30 People Who Were ‘Today Years Old’ When They Realized These Random Things

That's a cute and fascinating fact

I read about it years ago, but didn't know they sent him a painting. That's cool and sweet too!

How cute 😍

This typically is not the best idea, though. Rather use a socket wrench with bits and operate it really carefully. Using special oils to loosen a screw firstbor to de-rust it can also help. Merr mere force likely destroy the screw!

I didn't know that because I'm more familiar with the purple kind in the stores. I didn't know that that's how they grow. BTW, this is the white version. The purple version starts out purple from the beginning.

Owl: "Let go, how inappropriate!"

Measles targets memory cells?? Thanks to every scientist who ever put an ounce of thought into creating that life-saving vaccine.

cool!

Holy c**p.

Which is Latin for “and“.

The English are unchallenged in having absurd units of measurement.

And a 'firkin' . We had a pub called the 'Fox and the Firkin' Now I know what that means.

What about “s**t-ton”?

This explains quite a lot.

lol I thought it was a swearword

I just found out Tun has 2 butts. (Edit: After magnifying the picture I saw it's Tun, not Tim. Thanks to mulk.)

butt. why

Just realized that the word Tun and Ton are probably related. 954 litres of liquid would have weighed around 1000 kg or 1 metric ton.

Thats a buttload o measurments

Hmmm an actual measurement :)

Sounds all Irish to me.

Fascinating, Tun also, it weighs a tun.

ha

And here was me thinking it was a load of brown stuff waiting to blast out from a rear end.

And I'm assuming the measurements are English gallons and not American gallons.

Well I'll be damned...

And thanks for teaching my that a Hogshead is also a measurement!!

And here I always thought it was a joke!

Where did you think "(rainwater) butt" came from?!

I love that info!!

Oh god, they really should talk to the people making cartoons. I have been gravely misinformed in my youth...

Is it just me or do they all look like cabbage patch kids?

They look like grumpy gnomes.

This is the city arms of Bern from Switzerland

*cries in Android*

The painter's sister Nan who modelled as the woman in the paintintg, perhaps embarrassed about being depicted as the wife of a man twice her age (modelled by a dentist), started telling people that Wood had envisioned the couple as father and daughter, not husband and wife. The painter Grant Wood himself remained vague on this point.

Hahahahaha

I knew James Earl Jones and that was it

Not parking in front of a fire hydrant should be common sense.

Nope. Nope. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.

And if you pick them young enough, they're edible.

It is funny. I was just eating M&M's when reading this

This all make sense now. Btw love technology connections channel.:)

I was told "bumped his head in the middle of the bed" was really "his wife killed him'. My grandmother was one dark woman

How old were you when you realized Bikini Bottom is under Bikini Atoll, where the US tested hundreds of nuclear weapons? Spongebob is a nuclear mutation

I have known this for ages but forget to do it and always ended up cooking more pasta than needed.

They taste identical, so don't bother going out of your way for it.

Jesus Luke, aren't you supposed to be able to sense these things??

Here we go again...

neeeed to pet the puppies