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

Hang on... whoa

But wouldn't it have to work a lot harder if the fish was full of water so it weighed more?

This has really made me chuckle 😂

Wait, what??

As a kid I always thought it said Wallis. Always

Because they’re surrounded by water to hold them up I guess. Buoyancy. Where would the air come from? I never thought about it either until now. Puff= air. A puff of water?? Crazy.

And they weren't very good!

She does say "Mirror, mirror on the wall", though?

About 28 seconds in, it's quite clear to my ears.

No, it's the arch between the toes and the ankle.

Is it not? 😬

In my early twenties I was watching a sports Saturday thing with my brother and some extended family one day. I asked what a "Conference game of football was" as the scores came in...

My darling brother told me it was when the 2 teams sat round a conference table and decided how the game would be played.

I'm ashamed to admit I was late twenties before I discovered that wasn't true.

That there’s no such thing as ‘baby broccoli’ ; it’s just actual broccoli that’s already separated.

Only found out a few months back when I went searching for the little broccoli in the supermarket and there was only the big kind 😂

I got confused with this as was always told (in a jokey way) that ‘The North’ started at Watford Gap. I mean it’s daft anyway but was ridiculous when I thought it was in Watford!

I can see why you thought it, the Logos have similar fonts.

I didn't know dandelions had different stages 😅 I thought the yellow one and the one you blow the seeds from were just 2 different flowers 😮

Oh heck. I've even seen a documentary about it and the penny didn't drop 😬

Holy shit, yeah! 😮🤦🏼‍♀️

For a long time I thought the author F. Scott Fitzgerald was a woman! Still have to think about it even now.

I think I confuse/conflate it with Ella Fitzgerald the singer.

I know where Harrogate is but for some reason I associate it with seagulls and ice cream and therefore the sea.

I also genuinely thought Pontefract was is Wales for years, well into being an adult.

@WutheringConniption

mo it's not, but it should be!

For years I thought it was as Kensington Gore met Brompton Road because there was a Scotch House on the corner there.

DH thought that The Old Grey Whistle Test music programme from the 70s/80s was about sheepdog trials.
(He is old enough to have watched the programme).

My parents had some 78 records with just the white wrapper and in the late 60s/early 70s I used to listen to Ella Fitzgerald and in my mind she was a white woman with a blonde beehive, possibly confusing her with Dusty Springfield!

I remember being shocked when I found out that she wasn't a white woman!

For virtually 50 odd years, I thought octopus were orange - as all the kids story books show them as orange cheery looking things that wave at you with their tentacles… I was really shocked to find out that they are dull coloured and can be quite aggressive!

So Roy Orbison isnt blind??

Roadrunners are real?

That Timbuktu isa real place… I thought it was one of my Ddads daft tales

Really good thread, OP! Learning a lot here tonight 😵‍💫

My best friend at teacher training college had had a sheltered upbringing. She absolutely believed....
You couldn't get pregnant if you had sex standing up.( Sperm can't swim uphill)
That everyone had a baby inside them that was ready to start growing and that,as soon as you had a big white dress and a wedding,the baby started to grow. ( Everyone in her family had had a baby very soon after the wedding. I imagine some of them had a baby on the way before the wedding)