Things you’ve only just found out

[TheChosenTwo]

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

At least you're not alone 😂

and gavotte from My Fair Lady

Carly Simon sang 'gavotte'not gavoy.

I only ever saw it in writing, until one day at a train station the announcement pronounced it.

I hated the Eurythmics. Something to do with the schoolboys alternative lyrics for Sweet Dreams are made of this.

I went to Wigan to visit a friend, realised it was not on the coast (to my slight surprise, even though I'd been following Google maps for hundreds of miles and could see the overview of where it was when I started ...) and decided, secretly, that there was no pier. It must all have been a literary invention, I thought. I never asked my friend to show me it. We went to a National Trust place over an hour away and I never saw the centre of Wigan. The friend has since moved so maybe I never will!

@macinae, at least it wasn't for a Heominster Cage to go with the Chester Draws

@KirstenBlest 😂😳

@JudgeJ I believe he did yes - i keep getting a video of him doing that part of his show on my youtube recommends but i've never watched it, or much of him otherwise, tbh.
I'm sure there'll be loads of misheard lyrics though, so i expect he'll have made a good skit of it all.

The first time I tried to pronounce Billericay it caused great amusement to my colleague from Sarfend!

That the Arctic Monkeys album 'AM' is the band initials. For years I thought it was a reference to the time of day 🙈😂

I thought this until a couple of years ago, mentioned to dh that it was weird they didn’t show the stairs. The penny dropped and he was in hysterics 🙄

In my Saturday job when I was at school, I worked alongside a permanent member of staff, not that much older than me. If anyone remembers the song by Clout, 'Substitute' from the 70s? - well colleague thought they were singing, "I'll be your prostitute, whenever you want me!"

DH thought that the Police sang about "that famous book by Neville Cough" in Don't Stand so close to me...

DC2 once pondered whether, if a dog was reared by humans, it would learn to speak....!!! (think she had the Jungle Book in mind lol). Anyway, relayed the tale laughing to work colleagues, and one educated to Masters level said quite seriously, "yes, I wonder would they?"!!

@Canthave2manycats , you made those up, surely?

RE University Challenge.....In fairness.........they were originally seated in physically tiered seats so one team was above the other as split screen stuff wasnt easy to do when it first started. So its not actually as daft as it sounds to think that it continued. The Young Ones were being factually correct for a certain point in the shows history, although not the one that they were portraying admittedly! It may have helped perpetuate the belief though.

It was really only when the end credits started showing them all on the same level that it made it clear that they no longer were.

For years I thought Demerara sugar came from Ireland & argued with my dad about it, he said it came from India and I've only just found out it comes from Guyana, South America.

I thought hamsters were native UK rodents like dormice.

I thought the same until DH told me where it is about 10 years ago. I think it's because it has a Sultan- which I associate with the Middle East for some reason.

Found out today... that the song called Heaven was originally sang and written by Bryan Adams.

I was at a meeting where a teacher in her 30s said Greece was a holiday resort in Hawaii.

I had to fix a few errors on our work database because one of my colleagues had coded the Philippines as being in South America.

Isn't Gram just a name in it's own right, not just the way Americans pronounce Graham? Gram Parsons?
I'm Irish and I'd have bet money that Carlisle is in Scotland. It sounds very Scottish.

Oh my God, yes, it was like a project when I was at primary school and I thought it was keep writ and tidy. Never understood why!

What? Seriously?
I'll know not to ever touch one, very unlikely to come across one

Ifyou gave me a map of counties of England, without names on, I could not place the clump in the red outline in the right place. I could do all the northern ones, eastern ones , Devon, Cirnwall and most if the coastal ones but that clump around London, South of Manchester and the West, I'd have no idea which was which.

Google tells me that Gram Parsons original name was Ingram. You learn something new every day.

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