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

I used to think fog lights were called frog lights, must have misheard it. Used to think it was strange as I thought it would make more sense for them to be called fog lights as that is why they are there.

Only found out when I asked my then BF how to turn on my frog lights, he was I was

I honestly thought Sinn Fein was a person until last year, was extremely confused when told different!
My geography is terrible though, I thought Timbuktu was a fiction place (very recently found out about that one)
When I was a teenager I thought unicorns were real - they just died out like the dodo
Oh and my DD who's 7 told me this week pineapples dont grow on trees.....i swear I'm a smart person, honest!

Recently a local business owner (who must be in her 30s) was posting on FB about Halloween and 'trickle treaters'.

She's lovely though so no one wanted to correct her.

I found out only yesterday that the moon moves. I thought only the earth did. Even writing that it doesn't seem right!

I've always tried to not really think about the whole space thing. It unnerves me. .

I thought there was such a thing as a pasta plant.

When I was very little I thought China was nearer to the UK than Switzerland.

I still call inset days, insect days....again DD had to correct me

whispers Until very recently, I thought penguins were mammals. I'm 34.

I've mentioned this one before but I thought bullets exploded when they hit you. I didn't think it was just the impact of metal that killed you

I've since learnt that actually some bullets do explode but the vast majority of them just don't

Love frog lights. That should be a thing.

Must look after the little hopping buggers.

Recently realised its hang gliding not hand gliding

I think hand gliding may be a completely different thing...

When I was a kids I thought Cambodia was in Africa too, so it must be a common misconception, I wonder why.

Also YY to Arkansaw/Arkansas.

I was in my thirties before I realised that Georgio Moroder was not in fact Goergie O'Moroder. My family are Irish and I had only ever heard it said out loud rather than seen it written down. H laughed until he hurt himself when I made the mistake of admitting that.

On a similar theme, when I was a kid my dad was explaining what a session musician was as my uncle was working as one at the time. So I assumed that the guy who played keyboards on Top of the Pops was a session musician as he seemed to play with nearly every band. His name was Roland...it must have been as it was on his keyboards....

The moon moves?!? It is terrible at 29 that boggles my mind? I thought the earth moving is why the moon moves place....well every days a school day

When I was growing up I thought Cher was a group called Share. Felt really aggrieved when I found out (not sure why but I was really bothered by it!)

For a very long time I thought being in custody had something (vaguely) related to custard. I still hear the sentence and wistfully think the person is swimming in a cell of custard.

I thought that Brussels was a country until I was in my late teens..

That Washington State is different from Washington DC. I was in my mid-fifties

Also didn't learn reindeer were real until about 30yo!

That melons grow on the ground - first saw them at 34.

Cretacious forests reached to the poles, so global warming isn't new.
We are in an ice age, so current warming might be a short blip.
(Claig will love those two!)

Fire ants are a real thing

Not by any means my whole life, but when I first heard the phrase 'e-cigarette' I assumed it was some kind of online quit smoking support group. So when you fancied a fag someone would send you an email going 'Nooo, don't do it!' or some suchlike.

OMFG. I had no idea it was hang gliding and not hand gliding until a few posts ago.

Oh and that the footballer Peter Schmeichel was not in fact called Petish Michael

I thought for a long time that the umbilical cord went from pregnant woman's belly button to foetus's belly button via the placenta. I don't have a fucking clue why because it so obviously doesn't...

On the Arkansas theme, I was embarrassingly old before I realised Budapest and Bucharest were different places. I didn't exactly think it had two names, just never quite twigged...

moose I just had to google it again to really make sure!

queen. 'Police custard' - wonder if it's any good?

Hang gliding??!!!?? What???

Anotherusername Not sure how old you are, but back in the fifties there was a spaghetti tree hoax that was shown on the BBC. Have a Google of it. Didn't see that at some point did you which made you think it existed?