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!

Embarrassing to admit this, but I only learned this year that thunder was the sound made by lightning. I always thought thunder and lightning were two separate weather things. I'm 29

And you hear the thunder after you see the lightening because sound doesn't travel as fast as light.
And the longer the gap between seeing the lightening and hearing the thunder the further away the storm is.
When you hear the thunder immediately after the lightening the storm is very close or overhead.

Im reading some of these thinking omg how did you not know that?

And then remember i didn't know about rice

@Feminist10101

Come on, you expect us to believe that you don't understand why everyone's not training their children in all trades?

Do you know many real people?

Thousands. And as a senior HR professional I despair at a large percentage of them.

How can you know 1000s of people?

I only know about 14.

I thought Timbucktoo was somewhere in Alaska or thereabouts

*How can you know 1000s of people?

I only know about 14*

@Apileofballyhoo

Something I didn't know till I was over 30 - the green bumps at the top of broccoli are flower buds.

Nooooooo!!! And I'm a keen gardener aged 56! (Clasping my pearls and a glass of something!)

The song is Nights in White Satin from the album knights in white satin.

I feel like we've come full circle now haha

The song is Nights in White Satin from the album knights in white satin.

Eh? It's from days of future passed. No Knights in any Moody Blues albums.

Amusingly it was covered as Knights in white satin in Belgium IIRC.

@FoxyTheFox

My 6yo can dismantle a chest of drawers with an electric screwdriver and not with my blessing

In the song "This little piggie...", the piggie that went to market was not going shopping.

😱

Mind blown 🤯 heart a little broken 💔

How had I not realised?!

I only discovered recently that birds don't sleep in nests. I thought nests were like their homes but apparently not.

My mother in law had a revelation a few months ago when I informed her that snails and slugs are NOT the same thing. She thought snails shed their shells and turned into slugs.

@warpdrive
Are they not? What are they then? Just where they keep their eggs /chicks?
Where do they sleep?!

@Scarby9

A friend on a cruise to the South Atlantic got chatting to a couple of Americans. They eyed her layers of fleece and goretex and said they had had to buy coats in Patagonia because they had only brought summer clothes. How had my friend known it would be cold, they wondered, since it usually got hotter the further south you went? I can't believe they hadn't looked at or taken in the pictures in the brochure if nothing else.

My sister didn’t understand how Antarctica could be cold, because it was near South America and South America is hot.

Yes, that continent which stretches a couple of thousand miles from north to south is all the same temperature. Yet she wouldn’t visit us in Scotland because it was too cold compared to London.

Yea, me too, Knights in White Satin.

[quote RainbowsAndFrogs]@warpdrive
Are they not? What are they then? Just where they keep their eggs /chicks?
Where do they sleep?! [/quote]
Nests are used for egg-laying and rearing chicks as they offer protection. Otherwise birds just roost in bushes/trees. Some may make use of nestboxes on colder weather (wrens will all crowd in together for warmth).

I always thought the song was “good king wences last looked out”

Mindblown when I found out his name was king Wenceslas

It's definitely sang like last looked out!

@alexdgr8

i didn't realise that at a boxing/wrestling match, at the beginning of each round when they say, seconds out ! round 2, the seconds are people who support assist the contenders. like in duelling. i'd assumed it was an antiquated way of saying, time's up.

I did not know this. Interesting.

I love the way @Feminist10101 assumes their opinion is the right opinion. There is no debate or room for difference of opinion in your world view?
I always knew how to check the oil and replace it as soon as I had a car. My dad and later my husband would change the tyres. This doesn’t make me a poor excuse for a woman... it means we use our different strengths for the benefit of the family.

All the Little Piggy people...

Why do you think the other 4 pigs were any better off?

Market: sold to the slaughterhouse,
Home: this little piggy's turn will come
Roast beef: eating to be fattened up
None: starved, possibly because bulky beef pig didn't let him eat?
wee wee: squealed as he was taken 'home' to be fattened up to be sold at market...

@Latenightreader

I thought Ashby de la Zouch was made up for the Adrian Mole books. I discovered I was wrong whilst map reading in my late twenties. The other occupants of the car thought it hilarious.

I recently confessed to my mother that I used to believe that belly buttons were created by the doctor tying a knot in the cord, and it slowly shrank back into the body. I thought that the doctor’s skill affected the shape (innie/outie). I only realised this wasn’t the case when my daughter was born two years ago. I was 40...

I’m pregnant and my husband thought this until I told him recently to expect the nasty little black bit of cord until it drops off... his mind was blown

@Fleshlumpeater

Until very recently I thought you could drive through the channel tunnel just like a normal tunnel. I literally thought this until I went to book it for next summer 😂

Along similar lines, I was in my 20s when I realised that tunnels are dug through rock and don't just... sit on the base of a river/the sea. I'd always wondered how they built underwater

@DobbyTheHouseElk

Then again, it took me a good long while to discover that summer of 69 wasn't about the year...

Ok....I did not know that.

So belly buttons. What are they then if they aren’t the knot? I’m so confused.

The doctor clamps the umbilical cord and after about a week it drops off having turned black and shrivelling up... it’s gross. The body closes it off ... it’s not actually a knot.

😂 Zoe me too, always thought the tunnel was sitting on the sea bed until a few years ago. Never actually wondered how they built it there 🙈

@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?

That’s just grammar. Lands are plural. The Netherlands makes sense grammatically. The France does not.

Ages ago somebody was giving out Mince pies at the hospital where I work. One of my colleagues (who may or may not have been a doctor) refused his ‘because I don’t eat beef

Mince pies did originally contain meat - either lamb or beef. The concept was brought back from the Middle East. Not sure when they became associated with Christmas though.