How do you know that?

[Summerthing]

Has anyone been asked how they know something factual? I mean general knowledge factual, not privileged or specialist information.
Ive been asked this twice in as many months.
The first time I was asked, I wracked my brains trying to remember where I'd learnt it (something to do with gardening).
The second time I said well it was just something I knew (something to do with pop music).
Isn't being asked how you know something quite strange? Or could there be a reason for it?
Two separate, unconnected people by the way.

It isn't that deep.

What a strange post

Sometimes you just know stuff... That's all there is to it.

I get it a lot. I have good General Knowledge on a large number of topics. And little knowledge on many other things.

I was brought up to be attentive to detail and remember things - but it seems it's not that usual for some people.

Some people's GK is other people's trivia.

Some people soak up knowledge like a sponge and like learning about random stuff, and others are happy not knowing what they don’t need to know. We’re all different.

I know that if I hit my head repeatedly with a meat tenderising mallet, it will hurt. But I have never actually tried it.

I guess some things you just know instinctively.

I love quiz shows and surprise myself at some of the stuff i know.

i dont mean multiple choices, that can be a lucky guess but on quick fire rounds. I have no idea how I get some of the questions right but I guess it must be buried in my brain somewhere.

So yes, I sometimes ask myself, how do you know that 😅

So why would someone ask me how I know something? I just don't get it?! I'd understand if it was some obscure knowledge or if I'd told them how to fly a plane, but it wasn't anything other than ordinary stuff!

Sometimes I find grumpy older males ask me that in offices when they feel I should only know things like how to book them a taxi.

Again...ITS NOT THAT DEEP.

it's just a question people ask, sometimes there's an interesting/funny story to it...but usually it's just "lol, I dunno, I just do...I come in handy at quizzes though ha ha"

No need to shout!
I read it the first time and it still baffles me.

Well, you obviously don't know as much as you think you do.

It's just something people say.

I got the answer in the pub quiz the other week to "On Pigeon Street, there was a character called Long Distance who?" and the team behind wanted to know how I knew. Inflection is everything:
How did you know that?!
How did you know that?
They had a foot in both camps. Cos I'm old was my answer.

Because you’re so clever compared to other mere mortals?

It is to the OP obviously 🙄

Who spat in your coffee this morning? Jeeezz relax.

Wellz, the OP clearly wants us to go "ooooh you're so clever" or whatever.

But, she's clearly dumb as bricks if she doesn't understand why people say it... It's not that deep 🤣🤣🤣

There are some dick heads replying to you on here. Some people could be curious and want to find out more about the topic possibly?

If going on Mumsnet to get out your anger at whatever shit is going on in your life makes you happy for a moment, I do feel for you.

It's not that deep. It's just something people say. You might have a funny or interesting story behind it. But it's as complicated as "how are you?" It "isn't it great weather?"

They don't necessarily actually want to know... I can't understand how OP doesn't understand, what with her being ever so clever that people constantly ask her how she knows so much
...

🤣🤣

Just a OP trying to convince us she's clever and then being not at all clever..

Could be a stealth brag, to be fair.

My 5 year old asks me all the time how I know things, and she does it with a very disbelieving tone. Usually she insists on google verification of my “facts” before she accepts them as truth 🤣

My general knowledge is pretty good and I often get asked how I knew something.

I take it as a compliment.

Just say “I drink and I know things”