To ask the most basic thing you never knew/misunderstood until adulthood

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I feel like a completely ridiculous excuse for an adult but the other day I found out the difference between cottage pie and shepherds pie.

I am in my 30s and gobsmacked (also feel a bit stupid now it's so obvious). I genuinely thought they were the same thing.

Is there anything you discovered as an adult that was just common knowledge to everyone else? Or perhaps there's a phrase you've found out you have been saying wrong all this time etc...!

Help me feel a bit better.

I thought New Zealand was North East of Oz not South East until very recently. (Last year) I checked lots of maps online as I didn't believe it!

The writing on the back of a book is called blurb? My daughter has just told me. I told her to stop saying silly words and to read the book properly! My OH says he thinks it's true?

BlueMerchant yes it's called a blurb!!

I have an English Literature A-level

Finally one that I know 🤣

Flamin’’ Yon is not an exotic meat brought to the table on fire

That to pay someone is 'reMUNerate', not 'reNUMerate' as I'd always thought!

Our maths teacher taught us to remember it like you're giving someone 'munny' (money). Mind you he was a bit odd.

I must have been in my twenties before I found out why Easter moves but maybe that's because I didn't listen when people tried to explain until I'd grown up a bit.

I thought Africa was a country not a continent. That would be a bad enough assumption for anyone but it was all the worse coming from me if you knew what vocation/education I had had.

The size of tuna is so much bigger than I thought

I guess it’s because they notmLly come in cans

The fact that tuna steak existed never even crosssd my mind

Also, it hang gliding not hand gliding. That one shocked me

I found out the ‘p’ is silent in pterodactyl in my mid thirties
Puh-terror-dack-till

That Bambi's mum died and didn't just...leave and live somewhere else.

Sorry my message makes me look like I'm suggesting my education was better than most- that's not what I'm saying. What I mean is the discipline O studied in.

Flamin’’ Yon is not an exotic meat brought to the table on fire

I always love the Flamin' Yon one when it comes up! It's more the fault of people pronouncing it badly though.

I thought Bolivia was in Eastern Europe til I was 19...

That Bambi's mum died and didn't just...leave and live somewhere else

I'm sorry @HarrysOwl, that's a tough realisation for the hardest of people.

I had two fillings age 8 cut to age 23 and I needed a 3rd filling. The new dentist asked if I'd had gas - I said no I had the magic cream. 'Magic cream'. Asked the Dentist 'what did it feel like?'. 'It felt like a sharp pain, and then it tingled a bit and then I didn't feel anything'. I could see the Dental nurses shoulders shaking with laughter. The Dentist replied 'You have just described the injection, he probably didn't want to scare you hence the errr well magic cream'

I was so embarrassed. I'd left home and was supporting myself financially.

I don't eat meat and I've not had it for 30 years or so. I didn't realize that a lot of meat takes ages to cook. I made a stewing steak casserole thing for my Mum and served it up after 40 minutes or so, when the veg pieces were done. It was as tough as old boots. I looked online and it needed 4hrs plus at gas mark 4 or something lol.

When I was 25, I finally realised that Disney's Bambi was actually a boy. For years I thought he was a doe. But then he grows up into the Great Prince, doesn't he? 🤔😂

To add to a pp's fact about the Moon's rotation, the Moon kind of 'wobbles' due to the Earth's gravity so we actually see about 55% of the surface, even though it rotates at about the same rate as the Earth.

I recently wondered aloud to a friend in a supermarket about why I never understood why red peppers/capsicums were more expensive than green.

She said "erm, maybe because it takes them longer to grow so they can harvest green ones quicker"

Me 😲 "I thought they were different varieties"

Her "Noooo. They grow green, then mature yellow then onto orange then finally red"

THIS IS BRAND NEW INFORMATION!! 😂

Another fun fact about the moon...we’ve (as an individual person, not photo from space) actually seen more of the moons surface than we have the earth

I was standing in the queue to see the Soweto gospel choir at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh and an American couple in front of me in the queue thought that Soweto was a country! 😮

KC225 BRILLIANT!!!

They grow green, then mature yellow then onto orange then finally red

No... Is that true?!

@SadieContrary I've been trying to tell my mum this for years. She refuses to believe me and thinks I'm ripping the piss out of her 🤣