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Things you’ve only just found out

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TheChosenTwo · 24/05/2023 18:35

About 2 days ago I discovered that Skegness isn’t in Scotland 😳 How did I never know this before? Embarrassingly, I’m 38 😂

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Bigglebiggle · 25/05/2023 10:33

PuttingDownRoots · 25/05/2023 10:04

Technically the Sistene Chapel is in Vatican City, which is a separate country to Italy, in the middle of Rome

Literally just had to Google this.

squishee · 25/05/2023 10:56

ulcers · 25/05/2023 06:10

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Are you thinking of the Garden Route in SA?

squishee · 25/05/2023 11:01

DeoForty · 25/05/2023 00:49

Dubai and Abu Dhabi are cities, not countries.

Yes, city states. Emirates too.

squishee · 25/05/2023 11:05

BadNomad · 24/05/2023 23:33

Also, your eyes see everything upside down. It's your brain that flips things the right way up.

Yes, my DM had a disorder when I was born and saw me upside-down at first.

Choccyp1g · 25/05/2023 11:10

My geography used to be rubbish.

I'd never even heard of many African countries until I was 32.

Until the Falklands war I thought they were somewhere between Hebrides and Shetland.

When I first heard of Suriname, I assumed it was about where Brunei actually is, and of course Brunei was next to Bahrain.

Nowadays I play Worldle every day and feel very smug with my newly discovered facts.

Fink · 25/05/2023 11:32

Choccyp1g · 25/05/2023 11:10

My geography used to be rubbish.

I'd never even heard of many African countries until I was 32.

Until the Falklands war I thought they were somewhere between Hebrides and Shetland.

When I first heard of Suriname, I assumed it was about where Brunei actually is, and of course Brunei was next to Bahrain.

Nowadays I play Worldle every day and feel very smug with my newly discovered facts.

Worldle and Globle are both great fun, but it was Sporcle that really transformed my geographical knowledge. It's been a game changer.

Abracadabra12345 · 25/05/2023 11:33

Infusionist · 24/05/2023 19:10

I know that Pontefract isn’t in Wales, but I can’t quite bring myself to believe it.

It should be!!!

MrFlibblesEyes · 25/05/2023 11:54

I'm quite surprised nobody has said that they thought the capital of Australia was Sydney? That's usually a classic mistake

CC4712 · 25/05/2023 12:10

I always thought Auckland was the capital of New Zealand, but its Wellington!

TheDogsMother · 25/05/2023 12:36

Tirtytreeandaturd · 24/05/2023 22:57

That post menopause as well as your fanny drying up faster than the Horn of Africa and your eyes doing the same - your pubes also disappear . I’ve gone from a Kate Bush bush to a Prince William seemingly overnight. And my flaps have grown so quickly I reckon I could easily park a Mini Cooper in there without any lube whatsoever

OMG. Sitting on a packed plane waiting to take off, pissing myself laughing. Probably literally because I'm also menopausal.

Pudmyboy · 25/05/2023 13:12

HelloIsItYouImLookingFor · 25/05/2023 03:22

My daughter thought one of the reindeers was called Olive. She was so convinced and we couldn't work out why. Turns out 'all of' the other reindeer is where it sprang from 🤣😂🤣

😂

Pudmyboy · 25/05/2023 13:15

MMBaranova · 24/05/2023 23:32

We three kings of Orientar.

Trouble was, I couldn't find Orientar when I searched for it. I decided it was probably near Kuwait but had sunk, Atlantis-like. The rotating triple kingship seemed cool.

Love this!

Pudmyboy · 25/05/2023 13:16

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 25/05/2023 00:46

Mauritania always sounds to me like it should be in Eastern Europe.

You mean it isn't?😯

Fiftyisthenewsixty · 25/05/2023 13:19

I only found out that Dominica and Dominican Republic are two separate countries through Sporcle. Dh still contests it!

BodegaSushi · 25/05/2023 13:21

LeTempsPerdu · 25/05/2023 07:09

Until very recently, I thought narwhals were mythical creatures, like unicorns. Still find it hard to believe they are real!

Oh that was me with wombats 😂

First id heard of them was in Harry Potter, so naturally thought they were magical.

I still look at a wombat funny when I see it pop up in a story.

BodegaSushi · 25/05/2023 13:24

Oh and Saran wrap (American brand of cling film) I thought was 'surround wrap' for ages. Because, well.

BodegaSushi · 25/05/2023 13:25

MrFlibblesEyes · 25/05/2023 11:54

I'm quite surprised nobody has said that they thought the capital of Australia was Sydney? That's usually a classic mistake

Yep. Learned that as an adult in a pub quiz.

Followed by Wellington.

And then Ankara while watching the news.

Mind blown.

BodegaSushi · 25/05/2023 13:26

Fiftyisthenewsixty · 25/05/2023 13:19

I only found out that Dominica and Dominican Republic are two separate countries through Sporcle. Dh still contests it!

I go googly-eyed when someone says they're Dominican. Which one?

I know I can google this.

Backinthepast · 25/05/2023 13:26

I was so excited when my late husband told me we had a posting to South Cerney - I thought it was like South Pacific - thought of tropical beaches and hot days - it’s just outside Gloucester I found out!

UrsulaBelle · 25/05/2023 13:27

With Mauritania, maybe people were conflating Moldova and Transylvania? I used to think Moldova was fictional, but that was Moldovia in Dynasty.

BodegaSushi · 25/05/2023 13:28

And I learned embarrassingly recently that New Zealand is at 4 o'clock to Australia, and not 2 o'clock. And that it's actually 2 big (main) islands and not just one.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 25/05/2023 13:33

Pudmyboy · 25/05/2023 13:16

You mean it isn't?😯

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It’s in North West Africa. It borders Algeria, Mali, Senegal and Western Sahara.

Pudmyboy · 25/05/2023 13:35

Thank you!

JudgeJ · 25/05/2023 13:39

ThatFraggle · 24/05/2023 23:08

I didn't know that you could get it pre perforated.

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Lakeland!

JengaCupboard · 25/05/2023 13:40

After having total embarrassed rage at the petrol station pump, including doing reasonable paint/panel damage by trying to wedge it open with my car key, I learned latterly that my petrol cap locked automatically on the central locking of my new company car, and that no amount of shoving or jemmying was going to open it.

I had 4 miles left in it so had to be 'recovered' as not enough fuel to drive it either home or to a garage to be 'fixed'.

I have never felt so foolish in my actual life when the recovery guy turned up.

The shame.