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

StrangeLooking - are you thinking of Loos in France as in the Battle of?

Ooh, yes, that would make sense!

Buckingfrolicks , gazillion is a real word meaning

Wolverine is a real animal!!

Until quite recently I thought Haggis was a real animal, only found in Scotland of course !

Hunted by haggis hounds, which have shorter legs on one side because the haggis lives on very steep hillsides

Sorry, Debb, but gazillion is a pretend number. You might be thinking of googleplex, which is also made up but googolplex is real.

And yet, googol and googolplex are also made up kid's number names.
It's a great story.

I was travelling to nyc by plane. When we landed at Newark the pilot said welcome to New Jersey and I panicked.

Oh my life! Iguana's ordinal numbers revelation has actually stunned me! I'm 35 fgs - how the hell did I not know that before now?! I think I am perhaps more embarrassed by that than anything else, and I am off to educate the bairns so that they never feel so utterly stupid!!

Garlick no it's not a number but it's a word used to emphasise a number. Equivalent to when you say huge or humongous.

This is what googol would look like

1 googol =
1.0 × 10100

So it would 1 followed by 100 zeros.

Debbrianna I think you mean 1.0 x 10^100

Or
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Yes it's 10 to the power of 100.

I think till about 13, I kept thinking anything x by 0 was the number before it so for example, 5X0=5 in my books...

Did manage A Level Maths though.

I've always referred to a Baraclava when talking about those head and face covering things. I was recently corrected and it's a Balaclava, I had no idea.

My dad argued with me for months that the dessert Baklava was Balaclava and it was named after the battle.

He also insisted mahogany was a black colour & refused to let me dye my hair 'goth' when I was l a teen.

Iklboo...love for your dad on the baclava deal

You can also write googol as 10100. 1.0 x 10100 is redundant. :)

And a googolplex is 1010100, which is 1 followed by a googol of zeros

I have a friend who until she was about 10 thought God was called Martin.

Our Father, Martin Heaven...

Martin's a new one on me

I've heard that he's called Harold ("Our father, who art in heaven, Harold be they name") or Peter (at the end of mass, the Priest says "Thanks Peter God")

meowlscop bollocks! I was doing so well and you got me

:"it's good king wensas last looked out "
here too

My 14 year old son who is a bit of a know-all and who prides himself on his general knowledge was left red faced recently when his younger brother said that he wanted to go on the Orient Express when he grows up. 14 year old made a very disparaging noise and claimed he'd have to get a Tardis first. He really believed that the Orient Express was a made up train on Doctor Who. Oh how we laughed, especially my youngest who finally got one up on his big brother.

QOD

I thought glitter was poisonous (thank you mum) and only found out when I was 23! Still get reminded now!

I always thought the Presenter in a cathedral was called "the Placenta". Maybe I thought he held everything together! The Bishop would have been horrified!