Things I'm embarrassed to have realised so late in life...

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Those ID necklaces? I had absolutely never heard of the word "lanyard" until around 3 years ago. All my friend's children learnt this way before I did. If you had told me "Lanyard" was a European city - I'd have believed you.

That little press send arrow in the top right hand corner? It only occurred to me in my mid 30s that it is in fact a paper aeroplane. I just thought it was a dodgy triangle.

I was absolutely stunned to find out the woman who plays Amanda in Motherland is not Catherine Tate.

Any confessions to console me I'm not the only one failing at life?! 😃

Will.I.am is a play on the name William

One I read recently and hadn't realised myself (despite being a huge fan) is that the Beatles are the BEATles as in "beat", not the Beetles. Blew my mind that! 😂

Oxbridge is not another university, like I thought it was for an embarrassingly long time. Though when my kids were applying to uni I did then always ask if they were going to apply to Oxford, Cambridge and Oxbridge. Own that mistake!

That Hillsborough is in Ireland.. 😳

Found out a week ago that Flo Rida was Florida with a space in it

Hillsborough is in northern ireland!!

It's true there is a Hillsborough in Ireland.
But the football tragedy involving Liverpool fans was at the Sheffield Wednesday ground which is called Hillsborough.

Also an area of Sheffield

No way hahaha

That little press send arrow in the top right hand corner? It only occurred to me in my mid 30s that it is in fact a paper aeroplane. I just thought it was a dodgy triangle

I'm 68. I didn't realise either. 😳

I thought that Pontefract was in Wales until last week. 🫣

e anything stands for electronic.

email = Electronic mail.

Billericay isn't in Ireland.

It was today for me 🤫

I'd had 4 kids before I found out that baby vests have that funny envelope neckline so you can pull them down in a poo explosion! I spent years carefully trying to get poopy vests over my babies heads without touching their faces and hair!

I only found out a few years ago that Billericay isn't in Spain!

I had the opposite of this, had never heard of Hillsborough Castle until this week…

Are you going to DIY kitchens??

Probably outing but I was only informed last year that a hare is a real animal and not an ancient mythical imagining of a rabbit.

The home symbol on Twitter is a bird house.

I was doing Latin O Level in the late 70s/ early 80s and studying the Aeneid. I was also a big fan of the Dukes of Hazzard and watched it every week.

It was literally a couple of years ago that I found out that the younger of the dumb cops was actually called Aeneas. I thought he was called Eeenis or something. You'd have thought I might have recognised the name.

I read that recently and afraid that someone is re-writing history - three of the Beatles were originally in a group called the Silver Beetles, then they changed the name and spelling.

Those ID necklaces? I had absolutely never heard of the word "lanyard" until around 3 years ago. All my friend's children learnt this way before I did. If you had told me "Lanyard" was a European city - I'd have believed you.

You and me both!

I've just had to check this! I thought it was just a house, in the same way that many home buttons are.

Ok

Mine is soooo dumb (but nicely topical)

I only recently (3 days ago during the news coverage of the royal family) realised that the era referred to as Georgian was so-called because of, you know King George, and hence Elizabethan etc etc

Not sure where I thought the names came from, obviously never given it a great deal of thought, and no I didn't take history at school

Imavingoops - I always thought the envelope necks were for babies with slightly bigger noggins - Thankyou for enlightening me 👍🏿