When the penny drops about dumb things that you should have known!

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For ages I thought there was a poster called Tia. I always used to think it was a bit weird that they would sign their name....not very anonymous. Now I realise it means thanks in advance.
I am 45.

@GerundTheBehemoth Wow. But then it makes me ask why chickens and ostriches can't fly 🤔. It's all messed up.

I had almost the opposite of this. I was about 37 when I discovered that gulls can swim. This discovery is immortalised in our family as "look at those big white ducks" said as I pointed at the river Ness while my mother dissolved in laughter. 😳

@Firecarrier but how much pampas grass?

Chickens can fly. Just not very far or high.

Cashew fruit is fabulous!

In my fabulous ladybird books, the illustration was clearly a Pig happily carrying a wicker shopping basket as he trotted off 😁

I love this kind of information!

I've never seen the fruit in UK
They are hard to describe in terms of taste, but yum!

Yes!

I used to think there was a band called The Dashboard Lights, they did a fantastic song called Paradise. Used to love it when the DJ said next song would be Paradise by The Dashboard Lights

Can I raise you yellow dandelions and those gone to seed (dandelion clocks) being the same thing?!

Is his name Tobias Fünke? (For the arrested development fans out there)

No no no no no
Saw this image once before
Grim

@scalt still don't really understand why elec cars have to be automatic tho!

Well, you might think it’s silly, but the polar bear thing never dawned on me until right now 😆

While whiling away hours in church as a child, I puzzled over two things to do with organs:

There are only a few pipes there. How does it make so
many different sounds? (Answer: there are literally hundreds of pipes hidden behind the ones you can see. On some organs, those on the front are decorative, and don’t sound at all.)

You play louder by pressing the keys harder, like on the piano, right? (Not true at all!)

I was cured of these when I started playing organs.

Cats don’t have a menstrual cycles though, and most cats don’t bleed on heat, only some do a little and its not from the same source. Animals mostly have oestrus cycles which means they re-absorb their uterine lining. Only humans and some primates, a few bats and elephant shrews menstruate.

This is a bit niche. On the A90 to Aberdeen there's a sign post to the Grassic Gibbon centre. Every time I drove past it I would think how fab it was to have a gibbon centre relatively near us and would plan for when to take the kids there.

Turns out it's not monkeys. Kids would have been very disappointed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Grassic_Gibbon

In line formation in the soil.
Same with melons.
We grew our own when living overseas 😋

Well you've taught me something new!! I am 43 and until today I thought they grew on trees

As my dear old mum used to believe, “ a titbit of knowledge every day” 😊

I always thought an acre was a lot bigger than it is, like huge compared to miles.

Used to work with a foreign company where my contacts email address was ukie@“companyname”. I thought they were called Ukie for around 10 years until I saw their email sign off as “Sarah” and I realised it’s Uk ie 😅So glad I never called them on the phone and asked for Ukie!

Oh god I'm 43 and just clicked

Someone already posted both of these, but it was themselves that thought Ausfahrt and a male colleague who talked about Einbahnstrasse.

Dogs also bleed when in season. And you can get doggy nappies specifically to protect furniture.

Me too 😆