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!

You’re all incredibly shit. My two year old does my tax returns

I found out last year that green, yellow, orange and red peppers are the same peper in different stages of ripeness

I've heard this lately but not sure I believe it. Is it definitely true 🤔

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 🙁

I actually wish no one had ever mentioned the Georgio version...

Listen at your peril.

This kidney thing is freaking me right out. You can't just leave disconnected organs swishing about in there. Why don't they rot, if they're not connected anymore??

Oh... EWWWWW!

They take the other ones out, don't they? There aren't people wandering about with 2 hearts? This is triggering my trypophobia!

I thought New Zealand was to the west of Australia until 2 years ago
What's worse is that I didn't realise that until I was on the plane flying to New Zealand from Singapore! The map on the little TV in the headrest put me right

@ConstantlySeekingHappiness well, etymologically speaking ‘think’ preceded ‘thing’, but ‘thing’ has been used in common speech for long enough to be correct, by the fact language is not stagnant and changed over time.
Also true of ‘curiosity killed the car’ which began as ‘care killed the cat’.
Do or die, was ‘to do and die’.

Etc etc

Winston Churchill's mother WAS American.

Now the new Chinese Belt and Road thing - is that right, or is it Belton Road, or Belt on Road? I can never quite catch what is being said.

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...

@CardoMondo

You’re all incredibly shit. My two year old does my tax returns

Two? Late bloomer, I plan for mine to gain an Open University degree from the womb.

I thought the same as last poster about belly buttons. What are they then?

Yes to the belly button thing!

I was worried with dc1 that they’d detach it badly and he’d be left with a big outie. I grew up on a farm and I guess I thought it was a bit like how they ring tails on lambs.

You’re all incredibly shit. My two year old does my tax returns

@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 can see the knot in mine, though.

I only realised a few years ago that Richard Attenborough and David Attenborough are not the same person.

Changing a wheel and changing a tyre are different things.

But I suppose someone's 10 year old would know that and how to operate the air compressor when fitting the brand new tyre for you (how did she source it??).

Doessjr

That Knotty Ash is actually a real place and not a fictional place made up by Ken Dodd. That it is "fire in the hole" and not "fire in the hold"

Husband was convinced seahorses were just mythical creatures - I had to show him one.

Instruction book for laying patio slabs was very specific - to put a dab of mortar cement in each corner plus one in the centre.....but it slid off when I turned the slab over to lay it. (They meant lay the mortar on the ground then put the slab on top.....)

@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. 🙄

It's not knights?? I always visualised them on horses, all flowy.....

“Two? Late bloomer, I plan for mine to gain an Open University degree from the womb.”

Open university? Ha, my fetus has a doctorate. Honestly you really need to raise the bar.

I think the peppers thing is right. I discovered that on a similar thread to this a few years ago

I used to hate singing Lord of the Dance at school as I thought it said."I'll eat you all wherever you may be"

I didnt know about the kidney thing. That is just gross

Could you give me some growing tips for my spaghetti tree?

I used to hate singing Lord of the Dance at school as I thought it said."I'll eat you all wherever you may be

I'm crying laughing!

I didnt realise until my 20s that dragons were mythical creatures...thought they were real