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?! 😃

I've only learned its a paper aeroplane!!! Also I only learned tutti frutti meant all fruit a few weeks ago and that tayto comes from potato at the age of 35

I have been wondering about this. Thanks.

that Timbuktu is in Africa not India

You are so wrong. If you think that, you've got another THINK coming. In other words, think again.

Your way doesn't even make sense! 🙄

I knew a girl who thought seahorses were as big as normal horses!
I would love to live in a world where that was true!

Something I learnt recently on tiktok and had not realised before in the nursery rhyme this little piggy, the one that went to market wasn't shopping 😬

For the longest time I already read 'albeit' as 'al-bay', as if it was French

apparently it is another THINK coming as in " if you think that is happening you have another think coming. "

its not - its THING!

I am dying at these 😂

@LutherRalph1 - thank you! At least I'm not alone

OH MY GOD 😮
I did NOT know this

Hans, Kristoff, Anna, Sven...Hans Christian Andersen.

Lord Farquaad....Lord Fuck Walt (Disney).

I'm not into horse-racing - in fact I loathe it.
But my father used to have the odd "flutter", and for years I thought an "each way" bet meant that the horses ran the race, then turned round and raced the same way back.........🙄

more serious, that some men make lovely friends and have feelings

It is named after a Gerry though.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering#:~:text=In%20representative%20democracies%2C%20gerrymandering%20(%2F,economic%20class%20within%20the%20constituency.

I'm a bit shocked that people don't know narwhals are real! I've actually held an ancient narwhal horn! 😂

Heres some:

It's definitely THINK though. Thing doesn't make any sense, just a mishearing of the original.

How sad I was to discover I had never had an Oragami.

apparently the Carolina's in America (North and south) were named by settlers in honour of Charles 1 as that was the first Carolean ( or Carolina ) era.
According to BBC news anyway .

This is brilliant!

I didnt know that either and i am 60 today the 60th anniversary of the day they recorded the final version of Love Me Do

Oh my goodness. This makes so much sense now 😂like you, I’d never given it much though before! No way can I confess this in real life!

I found out about the pronunciation of hyperbole in 2nd year of an English Lit degree 🙃

I thought the phrase was ‘it’s all gone petong’ thinking petong was a Chinese word for ‘wrong’, well into my thirties! 🙈

Also that Nice was in Italy…

One time at Edinburgh Zoo, DH & I overheard a guy confidently tell his date that Emperor Penguins were 6ft tall. I’m afraid we got rather silly & giggly at the thought of these giant penguins looming at us!

Only when I was about 30 did I realise that moustaches weren’t long nose hair 😅

My kids are adults now. Wish I’d known. Why did nobody tell me? Why were there no instructions on the packet when I bought them? So much trauma could have been avoided😂