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I learnt that Cologne and Koln are the same city; beat that.
My go-to example in that area is when I learned, at the young impressionable age of 30, that raisins are really dried grapes and not separate other kind of fruit.
Mitochondria are real was pretty shocking in 9th grade bio. (I'd read A Wind in the Door)
I was really confused when mitochondria were real but farandolae were not.
Also, Munich and München (which has always bothered me, because "Munich" looks German enough already).