I always thought that dogs laid eggs.....and I learned something today.
Things that you couldn't believe YOU didn't know
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Growing up watching Raumschiff Enterprise on German TV It came as something of a surprise to me when I (much) later found out it was called Star Trek (which I then spelled 'Treck' for several years
) and in fact only dubbed in German... Soooo embarrasing.
And in modern front-wheel-drive cars, the engine is stuck in SIDEWAYS!. . . I did not however, up until 2007, realize that the most common engine in cars is not the V6, but rather the I-4...
Whenever the "check engine" light on the dash comes on, I open the hood and check to see if the engine's still there. If it is, I figure there's no problem!
I somehow lasted until the age of 27 without seeing the printed word for that little cap that jewish men wear on the crown of their head.
As a result I quite embarrassed myself when I was totally confused reading a Trivial Pursuit question with the word "yarmulke" in it.
As a result I quite embarrassed myself when I was totally confused reading a Trivial Pursuit question with the word "yarmulke" in it.
Yeah that confused the hell out of me at firstAnd in modern front-wheel-drive cars, the engine is stuck in SIDEWAYS!. . . I did not however, up until 2007, realize that the most common engine in cars is not the V6, but rather the I-4...
Whenever the "check engine" light on the dash comes on, I open the hood and check to see if the engine's still there. If it is, I figure there's no problem!
As for the check engine light, on some cars that's just a state of being. On others it's a sign of imminent doom.
Ok.. First off.. The fact that you learned about the political parties.. in college... in literature class is just so wrong.. I hope it didn't ruin you for life.
Second... What is the 'improper' way? I teach my kids the so-called "Russian" knot, which will not come untied until you're ready to untie it.
I don't know the terminology of knots, so I'm not sure what a Russian knot refers to, but I do the bunny ears. A friend in 5th grade taught me it after I was unable to do the single-loop-wrap around type of knot typical in shoe-tying.
My mom laments that my kids will not know how to tie shoes. I just remind her that I did ask her for help and she gave up because she couldn't translate the technique for her left-handed kid.
Up until I was like 23 I thought "segue" was pronounced "seeg." I thought it meant the same thing as "segway," but was just a different word for it, because I'd seen "segway" written out so many times, I guess as a trademarked word. I felt really stupid when I found out I'd been thinking the word wrong for so long.
A lot of people are writing segué as "Segway" these days, not realizing that Segway is a proprietary name for a two-wheeled motorized device.
Just pity the poor music pupil who sees the word fugue for the first time and thinks it's pronouced "fug-yoo."
I started reading and playing music at the age of 8. It took until I was 13 to realize what the sharp, flat, and natural symbols meant. And to this day, I still can't put all the sharps and flats in order unless I recite the mnemonic that I learned to remember them. Fat Cats Go Down Alleys Eating Bananas.
It also took me around 12 years of my life to realize the correlation between the Winne the Pooh characters Kanga, and Roo, and the fact that they were kangaroos...
It also took me around 12 years of my life to realize the correlation between the Winne the Pooh characters Kanga, and Roo, and the fact that they were kangaroos...
I've never heard that mnemonic before... I learned it as Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle.
(Mind you, my high school music teacher was a retired Major in the Canadian army, which might explain that...)
I didn't know that the Braves used to be in Boston, then in Milwaukee, before moving to Atlanta.
I also didn't know that the concept of World Series Highlight Films exists because of World War II. They were originally made so the soldiers fighting overseas could have a recap of what was going on in baseball back here at home. (the first such film was made in 1943, at the height of the war.)
I *did*, however, know that there were a lot of baseball players, such as Ted Williams, who were in the military during the war.
I also didn't know that the concept of World Series Highlight Films exists because of World War II. They were originally made so the soldiers fighting overseas could have a recap of what was going on in baseball back here at home. (the first such film was made in 1943, at the height of the war.)
I *did*, however, know that there were a lot of baseball players, such as Ted Williams, who were in the military during the war.
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