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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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CornflakeHomunculus · 11/10/2017 00:18

The terracotta trade is terrible. Look, they even hollow out the babies to make teeny planters Sad

Things you really should have known sooner...
MrsA2015 · 11/10/2017 00:16

TErracotta wins the thread

Lweji · 11/10/2017 00:10

Terracotta - terrapin?

BahHumbygge · 11/10/2017 00:06

French Guiana... it's an overseas region of France, not its own country and it shares a frontier with Brazil Smile

scottishdiem · 11/10/2017 00:03

French Guyana.

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TheDodgyEnd · 11/10/2017 00:03

@BahHumbygge errr now I’m thoroughly perplexed - how on earth do France and Brazil share a border?

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scottishdiem · 11/10/2017 00:01

I am feeling smug that none of the real facts here are new to me. But then again I got to near 40 before learning that the little sharp cone on tube lids is there to pierce the metal covering on the tube (like on tomato paste, mustard or even medical salves). For years I had a special fork with a bent tine to pierce food tubes.

BahHumbygge · 11/10/2017 00:00

I had my mind blown yesterday that France and Brazil share a land border.

sunshinethroughmywindow · 10/10/2017 23:58

I thought Bruges was Belgian for Brussels 😂

ChinkChink · 10/10/2017 23:55

I could never understand why they were building a Channel Tunnel when in all the old fashioned murder mysteries I read people used to get on the boat train.

Which meant that clearly there was a rail track from Dover to Le Touquet or wherever.

And now I've touched off the memories of all those who thought the Channel Tunnel was like the tube you walk through in Sea World.

Grin
Spottyparrot99 · 10/10/2017 23:54

This one is unfinished

MomToWedThorFriday · 10/10/2017 23:54

Portsmouth being an island always pops up on these threads (fine, it’s an interesting fact). What really pisses me off is the people who pop up and go ‘no it isn’t.’ Um, why do I always have to cross a bridge to get to it then?! Seriously what do you think an island is?! No it’s not miles off the coast but it is surrounded by water and therefore by definition IS an island. Portsea island. Parts of the city limit now extend beyond the bridges, but that doesn’t mean that the island ceases to exist. Much like Hayling Island down the road - not far off, you can walk over in low tide - Still an island!!

Spottyparrot99 · 10/10/2017 23:53

One terracotta turtle/ tortoise money box. I make these!

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Lucked · 10/10/2017 23:48

I am Scottish and only found out this year that Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.

Stinkbomb · 10/10/2017 23:47

Went on a trip recently to a historic building (trying not to out oneself!) - there was some pictures of unicorns, and my friend said, in a really sad voice 'oh, did they kill the unicorns then?' She said it so seriously and sadly we just looked at her with incredulity and laughed our heads off!!!

ilovepixie · 10/10/2017 23:44

Peanut We say bread and jam too

ContraryFairy · 10/10/2017 23:44

Misled = mis-led as in not led very very, surely?

WalkingInMyShoes · 10/10/2017 23:41

Pontefract is not in Wales?
Portsmouth is an island?
Bucharest and Budapest are not the same place?
A killer whale is a DOLPHIN?

I need a lie down.
(Terracotta isn't really turtle shells is it?)

x2boys · 10/10/2017 23:40

But makes sense Shock

x2boys · 10/10/2017 23:38

That's even more disturbing quencher poor chickenSad

quencher · 10/10/2017 23:34

@x2boys That makes a lot of sense when you think about the last little piggy.

recently on Mn I learnt for the first time why the chicken crossed the road. It blew my mind. I had not connected "to get to the other side" with death. Yet if it was in human context I would have understood it straight away.
I used to think it was the most pointless joke that i thought to McDonald and KFC was better because it made sense. Funny thing, it's the same context and not just crossing the road to the other side. Grin

Pumperthepumper · 10/10/2017 23:23

Could the Pontefract thing maybe stem from Pontepandy?

x2boys · 10/10/2017 23:14

And the piggy that goes to market isnt going for a weeks worth of roast beef/bread and butter there going to market to be slaughtered according to a thread on here onceSad

stopbeingadramallama · 10/10/2017 23:14

I can’t get over the Portsmouth one

papayasareyum · 10/10/2017 23:12

that Pakistan is a country Blush