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[duplu]

I'm probably opening myself up to ridicule here but I've been meaning to do this for a while.

 

I thought it might be fun (and we might learn some stuff too) to post things that you've only learned recently that were in hindsight a bit obvious.  I'll start off with two:

 

I only discovered recently that when you pull up a shutter blind you have to pull the cord in a specific direction.  Pull to the right and down to keep them up and pull to the left and down to release them.  I had to just go and check that though on my own blinds

 

I also only noticed recently that you can sometimes see the moon during the day and sometimes not at all at night (because it's on the other side of the world in their day).  In hindsight very obvious because of it's orbit around the earth but I'd never bothered to notice!

[ady]

Jeeze you are so stupid Duplu.....

 

Only a year-or-so ago I found out 'Monkey-Nuts' grew underground on the tree's roots via a quiz show.

 

In my defence birds love them don't they...my Cockatiels wern't miners by far but they knew what they were!

[vectra666]

one thing why is everything made right handed like scissors/potato peelers even blades on certain knives but you read and write from the lefthand side

[I have finished]

I was reading on the internet about different types of bagpipes as I have started to have lessons. I have learned 1 obvious thing that there are many different types but the not so obvious thing is that you can get rare left-handed irish pipes. Also, the fingering and action is different to the Scottish ones. The action is a pumping action with the arm using bellows like an accordion and the chanter (melody pipe that looks like a recorder) can be taken off the knee to play higher notes.

[corel]

 why is it when you wash a wooly jumper it shrinks but sheep don't shrink when it rains?

[nails]

one dunks are called that for a very good reason.

[mc_christopher]

I've not had anything like that recently, but it springs to mind a builder who comes in my local every afternoon and usually puts between £150-£200 in Double DOND (we've had one or a variant of them since about October). He does this Monday to Friday every week bare in mind, and he still hasn't realised if you're playing both boards, the amount that's left on both boards is the amount you've got in your box I could have told him on several occasions, but he's a bit of a dick and probably wouldn't appriciate my input anyway...

Edited by mc_christopher, 23 May 2013 - 05:48 PM.

[smashit]

You can also see the moon when the suns not hitting it at all. You can just see a faint black disk its just before a new moon. You can also see shooting starsnduring the day if they are bright enough. 

[dachshund]

i didnt know that pipe cleaners are used to clean pipes and not to make stupid models in infant school, only realised when i went in papershop for some cig papers and saw a pack of pipe cleaners made by swan vesta ffs

[chasnbons]

Why is it if you drop fag ash on something white it looks black, but if you drop the same ash on something black, it's white?

 

Same with seagulls, look up at them flying in the daytime and they look dark, but if you look at them at night they look light!

 

What's that all about?

[NickYerPesos]

Pg tips are called pg tips because they only use the top two leaves of the tea plant (the tips)..
The less obvious part of the name is the pg part which stands for "pre gest" (the whole name used to be "pre gest tee" circa pre WW2. Pre gest meaning it could be drunk before eating to aid digestion. It was shortened to PG by the tradesmen and shopkeepers and then changed to PG Tips.

[ady]

This morning I put my old HDD into a 'new' PC and needed to transfer data.

 

I loaded PS and then the screen recorder (though as it was  from GATD I lost the code hence the unresgistered flash).

 

Only today did I know you could drag 'n drop images into PS..........the time I've wasted in the past opening>searching etc

 

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[corel]

only just found out that cadburys dairy milk bar contains milk  (thanks to the small print on the packaging)

 

if I had not seen this, id never have known this. infact, after 40 years of eating dairy milk ive always wondered what that small jug on the wrapper is pouring.

[Daryl]

I didn't know until recently, and checked on Wikipedia, that Coca Cola originally had as an ingredient, the class A drug cocaine!

http://en.wikipedia....ola#Ingredients

...no wonder I only love Pepsi!