# Things you know that it never occurred to you others wouldn't know...

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 5, 2015, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-know-that-it-never-occurred-to-you-others-wouldnt-know/736696 "2015-11-05T11:07:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-know-that-it-never-occurred-to-you-others-wouldnt-know/736696/341 "2015-11-21T01:16:33Z")

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I love the comment in a previous SDMB thread somewhere, about Bolivia’s big lakes called Titicaca and Poopo: words to the effect of, “It would seem that the first Spanish Viceroy of Bolivia must have been about ten years old”.

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-know-that-it-never-occurred-to-you-others-wouldnt-know/736696/342 "2015-11-21T01:42:50Z")

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> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> The terrorist attack in Bamako, Mali reminded me that many people do not know that Timbuktu, which is also in Mali, is a real place.
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> So is Lake Titicaca. My brother, who is one of the smartest people I have ever known, thought it was something made up for “Beavis & Butthead”, who claimed to come from there. 😛

The Great Cornholio claimed to come from Lake Titicaca. The people there were very poor. They had no TP for their bungholes. Of course, The Great Cornholio was Beavis when he got too much caffeine or sugar or prescription drugs.

I thought everyone about my age knew that.

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**Author:** ![SantaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@SantaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SantaMan)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-know-that-it-never-occurred-to-you-others-wouldnt-know/736696/343 "2015-11-21T01:50:06Z")

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Having a lot of German heritage (Southern Indiana) , I always assumed “pull the door to” was from the German “zu” which means “toward” and “closed”  
The same way sit down to table was a direct translation of the original German idiom.

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**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-know-that-it-never-occurred-to-you-others-wouldnt-know/736696/344 "2015-11-21T01:56:23Z")

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I wouldn’t have thought the English relationship of “to” to “toward” required much exploration.

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**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-know-that-it-never-occurred-to-you-others-wouldnt-know/736696/345 "2015-11-23T00:18:24Z")

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> [@enipla](#):
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> It’s not too much of a concern for me since we have a creek on the property that I can get water from to flush if need be.

I have a creek, too. I use a generator to run the pump before I hit the creek, though.

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