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

kendodd I thought the same as you, we have car parks that tell you the number of spaces on each floor. There must be someone counting on each floor?

Is it really hang gliding?

I erm... have a friend.... that may have once thought that xmas mince pies were made with minced beef and couldnt get my their head around why they tasted so sweet

Vestalvirgin No. She knew what a penguin looked like but thought it was a fish because they swim!

Car park spaces are counted by 'loops' of cable set into the ground at the entrances and exits - the car going over triggers a magnetic field that generates an electrical impulse (or something like that).
It's the same for traffic lights. Look for diamond shaped scars in the tarmac.

2nd sopranos rule.
I don't understand what you mean. Trains go in and out of St Pancras, passengers travel in and out. Surely!

Mince pies used to be made with meat

chippy that's right, magnetic induction loops, not, and many people seem to think triggered by weight.

I know Gloria but for years I thought it was the attendants . I'm bloody 42 as well

well 'mincemeat' used to be made with meat

'English recipes from the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries describe a mixture of meat and fruit used as a pie filling'

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincemeat

Oh! St Pancras... I thought it was St Pancreas for far too long. I still think it.

ozymandius - you're right about St Pancras, but who knows about St Pancreas, which is apparently where the previous poster's friend thought she was going?

DadDadDad Thanks for that!

Gloria I so want to think of busy men scanning each level and shouting the number of spaces on each floor

LassWiTheWeelStockitFarm

Well, I've had IVF and a C-Sec, so, given you don't know my sexual history, it may not be as pointless as you think

I had a friend who conceived without ever having had penetrative sex and delivered via c-section.............

Plenty of lesbian couples conceive without ever having had penetrative sex. A good number of those deliver via section.

I'd guess there are quite a few virgin births out there these days!

Yes, it's interesting, isn't it - how science has made possible what was once almost inconceivably

I am in my thirties and recently learned how to pronounce rooibos tea. I ordered rooey boos and the waitress was

I've never even heard of rooibos, let alone knowing how to pronounce it!

I thought wolves lived in the UK countryside, badgers were a lot smaller than they actually are, Sue Pollard was Fern Cotton's mother and the drum playing gorilla from the cadburys chocolate advert was real and pieced together by various clever video editing.

I've been to Gibraltar several times, and I kind of thought it was an island. Come to think of it, it isn't is it....

I only found out last week deaf metal is actually death metal. Deaf metal makes more sense if you ask me....

Driving down the motorway on a misty day, I ask, " What DOES that f-0-9 sign mean?"

I realised in my early 20s that fromage frais is actually made from cheese

Those signs announcing that a certain town or village is 'twinned' with another town somewhere else in the world.

I always assumed that this meant that somewhere in France, Germany or wherever there was a town ^that looked exactly like the UK one^.