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?

I've got a really stupid one. I have a TERRIBLE sense of direction and when I moved into my then boyfriends place in a new area, I'd walk up the high street to the supermarket but my fella would drive to another branch of the same supermarket. Took me months to realise it was the same supermarket but different entrances (the front on the High Street and the back which is the carpark) whoops!

Ok. That polar bears and penguins are in seperate poles and not together. I think I even thought polar bears ate penguins. In my defence, polar bears and penguins are always in the same area at zoos and my knowledge of arctic and antartic wildlife was based on ngu and foxes glacier mint animations......

Also....

My sister ( who is a DJ) could hardly contain her amusement when I finally realised why drum n bass is called drum n bass. For me it was a genuine lightbulb moment. How she managed to keep driving the car I'll never know..

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I'm my defence, I'm Scottish and knew that our national animal was the unicorn"
Surely it's the haggis? :o

That Santa Pod wasnt somewhere in the southern states but was in fact in Welli gborough!

"Segue" isn't "Segway" - the first is I think the word DJd use for one track flowing into the next. Pronounced to rhym with egg. As opposed to Segway, the wheeled thingy

I turned 29 this year and I last year I only found out that cows only produce milk when they have had a calf. I simply thought they all just produced milk! Wasn’t till I saw a program about the insemination of cows that I put the whole thing together in my mind!

I thought Walsall and Warsaw were the same place, and again with County Durham and County Down. I blame newsreaders for saying their names too quickly!

I thought Torquay was in Japan!! My mam likes to tell everyone that story! 🙈🙈

Segue is pronounced like segway

It's called Flemish.

Acording to a Dutch student I taught

Flemish is 'Dutch with a silly accent' and 'We don't talk about Afrikaans'.

Slight change of topic, there was a TV series called 'Cordon' on a while ago, it was in Flemish but I could understand chunks of it.

Anyone who has seen a caper would realise that they are not fish....wouldn't they?
Or have people who say that they thought they were fish never actually seen a caper?

My contribution is that I didn't realise that the Czech Republic didn't use the euro til I went there a couple of years ago.

Segue is a great word.

It always looks to me as if it's a seg for posh shoes

@JeNeSuisPasVotreMiel I have eaten capers (usually in a sauce over other fish) many a time and they've always tasted fishy. I'm quite clever really... Honest! 😃

Just heard someone being interviewed on radio, and he pronounced awry "aww-ree".

I can't believe I've only just got the chicken joke and I'm 33! I thought it was just a crap joke like 'Why did the boy eat a banana? Because he was hungry.'

I was quite old before I figured out that bank holidays came from bank workers having the day off, I always had a vague idea of everyone sitting around having a nice time near riverbanks or something!

Segue means to transition from one thing to another, like between two topics of conversation, and is pronounced segway. No connection to the motorised transport Segway but it is pronounced the same.

I know what both words mean. And that they are separate words but for some reason my brain didn't click that 'segue', when written down, was the transition version.

Amethyst - but your original sense was right: the chicken crossing the road joke was a meaningless non-joke (so that was the joke). I believe the "spiritual" interpretation of it is a more recent attempt to be clever.

There's a nice Wikipedia article (complete with photos of chickens crossing roads ): [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_did_the_chicken_cross_the_road%3F]]

Try again:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_did_the_chicken_cross_the_road%3F

Hi all,

Thanks for the classics nominations.

We're sending this over now!

Ooh Classics! Exciting!

Terracotta tortoises immortalised, hurrah!

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Once I saw the headline "sade had reformed". That's sent me on google spree only to find out that Sade is not a musician but a band and all the music is by a band with the lead singer, even though her name is Sade day and she is from Yorkshire.

*Gherkins are not a separate type of vegetable that grow as gherkins.
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I still actually think this is a trick to fool us all well, I have been debating this recently as I picked up a jar of what I thought was gherkins. Got home and it said cucumber. I know it's a type of cucumber and I next time i am in the supermarket I expect to get one with gherkins written on. I don't know if they are the same thing. not to drip feed, it was pickled.

My sister (until mid twenties!!!) thoughts herons swam and herrings flew

I was with then BF at a zoo when I was 30. He wondered why the penguins had clips on their wings. I said it must be to stop them flying away. I got an A in biology A level