Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned

[Blue Hills]

Apologies if mine is a somewhat high falutin example, but:

Liv Ullmann isn't Swedish.

She's Norwegian.

 

[ColinJ]

Corsage: a spray of flowers worn pinned to a woman's*** clothes.

(The answer to a cryptic crossword clue. I solved it as that word, but had to check.)








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[Blue Hills]

Corsage: a spray of flowers worn pinned to a woman's*** clothes.

(The answer to a cryptic crossword clue. I solved it as that word, but had to check.)








*** Other spray-toting genders are available!

ta colin but should maybe have defined things better/sorted the title (I meant to put "ignorance" in it - will try to change - ie things you had always had a mistaken idea of - otherwise we'll repeat the "true odd factoids" thread.

and you aint ignorant of course.

edit - edited title for ignorance

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That the label at bottom of my t shirts is always on the left hand side. Making it easier to work out which way round to put them on. Only realised about a month ago, doh!

 

[Blue Hills]

That the label at bottom of my t shirts is always on the left hand side. Making it easier to work out which way round to put them on. Only realised about a month ago, doh!

mm - why's that? some great postwar UN agreement?

 

[GuyBoden]

Xanadu is in Yorkshire, not as I had previously thought, in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's opium-induced visions.

 

[Blue Hills]

Xanadu is in Yorkshire, not as I had previously thought, in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's opium-induced visions.

Google maps didn't find it for me - I suspect that's a business of some sort.

 

[Dirk]

Shane McGowan of the Pogues is English born and went to an English public school.
In 1971, he graduated with a literature scholarship from Holmewood House prep school and was subsequently accepted into Westminster School.

He's a professional Irishman.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_MacGowan

 

[MontyVeda]

Not exactly 'only just' learned, but it was only after about 30 years of listening to Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water, and 20 years of listening to far too much Frank Zappa did I learn that Smoke on the Water is a song about a Frank Zappa concert (i really should pay more attention to lyrics)

 

[T4tomo]

Not exactly 'only just' learned, but it was only after about 30 years of listening to Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water, and 20 years of listening to far too much Frank Zappa did I learn that Smoke on the Water is a song about a Frank Zappa concert (i really should pay more attention to lyrics)

👍some stupid with a flare gun, burnt the place to the ground... and thus Machine Head was recorded.

 

[oldwheels]

The older I get the more I realise there are multitudes of things I do not know. The more I use computers the more obscure the problems and the answers often just happen but I do know why.
Like Ming I have only recently noticed the label placement on the left.

 

[MontyVeda]

👍some stupid with a flare gun, burnt the place to the ground... and thus Machine Head was recorded.

They'd have recorded it sooner had some stupid not burned the place to the ground

 

[Chief Broom]

Otters can have cubs all year round

 

[AndyRM]

Max Mosely ended it in May last year. I hadn't known, and wrongly assumed it was a recent thing as it's front page on the Beeb's Sport section.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I tend to think of myself as a huge Geography buff and there's usually no obscure part of the world that I'm not well up on. It's a large part of my job (and a busman's hobby) to know the world and all its cities, regions, counties and geopolitics.

Then a question came up on Pointless the other night asking for the capital of Liberia. My wife said "isn't it Monrovia?" to which I confidently (and wrongly) replied "nah, Monrovia is a little country in its own right I think".

Mrs C was right of course, she scored 6 points, and I've temporarily lost my Geography Expert badge, replaced with the Dunce hat for at least a week I reckon.