable space?

@Scautish

On the only horse thing, a mule is a cross between a donkey and a horse.

So what is a Shetland pony when it gets a bit older called ? I'm baffled now