You learn something new every day....

[Georgie90]

I have learnt that things are not always as they seem and you have to take every chance you can!

I have also learnt that your ears, nose and throat are connected so when you put too many eardrops in you can taste them

 

[CRWx]

awww Georgie

 

[Tegans Mama]

I have learnt that things are not always as they seem and you have to take every chance you can!

I have also learnt that your ears, nose and throat are connected so when you put too many eardrops in you can taste them

xx

 

[Arlandria]

I learnt today (well the other day actually!) that a raspberry is not actually a berry! lol

 

[Charlotteee]

i learnt a great come back when people insist on talking about my tiny ears with non existant lobes!

(yes not only do i have no lobes i have small ears!)

i also learnt that no matter how much i want to eat it chocolate really sets my morning sickness off into over drive
maternity bras are so not good if youve got big boobs!

and a fact for you all to learn (that i have known for a while) there are two types of coffee beans, Robusta and Arabica the better quality being Arabica. most coffee brands (in the UK) use the poorer quality Robusta bean as it roasts quicker and gives off a stronger more bitter taste.
also the two most expensive types of coffee in the world are Blue Monutain Jamaican (pure blend) which on average costs £15 per 250g! and Wild Feline Fermented which is average £17 per 250g!!

Spoiler

Wild Feline Fermented coffee is coffee beans that have been eaten and the regurgatated and left to ferment by wild cats!

yes i am a geek and used to work for a tea and coffee specialist, i could go on all day about tea and coffee lol

Did you also know the cofee kopi luwak is digested and pooed out by monkeys?

 

[sarah0108]

i learnt how to do a void on the till at work the boss only just leaned how to as well

 

[iceylou]

I have learnt that things are not always as they seem and you have to take every chance you can!

I have also learnt that your ears, nose and throat are connected so when you put too many eardrops in you can taste them

learned that over xmas the hard way

 

[iceylou]

I learnt today (well the other day actually!) that a raspberry is not actually a berry! lol

that i didnt know so i learned something too today

 

[8kidslater]

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[Babydance]

i learnt that a person remains conscious for eight seconds after being decapitated!!! Youre eyes never grow they are the same size when you're born and when you die! AND
An onion, apple and potato all have the same taste, the differences in flavour are caused by their smell.. weird eh!??! xxx

 

[PeanutBean]

Supposedly there was a guy, I think during the French Revolution but could be wrong about that, who had his assistant watch his decapitated head. He kept blinking while he was still conscious or something like that and the assistant's job was to count how long he kept it up for. A scientist to the very end I guess!

 

[Charlotteee]

I learnt that the grand national is a horrible sport, poor horses.

 

[Linzi]

I learnt that the phrase "Its Bedlam in here" originated in York. Apparently there were huge protests when Henry Tudor raised a load of taxes, and there was loads of people injured and taken to the hospital just inside the city walls, which was called Bedlam.

POW! Hows that for knowledge

xxx

 

[PeanutBean]

Linzi that's not true! It's from a mental hospital in London: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlem_Royal_Hospital

 

[PeanutBean]

Oh and I've just learnt that the GBS infection risk in England for term babies is only about 1/10,000 which is a tenth of what I thought it was.

 

[Linzi]

Linzi that's not true! It's from a mental hospital in London: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlem_Royal_Hospital

SERIOUSLY?!!

I went on one of them open top bus rides round York today & they told us that!!

Im emailing my complaint, I feel slightly foolish now

xxx

 

[PeanutBean]

Linzi that's not true! It's from a mental hospital in London: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlem_Royal_Hospital

SERIOUSLY?!!

I went on one of them open top bus rides round York today & they told us that!!

Im emailing my complaint, I feel slightly foolish now

xxx

Seriously! They so need to brush up on their historical facts! I've read everywhere forever about Bedlam in London going back centuries but never heard anything to do with York before!

 

[Tsia]

i learnt how to unwillingly catch all the little natt flies that have suddenly arrived the last few days.. just leave out an old bottle of milk, they fly right in and cant get out lol

 

[Linzi]

honestly thats what they said. I couldn't have possibly made that up

They also said something about the phrase "I could sleep on a washing line" (which Ive never actually heard before) came from an old hotel in York that cost 4p a night but if you stayed there for free, they would put a length of string or wire or something under your mattress to sleep on the floor.

I didnt really understand that ^ one which was why I posted about Bedlam xxx

 

[PeanutBean]

honestly thats what they said. I couldn't have possibly made that up

They also said something about the phrase "I could sleep on a washing line" (which Ive never actually heard before) came from an old hotel in York that cost 4p a night but if you stayed there for free, they would put a length of string or wire or something under your mattress to sleep on the floor.

I didnt really understand that ^ one which was why I posted about Bedlam xxx

Never heard it! Trusty Phrase a Week seems to link it to the phrase Sleeping Over a Rope: https://www.phrases.org.uk/search.h...teurl=www.phrases.org.uk/a-phrase-a-week/#892 Makes no sense to me though!