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!

@Brickdon

Someone mentioned REM song Sidewinder earlier.

All my life I've wondered why the singer would be "Calling Cheryl Baker".

I've just googled and discovered he wasn't!

Until reading the comment you mention I thought it was "calling you Jamaica"

Here's another geography one - the magnetic North Pole is actually the magnetic South Pole and the magnetic South Pole is actually the magnetic North Pole.

The magnetic North Pole attracts the north end of magnets so it has to be the magnetic south.

Re-posting this from @fishykettles because it’s fucking mind-blowing.

All our maps are upside down. And those diagrams of the solar system are upside down/ mirror images.

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

Have you connected Blackadder with House yet? You are in for a treat.

*@ dhisreadingmypostsagain

@Snowman2020 but why? Why don't they take them out, it's weird like having a hysterectomy but they just kind of unplug the essentials and leave it in place?

Does this happen with all transplants or just kidneys?*

They don’t remove the kidneys because they are in a relatively awkward place and there is often no need to remove them, just because they are not carrying out their filtering function does not mean they need to be removed (like your appendix doesn’t do anything but we don’t have it removed because it’s not carrying out a function). There is enough room in your pelvis to fit a kidney (sometimes with a bit of a bulge) as organs aren’t fixed rigidly in place....
A kidney transplant is a physically traumatic operation so to carry out an essentially separate operation to remove the native kidneys when there is no need would just cause more (unnecessary) damage for no gain.
With a hysterectomy they are removing the organ that is causing the problems, if that makes sense? Non functioning kidneys (unless they are polycyclic and causing problems) just sit there...

They don’t leave other organs in place as they are mainly within the rib cage so less space (unlike the abdomen which can expand) and kidneys are smaller... also a kidney can just join the system lower down whereas the connections for other organs generally need to be where the original organ was...

I thought Andrew and Freddie Flintoff were cricket playing brothers. They are the same person

Ah. More new information.

wrt kidneys - if you have seen a butcher removing the kidneys from a carcass you can see that they are nestled in a big area of fat (in a cow it would be the lard) and quite hard to get to.

I'm behind on the thread, but I really need to know whether someone pointed out that whales feed their young like mammals because they are mammals.

[quote dhisreadingmypostsagain]@Snowman2020 but why? Why don't they take them out, it's weird like having a hysterectomy but they just kind of unplug the essentials and leave it in place?

Does this happen with all transplants or just kidneys? [/quote]
I asked the consultant and he said it's quite risky to take them out so unless they are causing problems such as frequent infection or it it's enlarged, so they will just put the new kidney in just in the lower abdomen!

I was baffled as well when I found out

Seconds out... Hang gliding...? Kidney transplants... Whisk(e)y...? Piggy went to ‘market’..? 10 year olds can change tyres...? It’s 7.30am & I have learned more today than in the last 5 years!

Not had time to rtft but the Wombles one - I used to think exactly the same @PenCreed. Never met another person with the same misconception ha.

BigCityLife those little holes in your lower eyelid are actually tear ducts which drain the tears away. Tears are produced by lacrimal glads just above the eyeball.

@SendHelp30

Bet *@Feminist10101* is a right laugh at parties!

@m0therofdragons

Last week my youngest dd and I were talking about granny and granddad (my parents) and I was showing her pictures my dad had sent of him and mum in the early 70s. They were all black and white (colour was available I think but it cost more). Dd suddenly asked “it’s so weird to think of everything in black and white. When did the world go colour? Did everyone just wake up and it was colour all over the world?” Dd is 9. Her sisters were crying with laughter when they realised she genuinely thought the world used to be black and white!

She's obviously watched the Wizard Of Oz too often.

@LucyLocketsBlackCat

I thought the knights wore the white satin over their armour

Literally screamed with laughter and spilled my coffee all over the table at this one. Yes! That's exactly how I pictured it.

I always thought 'British summer time' was 'normal time' and that when we change the clocks at the end of October we move to 'daylight saving time'......

All our maps are upside down. And those diagrams of the solar system are upside down/ mirror images.

There isn't really any such thing as "upside down" in space though. And given that the magnetic north/south flip every 200,000 years or so it doesn't necessarily make sense to say the magnetic north is the "top". It would be easier to just say the geographic north is the "top" and the geographic south is the "bottom".

Sorry for being a pedant!

It's a childhood one, but aged five I remember waiting to pin the tail on the donkey. I didn't understand why several other children got theirs in the wrong place, and I was sure I would win. Then it was my turn, the smiling party mum tied the scarf over my eyes... and I was shocked to discover that I couldn't see!!! I thought the scarf would just appear as a narrow strip, like it does when you hold it further away. I hadn't yet learned the word "blindfolded".

Also, I thought it was "coke and spiriter", rather than co-conspriator.

@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. 🙄

Same!

I doubt very much your 10 year old can change a tyre 🙄

havent RTFT
Until a few years ago I thought silicon valley was named that because so many people had plastic surgery there

cabbages and Brussel sprouts are the same. what!

@Sunshineboo

cabbages and Brussel sprouts are the same. what!

What? No they're not. They're only as 'the same' as cabbages and sprouts, or potatoes and tomatoes. Same family (they're all brassicas), different plants.

How to make a cup of tea or coffee
I never tried as a child as neither parent drank them and although I've been taught to make tea as an adult, it still fills me with dread (how long should the tea bag be in? Am I supposed to stir it while the bag is in? When do I add the milk and sugar?!?!) Any time I make myself a brew it tastes all wrong so I've given up! I'm 29 and have worked in offices since 18

@Greenteandchives

BigCityLife those little holes in your lower eyelid are actually tear ducts which drain the tears away. Tears are produced by lacrimal glads just above the eyeball.

Well there you go!! It makes sense as my eye balls always tibgle and slightly sting before I cry!

I am USELESS at Geography and History.
I only recently found out that Africa isn't a country - but a continent! I am still a bit boggled by it tbh.
I have no excuse for my ignorance!!! And it's not as if I'm young with no experience because I'm 65 tomorrow!!!