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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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GingerLemonTea · 10/10/2017 21:02

The moon doesn’t emit light

SuspendedInGaffaTape · 10/10/2017 21:01

I suddenly realised the other day that Bros were called Bros because they were brothers...bros...Bros... get it?

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TheDodgyEnd · 10/10/2017 21:01

@TheQueenSnortsAvocados - And Portsmouth isn't a real island...

I just thought I had learned something new, is Portsmouth not an island, then?

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UnicornsandRainbows1 · 10/10/2017 21:01

@RJnomore1 Tbf Cornwall has a lot of names beginning with Pen.

Please tell me it's in Wales... it's not is it ?

mrsRosaPimento · 10/10/2017 21:00

I thought Poland was landlocked until this summer. I'm 44.Blush

dairymilkmonster · 10/10/2017 21:00

I also used to think capers were some sort of sea creature...

Also learnt recently that Arkansas and the place pronounce 'ar-can-saw' are the same place...

Girty999 · 10/10/2017 21:00

I had left school with decent grades and realised FebRuary had that rogue R in it, never corrected even at sixth form

Lweji · 10/10/2017 21:00

Budapest used to be two separate towns, Buda and Pest, on separate sides of the Danube.

RJnomore1 · 10/10/2017 20:58

Fucksake, they're in different countries and everything.

RJnomore1 · 10/10/2017 20:57

I also thought county Durham was in Ireland and Penrith was in Cornwall.

They SHOULD be. Stoopid geography.

RJnomore1 · 10/10/2017 20:55

I've just told dh about Budapest and Bucharest and he's looking at me like this 😕🤔🙄

Apparently he knew.

UnicornsandRainbows1 · 10/10/2017 20:53

@Bananasandchocolatecustard I googled this! Apparently it's to do with his surname and Fred Flintstone. But then again the internet is full of lies Grin

RJnomore1 · 10/10/2017 20:52

Hang on

There's a Budapest AND a Bucharest and they're different?

Mind. Blown.

ImTakingTheEssence · 10/10/2017 20:52

That you can put fake eyelashes underneath your lashes instead of on top. They look nicer though.

Bananasandchocolatecustard · 10/10/2017 20:51

How can the names Freddie and Andrew belong to the same person ?

Lweji · 10/10/2017 20:49

@AnnaBay

Eritrea is a somewhat recent country, only becoming independent of Ethiopia in 1993.

MyDobbygotgivenasock · 10/10/2017 20:49

My DH thought that Jack the Ripper and the Yorkshire Ripper were the same person, I could almost follow his train of thought about the fact Jack must have moved house (and changed his name presumably?) but I never established quite how he squared the age thing. DH had just never really thought about it apparently.

UnicornsandRainbows1 · 10/10/2017 20:49

@peanut2017 I've only ever heard the roast beef version, but your one sounds wonderful :)

TheQueenSnortsAvocados · 10/10/2017 20:48

I always thought Puffins were the same size of Penguins, until I visited a Puffin colony.

But penguins come in lots of different sizes!

And Portsmouth isn't a real island...

peanut2017 · 10/10/2017 20:42

Not sure if this is just me but at a baby group thing today and we were all doing 'this little piggy' on our babies and I'm singing along loudly but different to everyone else?

I say 'this little piggy had bread and jam' and everyone else said 'this little piggy had roast beef'????

Everyone laughed at me

It's not like my parents were vegetarian although my mam does have her own language so not sure if this was just our family?!!

ChunkyPunky · 10/10/2017 20:41

Ha CatchIt it does sound Welsh but it's firmly in West Yorkshire. Pontefract is Latin for broken bridge - another fun fact. Not that it makes much difference really as to where it is.

And Aspatria is in Cumbria, not Italy.

Hassled · 10/10/2017 20:40

For years I thought Budapest and Bucharest were the same place - I was thinking it was a Naples/Napoli thing, maybe? Anyway, they are absolutely not the same place and I was very very wrong and stupid.

Ca55andraMortmain · 10/10/2017 20:38

Ducks can fly?!
Well knock me down with a feather!

itusedtobeverydifferent · 10/10/2017 20:37

I just realised that the darker bit of a fluffy cloud is the bottom of it, the flat bottom parallel to the ground. I'm not even what I used to think!

MrsJayy · 10/10/2017 20:37

My stepdads has family in Pontefract I thought it was in Wales untill a few months ago when the parents were going to a wedding and were talking about getting off the train at Leeds for the connection, sounds like a Welsh welsh town

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