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?

@peanut2017 My Mum says bread and jam too. She’s from Victoria in Oz so maybe it came over with her Scottish ancestors and lived on in a little microcosm.

My DH was reading a book and turned to me and said he had learnt something amazing about cuckoos. He said they lay their eggs in other birds’ nests and let the other birds raise their chicks. I couldn’t stop laughing. Isn’t that the only thing anyone knows about cuckoos. I blew his mind when I told him to think about where the word cuckolded came from.

portsmouth is really not an island though :)

access to the city is via road which goes over muddy ground

i'm pretty sure you can't sail around it

Cava is made the same way as Champagne but is made in Spain. Champagne is more expensive as there is only a small region allowed to make/call it champagne

Spottyparrot99 YOU MONSTER!!!

Lweji I think that's where it stems from. He'll have misheard something and rather than ask, just assume.

Pontypandy sounds like a made up place to me :)

I know!! Crazy

Isn’t that the only thing anyone knows about cuckoos

TheKrakening3 - I'm sure there's another fact most people know. Now what was it again? Something about the sound of their call - trying to remember how that sounds...

Ah ok re French Guyana - do some people call it France then if it’s ok to say Brazil shares a border with France?

@CornflakeHomunculus your post has disturbed me greatly. Won’t somebody think of the poor bloody tortoises!

Talking to my brother in law who is a chef about knifes... I said I wanted a segregated knife.

He informed me that it is in fact a serrated knife!

I had to tell a 10 year old that Wales was not an island - in her defence they would travel there over the Severn Bridge.

@2ndSopranos I like that one a lot. What age were they when they finally learned that ‘meat from a cow’ was indeed beef?

Still nothing has come close to the barbaric terracotta tortoise trade.

I love to hear more if anyone else cares to chime in....brilliant responses so far

Surely tortoise would taste like chicken? That's what alligator and snake taste of!

I really really hope NOBODY is going to pipe up saying they’ve eaten a tortoise although I guess it would be wasteful not to use the meat once the rest has been turned into pots

Have not RTF, but what did the caper/fish people think Bridget Jones' caper berry gravy was?

Years ago a friend and I booked a holiday to Madeira, neither of us knew it was an island or where it was until we got on the plane. Doh!

Ffs. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsea_Island

“Flat, low-lying ISLAND.” That is all.

Also, Pontypandy is a made up place it’s an amalgamation of the two real towns Pontypridd and Tonypandy. Tonypandy sounds more made up to me!

You would think with the amount of Terracotta in B&Q those poor wee creatures would have become extinct years ago.

You HAVE to buy him a baby terracotta turtle for Christmas!

Missflashpants-I thought that too about 'misled' and have always said it that way until recently-I cant believe no one ever corrected me!!

I haven't eaten a tortoise. My granddad did eat turtle, though.

Speaking of tortoises, does anyone else have to think twice when porpoise is mentioned?

Regarding where Ipswich is i vaguely thought it maybe somewhere near Prestwich it isnt