[Closed] Things that you didn't know

david tennant is married to Peter davidsons daughter so the kids have Doctor who as their dad and grandfather - how cool would that be

The sound of the Raptors in Jurassic Park was actually tortoises having sex.

I don't know what I don't know

Apparently you dont know what the past tense of dont is 😀

Ireland wasn't part of the UK (despite a geography A-level). That was an odd conversation with an Irish girl in the pub...

Junkyard doesnt know what an apostrophe is.

(I know, I know. Of course its deliberate. Im not stupid, its just the way Im typing today!)

Francis Ford Coppola and Talia Shire are Nicholas Cage's uncle and aunt, what with them being brother and sister and all.

he knows' [ you like that one dont you] he just dont care

Taggart was the lead singer from Sweet's brother.

Ireland wasn't part of the UK

Amazing for someone who has such strong opinions on how the UK deals with the NI problem. 😯

Taggart was the lead singer from Sweet's brother.

I can see that now you say it 🙂

The French call their paper clips "Les Trombones"...

Theatrical mice use paperclips as fake trombones when staging Gilbert & Sullivan musicals. They can't use real ones because it's a little-known fact that mice can't actually purse their lips, so they can only play percussion and string instruments.

The NSA collects 29 petabytes of data every day from the internet, or a bit more than the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider produce in a year

Until yesterday, I didn't know there was "a thing" called [b]Cosplay[/b].
I've stumbled across it twice on the web since yesterday. Disturbing.

I didn't know my boss can't make decent tea.
I do now, and will politely decline the offer in the future.

You can buy tubs of Swizzels sweets in Laura Ashley which are largely identical to tubs of Swizzels sweets everywhere else except they have a Laura Ashley label inside the tub.

And they cost 8 times as much.

Another thing I learned yesterday is that uncottered, my wife would happily go and buy a number of these tubs.

Ireland [i]was[/i] part of the UK

But it isn't now - bit contraversial though perhaps one to gloss over in conversations with, you know, the Irish

I didn't know how expensive private dental care is, until yesterday.

Lucy Lawless is [b]not[/b] the daughter of Blackie Lawless, that was a fun argument with an ex 😆

Amazing for someone who has such strong opinions on how the UK deals with the NI problem

Ireland was part of the UK

I didn't know that I am in fact omniscient.

I didn't know the numbers on runways were basically the orientation to the nearest 10 degrees, so runway 22 is aligned at 220 degrees on the compass. Looked it up during yesterdays lost cargo plane episode.

I didn't know that I am in fact omniscient.

That's okay, because when you didn't, you weren't.

Lucy Lawless is not the daughter of Blackie Lawless, that was a fun argument with an ex

Believe it or not, one of the girls I work with insisted that Nick Knowles was the brother of Beyonce

there are nearly 100 lost Dr Who episodes

I didn't know the numbers on runways were basically the orientation to the nearest 10 degrees, so runway 22 is aligned at 220 degrees on the compass.

So is it labelled as "runway 4" at the other end?

The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!

Today, I have learned of a "game" called Knockout (or Pick em out, Knock em out). Hopefully some bright spark over here doesn't see it on the 'net and think it's a clever idea.

Believe it or not, one of the girls I work with insisted that Nick Knowles was the brother of Beyonce

😆

That is better than mine, fantastic 😆

The French call their paper clips "Les Trombones"...

Theatrical mice use paperclips as fake trombones when staging Gilbert & Sullivan musicals. They can't use real ones because it's a little-known fact that mice can't actually purse their lips, so they can only play percussion and string instruments.

Forget wheels sizes, fork oil viscosity, geartrain parts compatibility, and ghetto tubeless tips, THIS is why I love STW! 😆

Taggart was the lead singer from Sweet's brother.

You best take a seat I've some bad news. Taggart isn't real.

Today, I have learned of a "game" called Knockout (or Pick em out, Knock em out). Hopefully some bright spark over here doesn't see it on the 'net and think it's a clever idea.

Happy Slapping? Get with the times man! 😉

I remember when all this kicked off years ago and they tried blaming it on jackass and cky, but they were doing it to each other, not random folk.

I didn't know there was "a thing" called Cosplay.

Simultaneously the worst

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and best thing ever invented

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Blimey, I wonder if anyone does Leela off futurama (rubs thighs)

[i]I didn't know the numbers on runways were basically the orientation to the nearest 10 degrees, so runway 22 is aligned at 220 degrees on the compass.[/i]

So is it labelled as "runway 4" at the other end?

Yes!,Well, no, 04 actually, but you clearly get the idea.
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I found out recently that the word 'segue' is pronounced 'segway' and not 'seeg' as I'd been pronouncing it for decades.

Also, one of the reasonably-fit girls in the US version of 'The Office' is the daughter of Quincy Jones and some woman that used to be in Twin Peaks.

Amazing.

female ferrets die if they don't have sex often enough

Misled.

' miss led' not 'my zulled'

I don't know why I ever thought it was

Jonah Tonto..

I believe the same is also true of female Geordies

Over 99.9% of the universe is invisible. Much like a lot of my physics homework back in the day........

"Misled" always freaks me out... As does "doing" which I can't help reading in a way that rhymes with "boing"... Maybe I've just ruined the entire English language for everyone...

Me too for 'Misled'. And don't get me started on the whole 'Bagel' baygel' middle-class minefield.

I find that people are generally more evil than they look no matter how good they present themselves.

How my boss has risen to his position. I had to teach him some very very basic trigonometry recently, an important and often critical part of our work. 🙄