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 am so lol at some of these!!!

i thought KO in a boxing match meant Keeled Over. i was in my late twenties before i was told.

When they kept talking about Osama Bin Laden, I misheard and it was months before I realised it wasn't Son of Bin Laden. Had no idea who who Bin Laden was that his son was responsible either.

I was very confused about that TV series where a main character is called Phoebe. For some reason, I never saw Fibi mentioned in texts about it, and who was this Phoebe they all wrote about?

That was one I only figured out in my mid-twenties.

Arkansas, too. English language is confusing.

Also, I was always a bit confused about the differences between weasels and ferrets. If I understand people on this thread correctly, weasels are much smaller? Because I am rather sure I have seen ferrets.

I didn't know what gay men did in bed. I genuinely thought they just went to bed and rubbed their willies together

Well, that's a pretty good guess. I'm sure lots of gay men do that, just because they can. It's not as if there's a law on how to do gay sex.

NotDavidTennant I hope IrnBru does have food colouring and not copious quantities of rust!

I was about 25 when I realised cabbage and cauliflower were two separate veg. I blame my nana and the 'cabbageandcauli' mush she served up every Sunday.

I also thought the chicanes in motor racing were called sugar canes until a few years ago.

Oh Jesus just remembered. A few years ago a colleague almost wet himself when he realised I thought the 'Pih-ruh-nees' and the 'Pie-ree-nees' were two separate sets of mountains.

I'm quite bright, honest!

I don't understand what everyone is saying about New York?

New York the city is in New York the state, so the address is New York, New York

I thought germany was in southern europe until embarrassingly recently, the picture I had in my head of the european map is nothing like reality!

I realised when a friend moved to Syracuse and her address was Syracuse, New York and the area is referred to as upstate New York

I was about 25 when I realised cabbage and cauliflower were two separate veg. I blame my nana and the 'cabbageandcauli' mush she served up every Sunday.

I think I learnt in school that they are actually parts of the same plant family and were created by using radioactive radiation on a different plant. (And I hope that is not a misconception fit for this thread)

So ... you were not completely wrong?

I went to work in New York. A friend had muttered something about the awful 7 hour bus journey... Then I learned I was going to Penn Yan in Upstate New York in the fingers lakes region

I didn't realise Timbuktu was a place (in W.Africa if you're interested) I always presumed it was fictional.

It has taken me to the age of 46 to realise that Jilted John and John Shuttleworth are the same person.

I had been feeling pretty smug reading this thread until I got to the instep... The TOP of your foot??!!
I had to google it to believe it.

I was in my 30s before I realised there was a right way and a wrong way to hang loo rolls.

Leelu6 - I did the Penelope pronunciation too. I blame antelopes. They're not an-tell-oh-pees, are they?

I thought a cunt was a baby horse until I was 14.

My friend commented the other day she needed a new Chester drawers and then tried to prove she was correct by showing me all the results on eBay.

That hens laid eggs out of their bums
Apparently ive been wrong on this for years ...

Turns out im learning at a pace on this thread.

Until recently last week I thought Molotov cocktails were drinks and could not get my head round why somewhere in Russia was throwing them around

Re the earlier post about tampax and tights in vending machines. You did used to be able to buy tights in them in pub loos many years ago.

I thought a lion and a tiger were the male/female version of each other! I thought if you boiled parsley it turned into broccoli. Although I worked that one out as a teenager.

baby horse

hens DO lay eggs out of their bums!

Also just got the New York New York thing! Duh!