Realising Obvious Things (that Blow Your Mind)

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From another thread, I just had my mind blown as it dawned on me the meal of the day, breakfast, comes from the idea of a ‘break in your fast’.

:eek:

How I have made it to adult life without realising this, I do not know. Derp!

Anyone else have any dopey realisations to share? I have two other recent realisations:

Pancakes are cakes made in a pan.

The “Bear Necessities” (the famous song from the Jungle Book) is a play on words.

:o
 
I've done Egyptian Temple tours 3 times and especially Dendera Temple where I've seen the astronomical drawings but never realised Mark Anthony looked at the drawings and adopted it for the Julian Calendar.
It was a wow moment for me.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
I've done Egyptian Temple tours 3 times and especially Dendera Temple where I've seen the astronomical drawings but never realised Mark Anthony looked at the drawings and adopted it for the Julian Calendar.
It was a wow moment for me.
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This one is such common knowledge, smh at anyone who doesn't know this.
 
I always thought it was Asprin and was really surprised when I realised it is Aspirin. What is more surprising is that I'd been qualified as a Paramedic at least a year before I'd cottoned on.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
I've done Egyptian Temple tours 3 times and especially Dendera Temple where I've seen the astronomical drawings but never realised Mark Anthony looked at the drawings and adopted it for the Julian Calendar.
It was a wow moment for me.
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J Lo's ex husband made the Julian Calendar? Mind well and truly blown :eek:
 
You open your freezer door. Then shut it, then for whatever reason try and open it up again right after you closed it and it's really hard to pull it open again.

Wonder why that is?
 
VincentHanna said:
Is that a joke? I doubt the average man on the street even knows what you would be talking about if you said that.
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I hope he was joking, I didn’t know it, but to continue the thread, in 1639, a Scandinavian, Jonas Bronck settled in the Dutch colonial settlement of New Netherland, now New York.
He and his wife were quite gregarious, and held in high regard by the other settlers from Europe, so much so, that often people would say, “It’s a nice day, let’s go visit the Broncks”.
Eventually the part where they lived, between Upper Manhattan and Westchester County, became known as the Broncks, but the spelling was changed to The Bronx.
Surely most people know that, I learned it while on a Circle Line boat tour of New York City, in 1976.
 
Not in the "obvious" category per se, but it blew my mind recently when I found out John Peel wasn't John Peel that was his professional name!

His real name was John Ravenscroft, hence his son on R6 is Tom Ravenscroft - which is how I found out.
 
Jean-F said:
I hope he was joking, I didn’t know it, but to continue the thread, in 1639, a Scandinavian, Jonas Bronck settled in the Dutch colonial settlement of New Netherland, now New York.
He and his wife were quite gregarious, and held in high regard by the other settlers from Europe, so much so, that often people would say, “It’s a nice day, let’s go visit the Broncks”.
Eventually the part where they lived, between Upper Manhattan and Westchester County, became known as the Broncks, but the spelling was changed to The Bronx.
Surely most people know that, I learned it while on a Circle Line boat tour of New York City, in 1976.
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I always love how your posts have that signature @Jean-F style :D
 
BUDFORCE said:
You open your freezer door. Then shut it, then for whatever reason try and open it up again right after you closed it and it's really hard to pull it open again.

Wonder why that is?
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I’ll bite.

the warm air you have just let in cools, shrinks and pulls a vacuum.
 
The look on the face of a fluent welsh speaker when I told him "gorffenaf" (july) literally means "the end of summer" in Welsh. It was just a word to him and he'd never thought about it- and was a lovely eureka moment.

Pretty apt if you've ever been to Wales in August...
 
Nitefly said:
How I have made it to adult life without realising this, I do not know. Derp!
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I'm a bit worried about you. What other things may have slipped by?! You know there's a left and a right shoe for each foot, right?

On breakfast, I do think it's a bit of a stretch calling it a fast when some of us may have been snacking until 10PM. Sometimes I'm sure it's longer between lunch and dinner than dinner (pudding) and breakfast. Before anyone starts, I'm sure there must have been a thread on the tea/dinner debate before. I live in the south but family from the north so I have no idea which one is correct but I do support the idea of 'supper', basically a second dinner later at night. Ideal once back from the pub.
 
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