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People acquire different knowledge depending on their age. You start to realize that the sun still exists even when the night comes and you can’t see it, and that the moon is also always there, so it’s not surprising to sometimes see it during the day.

You learn these kinds of facts by experiencing them, reading about them or talking about them with someone else. But sometimes they just don’t come up and you end up not knowing what is obvious for everybody else. It is never too late to learn, but you can’t help but feel embarrassed when you’re the last one to find out something.

Reddit user PralineStriking wanted people to remember that embarrassment and asked what things they learnt at an age that seemed too late for them and the thread got over 18k answers. We collected some of the best ones and we would like to know if you found anything that you experienced as well. If not, share your own facts you learnt at a late age that you should have known about earlier in life in the comments!

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Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late That narwhals are real. I thought they were cute mythological creatures, until I saw a brooch a friend had and asked if it was part of the companies mythological line. She asked me if I thought narwhals were myths, like unicorns. I laughed and said of course they are. I was 35.

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late That I needed glasses. At age 21 my friends were hassling me about being dyslexic because I kept getting words mixed up (second year at Uni). Until then, I had just been reading by looking at the shape of words and guessing the words based on the context and wider story. I had been reading this way for years and survived Uni before finding out my prescription was +1.50. The optometrist said it was amazing I hadn’t noticed. When I put the glasses on, everything was in 4K Ultra. I can now see individual letters.

    CasualPhilosopher25 , Nate Steiner Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late That the more work you get done at work, the more they will pile it on. I could have saved a lot of my mental health in my 20’s

    Miserable-Penalty188 , Christmas w/a K Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late “Paradigm” is pronounced “pear-uh-dime”. It is definitely NOT pronounced “pear-uh-dig-um”. …I learned this at age 19. In college. While delivering an oral report. I try not to think about.

    ItsPaulKerseysCar , Helder da Rocha Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late That Abuela and Abuelo were not my Cuban grandparents actual names

    MarzipanJoy-Joys , Hugo Chisholm Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late I thought everyone’s mouth got itchy when eating bananas. Almost 40 years old and find out I’m somewhat allergic to them.

    tbr6742 , Amaury Laporte Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late The Lion King is basically Hamlet. That was Monday. I'm 41.

    west_end_squirrel , Loren JavierFollow Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late The the longest time I always heard of sports teams “Drafting” people. And I am tall, so as a kid I was constantly afraid I’d get drafted for the state basketball team just out of the blue, I thought it worked like a military draft. I learned this wasn’t the case when I was like 10-12.

    Asone2004 , cruisedotco Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late That sodas were called soft drinks because they had no alcohol lol

    zejus_christ , supcece Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late That you can flush used toilet paper. Parents taught us as kids to throw away the paper in the trash can for fear of backing up the toilet. Wasn’t until college that I realized my parents were accustomed to that method because they had s***ty plumbing where they grew up in Central America

    User , Carlos ZGZ Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late Wasn't until I was 21 when I drank Lactose Free milk and DIDN'T go sit on a toilet for an hour that I realized I am lactose intolerant. I thought it was normal to s**t constantly after drinking milk.

    xeredge , Neil Turner Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late It’s “for all intents and purposes” not “for all intensive purposes”

    charlessturgeon , Trevor Pritchard Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late Ponies are NOT baby horses

    phrygN , Rigothamus Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late Womens pads stick to their underwear and not themselves like a band-aid.

    brettrknowlton , pikulkeaw_333 Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late I learned how to ride a bike at the ripe age of 24

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late Baby carrots are just shaved down big carrots. I was devastated a few years ago.

    Txflood3 , dee m Report

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    At roughly 37, I learned pineapples grew from the ground. Not from a tree.

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late Corned beef wasn’t made by cattle that were strictly fed corn. My mom couldn’t stop laughing.

    Ilikestarwarstoo , Frank Hebbert Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late That sea horses are not roughly the size of penguins. In fact, they are incredibly tiny. Stupid Saturday morning cartoons!

    ninjaskooldropout , Krishna Santhanam Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late That puffer fish don't use air to inflate.

    skewed-perceptions , Bernard Spragg. NZ Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late That puffins are in fact NOT extinct. I had a 3rd grade teacher misinform me. I found the truth as a teenager in an embarrassing group setting where I was quite confidently wrong.

    shofawnda , Matthew Britton Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late Washington state and Washington DC are two different places.

    PotatoesPancakes , SounderBruce Report

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    #23

    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late That cows are female and bulls are male. I thought they are two different species

    Mary99t , John McIntyre Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late At 42 years-old, I realized there is no donkey in Donkey Kong.

    Shelsb , SobControllers Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late That Flo Rida spells Florida. Also will I am was William. Realized this last year. I’ll be 42 in a month lol

    boring_prairedude , Eva Rinaldi Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late I was 20 years old when I learned that salt lamps are indeed made of salt. I always thought that it was plastic carved into a rock-like shape

    CapaxInfini , Tony Cecala Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late That roadrunners are not the size of an emu.

    PURKITTY , Josh McGinn Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late I was almost 30 when I realized that travelling uphill does not always mean you're travelling north. And similarly rivers can run north because they aren't going "uphill". I'm not normally that stupid.

    Dianacolada , Jeff Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late That when i deposit cash in the bank, there isn’t a specific money locker just for me.

    Financial-Corgi1067 , Steven Depolo Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late That menstrual fluid isn’t blue. The tampon and pad commercials had me fooled.

    Unoriginal920 , ▓▒░ TORLEY ░▒▓ Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late I thought women get pregnant at a random moment in their life until my friend told me you have to have [intimacy] in 7th grade.

    User , Britt-knee Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late I thought the D is Disney was just some random symbol, kinda like a backwards G. It took me until like 7th grade to realize it and even as an adult I still can’t unsee the backwards G.

    User , Mike Mozart Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late "TP" stood for Toilet Paper. I thought to "TP someone's house" you just put toilet paper over it to look like a teepee.

    crusoestudio , Justin Baeder Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late I was 16 when I found out you're meant to spit toothpaste out after brushing your teeth, I had always just swallowed it and thought that's just what you do... Idk how tf I don't have flouride poisoning

    Charlie483 , Kenneth Lu Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late I thought an armadillo was a reptile rather than a mammal

    failurebeatssuccess , David Shane Report

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late Those containers Chinese food come in unfold into plates.

    Brother_Farside , Brad.K Report

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    Up until 15 I believed If I swallow a seed and then drinks water a tree is going to grow inside me.

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    Late Bloomers: 38 Simple Things People Learned Way Too Late That the game show Wheel of Fortune is named after the tarot card

    CurvyNB , morebyless Report

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