Things you really should have known sooner...

[TheDodgyEnd]

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?

@TheDodgyEnd halfway between Birmingham and Wales is Telford, where I live (some parts may be likened to a war zone by some...)

Capers are the unopened flowers of the caper plant, dried and pickled in vinegar. Scatter them on fish for a taste experience.

You can get caper berries too, as the name tells you, they are the berries of the caper plant. They are pickled, usually with the stalk left on, and served like olives as an apero.

Yep Portsmouth is the UKs only island city and we have only three ways on/off. Traffic chaos if one road is blocked.

Andrew & Freddie are one in the same???
Capers aren’t little fish???

@Flisspaps In no way did I think I’d ever be pondering the similarities between Iraq.....and Telford that’s really made me laugh

This information about Portsmouth is blowing my tiny mind!

I always thought Puffins were the same size of Penguins, until I visited a Puffin colony.

DH thought terracotta was a version of a turtle. And that it was a crying shame that they turned their shells into those massive pots available at garden centres "like snakeskin boots or whatever".

DH thought terracotta was a version of a turtle. And that it was a crying shame that they turned their shells into those massive pots available at garden centres "like snakeskin boots or whatever".

I just bit my lip laughing so hard 🤣

DH thought terracotta was a version of a turtle. - My favourite so far 😂 absolutely amazing!

Can anyone even try and compete with that one?!

I'm so glad that it wasn't just me who didn't know about Portsmouth! This thread makes me feel better about my ignorance.

I've just discovered they are the same person thanks to this thread for some reason at the beginning of the thread I came to the conclusion that one must a footballer and the other cricketer. Not the same person.

Down the thread it turns out they are the same person.

I am now confused and I am not willing to google because it will take the fun away.

God bless your husband OhOurBilly 😂

@OhOurBilly when I started reading your post, cheese and the Chinese army came to mind. I tried to imagine why they would think that. Not that I know how to spell them correctly. Then I saw that he thought it was the plant pot and I burst out laughing.

That Pontefract is not in Wales where it sounds like it should be,, but in Yorkshire! Who bloody knew?! Apart from this who live there!🙄😂

I didn’t realise until I was 22, and 40 weeks pregnant, that you had to give birth to the placenta. I thought it just kind of broke down and came out as a period. My mum was horrified when she was talking about “cutting the cord” and I asked what happened to the other end.

DH thought terracotta was a version of a turtle. And that it was a crying shame that they turned their shells into those massive pots available at garden centres "like snakeskin boots or whatever

No words, NONE

My stepdads has family in Pontefract I thought it was in Wales untill a few months ago when the parents were going to a wedding and were talking about getting off the train at Leeds for the connection, sounds like a Welsh welsh town

I just realised that the darker bit of a fluffy cloud is the bottom of it, the flat bottom parallel to the ground. I'm not even what I used to think!

Ducks can fly?!
Well knock me down with a feather!

For years I thought Budapest and Bucharest were the same place - I was thinking it was a Naples/Napoli thing, maybe? Anyway, they are absolutely not the same place and I was very very wrong and stupid.

Ha CatchIt it does sound Welsh but it's firmly in West Yorkshire. Pontefract is Latin for broken bridge - another fun fact. Not that it makes much difference really as to where it is.

And Aspatria is in Cumbria, not Italy.

Not sure if this is just me but at a baby group thing today and we were all doing 'this little piggy' on our babies and I'm singing along loudly but different to everyone else?

I say 'this little piggy had bread and jam' and everyone else said 'this little piggy had roast beef'????

Everyone laughed at me

It's not like my parents were vegetarian although my mam does have her own language so not sure if this was just our family?!!

I always thought Puffins were the same size of Penguins, until I visited a Puffin colony.

But penguins come in lots of different sizes!

And Portsmouth isn't a real island...

@peanut2017 I've only ever heard the roast beef version, but your one sounds wonderful :)

My DH thought that Jack the Ripper and the Yorkshire Ripper were the same person, I could almost follow his train of thought about the fact Jack must have moved house (and changed his name presumably?) but I never established quite how he squared the age thing. DH had just never really thought about it apparently.