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

15 minute menopause, if only.

Just this week I found out from a Baby Names thread that Evelyn is pronounced differently if you're male (eeverlin) or female (evvlin).
Fortunately I've never known anyone by that name in RL!

I also debate with my dh alllllll the time about the earth being bigger than the moon and that it also moves, on its axis and around the sun. He's adamant the moon is bigger and the watch stays still. I've even googled it and shown him and he still doesn't believe me!

In my mid forties I found out that Tottenham and Spurs were in fact the same team.

Turns out that neither me nor DH knew that Gibraltar wasn't an island.

I meant earth not watch. Bloody phone

I thought it was "here here"

Only recently found out it is "hear hear"

* googling virgin birth of Jesus as I type !!!!

Justbattering, my cousin who's in her early 60s told me that when she was younger her school were asking everyone for money for "the black babies". She was most disappointed when she didn't get her own black baby after giving in some money.

I learned an angler fish is only a couple inches long (that fish with the glowy thing in finding nemo). I thought they were the size of a coffee mug at smallest.

I thought Dunkirk was in Scotland, to be fair it doesn't sound very French. I'm not admitting how old I was when I found this out, plus I did A-level history

Another person whose mind has been blown by the hang gliding revelation!

I asked my dad if Led Zeppelin was still alive once

I insisted that to look at the next month's picture on the calendar before it came was bad luck.

Huge apologies, I meant the immaculate conception, not the virgin birth.

It refers to Mary's conception, not Jesus.

You see, I still can't get my head round it.

Tuna aren't tiny?!

at hang gliding!
I also only found out about the size of weasels on that other thread, I thought they were exactly like ferrets (and I'm not entirely sure what a stoat does).
Also thought they were Arctic lorries.
Also that the Cold War was called that because they were fighting Russia... where it's cold... only found that out about 6 months ago, aged 33.
Also when I hear paramilitary I always think of disabled armies

Huh? Re virgin birth. It IS that M is virgin.. Otherwise how can it make sense???

Very confused about the confusion about hang gliding.

Mintyy we all thought it was hand gliding

I thought for far too long that 'several' referred to seven, like 'twice' and two. Found out in the middle of a lecture

I thought that your belly button was from where the midwife tied a knot in your umbilical cord. It wasn't until I had my own baby (at 34) that I realised that was wrong.

Ahem.

Until today, I thought a shrew was a type of bird.

DH had hysterics, but I would swear my teacher at a-levels told us that during "Taming of the Shrew"!

Oh and the 'New York, so good they named it twice' I thought was because of the song. Not the state+city name. Figured it out about a year ago...

I thought Labrador AND the Dalmatian Coast were in Canada for years. Well, it made sense to me at the time, both being breeds of dog.

God I can't even believe I'm about to admit this but when me and my friend were 17 we ordered a Chinese at her house. We shared some spare ribs and afterwards I said something like "Oooh I don't know how they make them but they do taste great"!

She said what do you mean, they're just cow/pig ribs with sauce on

I was genuinely amazed that they were ACTUAL ribs. I honestly thought they were sort of the same thing as crabsticks/ turkey twizzlers...

I haven't touched one since!