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

[OrangeFlowersAreLovely]

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?! 😃

I didn't realise that one either!

As for the lanyard, that's the cord/ribbon/whatever you wear around your neck. The ID card is an ID card.

So are we now in the "Charlesian" era? 🤔

Billericay isn't in Ireland

Until about four years ago (because I had two colleagues who happened to live there) I always thought it had an "r" in it and was pronounced Billercray!

I was 24 before I realised "albeit" was said "all be it". I had been saying "al-bite" (like it was pronounced like a German word

No, Carolean era.

Neither I nor my DP knew narwhals were real until we had children and they were in lots of kids books.

After much questioning of why they put fictional animals in kids books, a quick Google made us feel quite stupid 😂

My kids are now adults and I never knew this

@OrangeFlowersAreLovely - I believe it will know as the Carolean era!

I've recently realised that if I empty the bottom drawer of the dishwasher first then any pools of water left on glasses on the top rack don't drip onto the plates below. I've had a dishwasher for about 20 years.

@OrangeFlowersAreLovely

We're in the Carolean era now 🙂

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

^^ I did not know that 🫣

It's an area of Sheffield too? That's where the football stadium is.

Have you heard of the cake??

@BalloonSlayer It's actually Enos. The sort of obscure biblical name you might find in the Deep South-chosen for it's comic sound, probably.

Yeah I was of my 3rd!!

Who's Carol 🙈

Carolus is the Latin for Charles

I've only recently learned what a colliery is

I just had to look up Pontefract. I also thought it was in Wales.

I always think Penrith sounds like it should be in Wales too (and particularly given the connections to Merlin).

^'its'!!! 😪

I'm from Yorkshire and I spend years thinking Hillsborough was in Liverpool.

I also only realised a few years ago that the Irish man with the beard was called Gerry Adams and not Sinn Fein as I had always called him.

I only realised at 35 that Alaska is in fact not all ice/snow. Turns out there is in fact a vast amount of vegetation.

My 'Ah moment ' is that the word is actually tenterhooks and not as I have been saying tenderhooks.

Carloean they've been saying on the news, although the reign of Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor) is usually called the Carolignian Age so I'm not sure.