Lighthearted: Have you only just realised something is infact not what you thought?

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Didn't quite know how to title this but:

I have always thought the second hand on a clock was, like, first and second. Only just found out it means the seconds..... I'm 52.....

What seemingly obvious things have you only just realised are infact not what you thought?

I didn't know that. I'm 50!

I thought when the little piggy went to market, he was skipping down the road, with his shopping basket.....devastated. I'm 50....today

@Whatthefunk I didn't realise it was market as in not the shopping market either! Every days a school day!

Happy birthday

Thanks ever so

I thought when talking about football 'on aggregate' meant the surface they played on (like astroturf).

@Sparklingbrook what does it mean?

Sparkling - I always thought five-a-side football was fibre-side football and it was the name of the surface they played on!

The two clubs drawn as a pair play each other twice, home-and-home. The winner is decided by adding together the scores from the two games -- the aggregate score. If the aggregate score is tied, then the winner is the club that scored more goals on its opponent's field (usually referred to as "the away goals rule").

Thank you unicorn

I don't understand .
If a clock has a hand that counts seconds , wouldn't that be a third hand ?
So the big hand counts hours , the second hand is minutes and a third hand is visibly moving counting the seconds.
I'm going to have to google that now

Oh no I've got that wrong haven't I ?
The smaller hand is the hours
I'm still confused though .
A lot of clocks don't count the seconds and they will have two hands

So the big hand counts hours , the second hand is minutes and a third hand is visibly moving counting the seconds.

Um... a clock has an hour hand, a minute hand and a second hand.

It only dawned on me when teaching my kids to tell time, how confusing it is that the 'big' hand is the short one and the 'little' hand is the long one, especially when they don't make the hour hand fat and the minute one thin.

how confusing it is that the 'big' hand is the short one and the 'little' hand is the long one

The big hand is the minute hand. The long one.
The little hand is the hour hand. The short one.

Always thought my dcat was illiterate.
Seems I was wrong.

I thought people had "a stigmatism", didn't realise its "astigmatism" all one word until the optician told me I have it

I've never appreciated the 'this little pig went to market' either! 😯
I thought a cute little piggy strolled off to buy a few bits!
What a game changer?!!!!

A stigmatism. Thought the same

Narwhals are real.

Until recently I thought they were some sort of fantasy whale-unicorn hybrid!

@rainbowstardrops OMG I never thought of this! Poor little piggy!

Also the words to Delilah (Tom Jones) are fucking psychopathic!

Until last week I thought redolent was pronounced re-dole-ent rather than red-o-lent. Had only read it (and pronoched it wrong in my head) and never heard it spoken or (evidently) said it out loud until then.

pronoched: the alternative way of spelling pronounced!!

Oh god the more I read of this thread the more I'm realising how much I don't know!

I thought 'meme' was pronounced me-me until very recently.

My 15yo was in tears of laughter when I told her

@purplelass Hahaha! That's so sweet I might start using me-me!