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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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TroysMammy · 10/10/2017 23:05

I've heard the little piggy having cheese on toast. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

AtSea1979 · 10/10/2017 23:03

Up north, I took Year 2 children out individually to do SPAG SATs paper. Past tenses. "Past tense of eat".
All but 1 child out of the 29 put "et"

TheBadgersMadeMeDoIt · 10/10/2017 22:55

Thought Pennsylvania was a fictional place where vampires came from until DH set me straight.

What really blew my mind was when I looked it up (just to check he wasn't pulling my leg) and discovered that Transylvania is a real place! 😮

Think I was about 25.

AtSea1979 · 10/10/2017 22:55

This little piggy had "corned dog" in our family.
What my grandparents call corned beef. Corned dog hash, or corned dog sandwiches.

Blackcatonthesofa · 10/10/2017 22:52

This is going to become a new hashtag. You know, when people go alll oooh I've namechanged but an old member because #penis beaker #cancel the cheque #turtle powdered terracotta

Battytwatty · 10/10/2017 22:52

I met someone from etitera the other day. He had to show me where it is on a map of the world as I'd never heard of it. I'd always thought I was ok at geography too.
I also thought pontrefact was in Wales too though

TellMeItsNotTrue · 10/10/2017 22:51

The Terracotta Turtles is my favourite false fact I've ever read on MN

I didn't think it could get any better, until you brought Bill and Ben in to it, for some reason that started the laughing off again in a big way Grin BBC encouraging cruelty to Terracotta Turtles Grin

  • double check it is a type of turtle and not tortoise, now that would have been an embarrassing mistake to make Wink
peanut2017 · 10/10/2017 22:48

X2boys yep I am Irish. I thought maybe it was an Irish thing but then my dh says 'roast beef' as well and so did all the other mams today!

At least me and your dad are not alone Smile

tinkerbellone · 10/10/2017 22:39

I always thought a high-viz jacket (high-visibility jacket) was pronounced hiveee's. As in a jacket named after the inventor mr/mrs hiveees. Blush

NikiBabe · 10/10/2017 22:38

One of my old colleagues thought Seahorses were mythical creatures until fairly recently.
I tried telling her unicorns were also real. She had to think about it.

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TheDodgyEnd · 10/10/2017 22:34

Could’ve been worse @Josiah 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Josiah · 10/10/2017 22:31

Circa 1980/81 when I was 15ish!

Felt a right fool!

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TheDodgyEnd · 10/10/2017 22:26

@Josiah when did you find out?

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Josiah · 10/10/2017 22:25

I was a teenager in the 1970s and was horrified at the thought of a Gorilla Army and Gorilla Soldiers!

I had no idea it was Guerilla army and Guerilla soldiers!

All I could picture was gorilla's trained to fire machine guns!

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TheDodgyEnd · 10/10/2017 22:25

@Sarahh2014 NO WAY!!! Not that I didn’t believe you but I had to google and it’s true! How has Attenborough not told us this?!?!

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Sarahh2014 · 10/10/2017 22:22

That a killer whale ( orca) is in fact part of the dolphin family not whale...mind blown

LabMonkey · 10/10/2017 22:20

#Justiceforterracotta just made my day!

x2boys · 10/10/2017 22:18

@peanut2017 my Dads little piggie has bread and butter hes Irish are you Irish? But everyone's else's has roast beef.

poppym12 · 10/10/2017 22:16

I only found out about pineapples a couple of weeks ago (whilst marvelling at the 'pineapple trees' in Spain).

Just to confuse the Penrith is in Cumbria not Cornwall people, there is an area of Cornwall called Penwith.

OhOurBilly · 10/10/2017 22:03

I should get him a whole colony. Tell him they were released in a free the terracotta campaign and that I've offered to host them. I now have visions of Bill and Ben leading the charge

I was honestly too busy laughing to disillusion him. I had to sit on the floor and hope my pelvic for held up as I was pregnant at the time. Grin

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Foggymist · 10/10/2017 21:57

@OhOurBilly so did he have to come out and describe what a terracotta was, as in explain he thought it was a tortoisey/turtley thing and you had to explain the whole thing! I'm fascinated! Grin

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TheDodgyEnd · 10/10/2017 21:51

@BewareOfTheToddler that’s great! What was an owl in your mind, if not a bird?

If it’s any consolation, I was most surprised when I first saw an ocelot in a zoo because a cat appeared where I was expecting a lizard to be.

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RJnomore1 · 10/10/2017 21:51

It says it all that I know nothing about geography but all about the wine 😂

Cava is usually much cheaper then champagne. It's sometimes nicer though.

StealthPolarBear · 10/10/2017 21:50

I assumed tigers were lady lions until into my twenties. Dh put me right with lots of laughing. But I am excelled by terracotta man

AmazingGrace16 · 10/10/2017 21:49

So cava is not posh champers? Huh ok...learn something new every day!