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

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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

No, it seems it is Times Square

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Square

if it helps, I've been to Gibraltar & didn't really twig that it's properly attached by an isthmus! (I thought it was just a wide causeway )

fwiw there's an ongoing land reclamation scheme at the edge of the harbour & I think I thought it was like that

Oh bollocks, ignore me! It IS TimeS Square after all. I'm going for a lie down.

Wolverine. Right nasty little bar stewards they are, as well, apparently.

"Didn't it used to be an island and somehow got moved?"

How would you move an island?

The Arkansas and Arkansaw one is a revaluation to me, but my geography is pretty poor. As a horsey person I regularly have to define a pony to adults who get the foal/pony/horse thing mixed up.

I love reading these. Haha smug face haha hang on what was that about the moon? google damn I never knew that OK still good... Wait hang gliders?? artic trucks?? Oh shit here's another shame face

My 7yo dd told me this today!!

Smug cow until we got to the parachute not pulling you up for a bit. Seems so obvious now.

I'm my defence I usually watched any parachute jumps on tv, through my fingers.

Another one who thought Cambodia was in Africa too. It sounds African.

The Falkland islands are (indirectly) named after the viscount of Falkland, whose name comes from Falkland in Scotland.

Cambodia was never in Africa but Suriname was (there are other places in South America which ought to be in Africa )

Well I knew all the things on this thread. But until I was 25 I thought racist was pronounced rayshist because fascist is pronounced fashist.

I've seen people write that something was rascist (or, less frequently, facist) quite often. It's a fairly normal thing to mix them up.

I thought a black comedy was a comedy about black people, like The Cosby Show.

My DH thought the same thing until recently.

I'm in my 40s and gave only realised in the past few months the reality about car park number of spaces signs. I thought someone on each storey counted the empty spaces and radioed in . Now I realise it must be the electronic tickets . How daft ?!

DH and I are at the straw holder. Brilliant.

I thought they were called pot rivets, though I was never quite sure why/how you would rivet ceramics... DP put me straight on that though of course I still call them pot rivets just to annoy him.

He also pointed out that a finger of fudge is full of Cadbury goodness and not peppery goodness.

These were both in the past couple of years, and I'm over 40.

that it is actually tenterhooks not tenderhooks thanks MN

Just to confuse the Arkansas/Arkansaw pronunciation issue a bit further:

The Arkansas River flows through Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Some people call it the Arkansas River and some call it the Arkansaw River.

Even worse, there's Arkansas City in Kansas, which is pronounced Arkansas locally, but because of the confusion over pronunciation most people just call it Ark City.

DadDadDad and sockqueen

Yes, that's my understanding too. Mary was engaged to Joseph. She conceived via the Holy Spirit and when it became apparent she was pg then Joseph married her. Good bloke.

Qu is: if you conceived via IVF (having not had sex) and gave birth via C-Sec, would it be a Virgin Birth?

Oooh. I've actually seen Europe's only surviving set of Tenterhooks. They are outside a small Weaving Museum / café in a small village in Northumberland. They were used to stretch fabric. They are wood, and very long and the hooks are still there. But they are outside in Northumbrian weather so how much longer they will survive, who knows. Catch them while you can...

"He also pointed out that a finger of fudge is full of Cadbury goodness and not peppery goodness."

It's not peppery goodness?

Qu is: if you conceived via IVF (having not had sex) and gave birth via C-Sec, would it be a Virgin Birth?

A question as fascinating as it is pointless.

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Tayto Glad it's not just me who thought that! I never thought to question the idea of pepper in fudge. Probably would be quite trendy now, with all the salted caramel malarkey going on!