Ridiculous things you've only recently realised you've been wrong about your entire life

[Seasidedolly]

I genuinely thought if you pulled the reverse cord on ceiling fans, it would circulate warm air.

My friend thought the yellow average speed cameras on motorways were there to look for missing children.

I had another recent revelation but I can't remember it now

Alyselisabeth to confuse you more, in your context it's groyne! Groin is something else!

Pahaha!!!

Thanks to a cruel trick played on me by my older brother and my cousin I believed for much too long that some people had blue blood.

It was only a few years ago that I realised that the fancy letter 'y' in the Disney logo wasn't actually a 'p', as I'd always believed.

Must admit I was always confused as to why Disney chose to print their name with a silent French style 'p' at the end!

Great map here showing lines of longitude. Look at 3 degree W line: clearly, Edinburgh is west of Liverpool and Bristol. If you look up longitude to hundredth of a degree, it just pips Cardiff. www.mapsofworld.com/lat_long/united-kingdom-lat-long.html

Trumpton I had to look on google maps as I also thught Gibralta was an island...

I thought Anne Robinson was Tony Robinson's mother...

Trumpton! I thought it was an island!!

Edinburgh is further west than Cardiff because we tilt far more than you think and also because of the curvature of the Earth. When you see the UK upright like during the weather forecast that is incorrect. We sit more like 10.30-4.30 in clock terms. Also Edinburgh is further N therefore on a slightly skinnier bit of the Earth.

And now I've just learnt a misconception I've had all these years: I thought the blood in our veins that we can see under our skin is blue because it lacks oxygen. Apparently, that's not true, and the blood is actually red, just appearing blue because of the way light of different wavelengths is able to pass through skin. scienceblogs.com/scientificactivist/2008/04/17/why-are-veins-blue/

That is where I learnt that those big lorries are called artic lorries. I always thought they were arctic lorries blush

I am 34

Everyday is a school day, until i read this I too thought they were Arctic lorries, and I am 48!!

When i was little I thought babies were born really tiny and it was only once they were out they expanded........a little like those magic flannels you get

My oldest daughter at the age of 22 thought Amsterdam was in Scotland, and Paprika was a cheese

Sorry xposts with Dadx3. His map shows it clearly.

That is where I learnt that those big lorries are called artic lorries. I always thought they were arctic lorries

That was the penny drop moment for me too! I thought Arctic lorries were refrigerated and carried cold food, and if the refrigerator function was turned off, it was just a normal lorry. Made sense to me!

Dadx3, I think there is some truth in the oxygenation idea as I remember learning that the blood in arteries was redder than that in veins.

DrSausage that really gave me a laugh! I only found out a few weeks ago that puffins are actually quite small and not the size of penguins.

Jilted John and John Shuttleworth are the same?

When I was about 7, I wrote an essay about the "Immaculate Contraception" - no idea what the nuns thought about that (I went to a convent school ...)

I spent my whole childhood thinking that Fox's glacier mints made a mistake by putting a bear on the wrappers.

And while on the subject of glaciers, I was stunned when a friend saw penguins in South Africa, I thought they only lived in Arctic type places.

I don't mean lorries.

Teasgonecoldagain...that's bloody hilarious!!

I was blown away when I found out about the African penguins, which was only about 10 years ago (am 42). I fell in love with the idea immediately with images of penguins going on their holidays to somewhere warm :o

Just wiki'd and they are known as Jackass Penguins, which seems wrong to me. The ones who stay in the freezing cold are the Jackasses as far as I can see!

There are penguins living on the Galápagos Islands, ie near the equator! (and just within the northern hemisphere)

I was about 14 when I learnt that a male erection isn't actually cause by the penal bone..... hence why its called a "boner"

(Just checked: the islands straddle the equator, meaning some of the penguins live just north of it)

Humans are one of the few mammals that don't have a penile bone OnlyTheWelshCanCwtch.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baculum