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?

@AnnaBay

Eritrea is a somewhat recent country, only becoming independent of Ethiopia in 1993.

How can the names Freddie and Andrew belong to the same person ?

That you can put fake eyelashes underneath your lashes instead of on top. They look nicer though.

Hang on

There's a Budapest AND a Bucharest and they're different?

Mind. Blown.

@Bananasandchocolatecustard I googled this! Apparently it's to do with his surname and Fred Flintstone. But then again the internet is full of lies

I've just told dh about Budapest and Bucharest and he's looking at me like this 😕🤔🙄

Apparently he knew.

I also thought county Durham was in Ireland and Penrith was in Cornwall.

They SHOULD be. Stoopid geography.

Fucksake, they're in different countries and everything.

Budapest used to be two separate towns, Buda and Pest, on separate sides of the Danube.

I had left school with decent grades and realised FebRuary had that rogue R in it, never corrected even at sixth form

I also used to think capers were some sort of sea creature...

Also learnt recently that Arkansas and the place pronounce 'ar-can-saw' are the same place...

I thought Poland was landlocked until this summer. I'm 44.

@RJnomore1 Tbf Cornwall has a lot of names beginning with Pen.

Please tell me it's in Wales... it's not is it ?

@TheQueenSnortsAvocados - And Portsmouth isn't a real island...

I just thought I had learned something new, is Portsmouth not an island, then?

I suddenly realised the other day that Bros were called Bros because they were brothers...bros...Bros... get it?

The moon doesn’t emit light

No unicorns - it's in Cumbria.

@Lweji Buda and Pest are still two separate places though, aren’t they?

@RJnomore1 Oh

Damn you, UK!

Wikipedia says they were joined over 100 years ago, although I'm sure they still retain some distinctions.

Until I was sixteen and we found my birth certificate during a rummage at home, I spelt my name wrong. It's a very common name but with lots of variations. I had been using the wrong version for 16 years.

Andrew Flintoff/Flintstone thus Fred/Freddie. There's a Penryn in Cornwall, RJ.

@bridgetjonesmassivepants didn’t your parents ever correct you?

When. I was a kid I thought the Lake District was in Wales because it was called Cumbria and I knew that my dad came from a place in Wales near the Cambrian mountains. I was amazed when I saw the lakes on a map and they were nowhere near Wales. Of course they both come from the same root word.

My geography teacher was terrifying but from the age of 11 (at which age I was asked to place London on a map and put it where Bristol is!) I learned a lot of old fashioned geography and am very glad.

I always have to think hard if County Durham comes up in conversation as, like a previous poster, I think it should be in Ireland.

When Russia invaded Ukraine a few years ago I was a bit surprised at them "taking back" the Crimea as I had never realised it was no longer part of Russia. It certainly had been in whatever period of history I have studied for A level.