Things you really should have known sooner...

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I’ve just learned that Casablanca is not in South America at all and is, in fact in Morocco! Who knew 🙄🤦🏼‍♀️
Anyone else got any tidbits they learned far too late in life?

No it's not the tide being in or out. One is an old picture showing the beach before the sand was dredged from the sea to fill up the beach.

However they are running out of the sand and the beach is reverting to how it was before.

Isn’t that the only thing anyone knows about cuckoos

You mean, apart from they live in clocks?

I only heard of the country Eritrea a few months ago

You need to discover the Jetpunk quiz website. I can name all the countries of the world (all 196 of them according to the quiz) in record time from far too much time spent on there
I'm now awesome at Pointless geography questions

I've put this one on other threads previous, but I only found out (when I was 35!!) that capers aren't tiny fish
I thought they were too Were we thinking of them as being like little anchovies or something?

@LemonRedwood go to keyboard settings and turn off smart punctuation. I had to google this as was missing my strike throughs

I didn't realise that Pacific and specific were different words.

I also wasn't pronouncing the r in Arctic.

Thank you @Bearwithverylittlebrain

I found out last week that 'the rock and roll hall of fame' was an actual place. Like a museum / archive type of place in the US.I thought it was just a saying for when someone had reach a certain level of famous.

I thought the word 'poo' was spelt 'pooh' until I was 40. Spelling isn't my strong point.

@Jeffjefftyjeff I don’t think I’d made that connection ether to be honest

I moved to the Midlands from South Wales and could never understand why anyone would want to advertise they lived on a coalfield until I saw how you spelt Sutton COLDfield on a road sign.

I felt completely bereft when I ‘lost’ meyezled......... It sounded so deliciously sneaky. Plain old ‘misled’ has lots of alternatives to use as well.

Can't believe the bastards meyezled you for so long!

Terracotta tortoises are the new MN scarf...

I think I should put a terracota tortoise planter outside my front door and wait and see if any mn live on my street!

Can this thread be moved to somewhere permanent? Terracotta made from tortoises and ballache need to be preserved

I didn’t know the pope was actually a catholic until I was about 22

But apparently you can eat fish with a lemon and caper sauce

You do know tartar sauce is made with capers don't you?

"I didn’t know the pope was actually a catholic"

Oh I love that one!

So had you never heard the phrase "is the Pope Catholic?" used to emphasise a definite yes?

So had you never heard the phrase "is the Pope Catholic?" used to emphasise a definite yes?

DH had never heard this phrase so when I used it he responded with “I don’t know, is he?”

I was 28 when I found out that sea horses are real creatures not make-believe like mermaids. Moreover, they aren't actually the size of horses so mermaids can't ride around on them.

Bella - but that is assuming you know how big a mermaid is....

Is anybody else imagining the terracotta army as rows and rows of fierce looking tortoises??

To add my own I thought that the whole of Centerparcs including the forest was under a massive dome. I was disappointed when I went there in my mid twenties!

That cows don’t eat grass to make milk - they, like us, only produce milk once they’ve given birth. I believed the grass thing until this year (I’m 31).

Look at his worried little face.

@LuckyLuckyMe Can this thread be moved to somewhere permanent? Terracotta made from tortoises and ballache need to be preserved

I have no idea but I don’t want to lose #terracottatoise either!!!