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.

They pull down
So if you've had a poo drama with baby, pull them down not over the head

I don't have DC so don't ask me why I have retained this information but can't remember my computer password

@wwyd2021medicine I'm with you! I always wondered what the fuss was about a bunch of marbles.

They grow on these sort of spiky plants! I bought a little dwarf one for my grandmother once and she actually got a few mini pineapples off it. 😂

@Scrantonicity2

We've had the piggy, we've had the envelope vests, but weirdly not had the "side of the petrol cap on the petrol pump symbol" yet... can we get a bingo?

Oh I took great pleasure in explaining the petrol pump arrow symbol to a clueless looking husband about three years ago, by which time he was already in his 50s and had been driving since 17.

It's the little wins that count. ,

LORD, at the mice that came of the Ark!

@ClairDeLaLune - they grow on the ground.

The Greek "bear" derivation of Arctic refers to the northern constellations Ursa Major and Minor, not to actual bears. Antarctic means "opposite to the Arctic", not a direct reference to bears.

I only learnt this last month when my SiL showed me. With a straight face, bless her.

I do remember a relative thinking for years that Celine Dion’s name was actually Via Satellite because she’d seen her on Top of the Pops but missed her name.

My friend was most surprised when I told her recently that the expression is "giving up the ghost" not "giving up the goat."

She's a creative writing professor and has had numerous novels published by a major publishing house.

Why a Twix is called a Twix

(Because it comprises of TWo StiX )

Arktos means bear, pole star and the constellations we know as Ursa.

Nearly 36 and only realised this last week 🤦🏽‍♀️😂

I realised last year that K9 is shorthand for 'canine'. I thought it was just the name of a brand of dog harnesses.

I learned that cashew nuts grow out of cashew fruits (also edible) and that melons grow on the ground when I first saw both for real, in my mid-thirties 😳 I'd thought cashews were, you know, nuts. And that melons probably grew on bushes, I'd never asked!

For a long time I thought Sydney is the capital of Australia.

Same!

I worked in record shops for years when I was younger and never understood why so many artists had the same name for their albums - eponymous.

I did that too! It's exactly what I was going to write when I opened this thread.

Ah she's confused it with "getting someone's goat"! Everyone also confuses "safe to say" and "suffice it to say" but that's less funny than goats and ghosts...

@PorridgeFace i didn’t realise this either and complained to my husband about them when our daughter sent them over with our granddaughter!! That nappy was not fun!!

So in the Uk - where can you buy cashew FRUITS and what do they taste like?

I've never worked out what HiFi stands for. Yep, I know it's a sound system but what?

Love this!

When I was a kid, I'd see houses with big signs saying Toilet. Seemed a bit odd. Except they said To Let and my mind was adding the "i". Mum soon put me right.

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I was in my late thirties and in the middle of teaching a class of teenagers when I realised that mommy wasn’t having a torrid affair with Santa Claus.