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 😂

Cwm in Welsh means valley. Cumbria has linguistically Welsh roots. Sorry, couldn't help it!

Snap for Carlisle.

Ok, jumping on the geography thing, and I didn't grow up in the uk so that's my excuse, but I always thought that Penzance was a mythical pirate place.

I'd only heard about it in children's stories

I thought this for years I grew up near there and it was only much later I realised how unlikely it was, luckily I looked it up rather than ask someone

What??

Yes, Hispaniola.

Ok a separate note I always confuse Dominican Republic and Dominica

I have explanations!
It’s because it sounds like a cross between Bethnal Green and Greenwich!
Also, Skegness like Loch Ness
And Carlisle because of Robert Carlyle the Scottish actor???? Ok, maybe clutching at straws for the last one!

Barry White and Billy Joel sing the same song.
Just the way you are
I knew they both sang but I thought it was different so GS.
I only copped it the other day when 2 radio stations each played the different version nearly back to back.
It's so obvious now

The Skegness monster is any hen party attendee in a pleather mini-skirt and leopard print top going full-on shots and blue drink...

Me too!

1 - that there's an artist who paints a shroud for each person who has died as a direct result of an adverse benefits decision. There are at least 25 of them;

2 - the sheer number of people whose knowledge of UK geography is crap.

(I already knew I'm quite good at interpreting something badly-written. This one has at least three reasons - simple typo, autocarrot, and sub-optimal sentence structure.)

That toto blessed the rains down in Africa
they didn’t “guess it rains down in Africa” which made sense to me because I guess it does sometimes

the Kuala Lumpur one had me laughing so hard
needed that

Flo Rida...Florida 😲

I thought Londonderry was the county that London was in .

And I thought "bought" and "brought " were the same words/same meaning.

I guess my daughter would comment who was about 28 at the time about the time she found out that haggis wasn’t a fish.
playing blockbuster one Xmas and it was what H can you catch off the north east coast of Scotland
she shouted haggis and wondered why we all wet ourselves
(answer was herring)

Literally just read on another thread what scarify a lawn means. I wondered why mine wash so pat hung after putting grass seeds on it

That electric cars have a green strip on their number plates. My boy told me this last weekend.

I was also under the impression that Brunei was in the Middle East only found out it was in Borneo when we were looking at going to the Malaysian part for a holiday. Similar to others I was thrown by the fact there was a Sultan and seem to recall from my youth that the Sultan of Brunei was the richest man in the world at the time

It's in Yorkshire

As a young teenager I tagged along on a family day trip to "Grantshouse" which is a little coastal village south of Edinburgh and not the name of some random relative called Grant who happened to live in a house.

But... Why would anyone think that there an artist who paints a shroud for each person who has died as a direct result of an adverse benefits decision? And why are there are at least 25 of them??

He missed the rains

WHAT!! No way, I'm off to Google!!!

Where’s Borneo again?