Ridiculous things you've only recently realised you've been wrong about your entire life

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I genuinely thought if you pulled the reverse cord on ceiling fans, it would circulate warm air.

My friend thought the yellow average speed cameras on motorways were there to look for missing children.

I had another recent revelation but I can't remember it now

Zzzzzzz....

OK, Lweji, there's space for 98 more posts on this spread, so if you make a start and we all chip in, maybe we could have unified theory wrapped up this weekend.

I can't believe people find these fascinating subject boring. I used to fall asleep, literally literally, when studying physics at uni

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You can't unify anything in MN. We'd probably end up with a string and apple fight and a new status for Schroedinger's cat (is it falling or is it floating?).

No - you two stop right there with your physics, thank you very much

I thought I read every post but I must have missed the "any vey" one. Can someone tell me what that's about?

I thought the guy you heard on the tv talking during the match could be heard by all the people at the stadium. I went to a match once and I hadn't a bulls clue what was happening! I still cant figure out how anyone knows what is going on at a football match. I also thought a hat trick was when they kicked the ball over their head, I know now that is called a bicycle kick.

Signs saying Any Veh was interpreted as German meaning any way, not any vehicle

i still don't get the channel tunnel
and have only just got the whole moon sun thing

I found out on here that brazil nuts grow in their shell inside a bigger nut thing

OK, Lweji, there's space for 98 more posts on this spread, so if you make a start and we all chip in, maybe we could have unified theory wrapped up this weekend

Wouldn't that be fantastic, I can see the headlines now: Mumsnet posters unravel the mysteries if the universe and discover 'why gravity.

i still don't get the channel tunnel

What is there to get about the Channel Tunnel?

Here you go, Pip. It's a train tunnel. Three kinds of trains go through it - freight trains, fast passenger trains and vehicle carrier trains. On the vehicle trains, you stay in your car.

There are three pipes in the tunnel: 2 train tracks and a service tunnel in the middle. Here's how it sits under the sea.

I thought Mexico was in Spain until I was embarrassingly old enough to have known better.

I'm quite happy with the workings of the channel tunnel. I just don't understand what Samcro said she 'didn't get'.

Wow, that Brazil nut one is a new one on me!

Mumsnet posters unravel the mysteries if the universe and discover 'why gravity.

Brilliant

Pipbin gets it, Garlick

Samcro doesn't get it

(Not sure what she doesn't get mind you - whether it's a pipe under the sea vs a proper tunnel under the seabed, probably?)

X-post, Pipbin

Talking of the chunnel, I always understood that it would be built under the seabed but I thought it was going to be a road tunnel.

I, on the other hand, am actually baffled by this apparently massive revelation that 1st=first, 2nd=second, 3rd=third etc

Yes, I'm puzzled by that one too, Finest. What was it people hadn't noticed till now?

I remember watching it on the news the day then two tunnels met. The English guy was called Graham Fagg - a wonderfully British name!

I remember the meeting too, Pipbin (though not Graham Fagg) - it was incredibly impressive that the 2 tunnels actually more or less met in the middle instead of missing by several yards (or worse)!

Thought narwhals weren't real until recently. Thought Al Pacino was a pizza flavour. I knew someone who thought nuns weren't real just something to dress up as on Halloween

Thought Al Pacino was a pizza flavour - OMG, that's brilliant!!! Like patsa al dente or all'amatriciana

Sorry for the Pip/Samcro mix-up.

You now have 74 posts to sort out why gravity. Ready?

Go!