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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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thistoosha11pass · 12/10/2017 09:08

I didn’t know the pope was actually a catholic until I was about 22 Blush

LuckyLuckyMe · 12/10/2017 09:04

Can this thread be moved to somewhere permanent? Terracotta made from tortoises and ballache need to be preserved Grin

steppemum · 12/10/2017 08:47

I think I should put a terracota tortoise planter outside my front door and wait and see if any mn live on my street!

nigelsbigface · 12/10/2017 06:03

Terracotta tortoises are the new MN scarf...Smile

LonginesPrime · 11/10/2017 23:12

Can't believe the bastards meyezled you for so long!

cozietoesie · 11/10/2017 23:04

I felt completely bereft when I ‘lost’ meyezled......... It sounded so deliciously sneaky. Plain old ‘misled’ has lots of alternatives to use as well. Sad

marriedtogrumpy · 11/10/2017 22:58

I moved to the Midlands from South Wales and could never understand why anyone would want to advertise they lived on a coalfield until I saw how you spelt Sutton COLDfield on a road sign.

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TheDodgyEnd · 11/10/2017 22:47

@Jeffjefftyjeff I don’t think I’d made that connection ether to be honest Confused

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NameChanger22 · 11/10/2017 22:44

I thought the word 'poo' was spelt 'pooh' until I was 40. Spelling isn't my strong point.

Jeffjefftyjeff · 11/10/2017 22:40

I found out last week that 'the rock and roll hall of fame' was an actual place. Like a museum / archive type of place in the US.I thought it was just a saying for when someone had reach a certain level of famous.

LemonRedwood · 11/10/2017 22:31

Thank you @Bearwithverylittlebrain Smile

Tealdeal747 · 11/10/2017 22:21

I didn't realise that Pacific and specific were different words.

I also wasn't pronouncing the r in Arctic.

Bearwithverylittlebrain · 11/10/2017 22:18

@LemonRedwood go to keyboard settings and turn off smart punctuation. I had to google this as was missing my strike throughs

KrytensNanobots · 11/10/2017 22:18

I only heard of the country Eritrea a few months ago

You need to discover the Jetpunk quiz website. I can name all the countries of the world (all 196 of them according to the quiz) in record time from far too much time spent on there Grin
I'm now awesome at Pointless geography questions

I've put this one on other threads previous, but I only found out (when I was 35!!) that capers aren't tiny fish
I thought they were too Blush Were we thinking of them as being like little anchovies or something?

innagazing · 11/10/2017 22:06

Isn’t that the only thing anyone knows about cuckoos

You mean, apart from they live in clocks?

quencher · 11/10/2017 21:50

No it's not the tide being in or out. One is an old picture showing the beach before the sand was dredged from the sea to fill up the beach.

However they are running out of the sand and the beach is reverting to how it was before.

LemonRedwood · 11/10/2017 21:50

@WristBitch

Totally unrelated to the thread but how have you managed strike through with iOS 11? Stupid iPad keeps autocorrecting to —

LonginesPrime · 11/10/2017 21:45

or vice versa.

LonginesPrime · 11/10/2017 21:45

So that's not a picture of the tide out and then the tide in, then quencher?

quencher · 11/10/2017 21:39

I think I have my imported Miami Beach sand mixed up with something else.
However, on my internet rampage, I found the old photo of Miami because and now plus talks to import sand from other places. The beach full of sand seems to have reverted back to the first picture.

Things you really should have known sooner...
Notlostjustexploring · 11/10/2017 20:21

Ah, thank you. The importing sand makes sense now.

Concept is still a bit mad though!

pp2017 · 11/10/2017 20:13

#savetheterracotta

I’m dying 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

whooooareyooooouuu · 11/10/2017 20:12

And Aspatria is in Cumbria, not Italy.

This tickled me because I drive through Aspatria every day, to and from work 😂

MyDobbygotgivenasock · 11/10/2017 19:46

Notlost apparently they import sand blasting and construction sand as they have the wrong sort. This isn't the best source as I am just about to make dinner but mentions a lot of the ME imports sand

quencher · 11/10/2017 19:34

Imports? I think exports.