Things you assumed and were astonished to find out you were completely wrong

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For example: The Elgin Marbles. Heard these mentioned from time to time over the years. Always pictured marbles; kids’ marbles. Then I heard they were something to do with Greece and I’ve always thought Elgin was there. Got it all completely wrong

I thought egg white had no nutritional value.

Best part of taking school trips to,France, telling the kids to look out for the fish 😂

@AppropriateAdult yes! I’d no idea it was the time! I thought it was because of the sun! Ha ha ha

I thought Freddie Flintoff and Andrew Flintoff were brothers, told my OH how proud their parents must be, to have them both play cricket for England. He has never let me forget it.

Oh and when I was a child I thought pipe cleaners were named for cleaning drainage pipes, not smoking pipes

How did you make sense of the war with Argentina?

I'm embarrassed that for years I thought silicon valley was named that because of the amount of cosmetic surgery!

Glad that’s not just me then!

Tracy is a male name like Hilary

wow! I just googled and learned this today!! I’m 41. Even thought PP was joking at first!!

That a horse called Bar ran in an awful lot of races.

Back in the 70s, when I read in the NME that Stevie Nicks was in a relationship with Lindsey Buckingham, I assumed that this was a lesbian relationship as Lindsey is a girls’ name. I mean, all the Lindseys I’d ever met were girls (despite her masculine-sounding name, I knew that Stevie Nicks was a woman as it was usually a photo of her that accompanied articles about the band).

I thought heart failure was just that - heart failed and you died. No, it is cardio insufficiency in normal speak.

That’s it. Faroe + Falkirk = Falkland Islands are in Scotland. I’m far too young to know about the war and didn’t learn about it in school so 🤷🏻‍♀️

Omg!!! THIS is now my answer as well, as before reading this comment I'd thought the same thing (and been confused as well).

I was an adult before I discovered that rabbits and hares are different animals. I thought hares were make rabbits.

That "a face on a lover with a foreigner's heart" is actually "a face on a lover with a fire in his heart". I learned that last Christmas. Really.

Wigan Pier - never occurred to me that Wigan is inland!

Male not make

Isn’t it??? School day for me today…. First Narwhals now this.

Tracy is a unisex name though.

I know a couple of blokes called Tracy.

The females (that I know) spell it Tracey.

I think you might have had the same teacher as me! Or are her!

I thought this for a very long time after her misinformation

That pineapples grew on trees. I was gobsmacked to find out they grow on a tiny plant not much more than knee high.

......well close the schools and send the kids to MN, because here's another thing I've just learned this very second.