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Things you really should have known sooner...

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TheDodgyEnd · 10/10/2017 12:50

I’ve just learned that Casablanca is not in South America at all and is, in fact in Morocco! Who knew 🙄🤦🏼‍♀️
Anyone else got any tidbits they learned far too late in life?

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TheDodgyEnd · 11/10/2017 09:03

@2ndSopranos I like that one a lot. What age were they when they finally learned that ‘meat from a cow’ was indeed beef? Grin

Still nothing has come close to the barbaric terracotta tortoise trade.

I love to hear more if anyone else cares to chime in....brilliant responses so far

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Iwantacampervan · 11/10/2017 08:06

I had to tell a 10 year old that Wales was not an island - in her defence they would travel there over the Severn Bridge.

whoopsiedaisydangle · 11/10/2017 07:41

Talking to my brother in law who is a chef about knifes... I said I wanted a segregated knife.

He informed me that it is in fact a serrated knife!

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TheDodgyEnd · 11/10/2017 07:39

@CornflakeHomunculus your post has disturbed me greatly. Won’t somebody think of the poor bloody tortoises!

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TheDodgyEnd · 11/10/2017 07:38

Ah ok re French Guyana - do some people call it France then if it’s ok to say Brazil shares a border with France?

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DadDadDad · 11/10/2017 07:21

Isn’t that the only thing anyone knows about cuckoos

TheKrakening3 - I'm sure there's another fact most people know. Now what was it again? Something about the sound of their call - trying to remember how that sounds...

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Sarahh2014 · 11/10/2017 07:07

I know!! Crazy

StealthPolarBear · 11/10/2017 05:57

Pontypandy sounds like a made up place to me :)

OhOurBilly · 11/10/2017 05:55

Spottyparrot99 YOU MONSTER!!! Shock

Lweji I think that's where it stems from. He'll have misheard something and rather than ask, just assume. Grin

AndWhat · 11/10/2017 05:22

Cava is made the same way as Champagne but is made in Spain. Champagne is more expensive as there is only a small region allowed to make/call it champagne

furlinedsheepskinjacket · 11/10/2017 04:37

portsmouth is really not an island though :)

access to the city is via road which goes over muddy ground

i'm pretty sure you can't sail around it

TheKrakening3 · 11/10/2017 04:33

My DH was reading a book and turned to me and said he had learnt something amazing about cuckoos. He said they lay their eggs in other birds’ nests and let the other birds raise their chicks. I couldn’t stop laughing. Isn’t that the only thing anyone knows about cuckoos. I blew his mind when I told him to think about where the word cuckolded came from.

TheKrakening3 · 11/10/2017 04:29

@peanut2017 My Mum says bread and jam too. She’s from Victoria in Oz so maybe it came over with her Scottish ancestors and lived on in a little microcosm.

user1474 · 11/10/2017 04:10

Oh also, I thought Ipswich was in Scotland until I met someone from Ipswich when I was about 23.

BeALert · 11/10/2017 03:44

My DH thought that Jack the Ripper and the Yorkshire Ripper were the same person...

As a young teen I couldn't work out why the Yorkshire Ripper targeted prostitutes but not Catholics...

Lweji · 11/10/2017 03:11

Flamingos live where I live. Near Lisbon.

oldlaundbooth · 11/10/2017 02:09

That Vegas weddings are actually legally binding.

As in Phoebe in Friends legally binding.

westcoast · 11/10/2017 02:03

I didn't know Chile had a desert, The Atacama and flamingos live there. I thought flamingos lived in...I don't know...South Africa maybe? Turns out they do live there too and a bunch of other places.

I didn't know the potato originated in South America, the Andes to be exact. I thought they came from England.

user1474 · 11/10/2017 01:01

Omg at terracotta turtles!

Last year I learnt that the pool will not turn green if you pee in it (learnt that on a "lies you tell your kids" thread on here).

Quencher the chicken crossing the road joke makes so much sense now!

OkPedro · 11/10/2017 00:48

I don't get the France/brazil border?
They are no where near each other physically?
like NI is part of the uk but NI has a border with the ROI Confused

zoomiee · 11/10/2017 00:32

Terracotta tale cannot be bettered. Love it.

innagazing · 11/10/2017 00:27

Fray Bentos is actually a city in Uruguay and not just a meat pie in a metal tin!

Who'd have thought that?

The city is famous for it's processed meat though....