Things you never knew that when found out made you feel dumb

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  • Micahroni84
    Micahroni84 Posts: 452 Member
    That Turkeys can fly and nest in trees and not on the ground,

    But only wild ones. Domesticated turkeys are too fat and, if dropped from a plane, would hit the ground like sacks of wet cement. If you don't believe me, look up the WKRP turkey episode on YouTube.

    I used to live in Monterey, CA and there are hoards of wild turkeys that walk through the neighborhoods. Seeing them nesting in trees was one of the creepiest things ive ever seen. Mostly because i was watching it through fog and had no idea what they were at first.
  • nightengale7
    nightengale7 Posts: 563 Member
    Blue from "Blue's Clues" is a girl. Always thought a blue dog would be a boy.

    I am totally with you on this one. I think they did it just to mess with people's heads :noway:
  • halobender
    halobender Posts: 780 Member
    I just found out on Tuesday that Washington, D.C. is in "the District of Columbia" which is NOT a state it's a district why am I explaining this you probably all know it already.
    /CanadaEh
    Please note that this person does *not* speak for all Canadians...
    Anyone who's ever counted could be very clear that DC is not a state. Let alone just reading an acronym.

    no, but she speaks for me, and I'm canadian. no need to be snarky and make people feel stupid.
    That user seems to be a bit of a misanthrope.
  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    That women weren't allowed in combat. I didn't realize it was 1950...
    Do some research. The reasons women have been kept out of contact go a lot deeper than just forgetting the year has changed. Some countries allow it, some don't, some have allowed it, then gone back and prohibited it again. It's not just an archaicism.

    :huh: Yep, when we are deployed and the shooting starts they call ceasefire and make sure we go hide. :huh:

    Might want to check into actual facts about women on deployment. We may not have "combat" jobs, but plenty of military women have been engaged in combat. We don't all sit at desks behind the wire. Plenty of my friends have been shot, fired shots and been blown up. Check out: http://servicethefilm.com/
  • creech6317
    creech6317 Posts: 869 Member
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    I found out through watching Glee that Barbra Streisand is actually an insanely famous singer, not just an actress from Meet the Fockers..
    You have got to rent Funny Girl and What's Up Doc!
    And "A star is Born" and my favorite movie of Barbara's "Hello Dolly"
  • HotDolphinMama
    HotDolphinMama Posts: 82 Member
    Back when my children were young (many, many years ago) I was a stay at home mom & I was HOOKED on my soap opera's. Like - seriously, - it's 3 o'clock so everyone be quiet or you're taking a nap Hooked!
    So, at the beginning and ending of each daily episoded the voice over man would say "brought to you by S.E. Johnson"
    Fast forward about 6 years and my big strapping boys are at a friends house after football practice. Apparently they made a mess and the mom tells the kid to clean off the living room table. The kid asks what he is supposed to use to get the prints off - and my usually intelligent son tells him to use the "Messy Johnson" -- They thought he was crazy!
    After the story was related to me by the child's mother I did some inquiring & found out my son thought that Pledge was called "Messy Johnson" and that was the company name also.
    It still cracks me up.............but maybe you had to be there! LOL
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Disney romance and love don't happen in real life.
  • ShellyBell999
    ShellyBell999 Posts: 1,482 Member
    Disney romance and love don't happen in real life.

    *sprinkles with fairy dust* :flowerforyou:
  • kairisika
    kairisika Posts: 131 Member
    I just found out on Tuesday that Washington, D.C. is in "the District of Columbia" which is NOT a state it's a district why am I explaining this you probably all know it already.
    /CanadaEh
    Please note that this person does *not* speak for all Canadians...
    Anyone who's ever counted could be very clear that DC is not a state. Let alone just reading an acronym.

    no, but she speaks for me, and I'm canadian. no need to be snarky and make people feel stupid.
    That user seems to be a bit of a misanthrope.
    No, just don't care for the first poster's implication that she's ignorant because she's Canadian. Plenty of Canadians know quite a bit more about the States, and her ignorance is hers alone.
  • kairisika
    kairisika Posts: 131 Member
    That women weren't allowed in combat. I didn't realize it was 1950...
    Do some research. The reasons women have been kept out of contact go a lot deeper than just forgetting the year has changed. Some countries allow it, some don't, some have allowed it, then gone back and prohibited it again. It's not just an archaicism.
    :huh: Yep, when we are deployed and the shooting starts they call ceasefire and make sure we go hide. :huh:
    Might want to check into actual facts about women on deployment. We may not have "combat" jobs, but plenty of military women have been engaged in combat. We don't all sit at desks behind the wire. Plenty of my friends have been shot, fired shots and been blown up. Check out: http://servicethefilm.com/
    I didn't indicate any particular reason why women are not officially in combat in the States, nor did I express a judgement on whether they are shot at or killed, or should be allowed to.
    I merely stated that there are reasons governments make decisions on the role of women in combat that go beyond 'we haven't moved on since 1950'.
  • taternuggets
    taternuggets Posts: 9
    Until my daughter was born, I thought newborns couldn't open their eyes much like puppies and kittens after birth.
  • lovelyMYlovely
    lovelyMYlovely Posts: 1,066 Member
    i didnt know that when cats have babies they move their litter to a different basket after about a week,
    so when i came home and saw 1 kitty missing i freaked out and thought my cat ate a kitty!!!!!
    it went into this long story of my friend and i having a panic attack and throwing holy water on the kitties and the cat..
    and trying to make it come out from under the bed by feeding it a piece of lunch meat so it stops eating my kitty.....
    we got soo scarred and the mommy cat even pulled ANOTHER cat under the bed!!
    OH WE WERE IN A HUGE PANIC!! we were screaming and yelling thinking that my cat ATE ANOTHER BABY!!
    at this point we moved all the cats still "alive" to another room, locked the door, and said a prayer...
    my friend and i were so scared that we didnt want to come by the mommy kitty because we were scarred she would scratch our faces or eat us or attack us (we thought my cat had rabies) why else would the mommy cat bring 2 babies under the dark bed!!!!
    at this point we were crying and walking in circles we made ourselves sooo scarred that we left the house and luckily we saw
    two maintence men!!! :)
    so we told them our story and they came in our house to move our bed!!! OMG WE WERE SOOO SCARRED OF SEEING 2 BLOODY KITTENS!!
    they moved the bed and saw 2 healthy kittens with the mom breast feeding them... all the kitties looked up at us and my friend and i looked at the maintence men...
    the maintence men looked at us and asked " what are u guys on?"
    LOL!!!! haha!!!! omg we were soo scarred though!!! we were just soooo hung over and with that lack of sleep i guess it made us paranoid... ahh the good ole days...... after they left we were still a lil shaken up so we slept on the living room floor... (away from the healthy kitties)

    thats what drinking to much liquor the night before and having only 3 hours of sleep will do to you.... lol... that was probably my dumbest moment ever... especially that we sprinkled holy water on the kitties because we thought they were possessed.. lol....

    Question - Where did the holy water come from? Do you just keep it around for emergency kitten/demon possession?
    lol ya i had a holy water in a virgin mary holder so i used it for this situation haha....
  • Bucky83
    Bucky83 Posts: 1,194 Member
    Blue from "Blue's Clues" is a girl. Always thought a blue dog would be a boy.

    I am totally with you on this one. I think they did it just to mess with people's heads :noway:

    Wait....what? Blue isn't a boy? How is it I'm only just learning this now???
  • PetulantOne
    PetulantOne Posts: 2,131 Member
    That it's impossible to kiss your elbow...

    I just tried :laugh:
  • kb_CG_wife
    kb_CG_wife Posts: 181 Member
    I feel dumb when anyone quotes a movie. Period. True story: I never once watched A Christmas Story until last year when my friend bought the movie for me. The first thing that's sad about this... I grew up just outside of Cleveland where it was filmed. Second... I'm 24 years old!!!
  • TheBeerRunner
    TheBeerRunner Posts: 2,777 Member
    I didn't know that sucking on about six sugar free cough drops in a 3 hour period would give you massive diarrhea. Ugh. I felt pretty dumb for not knowing that...
  • suzzann666
    suzzann666 Posts: 334 Member
    Slugs (the bullets that been fired) are called slugs because they shell is gone

    I just learned this.... just now. And I feel dumb for not having known that.
    that makes two of us!
  • suzzann666
    suzzann666 Posts: 334 Member
    Learning that the lyrics to Notorious B.I.G.'s "Hypnotize" were really "Biggie Biggie Biggie can't you see, sometimes your words just hypnotize me.." and not "Piggie Piggie Piggie..."
    i love that you admitted this!!
  • Izzerial
    Izzerial Posts: 58
    When I realized that the same melody was used for Twinkle Twinkle, ABCs, and Baa Baa Black Sheep.

    I'm still upset about this.
    THIS. SO MUCH.
  • PetulantOne
    PetulantOne Posts: 2,131 Member
    I mentioned this in another topic but here it is again.


    Until my early 20's i thought the term "making ends meet" was "making ends meat" as in making some kind of poor peoples food. Like all you could afford was the end of the meat.

    Just as embarrassing as that, as a kid i was told that the reason we say bless you when people sneeze is because of an old indian belief that your spirit will try to escape when you sneeze so until my early 20's I thought every one was saying "blushew", what i assumed was an old indian word. It wasn't until some one sneeze and another person very clearly said "god bless you" that i realized how stupid i was.

    I have always thought (and could be wrong) that when you sneeze your body freezes up (heart stops) and it's a superstition so you don't die.

    I think it just skips a beat.
  • halobender
    halobender Posts: 780 Member
    I just found out on Tuesday that Washington, D.C. is in "the District of Columbia" which is NOT a state it's a district why am I explaining this you probably all know it already.
    /CanadaEh
    Please note that this person does *not* speak for all Canadians...
    Anyone who's ever counted could be very clear that DC is not a state. Let alone just reading an acronym.

    no, but she speaks for me, and I'm canadian. no need to be snarky and make people feel stupid.
    That user seems to be a bit of a misanthrope.
    No, just don't care for the first poster's implication that she's ignorant because she's Canadian. Plenty of Canadians know quite a bit more about the States, and her ignorance is hers alone.
    I've seen other misanthropic posts from you, as well, and I think you're allowing yourself to be a little too butt-hurt over a post that wasn't intended to be anything more than "funny" or "silly".
  • SmangeDiggs
    SmangeDiggs Posts: 238 Member
    I mentioned this in another topic but here it is again.


    Until my early 20's i thought the term "making ends meet" was "making ends meat" as in making some kind of poor peoples food. Like all you could afford was the end of the meat.

    Just as embarrassing as that, as a kid i was told that the reason we say bless you when people sneeze is because of an old indian belief that your spirit will try to escape when you sneeze so until my early 20's I thought every one was saying "blushew", what i assumed was an old indian word. It wasn't until some one sneeze and another person very clearly said "god bless you" that i realized how stupid i was.

    I have always thought (and could be wrong) that when you sneeze your body freezes up (heart stops) and it's a superstition so you don't die.

    I think it just skips a beat.

    Another theory is based on the bubonic plague..sneezing was thought to be an early symptom so saying god bless you was thought to be asking the gods to spare you from death.
  • StampingJen
    StampingJen Posts: 38 Member
    When I realized that the same melody was used for Twinkle Twinkle, ABCs, and Baa Baa Black Sheep.

    I'm still upset about this.



    I knew Twinkle Twinkle and ABCs were the same, but didn't think about Baa Baa Black Sheep!

    Here's another one... the theme song for "Barney" (the purple dinosaur) is the same melody as "This Old Man" (Nick nack paddy wack) . I think someone even tried suing poor Barney over it.
  • MyM0wM0w
    MyM0wM0w Posts: 2,008 Member
    I mentioned this in another topic but here it is again.


    Until my early 20's i thought the term "making ends meet" was "making ends meat" as in making some kind of poor peoples food. Like all you could afford was the end of the meat.

    Just as embarrassing as that, as a kid i was told that the reason we say bless you when people sneeze is because of an old indian belief that your spirit will try to escape when you sneeze so until my early 20's I thought every one was saying "blushew", what i assumed was an old indian word. It wasn't until some one sneeze and another person very clearly said "god bless you" that i realized how stupid i was.

    I have always thought (and could be wrong) that when you sneeze your body freezes up (heart stops) and it's a superstition so you don't die.

    I think it just skips a beat.

    Another theory is based on the bubonic plague..sneezing was thought to be an early symptom so saying god bless you was thought to be asking the gods to spare you from death.

    I had always believed this.
  • Izzerial
    Izzerial Posts: 58
    When I realized that the same melody was used for Twinkle Twinkle, ABCs, and Baa Baa Black Sheep.

    I'm still upset about this.



    I knew Twinkle Twinkle and ABCs were the same, but didn't think about Baa Baa Black Sheep!

    Here's another one... the theme song for "Barney" (the purple dinosaur) is the same melody as "This Old Man" (Nick nack paddy wack) . I think someone even tried suing poor Barney over it.
    Thanks for making my day.
  • StampingJen
    StampingJen Posts: 38 Member
    Can't wait for the day when my young son realizes it's "Ride 'em cowboy!" not "Ride a cowboy!"
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    I just found out on Tuesday that Washington, D.C. is in "the District of Columbia" which is NOT a state it's a district why am I explaining this you probably all know it already.
    /CanadaEh
    Please note that this person does *not* speak for all Canadians...
    Anyone who's ever counted could be very clear that DC is not a state. Let alone just reading an acronym.

    no, but she speaks for me, and I'm canadian. no need to be snarky and make people feel stupid.

    Funny response considering the title of this thread is "Things you never knew that when found out made you feel dumb"
  • onepillarofsalt
    onepillarofsalt Posts: 37 Member
    That "zest of lemon" is not a prebottled spice like garlic or pepper.

    That the Oscars and the Academy Awards are the same thing (I think) but the Emmys are different.
  • kairisika
    kairisika Posts: 131 Member
    I mentioned this in another topic but here it is again.
    Until my early 20's i thought the term "making ends meet" was "making ends meat" as in making some kind of poor peoples food. Like all you could afford was the end of the meat.
    Just as embarrassing as that, as a kid i was told that the reason we say bless you when people sneeze is because of an old indian belief that your spirit will try to escape when you sneeze so until my early 20's I thought every one was saying "blushew", what i assumed was an old indian word. It wasn't until some one sneeze and another person very clearly said "god bless you" that i realized how stupid i was.
    I have always thought (and could be wrong) that when you sneeze your body freezes up (heart stops) and it's a superstition so you don't die.
    I think it just skips a beat.
    Another theory is based on the bubonic plague..sneezing was thought to be an early symptom so saying god bless you was thought to be asking the gods to spare you from death.
    I had always believed this.
    I'd never had a specific reasoning - i grew up in a family where we inherited 'gesundheit' from my German grandparents, and I didn't realise other people said 'bless you' (or that the intent was the same) until I was much older.
    What I don't understand is why, in this day and age, so many people *still* invoke a blessing most don't believe in when someone sneezes. That seems like a custom we could safely let die..
  • kairisika
    kairisika Posts: 131 Member
    That "zest of lemon" is not a prebottled spice like garlic or pepper.
    Man, so many cooking things are like that. When I was starting, I remember having to look up a lot of things that recipes seemed to assume I was born knowing. I loved finding recipes that were written to new cooks that were clear about all those sorts of things.

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