apparently tigers are female lions

[tomhardy]

my dp has believed this for 30 years. i honestly thought he was winding me up, but no. he really thought female lions are tigers

to make matters worse, i told my db about this and he was really confused. he thought that was right too!

wtf! aibu to be in shock that they believed this or is it a common misconception?!

Firefighters don't use the tall towers to lookout for fires. They're for training exercises.

Thank you! I don't think I thought they were for spotting where fires were, but I didn't know they were for training exercises.

Although I think tall towers were used to spot forest fires intemote areas of the US until really quite recently. Not so much in the UK though

My dp didn't know the dandelion thing either. He only found out last year. He's 32.

Tom they practice running up
and down them hauling hoses and things.

You should go to your local Firestation open day they are usually very interesting.

Yes, I walk past the local fire station all the time and I'm sure have walked obliviously past open days before

I'll have a gander next time.

I thought they still used lookout towers in North America? And I'm sure I was reading about someone who works on one in Australia recently.

I quite fancy it as a job I don't really like people, not even my own household sometimes

Not animal related, but I was in Belfast last weekend at a conference and we spent a few hours doing an open top bus tour. One of the stops was the titanic exhibition. I was ready with my camera to get a photo of the titanic...
I think I'd imagined they had spruced up the wreck and put a gift shop in or something. Admittedly hadn't given it much thought aside from getting a cool photo. My colleagues nearly wet themselves laughing at me, especially as I'm usually 'the clever one' who knows loads of random facts.
We can all have dumb moments.

I didn't realise narwhal's were real till a few years ago. The first time i ever saw a reference one was at the beginning of the film Elf and i just assumed it was a magical made up animal. I still wouldn't be surprised if it was announced they were a huge joke on us all.

Yes narwhals were new to me too. I thought they were off the DCs' video games!

at these.

I used to think that a dog wearing a cone was hard of hearing.

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Thanks @Perfectly, when I told my friend this she nearly collapsed laughing - at the time I was really cross with her as I thought she was sick for laughing at them

It just gets better and better! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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My 1 year old grandson adores dogs and gets very excited if he sees one. The other day we were out and some had a dachshund and he took a glance at it, none of his usual squeals of excitement. He obviously doesn't think dachshunds are dogs

I think I'd imagined they had spruced up the wreck
Bloody well dying at that gem