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!

Cars! Checking oil doesn't have to be simple and you can easily read it wrong (engine hot or cold). Changing a wheel is easy when you're shown how on the driveway, but actually on the road different cars have different jack methods, there are wheel locking nuts, and some just aren't coming off without a big hammer (which you may not keep in your boot).

RainbowsAndFrogs I'm glad there are at least two of us.

@00100001

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...

🥺

@Winniewonka, you wrote “ I have posted this before but I was well into adulthood and thought that it was someone's job to turn on a town's street lights at dusk from a central location. My ex husband informed me there is a sensor on the top of every lamppost😂

I think you were right. There may be sensors on lamp posts, but that’s not the whole story and wouldn’t explain why some street lights are switched off for part of the night, for example in Essex.

I don’t know how reliable this link is, but it says that there’s a central management system which sends a signal to switch the lights on and off.

I didn't know until a few months ago that rhubarb is a vegetable not a fruit.

Because it's always been a dessert, had sugar added to it and mixed with other fruit I had never even thought about it.

Rhubarb is another food, like brussel sprouts, that makes me wonder who first discovered them and thought, after boiling them up that they were edible.

I have had rhubarb as a savoury, cooked with chicken in a sort of stew.

I expect most foods were discovered by starving people and there were probably a lot of poisonings along the way, especially with things like rhubarb, where you can eat the stems, but not the leaves. The ones who lived learned the lessons.

The gears in an automatic car is called a triptronic gear box. I had a 2007 automatic volvo that could switch to manual gears and my mums 2007 Peugeot also has this ability, so not just new cars. Not sure if it exists in all automatics tho

An automatic car is just that. The feature allowing manual sequential selection is what Porsche call Tiptronic and is a trademark registered to them. Other manufacturers call it by other names such as Steptronic (BMW) and it has been around since the mid 90s in large scale production cars.

@Feminist10101

Really? Your 10 year old can change a tyre?

With someone finishing the tightening, yes.

I changed the oil in my dad’s car aged 6.

These are excellent life skills to have and the sooner the better.

(I refurbished a house - including plastering and replacing electrics at 18. I’ve fitted and tiled all 4 bathrooms in this house including the slate floors, fitted the wooden flooring throughout the downstairs myself. I learned from my dad and DD is learning from me. I don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t give their kids these skills. See also cooking, cleaning....)

Would you like some kind of sticker? A badge?

My geography is awful. My parents spent 2 months in Iceland and I only realised when they got back that it wasn't next to Norway, where I thought it was.

And actually, you can’t really change the wheel nowadays either. The nuts are tightened with a machine and are almost impossible to remove by hand. My husband couldn’t do ours recently and the garage said they wouldn’t be able to do it without a machine either.

That’s totally incorrect. If you can’t undo them by hand then it means they’ve been over tightened by some fucking oaf with an air gun. Many cars will need wheel nuts torquing to around 150Nm and the correct procedure is to nip them up and finish with a torque wrench. What a lot of these idiots do is bollock them up with an air gun then go round and click with a torque wrench which is completely useless when they’re already tightened way above the setting on the torque wrench.

@Thisyearis2020 - thanks for that, I don't feel quite so daft now!

What?! I absolutely did not know that rhubarb is a vegetable!!

I didn't know that Highstreet Banks and Building Societies are technically two different things until recently.

What?! I absolutely did not know that rhubarb is a vegetable!!

A vegetable? Really? 😳

I did not know that my mielle hoover has a clip so the hose stands upright when stored.
I have had 2 in 20 years and have never known. I noticed it today... It’s changed my life I can tell you. 😂

I feel a bit stupid now for not realising that Icebergs not made from sea water but from fresh water, bits of glacier that have broken off.

As a child, my daughter used to call a rucksack, a rock sack. I never corrected her as it seemed to make more sense. She still believes it to be rock sack, even at 26 years old! No harm done I think.

Channel tunnel. I'm not ashamed to say I've not really any understanding of it. Does it not run along the sea bed like I thought?

No it goes through the rock underneath the water

@ZolaGrey if it makes you feel any better I thought Argentina was next to Norway for quite a number of years - it was only when I went to Argentina that I realised it was not...

thegremlins I thought the same until a few years ago!!

New Zealand is a village in Wiltshire.

And yet it still takes nearly 40 hours to get there. Bloody Emirates and their shit planes

To go from Norway to China you only need to travel through one other country.

Right. So it's not only under tons of water it's under tons of rock too. Is it only me who thinks that sounds really worrying! Like a disaster movie waiting to happen