I just realised that DS is full of not very bright people.

A friend of my mum's was forever looking for a place in USA called "Ellay". He'd heard of Los Angeles but hadn't realised "L.A." was an abbreviation for it and thought Los Angeles" and "Ellay" were two separate places.

It was only about 6 or 7 years ago when I bought my first DVD that I realised you get a CD out its case by pushing in the spindle things in the middle. Not wrenching it out with your thumb and middle finger.

As a kid, I used to think that NewsRound was just stories that were all made up to try and impress upon children's imaginations.

I also thought the programme "How 2" was a series and that there was a "How 1" and I was always eagerly awaiting for "How 3" to start.

Oh TA!!

Ouch! I feel that as I would have thought exactly the same!

I thought that for a while too.

I always used to think that because I come from Ipswich, Suffolk it annoyed me how there was also an Ipswich in Australia as well as one in South Dakota and another one in Massachusetts. I didn't understand why they couldn't just come up with their own place names instead of stealing ours!

Until recently I was sure Woking was in Surrey.

Its at the end of his front path lol

I only just realised saved Radio stations on a radio are called Presets, I always called them Presents.

Isn't it?

It was only a few months ago I found out Glamorgan was in Wales, I honest to god thought it was in Scotland.

Also I just discovered that Hermes (the luxury brand) is pronounced Er-Mez, I have been pronouncing it has Herr-mees forever.

Isn't it? We live in Chertsey not far from it..I always assumed Woking was in Surrey.

Re-lion (rely on) Oxo for winter health

When I was younger, but not really young enough to justify it - say 12 or 13 - I thought that everyone who spoke a foreign language had to translate it into English in their heads like I did when doing French in school. One day it just clicked that people could think in other languages and this was an astonishing revelation.

It was until very recently that I realised the correct pooping posture is to bend the upper body down until your chest touches your thighs, your head between the knees, your feet tiptoeing, and your arms embracing the lower legs. I had been relaxing on the toilet seat like a normal seat all along!

Ever since that realisation I have been saving a lot on toilet papers. When you squat down to poop properly it barely makes a mess, even when I leave all the hair down there intact

For ages I thought 'Free wifi' was something to do with a Nintendo Wii.
I was in a hotel with my OH and looking at a sign that said "free wifi" and said to my husband... "I wonder where people go to do that?". I thought they must have had some sort of games room or something.

that the advice forum is like, pretty fierce. and not that friendly. and don't bother taking a problem there unless you are bomb proof. cos they will chew you up and spit you out. and enjoy it.

It's even more of a revelation when you realise that one can do it oneself!

I was reading with a 9 year old in work today, it was an information book about space and planets. After reading a chapter about Earth he looked at me and said... "Wheres earth?". I said thats us, we're on it, we live on planet earth ect. He was amazed and shocked that he was on a planet right now, he had no idea. He then said... "so if Crewe is a planet does that mean Africa is a planet too then?".

I kid you not.

I was assured by someone who lived in Woking that it was in Berkshire & I was astonished because I'd always thought it was in Surrey as it's on the way to Guildford.

I've just checked the map & I really can't see how it can possibly not be in Surrey!

Sorry, need to you correct you a bit on this one!

H is the chemical symbol of hydrogen and O is oxygen. Oxygen in it's elemental form (ie what we breathe, what composes parts of the earth and other masses, including living things) is symbolized as O2, where two molecules are bound together (aka diatomic).

With water, you need two H bonded to one O, therefore the symbol is H2O. However (and forgive me as I can't recall any more why this is!), I recall from my chemistry days the true formula for water should be HOH (hydrogen hydroxide). I just cant' remember the covalent bond rules that explain this, it's been years since I last took chemistry.

It was only after seeing a documentary about 9/11 that I realised the song New York, New York was so named as New York is in the state of New York and they're saying it twice as in the city, then the state i.e. as they would Miami, Florida or Stratford, Connecticut etc.

It dawned on me a few years ago that in the song 'Lucille' by Kenny Rogers it is 'four hungry children' and not 'four hundred children' I have sung 400 for years. As a kid, I would wonder why with so many children, they couldn't help with the crops in the field. Oops.

Unless it changed in the past few minutes - it's still Surrey