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.

That sloths aren't mythical creatures...

When I was a kid, I would regularly see the TO LET signs. I genuinely thought it was a sign directing you to a public toilet but the I had dropped off. I even asked my dad why they don't put the I back on 😂

This is a brilliant and educational thread!

For me, finding out that the little open pot/number symbol on toiletries indicates its 'use by" time 🙂

DreamTheMoors · Today 05:01

I was 9 when I decided to test the car cigarette lighter to see if it was hot.

I didn't do THAT, but it's exactly the sort of daft move I did tend to do...

Shit! I even had a Nissan Leaf for 5 years. I just thought I was lucky that my version was automatic.

Don't forget the dandelions!

I love threads like these. I always learn something from them.

Ummm…… why? Isn’t it because they can’t think of one?

That was my thought too………. For more than 50 years….😵‍💫🫣

My dad did the same when we first moved to Germany and he saw all the signs for 'Ausfart'!

What!!!

I need to stop. I clearly am nowhere near as intelligent as I thought!

I had a colleague who wouldn’t fill the board in for TOIL because she thought it meant you had to say when you were going to the loo….

I only found out a few years ago that adverts for time-served tradesmen didn't mean that they had been to prison!

I wondered why you'd advertise that you'd been to prison. I thought it must be a requirement if you'd learned your trade in prison.

I avoided them as didn't want a tradesman who was time-served 20 years in my house. They must have done something really bad.

My DH had thought the same.

Turns out they're just experienced trades people!! No criminal record required.

This would have been useful to know before my kids were adults 🤣🤣🤣

I only knew watermelons grow on the ground because of Minecraft

What?!!!

I found out recently that electric cars are automatic rather than manual as they don't have gear boxes.

Errr, all autos have a gearbox.

Oh never thought of it like that!

Some of them are amazingly fast fliers, too. The red-breasted merganser can hit 80mph in level flight.

Love this! It is often spoken as tooth, not toothed!
Generally used for head lice management!!

Not really a revelation in the same way but I only realised in the last few years that Sting sings on Dire Straits Money for Nothing. I consider myself a bit knowledgeable music wise and feel like I need battering with a stick for not knowing this and it's so obvious once you know! But I still think omg every time I hear it.

Yes! An open pot with 6M on it means the contents are best used within 6 months!

Not that I ever take any notice of it, of course.

Me too!
But if we were to be pedantic, it should be wrteen as mini-series, so 'they' are in the wrong for misleading us!

I love this and will never ever forget it now 🤓

It means they completed a traditional apprenticeship so were trained to do the job.

That never occurred to me!!