Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Wombat poop is cube shaped.

That its "hang glider" not "hand glider."

That space rockets didn't land on the moon the way they did in Destination Moon

Yeah, I only learned that a few years ago, when I visited the space museum in Washington.

Thank God, I thought that one was only me

I always knew there were three people on the first moon flight, but I hadn't realized before that the third guy never even got to moonwalk instead of just waiting in the orbital module. He must've felt cheated.

Also, I just learned from the documentary about the last guy to have walked on moon (it's on Netflix) that before Apollo 11 there were two fully manned flights where they simply went around the moon and back, but never got to land there. Those guys must've felt really cheated! (Except for the subject of the documentary and one other astronaut, who both eventually got to walk on moon on later Apollo flights.)

Maybe Neil and Buzz were just blah blah blah we're gonna land on the moon are we there yet lol for the whole flight up there, and Collins was more than happy to have a few hours floating around by himself for a little while. He'd been to the Grand Canyon in '52, he pretty much had the general idea of what he was "missing" it's ok.

i think being a spaceman is p much a swell deal all the way around, plus you dont have to sign as many autographs

u get to punch skeptics too

in tuomas' defense, that's only if you get to walk on the moon though.

If you don't, you just get called out for being a space pussy for the rest of your life.

Also, I just learned from the documentary about the last guy to have walked on moon

and even there, for those of us occasionally engaged in trivia/quizzing contests, is a rub: The last guy to walk on to the moon is not the last to walk on the moon, since the guys on Apollo 17 went for an ABBA on-to/off-of pattern, rather than the ABAB which would have made such questions unambiguous.

used to cry over what i imagined to be collins' loneliness as a little kid. he was prob too stressed to notice.

aw it's ok, he made it eventually.

http://i.imgur.com/We0jA8B.jpg

look, see? they even took the family on vacations to the moon.

http://i.imgur.com/V4tdJJO.jpg

how "awry" is pronounced

oh that one... yeah me too. it took me a while to understand that 'misled' was 'miss-led' not 'mizzled' or even 'mild'

I got clowned hard for pronouncing it "aw-ree" beck in high school.

feel fortunate that I came across the correct pronounciation somewhere online before goofing irl

so is wry something other than cunning.
is a-wry the semantic root of the word or something.

Since when did wry ever mean cunning?

Wry Fox

Merriam Webster has this as the 2nd simple definition

2 wry
adjective
Simple Definition of wry

: humorous in a clever and often ironic way

I thought that extended beyond humour which would then be close to synonymous with cunning I would think.

Looks like the etymology is more based on toward the twisted

As Laurel can probably attest to, I was well into my 30s before I found out that pickles were once cucumbers.

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That a Twix is Millionaire's Shortbread in chocolate coated stick form.

it took me way too long to realise that when you get into this cooking game don't struggle with a shitty little blunt knife, get a big fucking sharp knife and a blade sharpener and a mortar and pestle. Tools that make cooking easier and quicker

Yeah my top cooking tips:
Sharp knife
HOT pan
Stop moving the food around the pan all the time

HOT pans are good for searing, if that's what you're after, but high heat makes protein very tough, so it's a shitty approach to, for example, frying an egg. otoh, it can caramelize sugars, so high heat can be nice for root vegetables.

pansplaining

I only eat steak and burnt eggs

(I do actually fry an egg from cold oil after someone tipped me off)

I should add that my helpful tips are brought to you after far too long using shitty blunt or serrated knives and medium warm pans because I didn't want to burn stuff

xp spécialité de le maison

What is this cold oil thing?

It took me until after my 35th birthday to work out why the popular anti-dandruff shampoo was called "Head & Shoulders"

Bc when u use it, u get head, then u brush your shoulders off bc ur a player

I've just this minute found out (because I looked it up) that GOP is a nickname for the Republican Party rather than some kind of government department like I thought it was.

I'm British, by the way

Took me a while to realize what POTUS stood for too.

feel fortunate that I came across the correct pronounciation somewhere online before goofing irl

Up until a couple years ago, I pronounced "pronunciation" as "pro-noun-ci-a-shun" instead of the correct "pro-nun-ci-a-shun" - fucking English, how does it work? etc.

He he, I see...

Is there a head and shoulders pun?

Lord Mountbatten's dandruff?
Royal family member found in pieces post explosion.

Or the naming itself. It's a dandruff shampoo i.e. For the head and preventing white flakes from covering the shoulders.
Which surpasses others by standing 'head and shoulders' above them.

roger that

that Spain isn't anywhere near Mexico

I'm serious

Took me a while to realize what POTUS stood for too.

Me too, at first I thought it was some kind of latin term, like hippopotamus.

olives and ponies still blowing my mind.

that Spain isn't anywhere near Mexico

this makes sense on the level of US ethnic & racial logic but raises a lot of questions about yr previous understanding of colonialism/the atlantic ocean. v curious what sort of image of spanish history you had

Presumably until the US grabbed the massive amount of the West that was Mexico as shown in the last but one Adam Ruins Everything, that territory would have been thought to have been a distant part of Spain. I don't think it had gained Independence before that.

& don't they speak Latin in Latin America?

Mexico became independent 25 years before the Mexican-American war.

Yeah just saw that. Hadn't thought it was independent that early. But 300 years as a Spanish colony is probably enough.

Which surpasses others by standing 'head and shoulders' above them.

Well this part I just caught.

Blimey, Heathrow Airport is massive isn't it? Just looked at the thing on Google Earth and it's just... enormous?!