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Have you ever called someone Captain Obvious or have been referred to as that yourself? If you have, it’s because some things are painfully obvious. Though, not for everyone.
For some people, it takes time to learn something that is considered common knowledge for others. In some cases, it might even take years. That was the case with at least a few people on today’s list, who admitted being oblivious to certain information after one netizen started a discussion on the topic. Their “confessions” covered everything from staring at the sun to buying individual bananas, and figuring out what peppers are exactly, among other things. So if you’re curious to see what else their comments entailed, scroll down to find them on the list below.
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#1
That the reason old people move so slowly is that they are in pain.
Source: Am now old person.
Joe Reaves 8 months ago
And for other chronic conditions (am not old but am chronically ill) you know you have X amount of energy and if you walk slowly you can do what you need but if you try to walk faster you might not make it to your destination.
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StrangeOne 8 months ago
My daughter deals with a lot of pain, and must walk slow. It's made me learn better patience and understanding with people. I now get appalled when someone comes up behind us then rush around in a huff. Like, I know it's annoying when you're in a hurry, but all you need to say is, nicely "Excuse me, I really need to get by please."
Nikole 8 months ago
My sassy grandmother’s advice to me was “Never get old.”
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Kit Black 8 months ago
Which is totally okay, as long as you leave room for others to get by you
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Alex Bailey 8 months ago
Been like that since my late 20s (hidden spinal deformity) and now move even more slowly due to pain and other stiffness developing. You can never know what other people are dealing with. They may not just be slow, may need to stop suddenly as pain can often be sharp. Don't walk so closely behind someone if that kind of thing annoys you (number of times people have moaned at me about that).
Ge Po 8 months ago
Pain, yes, stiffness, too, then there's decline in balance and strength. The mayor reason, however, is that the brain is working slower. Mostly, because they have more to process. This also means that thoughts go deeper, with more facts and experiences to take into account. In other words, there are some 70 year old soldiers who may not have the strength and agility of a thirty year old colleagues, but when attacked, they also know what works and doesn't and know how to use those nasty little tricks that may not really harm you, but will bruise your self-confidence.
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#2
I didn't realize how much I interrupted people while they were talking until one person didn't let me. They bulldozed right over whatever the f**k I had to add. I'm much more aware now.
megabeth 8 months ago
Am working on this as well. I used to be the opposite? Found my voice a bit too much.
Danni 8 months ago
Overcorrection is always part of the process. The important thing is you're growing as a person and that's an amazing and difficult thing to do. Way to go!
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keyboardtek 8 months ago
Look up any list that psychology provides for "blocks to listening". A common one is when something someone says to you triggers your mental response and you cannot wait to say it. If you manage to hold off on your response, you often fail to hear everything they said because you are trying to keep your response in your mind.
megabeth 8 months ago
Honestly thanks! I totally will. That's exactly what I feel is happening. I absolutely value what people have to say, I just get too... idk...excited to contribute and feel heard? Im just trying to share thoughts and ideas but Im cutting them off instead.
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antoinette maldari 8 months ago
This is a GIANT pet peeve of mine. I recently had two managers asking the same question to me and I had interruptions in stereo. I told them they if they liked hearing their own voices, they didn't need my answer.
Peeka_Mimi 8 months ago
My brother desperately needs to learn this. I love him and I know he got it from my mom, but come on.
Magenta Blu 8 months ago (edited)
I have this problem too. But since I don't have really anyone's to talk to, it's something I just don't care anymore... I can't remember when was the last time I interrupted someone, because the last conversation I had with anyone may had happened before the pandemic.. so.. nothing to worry about
Joanne Hudson 8 months ago
I had a friend who did that. I let them finish the interruption then say "you interrupted my story. I'd like to finish it now if you don't mind."
Roland Nijveld 8 months ago
And then they get mad you bring something up from when they started to talk...
Corwin 02 8 months ago
One thing that annoys the s**t out of me is people starting a conversation with me while I am watching a series or something , so I pause it to be fully attentive and they stop talking , only to start again when I un-pause.
Celtic Pirate Queen 8 months ago
People who constantly interrupt others, I find, are either insensitive clueless clods or complete narcissists. My sister is one of those who thinks her opinions are the only ones that matter. Just one of the many reasons I no longer speak to her.
#3
You never have it together as an adult. You just collectively pretend.
keyboardtek 8 months ago
I prefer constantly re-evaluating reality as new information becomes available. Something most religious people have stopped doing.
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Julie S 8 months ago
You never feel like an adult either. I spent years waiting to feel like an adult, now in my forties I realise it's never going to happen.
Joe Reaves 8 months ago
And there never comes a time when you're not on some level looking for an adultier adult to do stuff.
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Karl der Große 8 months ago
When people say to me, "You're not acting like an adult right now," it just reminds me that they're acting.
Sue Denham 8 months ago
Maybe, but it feels like all the other adults are doing it right and I'm just an imposter.
Riley Quinn 8 months ago
And by the time you're old, you won't even bother pretending anymore.
#4
That percentages work both ways. 50% of 7 (3.5) is the same as 7% of 50 (3.5).
Zoe Vokes 8 months ago
I’ve heard that before but then I always immediately forget about it until I read it again.
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Riley Quinn 8 months ago
Don't be giving me that hocus-pocus. I'll use my calculator to figure this.... oh, you're right.
Holly Herr 8 months ago
Wish a teacher had explained it this way while I was in middle school🙄
#5
The Romantic languages aren't called that because oh pretty, they're called that because they descend from Latin, which was spoken in Rome… they're Roman-tic languages.
Slapdash1 8 months ago
Never seen the name "Romantic languages." Always been taught they are "Romance languages" and this is what e.g. wikipedia calls them.
Kris 8 months ago
The Romance languages are called this because the word ''Romanicus'' was used to describe the vernacular or Vulgar Latin of Rome, the language from which the Romance languages developed. In Late Latin, ''Romanicus'' became ''Romanice. '' In English, this word became ''Romance. ''
Riley Quinn 8 months ago
Just don't confuse Romantic or Roman-based languages with the Romantic Period that really was based on romance tales of exotic adventure and chivalry.
Mook The Mediocre 8 months ago
And it took me a year learning Spanish on Duolingo that I realised that accents on Spanish vowels change their stress, not their sound (as happens in French). That was a lightbulb moment that Duo never bothered to tell me.
#6
I had no idea that peanuts grow underground until the other day when I saw a video on reddit. I think I always assumed they grew on like, I dunno, a peanut tree? Peanut bush? I was flabbergasted.
Zoe Vokes 8 months ago
Very understandable. Lots of nuts grow on trees: Walnuts, almonds, cashew nuts…
Sue 8 months ago (edited)
Because it's not a nut. It's a legume. I did think they grew on vines, though
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Ron Man 8 months ago
Because peanuts are legumes that grow in a pod, not nuts that grow in a shell
Sue 8 months ago
I did know that, but I though legumes & peanuts grew on vines.
Load More Replies... Julie S 8 months ago
I didn't realise that Brazil nuts grow in a thing that looks like a coconut, saw it on a TV programme and didn't believe it so had to Google it. I was very surprised.
Zena 8 months ago
Wait until you see the craziness that a cashew grows in.
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David 8 months ago
Except they are not. They are both legumes and in the same family, but they are different species. Or so the internet tells me.
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Acacio Lima 8 months ago
I blame Goofy. In the comics his super peanuts grow in a bush. goofy-6814...51373f.png 
Verfin22 8 months ago
They are a root vegetable like carrots and potatoes, which also grow underground.
#7
That your stomach growling and feeling hungry can also be a sign of thirst.
Carrie de Luka 8 months ago
The same part of the brain processes both hunger and thirst signals. Though nothing wrong with your stomach growling through hunger, just a signal the body is ready to eat. People need to drink regularly, and sufficiently, so that won't be the cause getting muddled in there.
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
Many people think they're hungry when they're really thirsty. If you feel hungry, try drinking water first. This has actually helped me lose weight and be better hydrated.
R.C. 8 months ago
I learned I had to be very careful to drink enough water throughout the day because hunger and thirst feel the same to me. It wasn't until I was in my late 30's that I figured this out. For most of my life, I'd reach for food instead of water because I'd think I was hungry and then didn't understand why I'd feel hungry again so soon after eating.
Mari 8 months ago
Me too. After a meal I was still hungry. I learned that I was thirsty and not hungry. My brain doesn't make the difference.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 8 months ago
But when I drink water on a grumbling stomach I get a bad stomachache.
jonesnori 8 months ago
And vice versa. Sometimes I get food cravings when I really just need sleep.
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Fabulous chocolate cookie 8 months ago
Yep! Most times when you feel hungry. It's actually because you need to drink more.
jonesnori 8 months ago
I don't know about most, but it is certainly true sometimes.
Load More Replies... Magenta Blu 8 months ago
I don't recognize when I'm hungry or thirsty.. or when I'm satisfied.
MsPlants 8 months ago
my problem is I confuse boredom with hunger. if I feel hungry but i ate not too long ago I have to think to myself am i bored or am i hungry. for me its not thirst because i drink water all day long. I love cold water so I have a huge mug of ice water with me wherever I go.
#8
I was 50 when I figured out (52 now, btw.) that the little piggy that "went to market"...wasn't going shopping.
Edit: I talked to my wife about the poem and she pointed out:
This little piggy went to market - off to be slaughtered.
This little piggy stayed home - The mother pig
This little piggy had roast beef - Being fattened for the market
This little piggy had none - fat enough, being sold tomorrow
This little piggy cried wee wee wee all the way home - actually, apparently, the source of this is French, and the piggy is crying "oui, oui, oui!" all the way home because it escaped from the slaughterhouse. It's crying "Yes, yes, yes!" all the way home.
Kira Okah 8 months ago
It's earliest appeaance was 18th century, London, with slightly different lyrics. What this is is the dark interpretation, the standard interpretation is completely innocent.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
That's often the way it goes. Like everyone now thinking 'ring around the rosey' is about the plague, despite it also coming from French with some altered lyrics, predating the plague and the symptoms not matching the plage.
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Kallen Kneeland 8 months ago
I'm older than you and just now learned that last bit about "oui, oui, oui", thank you very much!
Brian Droste 8 months ago
The first little piggy went to the market. The second little piggy stayed home. The third little piggy had roast beef. The forth little piggy had none. Why didn't the forth little piggy had any roast beef? Because the third little piggy was a big hog.
Kira Okah 8 months ago (edited)
Just because someone in the 20th century invented a dark interpretation of an innocent 18th century nursery rhyme, doesn't make the dark interpretation more accurate than the older innocent one. Say it to a kid, because it's not about chopping up pigs.
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Trish Wise 8 months ago
Some origins of children's rhymes are very dark. Look up "Ring Around the Rosie."
Kira Okah 8 months ago
That one is exactly the same amount of myth as this one, it's not true, zero evidence of the modern interpretation of the Black Death.
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I thought when people said you *can’t* stare at the sun it was because it was a really hard thing to do, like a skill- rather than the truth which is it damages your eyes horribly.
So I’d boast at how I could stare for up to 3mins before I had to look away...
Glad I didn’t take “you can’t breathe underwater” literally too.
StrangeOne 8 months ago
I've stared at the sun a few times in my life, but only for a moment. Not 3 minutes. How could anyone stand that? If anything has started to wreck my eyes, it's my phone screen. Not the TV or computer, just my phone screen. I call my floater "floaty".
Barbara Burns 8 months ago
Good God! Horrifying that OP stared into the freakin' sun for three minutes! Aaaaagggghhh!!!
Julie S 8 months ago (edited)
I remember whilst at school someone said if you sneeze with your eyes open your eyeballs would fly out. So I spent a long time trying to sneeze with my eyes open to prove them wrong. I would have looked like a complete idiot if that was true and my eyeballs fell out!
Brian Droste 8 months ago
I think instead of you can't stare at the sun, it should be DON'T stare at the sun. I belive that would be more appropriate. I don't see how anyone can stare at the sun for three minutes. I can barely stare at the sun for five seconds.
Zena 8 months ago
You've seen pictures of him; clearly he can't see a mirror, so...
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#10
A fortnight is called that because its fourteen nights...
Bret Sander 8 months ago
But a Furlings has everything to do with Star Gate
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PFD 8 months ago
It's just 20, not 20 years, and it's Old English. (Though from an Old Norse word with the "scratch" meaning of score, probably from tally counting.)
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Lazy Panda 2 8 months ago
But bizarrely in Welsh a week is called wythnos, which translates as eight nights.
TMTMTMTM 8 months ago
Some day-counting systems include the days on both ends. Example: Latin. "The Easter Octave begins on Easter Sunday and ends on the Second Sunday of Easter...", Sunday to Sunday, not Sunday to Monday. In contrast, in English we count that as 7 days, non-inclusive on one end. The Roman calendar: days that aren't the ides, nones, or calends are counted up to the next one, inclusive. For example: the Ides of March was March 15. The day before, March 14, was Pridie Idus (day before the Ides). The next day before, March 13: ante diem tertium Idus, the third day before the Ides, because they counted it including both ends. (And another thing that's different in Latin compared to English: except for postridie (the day after), things are counted as the "Nth day before something", where English would be more likely as the "Nth day after something". March 13 was called the 3rd day before the Ides. It also happened to be the 7th day after the Nones, but they didn't call it that.)
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Ilan Elron 8 months ago
must have been an inside joke that escaped, sort of like Covid did
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#11
I had to explain to my mother, sister and boyfriend that cobwebs are leftover spider webs that collected dust, not just dust magically stringing together
Edit: guys they have to be abandoned to collect dust there aren't spiders in them anymore it's ok.
anne sane 8 months ago
My grandma grew up dirt poor. When they injured themselves severely they used cobwebs/spiderwebs to bandage the wound. She nearly lost a finger in her youth but kept it, albeit crooked, thanks to the webs.
David 8 months ago
LOL at the abandoned part. If you have lots of cobwebs you have house spiders. They may have abandoned the old web, but they move on and create new webs. That's how you get more cobwebs. I'm pretty lax about my house spiders because they only exist if they are eating things I want less than the spiders. A house spider doesn't bother me. A fly or mosquito does.
keyboardtek 8 months ago
I read that most dust is dead flaked off human skin cells. If that is true, then where do all the dust covered cobwebs in abandoned spooky houses come from if there are no humans in them to shed skin cells?
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
It's most of it. The reason abandoned houses are dusty is the lack of movement, so the dust finally settles.
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Lost Panda 8 months ago
I thought a cobweb was a cobweb because it came from a certain type of spider...
Kira Okah 8 months ago
There is in fact a type of spider commonly named cobweb spider. They are the one of the most common house resident spiders and build quite sticky webs, so they are quite likely to become cobwebs. Name probably came from association with cobwebs.
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Borje Stromming 8 months ago
Dust is dead skin cells amongst other things
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Panda'sMom 8 months ago
My mother cut off the tip of her thumb when she was about 4. (spinning piano stools are not to be toyed with) Her father picked it up, sprinkled black pepper on both sides and wrapped it in cobweb. It healed perfectly. But, under her (adult size) thumbnail, the tip of her adult thumb was the same size as when she was four.
Lynn Donovan 8 months ago
I find it amazing that you have a different word for each. In my language we don't!
#12
I thought it was normal to get a little burning sensation in your throat when you eat hazelnuts, turns out I was allergic.
PeepPeep the duck 8 months ago
Same I thought pine nuts were meant to be ‘chilli nuts’ as I called them as a kid.
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Littlemiss 8 months ago (edited)
If eat anything with chilli my mouth burns. Now before you come for me, the swelling of my throat and the whole not being able to breathe that comes with it are the allergic reactions. Smaller amounts cause diarrhea and vomiting.
Anne Roberts 8 months ago
My son found out he was allergic to latex after surgery. He had an anaphylactic reaction to the trach tube. He had always said his mouth and tongue felt "itchy" after eating pineapple, mangoes, and bananas. Turns out some tropical plants are related to latex. .
Funhog 8 months ago
The skin of mangoes also contain urushiol, which is the same oil in poison ivy and poison oak that causes allergic reactions/contact dermatitis to those who are sensitive to it.
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Nadine Debard 8 months ago
Same, I stopped eating cantaloupe 7 years ago.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 8 months ago
I knew allergies could rear their ugly heads in older age. I was middle-aged when they began for me. Friend of mine developed environmental allergies in his 90's, although he denied it, but it was evident. Another friend, who indulged in fish several times a week, suddenly became allergic to salmon after decades of eating it.
#13
White, green, and black tea can be from the same plant; just picked at different times.
EDIT: Yes, it's also a drying/oxidizing process as well.
David 8 months ago (edited)
Yes, all true tea comes from the same plant (Camellia sinensis) and is just processed differently. The other stuff that is often called 'tea' in the US is more correctly called herbal infusions, aka 'herbal tea'. There is a pretty good video on youtube of a man who owns a small(ish) tea factory where he walks through each of the steps they do to produce the different kinds of tea. When they pick, how long they let it dry, how long they ferment it, how much they bruise it and so on.
Lynn Donovan 8 months ago
And the quality of the tea depends on how many leaves are collected at the end of a branch.
BrunoVI 8 months ago
I thought this was kinda wild: Green beans and pinto beans are also from the same plant. As the green bean ripens, the little seeds inside the green bean grows into a pinto bean. Or white bean. Although, this is actually true for string beans; as they bred the stringiness out, they also made them less like white beans
#14
When I was in 9th grade, I found out that narwhals are REAL. Always just assumed they were mythical. C'mon, dolphin-like creatures with a unicorn horn?
Upstaged75 8 months ago
My SIL thought they were imaginary because the only place she'd seen one was in the movie Elf. We love teasing her about it. :) And it's really a tooth not a horn.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
I knew they were real when I was a kid, but I had a hard time believing that their "horn" was actually a TOOTH. Like, come on, no way, that's not a tooth, it's coming out of its HEAD! It's a horn/antler like on cows or deer or elk! XD I was a little older when I saw a skeletal diagram of one and learned that yes, it is actually a tooth/tusk XD
geezeronthehill 8 months ago
Belief in unicorns persisted well into the sixteenth century because narwhal tusks were passed off as unicorn horns .
Sue Denham 8 months ago
So it's not too hard to also believe in a horse-like creature with a . . . .?
Bad Alchemy 8 months ago
🎵 Causing a commotion, cuz they are so awesome...🎵
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BookFanatic 8 months ago
When I was a kid I had an old postcard that showed different sea critters on in, including a narwhal. I had a hard time trying to convince my little neighbor friends that it was a real animal. Finally somebody's dad had to step in.
tarryn norwich 8 months ago
I was seeing a guy who didn't believe reindeer are real... I even Googled it and everything. He still thought I was lying
Rick Murray 8 months ago
Wait til he learns about the moose. It's a fake made-up name for a fake monster-size deer, right?
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Just me, realizing just how little I actually know. But a drop in the ocean. That I did not listen to people, instead just waiting to butt in and say something stupid. That I was passing judgment on people without understanding their situation first. Thinking I was open minded but was actually rather ignorant and closed minded. Offering advice to people who didn’t ask for it. Thinking I was a forgiving person but held grudges. Allowed myself to be triggered by what others said, biting the bait. Giving advice to others on how to live their lives but not providing a good example. Expected respect but not being respectful.
XenoMurph 8 months ago
Possibly a curse, depending on their anxiety levels
Load More Replies... Peter Bear 8 months ago
Every day that I learn something new is a very, very good day. It can be something huge, or something small. It may be meaningful, or trivial. But I always seek out the opportunity to learn something new. I love that feeling.
#16
As an introvert, it's recently come to my attention that some people actually like talking. What I mean to say is, I've started talking to people more because I thought everyone was like me and didn't want to be bothered with conversation much, but it's amazing to think that that's something that's unique to me, some people can talk and enjoy it.
That's not to say I don't like talking, I just get super exhausted talking for too long, but it's just mind boggling to me that people actually want to talk and seek it out and can do it all the time. I need a bit to recover from a conversation.
I'm almost 30, and am just discovering this, apparently I'm slow.
Michelle 8 months ago
It's also what people talk about, like I've never really been good at small talk, I feel like I just have nothing to talk about, but when I paid attention to people I realised they will just talk about anything, what they're having for dinner later, a TV show they watched, what they're wearing to a baby shower, like people just enjoy talking about anything so I pretty much learnt to do the same.
Little Bit 8 months ago
I'm an introvert and have always been naturally quiet. I was brought up that children should be seen and not heard. I don’t do small talk, but if there's a subject that interest me I can discuss it for hours. The problem is that few people like the same things that i do. One thing that has always annoyed me is that people think I'm shy. No I am not shy, just quiet. I speak when I've got something to say, not because I just have to say something. People who talk constantly drain me and I prefer to leave them to it.
April Pickett 8 months ago
I am solitary. Other people talking, the TV on, people moving around and talking, wears me out. I usually wait until the first people leave, then I leave. It takes me hours to get over the stress.
Child of the Stars 8 months ago
I have an extremely extroverted friend who is the opposite. He would call me several times a week wanting to "catch up," and he just couldn't understand why I didn't want to do the same. It took me a while to explain in a way he understood that a) my life is boring and extremely routine (which I love, btw) and b) speaking, even over the phone, is exhausting for me.
Colleen Glim 8 months ago
Boring is good. Boring means that all hell has failed to break loose. I like boring
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Retep Elpmet 8 months ago
I'm on the autism spectrum and this is very true for me. Unfortunately, I encounter people that sometimes really annoy me by the way they talk as well. Communication has been a constant struggle for me.
ronniebeaton00 8 months ago
Yeah, my wee mum was a talker, and occasionally my dad would announce he was going for a walk around the block or he'd go for petrol for the car. It was only after he passed away in 2013 that I realised he wanted to get away from mum's chattering for a wee while.
Anne Young 8 months ago
It's amazing how much people talk about nothing. I don't care how some random person's lizard is.
#17
That the christmas song that goes "I saw mommy kissing santa claus" is not actually about infidelity. The father was santa claus the whole time!
Pencil 8 months ago
The first time I ever heard that song was at a gay bar. (Don't know how I never heard it as a kid.) So to me it was always "I saw daddy kissing Santa Claus" and didn't find out until years later that that wasn't the original.
JP Doyle 8 months ago
Oh yes, the Kip Adotta "I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus" is a classic! Actually got banned from quite a few radio stations for supposedly being obscene.
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Sam Trudeau 8 months ago
There is actually a movie called "The Santa Clause" (A trilogy actually) where a man accidentally watches Santa fall off the roof due to the man distracting him. He becomes Santa, and he has a kid of his own already. It later becomes a plot point in the sequel that his dad is "the greatest thing ever, and nobody believes [him]"
Retep Elpmet 8 months ago
Okay, I didn't know this, but I'm guessing I also didn't pay attention to the song lyrics.
#18
That ponies are not baby horses.
Zoe Vokes 8 months ago
Unless you grow up around horses I think everyone believes this. I think it must be from watching cartoons, films or TV shows. You see small horses and they’re called ponies, but how often do you hear the word foal unless it’s an educational program.
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 8 months ago
As a horseperson this is the most common misconception. A baby horse is a foal. (After they're a year old they're either a colt or filly depending on gender) Ponies are small horses that are shorter than a certain height. (14.2 hands or under. A hand is 4 inches - don't ask me to math, LOL) Once they reach their final height they're fully grown. To also confuse you further, mini horses are not ponies. They're extra small horses bred to be tiny. Let me know if you have questions - I've got facts for days. :)
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
Technically, yes, but the Arabian Horse Registry gives the minimum height for purebred Arabians as 14.2 hands. Mine missed it by an inch but you look at him and he's obviously a horse. My mare was 13.2, but she was half Thoroughbred and looked more horselike than ponylike. It's not just size, ponies tend to be rounder/stouter than horses. Chief-and-...81ab16.jpg 
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
LOL. I, a horsewoman, have had to point this out more than once. And miniature horses are not ponies. A baby horse is a foal of either gender, a colt is a young male - often called so up to almost age 4 - and a young female is a filly.
Child of the Stars 8 months ago
I didn't know colt and filly were gender specific! I thought it was about age.
Load More Replies... Bill Swallow 8 months ago
Ponies =/= Colts. Colts are young horses. Ponies are under, what, 13 hands high (?) when fully grown. ['Hand' = 4 inches, measured at - I think it's the shoulder.]
Upstaged75 8 months ago (edited)
Colts are young MALE horses. Fillies are young female horses. Ponies are 14.2 or under and they get measured at the withers.
Load More Replies... Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
To add to the confusion, baby horses are, indeed, called "ponies" as well as "foals".
Upstaged75 8 months ago
NO. Anyone who calls a baby horse a pony is incorrect. Look it up. I've owned horses for 40 years. I know what I'm talking about..
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 8 months ago
Foals are baby horses. A colt is a young male horse and a filly is a young female horse over a year old.
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My friend thought Reindeer were just a christmas related mythical animal until he was 18.
Hell'n Damnation 8 months ago
And their eyes change colour depending on the season. Gold in summer and blue in winter.
Nadine Debard 8 months ago
There's a farm next to my place where you can see many farm animals from different countries including a reindeer. You can enter the enclosure and cuddle the adorable and very sweet reindeer. They love eating acorn as treats.
Brian Droste 8 months ago (edited)
It wasn't I believe until I wasn't until in my 20's that I figured out reindeer was real. They were caribou. Also that the Tasmanian Devil was a real animal..
Riley Quinn 8 months ago
Reindeer is the Eurasia name, and caribou is the North American name. They are the same species, Rangifer tarandus.
Panda'sMom 8 months ago
And Santa's Reindeer can't be males. The males lose their antlers in the fall. The females retain theirs.
#20
I legitimately thought you "grew" pickles.... Like underwater.
I'm not a smart man.
Alex Bailey 8 months ago
'Pickles' are just one of a variety of pickled products really though. In my country it's more of a generic term than one specific product - eg pickled gherkins, pickled eggs, pickled cabbage, pickled beetroot...
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
Honest question, not throwing shade/trying to be rude - I am genuinely curious - what did you think they were? A vegetable species called "'pickle"?
Load More Replies... Brian Droste 8 months ago
When I was growing up I much didn't think where pickles came from. I am pretty sure by the time I was an adult that I realized that pickles were just pickled cucumbers.
#21
Condensation is water from the atmosphere turning liquid on the outside of a glass due to how cold the glass is. It’s NOT because water from inside the glass magically phases through the glass outside. I regret that it took be 17 years to find this out, even though I passed AP chemistry and AICE biology...
Scott Rackley 8 months ago
Look, I had AP chemistry as well. We had several labs with Graham condensers and this person didn't put 2 and 2 together?
Remi (He/Him) 8 months ago
maybe op's brain thought chemistry is something that happens in the classroom, not in a random bar.
Load More Replies... Cydney Golden 8 months ago
Didn't you ever wonder why all liquids didn't 'pass through' the glass?
Bill Swallow 8 months ago
Swallow’s Seventh Law: “No one knows what ‘Everyone Knows’, because no one talks about it, because “Everyone Knows’ it.”
Judy Reynolds 8 months ago
And dew is condensation that forms on grass and plants. Frost is frozen condensation.
BrunoVI 8 months ago
Ya know how the top of condiments is usually runny? That's not the liquid gathering at the top... directly anyway. The water in the condiment evaporates and then condenses on the top. By the way, never eat salads from delis or groceries that are watery on the top. That water is dripping down from the cooling rods that cross the top of the refrigerator. You do NOT want to look at those cooling rods.
#22
I actually have to talk to women if I want to ever meet any.
Mimi M 8 months ago
That's why the best advice is to talk to people in general, and women in general - all types, old, young, married, single, etc. Learn to talk to people, learn to talk to women as people. Then when you see someone you find attractive, you can simply speak to them as one person to another (well.... maybe with an extra smile thrown in).
Child of the Stars 8 months ago
I explained to a friend of mine that that's how to talk to kids as well. She had apparently uncomfortable being around my kids because she didn't know how to talk to them. Now she chatters with my 6yo like they've been best friends for years!
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Blue Bunny of Happiness 8 months ago
I realised I actually had to leave the house and talk to men if I wanted a boyfriend. I decided staying home reading BP was much less stressful.
Zena 8 months ago
Unless you're into that sort of thing, and ask nicely 😊
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Flavia Slag 8 months ago
Two ways to over come shyness. Join a drama club or become a nurse. You have to talk to people.
Robert Beveridge 8 months ago
I saw a movie with a variation on this line yesterday! "going out with girls is easier when you have conversations with them." (pretty sure it was Dr. Alien, from 1989).
jonesnori 8 months ago
You'll still need to converse. You might just be using a different sort of language, depending on how deaf she is.
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I thought the semicolon tattoo was for people who had Crohn's disease or colon cancer or something and had lost part of their colon.
Multa Nocte 8 months ago
"Semicolon tattoos are symbols of hope. Those with anxiety, depression, or other mental health issues may get a semicolon tattooed on the inside of their wrist as a reminder that they've chosen to continue their story despite the challenges they've faced."
Magenta Blu 8 months ago
I wish I just could put the final point to everything. But here am I. Waiting for a life long time here to end
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April Pickett 8 months ago
It's a semicolon, which means to pause, take a breath, and look around you. It is not a period, a period is absolute. You've come to the end, there is no going back. A semicolon means there is a chance things will be better down the road. People thinking of s*****e will use this, with therapy, to get over that bump in their lives.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
A period is the end of a sentence. It's a long way from the end of the story.
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Dee Rutherford 8 months ago
It can stand for a number of different things. In my case, I got one partially because I did have over have my colon removed from cancer. To me, it’s a reminder, it also my little joke…”had half my colon removed and now I’m just a semi colon”. 😏
Robert Trebor 8 months ago
If you had the rest out you could use a * (as you have no asterisk)
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 8 months ago
It's for mental health. Depression, anxiety, etc.
Load More Replies... #24
I was told a couple weeks ago that hay was just dried grass, I thought it was its own thing that grew and I just never saw it.
Upstaged75 8 months ago (edited)
Yup. You have to prepare it a certain way though. Randomly picked dry grass isn't really hay. And there are different kinds of hay based on the type of grass. Timothy hay is usually what we feed horses, although alfalfa is popular too. Alfalfa has more calories and is more expensive to buy. And straw is not the same as hay - it's dried grain stalks and shouldn't be eaten.
Lost Panda 8 months ago
Use the straw to line the stalls for warmth and messes
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Chris the Bobcat 8 months ago
Those big circular hay bales I see out in fields sometimes... when I was little, my mother told me they were tractor eggs. If we passed by a field with several of them, she'd nod and say something like, "Gonna be a good crop of tractors this year."
Catlady6000 8 months ago
If you ever watch them making the square bales in field, it does look as they are being "laid"
Load More Replies... Sally Moen 8 months ago
A certain type of grass. Grown specifically with the idea of protein content to feed animals. And barn fires can be caused by hay. Hay can spontaneously heat up and start fires when it is stored too green or gets wet
All profits to charity 8 months ago
TIL that in the civil war the soldiers were mostly farmers (maybe in the south?) so instead of marching to LEFT RiGHT they tied straw and hay to their ankles and yelled HAY FOOT STRAW FOOT! To teach them to march.
Bill Swallow 8 months ago
I've also heard that the Army taught truck drivers to march in lockstep with 'CLUTCH! BRAKE! CLUTCH! BRAKE!'
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The bald spot on the back of my head. I mean, I knew it was there for a few years, but last month we moved into a new house and the upstairs bathroom has a large wall mirror across from the vanity mirror. So now every morning while I brush my teeth all I can do is stare at my bald spot. All this time I've been walking around like this unaware of just how large and obvious it was.
David 8 months ago (edited)
Reminds me of a story my coworker told me about how he found out he was going bald. Family at the beach, playing in the sun. He comments his head is a little sore. His wife: "Well, your bald spot is getting a bit sunburned." Him: "What bald spot?" LOL EDIT: Maybe my coworkers situation is more common than I realized. Now when something like this makes me think of that story I find myself reaching up and feeling the crown of my head to see if I'm next. :)
detective miller's hat 8 months ago
This happened at work several years ago. My boss's girlfriend at the time told him he should put sunscreen on his head before going golfing, and he was like why?? She told him because that way he wouldn't get sunburnt on his bald spot. His reaction was incredible, he just stood there stunned for a second before crying out "I have a BALD SPOT?!?!?"
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Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
My husband loves being bald because he can hear the rain when he's outdoors.
Peeka_Mimi 8 months ago
I'm a woman and losing hair due to autoimmune and menopause. I started taking oral minoxidil. It seems like its working. I didnt know how bad it was until I just looked one day. I was stunned.
Sally Moen 8 months ago
Nobody really knows how the back of their hair looks. Remember that movie where somebody had an app called FaceBack, which showed the back of your head? Its silly, but I would appreciate checking.
#26
Oh, mine is bad.
Until the age of 19 I didn't realize that the handicap symbol was a guy in a wheelchair. I thought it was a character from some Asian language that meant handicapped.
It was a mindf**k the first time I realized what it actually was.
I swear this is the only other one I have.
My family was terribly, terribly poor until my teenage years. When I was 14, we went down to a sit-down restaurant for the first time. I ordered a burger, as was my way. Now, I had no idea what grades of cooking existed as it just wasn't something that had come up.
>**Me**: I'd like a cheeseburger please Miss.
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>**Waitress**: Medium?
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>**Me**: No, large please.
Needless to say, that was embarrassing.
Carrie de Luka 8 months ago
Aw... if you've not had the experience before you can't know. Though must admit I'm usually asked 'how would you like it cooked' and the options listed, rather than just asked 'medium'?
BrunoVI 8 months ago
I hope the guy didn't think rare hamburgers were from endangered species. Or this: "How would you like your hamburger cooked?" "Well done" "Aw, thanks... I rehearsed that line over and over on the way here!"
Load More Replies... K Barnes 8 months ago
Here in Canada burgers are always served well (where I live, anyways) and even if you request medium only some restaurants will do it. I would have done the same as OP and only know about it from American tv/movies. I know medium is common and normal in the US. Curious about other countries.
camomooey 8 months ago
Most US restaurants cook ground beef well done because of E.coli.
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Katie White 8 months ago
My little brother thought that it was a parking space for if you had to go to the bathroom really bad. He thought that it was a dude on a toilet.
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
Our exchange student went out to eat with us and was asked "soup or salad?" we speak rapidly in the mid-west. "I don't know...how big is it?"
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
"Super salad?" "No thanks, I'll just have the Clark Kent."
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#27
That honey is mostly sugar..
Toddlo:
I sold honey door to door as a kid. Once a guy came to the door and I gave him my sales pitch, he stated that he couldn’t have sugar because he was diabetic. I assured him that the honey was pure and sugar free. He bought two tubs.
G A 8 months ago
....he was found dead 2 days later, empty jars on the table, slice of toast in hand....(I am diabetic by the way).
BrunoVI 8 months ago
But he departed this world with a smile on his face.
Load More Replies... Boo 8 months ago
My sister and I are diabetic, type 2. I avoid sugar and honey. My sister avoids sugar, but still uses honey in her cakes, pies etc. The day she sent me a recipe for some cake she made...I asked her about the sugar and she said it was fine, she used honey instead. I about face palmed myself into the next century.
Peeka_Mimi 8 months ago
Always put honey in my tea because I thought it was less sugar. I became diabetic and had to learn things. American food is just awful with the sugar.
OWL ON A MISSION 8 months ago
At least honey is a natural sweetener instead of processed like sugar. Not that a diabetic should eat lots of honey or anything though.
#28
I had an Aunt Grace. I thought the song Amazing Grace was about a woman named Grace for my entire childhood, at least, and only yesterday sat down and consciously realized it wasn't. I'm in my sixties.
Beak Hookage 8 months ago
In school I had a friend named Grace (she was from a Catholic family, no less) and kind of assumed the song was about her too, and especially since it was her favourite! I miss her.
JP Doyle 8 months ago
It wasn't until the mid-1980's and Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan that I found out the music for Amazing Grace was a funeral dirge
BrunoVI 8 months ago
It's not, really. It's just used that way occasionally to remind people that those who die in Christ are saved in the afterlife ("I once was lost, but now am found, was blind but now I see"). The use in The Wrath of Khan was ironic foreshadowing that Spock would rise from the dead.
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Dorothy Reiser 8 months ago
My friend's son thought that in the prayer "who art in heaven" was about a kid named Art.
BrunoVI 8 months ago
He hung out with Round John Virgin. And the Harold angels who sing in eggshells.
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I said "thingers" instead of "fingers" for an embarrassingly long time of my life. It always went in my brain that you use thingers to pick up things with.
Carrie de Luka 8 months ago
Some people say fumbs instead of thumbs... My husband has a mild speech impediment!
Zoe Vokes 8 months ago
Me too. I can’t say “th”, so I have to replace it with v or f. Three = free. There = vere. I don’t think most people don’t notice.
Load More Replies... Shark queen 🦈🦈🦈 8 months ago
Fun the fact humans only have eight fingers thumbs are not technically fingers their digits. Technically all fingers are digits but it's like a squares a rectangle but a rectangle is not a square kind of thing.
setsuriseikou 8 months ago
In Russian, humans have 20 fingers (yes, toes are fingers too)
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Say No to Downvoting 8 months ago (edited)
I remember a comedian doing an bit about his s*x ed teacher with a terrible accent talking about “vaginers” and he wondered for years how a “vaginer” “vagined” things.
Robert Trebor 8 months ago
It has always bothered me that someone named a speech impediment "lisp," and the people who have it can't say it.
Peeka_Mimi 8 months ago
I still jokingly call my bathing suit, my baby toot, since I could talk.
#30
That absolutely everyone is going through some hardship of some sort. Some are just more skilled at hiding or compartmentalizing it, and we all have our own way of dealing with it or trying to escape it.
I’ve realized that I don’t actually like the taste of alcohol. I started drinking because I thought it was the thing to do when you grow up and become an adult. Almost a year without a drop now, I don’t miss it one bit.
Toothless Feline 8 months ago
It’s a big step to realize that you don’t like alcohol. Many people drink it because they’re expected to, and never consider whether they actually like it, until they can’t function without it, at which point you can’t simply decide you don’t like it—it takes effort to stop drinking at that point.
Piwakawaka 8 months ago
I have never liked the taste so I very rarely have any. Why drink something you don't actually like?
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Crissy Newbury 8 months ago
I don’t drink alcohol either. I don’t like the taste or the effect it has. I’m quite happy with a Pepsi or a bottle of water. Downside- I am usually the designated driver.
Brian Droste 8 months ago
When I was younger I likecthectaste of beer. Then when I got a little bit older and quit drinking it, now I don't care for beer. More than likely any alcohol drinks except for a good sweet wine.
#31
It's called a K-9 unit because *Canines*!
I thought it was just a random letter-number designation, because you know, everything needs a name.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 8 months ago
I laughed when our local police put on post on social media about catching a car thief. PD (police dog) Blaze apprehended the suspect in a field assisted by his lead-holder PC Harris.
BookFanatic 8 months ago
Our Officer Friendly (elementary school/police liaison) brought some K-9s to our school to give a demonstration. A bunch of 5-10 yr olds learned all dogs are canines and all K-9s are dogs but not all canines are K-9s. Lol
Dave Hinckley 8 months ago
The police officer assigned to my daughter's school has K-8 on the side.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
The other side is that police agencies seem to be constitutionally incapable of saying "canine" - or, heaven forfend, "dog."
#32
That chores while still being a chore can in fact feel good once they are completed and not just a burden. Now I do chores and it relaxes me a bit kind of takes me put of my own head. If I'm angry...find a chore to do. If I'm bored...find a chore to do. It makes everything seem less chaotic at times.
Pencil 8 months ago
That's why I think making kids do chores as punishment is such a terrible idea. You're gonna have to do them no matter what (well, most of us are) try to have the best attitude about it that you can.
Jan Feline 8 months ago
I have a neighbor who makes her boys exercise as punishment. I hate that for the same reason
Load More Replies... Little Bit 8 months ago
I find doing chores such as cleaning, ironing and mowing the lawn quite therapeutic. Keeping busy takes my mind off things and when I'm done I like to admire the finished product.
Annik Perrot 8 months ago
The French word fo chore, "corvée", has only the négative meaning of something hard and unpleasant. For anything neutral and above we use "tâche", which means "task".
Cydney Golden 8 months ago
There's a wonderful sense of accomplishment when a chore is completed. It's my space, I like when it looks clean and pretty.
Crissy Newbury 8 months ago
I have replacement hips. I can’t sit still for much more than half an hour. So I get up and do a little something- empty the dishwasher, peel the veggies for dinner, fold the laundry etc. I feel good afterwards.
Beak Hookage 8 months ago
When I'm really stressed out, ticking things off my to-do list really calms me down.
#33
I always thought John Doe was a very popular person, until I realised it's a placeholder name.
setsuriseikou 8 months ago
I recently learned that there is also Jane Doe and the two aren't necessarily related
Lisa T 8 months ago
Or John Citizen. He always had his name on any cards used in advertising like credit cards, licence, Medicare etc
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
C. F. Frost in some credit card advertising.
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Sam Trudeau 8 months ago
In TF2, there's a "Mr. Jane Doe", meaning that's (apparently) his real name
Pferdchen 8 months ago
John Doe is a very popular and talented person! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doe_(musician)
Sally Moen 8 months ago
Funny how for hundreds of years people were simply known as a first name. Or the name with From So&So Place. Surnames happened when towns got bigger. Idk when middle names came about and why, I'm just glad my parents actually picked a middle name for me so I don't have to write NMI (no middle initial) on forms
#34
My roommate and I googled “what is pepper?” the other day because we realized we had no clue if black pepper was a plant or a mineral...
Edit: it’s a plant.... I’ve just never seen a peppercorn tree.
Edit 2: I get it, it’s not a mineral.
Pencil 8 months ago
I appreciate people like this. Don't know something, look it up, learn the answer. It's good to be curious.
Glen Ellyn 8 months ago
Yes! Be curious and never stop learning! I've always been curious. E.g. When the plumber comes, I watch him work because I want to see how he does whatever. In other words, I'm not spying on him to see if he's working - I just like to learn things.
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Jihana 8 months ago
Ohhh, I have a good story about pepper. A friend of mine and I met while studying chemistry. one day we learned about how different metals change the color of flames. Some days later we went to a restaurant with some friends of hers, and she wanted to show them how sodium changes flames to orange, so she took the salt shaker and sprinkled some salt into the candle on the table. Orange flame, people were impressed. Then she wondered what would happen if you poured pepper into the flame, so she took the pepper shaker and tried it. No, it does not change the color of the flame, but it turns it into a huge fire ball. I'll never let her live that down. (She'll visit me today, guess it's time to mention it again LOL)
Bill Swallow 8 months ago
So, you were one of that day's Lucky 10,000! XKCD-Those...130a43.jpg 
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
Not only that, it's a seed, and all pepper comes from the same kind of seed. Green pepper is from the dried immature seed, black pepper is the whole seed, and white pepper is the seed without the skin.
Sue User 8 months ago
Dont forget Peruvian pepper trees. Not really peppercorns but can be used.
Load More Replies... Sally Moen 8 months ago
I like white pepper, it's milder in taste, but it's from the exact same plant as black pepper. You can also find green peppercorns, red peppercorns. Peppercorns used to be used as currency
Anne Young 8 months ago
Yes bc pepper trees exist. You've obviously never heard of Mexican food.
#35
I didn't know babies only drink milk for the first six months and that water can be toxic for them. Learned that in r/JUSTNOMIL.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
Once again: https://www.healthline.com/health/baby/why-cant-babies-have-water#water-intoxication "In fact, water can be toxic to anyone if drunk in large quantities." And for a baby under 6 months old, a "large quantity" of water is actually a VERY small amount, because their stomachs - and kidneys - are tiny. So they are at extreme risk of water toxicity if given water before ~6 months old. You're all thinking about the word "toxic" in the sense of "poisonous", as in "cyanide is toxic!" but that's not the ONLY definition of the word "toxic". Salt can be toxic. Sugar can be toxic. For very young babies, water is at a high risk of being toxic. It is safer to not give them water by itself (unless one's pediatrician directs it) until they are past 6 months old.
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Child of the Stars 8 months ago
And it's not just any milk. You can't just give an infant cow's milk and expect that to be okay.
Lene 8 months ago
When my kids were babies and still breastfed I sometimes thought that they didn't get enough fluids during hot Summer days. So then I'd give them 0.5-1 tea spoon of boiled water that had cooled off. And I only gave it after they breastfed so I was sure they got all the nutrients they needed. The water was only to prevent dehydration.
April Pickett 8 months ago
No. Babies can have food. When my daughter was new, she cried a lot. The doctor said, "feed her". She was 3 weeks old. Standards change. It used to be feed them, then it was formula/milk for 6 months, then I heard they wanted you to feed them only milk for a year. Now, I guess, it's back to 6 months. Water is not toxic to an infant.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
Yes, it is. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/when-can-babies-have-water
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That as a person with a vulva, I can simply slide over the c****h of my swimsuit to pee! No need to take off my wet, cold one-piece and drag it back on again after I pee! My husband shared this magical method with me - I was 42.
Spittnimage 8 months ago
Or the cr otch stretches out and hangs down then you're in trouble.
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Blaze Onyx 8 months ago
WAIT. WHY DID I NOT KNOW THIS WHEN I DANCED. BATHROOM TRIPS WOULDVE BEEN SO MUCH FASTER
justagirl 8 months ago
But didn't you have tights on underneath your leotard? That's why I didn't do this.
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Ellinor 8 months ago
Someone, preferably human, who possess a vulva. What's hard to understand ?
Load More Replies... Wild Cream 8 months ago
It works pretty well 😊 it’s not gross, you’re just moving fabric out of the way to expose your hoo hah and taking a pee
Load More Replies... Sally Moen 8 months ago
Nobody condemns a person for not knowing stuff their parent didn't teach them
Hobby Hopper 8 months ago
Yet they censored c r o t c h. Is there a more appropriate term for that part of a garment?
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Crissy Newbury 8 months ago (edited)
I was an adult before I found this out. And BP WHY are you censoring cr0tch?
Mark Hastings 8 months ago
As a man, for years I pulled down the front of my underwear if I had to pee in the middle of the night. At 65 years old, I discovered it was easier to just pull on the leg hole and let w***y fall out.
#37
Different wines are named after the grape used to make the wine. I didn't realize there were different kinds of grapes, I guess? I thought that it was just green grapes = white wine / red grapes = red wine and that whatever makes it a shiraz or a merlot or whatever was some other magical s**t that happens in the barrels.
Annik Perrot 8 months ago
And some white wines, particularly some champagnes, are made with red grapes. Red grape juice is clear, it takes macerating the skins in it for à while to make it red.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
Something I learned when I was an adult was that sultanas are a specific type of grape. I thought any dried grape became a sultana. It wasn't until my dad mentioned that was one of the types of grapes his family grew that I realised, even though I knew they made sultanas because my grandad told me all about the drying purpose when I was a kid.
Magenta Blu 8 months ago
We call the dried coffee peels "sultana" and we make a real delicious boiled tea with them sultana tea. Good for cold brevages too
Load More Replies... BrunoVI 8 months ago
Here's a wierd one for you: There are many species of closely related vines: Grapes, Ivy, Fox grapes, Virginia Creeper, Concord Grapes.... Yeah, Concord grapes aren't just a different variety of grapes; they're a whole different species which in some way is more closely related to Virginia Creeper. And Virginia Creeper is the "ivy" that gave the "ivy league" its name. This is very significant because most "grape" flavored stuff in America, including jam and grape juice, is made from Concord grapes, which is why they don't taste much like table grapes or wine. Yeah, the reason wine doesn't take like grape juice isn't because its fermented; it's a whole different fruit. If you ever taste wine from concord grapes, you'll be amazed how much it tastes like grape juice. If you ever want to try it, one brand of Concord wine is Manishevitz (sp?).
Alexander Cameron 8 months ago
Red grapes do not have red juice, it is the macerated skin that gives the colour. Champagne can be made with pinot noir grapes which are red.
Sally Moen 8 months ago
And the grapes used to make wine can be eaten as grapes. Different taste than regular grapes, but definitely worth it to try, and non-alcoholic. Champagne grapes are tasty
#38
Horses scratch themselves behind their ears just like a dog does, i.e. with their hind legs.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
Not all of them do it though. They use their teeth too. And they scratch each other as well. I had one horse who would try to groom me when I scratched her in a certain spot. Mutual grooming I guess. :)
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
Their teeth can't reach their ears or face! They use teeth where teeth can reach.
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 8 months ago
I saw a horse lie on it's back and roll from side to side like a dog a few years ago and I was amazed.
Wild Cream 8 months ago
Oh yeah horses love doing that 😂 it’s pretty cute
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 8 months ago
Heck, I had a CANARY that did this! Okay they don't have external ears but it was the same spot.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
My green iguana used to scratch his "place where the earholes are" with his hind legs as well! XD
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When I moved to the states I kept wondering what "ped xing" with a guy crossing the road meant. I knew it meant that somebody was crossing the road but how did xing meant "crossing"?! A decade later I realized it, x=cross.
EDIT: Thanks guys I hope I have enlightened you all.
G A 8 months ago
The one that makes me laugh is 'Skip Intro' on Netflix. He sounds like an American.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
Right! He could be a police detective on a TV show!
Load More Replies... Cydney Golden 8 months ago
Was giving my 50ish old aunt a ride back into NYC going over the bridge she asked what "Manhattan Is" meant. She never knew IS stood for island.
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
Took ME too long to realize the figures on the school crossing signs were students.. one holding a book, not a purse
hey it's bec 8 months ago
The "X" originates from the Greek letter Chi (χ), which is the first letter of the Greek word "Christos" (Χριστός), meaning "Christ".
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That the the division sign is just an incomplete fraction
÷ x/x.
Pyla 8 months ago (edited)
Yes, but it’s trying to get kids to use the mental shortcuts you develop as a more advanced math user whilst you are still learning math. That’s tricky territory
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Royal family's last name is Windsor.
Kenneth Barns 8 months ago
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha --> Windsor. The Battenberg --> Mountbatten change was Prince Philip's maternal grandparents. He took their surname in 1947 (instead of continuing to use his Greek and Danish royal titles) when he became a British subject.
Rick Seiden 8 months ago
Technically, they don't have a last name. They use Windsor, the name of their house, out of convention. At least that's what I've always read.
Sven Grammersdorf 8 months ago
I don't know why you were downvoted, because you're completely right. The King of England's name is "Charles Philip Arthur George", no last name. Look it up if you don't believe me!
Load More Replies... T'Mar of Vulcan 8 months ago
Apparently Queen Elizabeth II decreed at some point that her children would use the surname "Mountbatten-Windsor". You can see this on Prince Andrew & Fergie's marriage certificate.
Kit Black 8 months ago
It was an agreement hammered out between Elizabeth, the House of Lords and the Church of England when she decided to marry Philip. She wanted to take his name, they forbade it. So the agreement was she could not take the name, nor could her children, but her grandchildren could. Don't ask me to explain why - it's long and complicated.
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Bryn 8 months ago
no, see above, it was Sax-Coburg-Gotha. Battenberg was Phillips line
Load More Replies... jonesnori 8 months ago
They were not first cousins, but they were cousins in some degree, in more than one direction, I think. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert actually were first cousins. It used to be much more common back when royals were expected to only marry other royals. That only eased up in the last century.
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That the Autobahn is the entire highway system in Germany, not just a single road that you can drive really fast on.
Riley Quinn 8 months ago
Initially, I thought the same. It's the context of how it's always used giving one unfamiliar with the language the impression it's the major highway that runs the length of the country. But no, that's not it at all.
Matthew Currie 8 months ago
When I was about 6 and read "state highway ends here" or "state highway begins here" I thought it was one state highway - like the turnpike, being ended and restarted. Since I lived in a small town with lots of town roads, needless to say there were lots of those signs, and I was flummoxed by how complicated and fragmented that state highway was! I was quite relieved when I found out that it wasn't just one highway. Recently I was in India, where a single route changes every few miles, from dirt to new wide highway to one potholed lane, to nothing at all, etc. as various local jurisdictions seem to be in charge and things are often left unfinished. 70 years later I find the reality I only imagined as a kid!
Load More Replies... Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
And we got our freeway system because Eisenhower was impressed with how much easier war was with it.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
The bahn is the railroad tracks. The auto-bahn is railroad tracks for autos (cars).
#43
That squidward and squilliam from Spongebob are just the names Edward and William but with "squi" in the beginning.
#44
The other day I just realized that “emo” was short for “emotional” - I always just assumed it was its own word completely, haha.
Sam Trudeau 8 months ago
It's also a town in Canada, actually. The best part is what they call their pharmacy. (Brother once had a hockey tournament there twice, it was 'kid hockey' in a way, and the pharmacy sign is one of the ads)
#45
It took me until I was like 10 years old to understand that you are supposed to close your eyes when trying to fall asleep. Until that point I just laid in bed staring at the ceiling wondering why I’m still awake.
setsuriseikou 8 months ago
As a kid, I sometimes had to make an effort to keep my eyes closed when trying to fall asleep, because for some reason they just opened on their own unless I used the muscles to shut the eyelids
detective miller's hat 8 months ago
I slept with my eyes open a lot as a kid, it used to freak my family out lol.
Load More Replies... Sven Grammersdorf 8 months ago
You have to pretend you're already asleep to actually fall asleep
BrunoVI 8 months ago (edited)
Did anyone else used to hear their heartbeat when it was very silent? It used to terrify me because it sounded like marching soldiers way down the hall. And the more afraid I got, the closer they'd come and the faster they'd get. UPDATE: Oh dear, just me. Has lots of causes, none are good, but one of which I had.
Riley Quinn 8 months ago
I have nights where I stare at the ceiling in the dark wondering why I'm still alive, and that delays my sleep.
meow point1 8 months ago
Until I was about seven, I thought sleeping was just lying down with your eyes closed!
#46
An airport is a port - like where ships dock - but for airplanes.
Pencil 8 months ago
Tangential: at both airports and ship ports, the word 'terminal' describes locations for loading/unloading passengers, cargo and supplies. But for trains a terminal is the end point of a route. Eg: Grand Central is a terminal, not a station, because all its train lines terminate there.
UKGrandad 8 months ago
The end-point of a railway route is properly called a terminus.
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Sally Moen 8 months ago
I used to get caught up on quays and keys, the places at the beach or waterfront. They are the same thing and can be pronounced the same, depending on where you are
UKGrandad 8 months ago
They are different things. A quay is a man-made platform that projects into the water for ships to tie up to for unloading. A key is a low-lying coral island, normally in a chain formed by the eroded remnants of reefs, like the Florida Keys.
Load More Replies... Lee Gilliland 8 months ago (edited)
And Kennedy, Cape Canaveral, Vandenberg and Wallops are all spaceports.
Chris the Bobcat 8 months ago
A jetway is that enclosed hallway that runs from the terminal to the door of the plane. You know, a hallway for jets.
#47
Email addresses are not case sensitive.
David 8 months ago
nope, it depending on the system. AOL never had a difference for example, but Prodigy did. BC of AOL and non case sensitive was adopted by the industry in the mid 90s
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Dave Platt 8 months ago
That depends on the email system. The domain name (after the "@") isn't case sensitive. The localpart (before the "@") may or may not be case-sensitive, depending on how the final (receiving) email software is designed and configured... it's up to the recipient to decide that. Most email software these days handles the localpart in a case-insensitive manner, but you can't always assume that will be the case :-)
Steve Kadner 8 months ago
And that the period in gmail addresses is ignored: name@gmail.com is the same as n.ame@gmail.com and nam.e@gmail.com
Data1001 8 months ago
Guys, your downvotes are wrong. Google's own website says that dots don't matter in their addresses: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150
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#48
Breakfast = Breaking the fast.
Robert Millar 8 months ago
Samuel Pepys sometimes mentions "breaking his fast" and sometimes his "morning draught".
Crissy Newbury 8 months ago
My aunties from the north of England always pronounced the word as it’s spelled- break/fast rather than brekfast.
#49
Dogs like squeaky toys because they sound like dying prey.
Kira Okah 8 months ago
Looks like you were duped again, because no. Has anyone heard a predator catch prey? They don't squeak. They shriek, they scream. Sounds nothing like it. Know what other animal loves toys with squeakers? Human toddlers. Interacting with an object, that object making a sound in response to that interaction, and knowing that you made it do that? To a toddler, that is way fun! Again again! Dog intelligence, by current studies, is equivalent to that of a toddler. The toy making a sound in response to their actions is fun!
Wanda Peachtree 8 months ago
It's actually both. I would hope you fact checked this before posting.
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 8 months ago
Our dog was very efficient; he'd silence those suckers as fast as he could manage.
Bookworm 8 months ago
My boy did the same. I quickly learned to get the tough chew toys if I wanted his toys to last longer than 10 minutes (not joking).
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Joe Russo 8 months ago
I used to teach dog training and was always taught that high pitched sounds like this excite their prey drive/instinct -- NOT that they think it's s dying animal per se. You can do this with your own voice (think the highest pitch you can speak with, saying something like "puppy, puppy, puppy" while wiggling your fingers at them as they best way to get your puppy to follow you without dragging them). But a slight distinction...this excites their prey drive, which they do have as puppies. But we've domesticated dogs so thoroughly, that they associate this with PLAY and not PREY now. But yes, it's pretty hard coded into dogs. Want to see if your very fluffy, very cartoon-looking dog, who couldn't possibly have these drives left, look and act like it? Just offer your dog a bit of liver. :) Dog trainers in my area would make "liver brownies" which are cooked like brownies, but mostly made from liver, as the treat that will get ANY dog to leave its owner and act as a demo dog in class.
Dave Hinckley 8 months ago
My dog used to like chewing on empty water bottles. I assumed it was because the sound was like bones crunching, similar to what she would hear when she caught a chipmunk.
Sue User 8 months ago
A cat adopted me. I never thought about the crunch factor until she ate a mouse in front of me. I have to leave the room.
Load More Replies... Lost Panda 8 months ago
My Akita loved any squeaky toy you gave her, but after no more than 5 minutes she would destroy them and then look at me with the most pitiful pout ever XD
Sylvia Baker 8 months ago
Appeal to hunting instinct: The squeaky noise triggers their prey drive, leading to a sense of satisfaction when they “catch” the toy. Gratifying reward: Dogs find the high-pitched squeak pleasant and friendly, inviting them to play. Satisfy chewing urge: Squeaky toys also satisfy a dog’s powerful urge to chew.
Panda'sMom 8 months ago
And there are different levels of squeakers. Doggo as lots of squeak toys. Most are tolerable. But, there is that one toy that has a squeak that my brain reacts to like scratching a chalkboard! I HATE that toy, so of course, it is his favorite.
#50
Funny I was about 31 when my girlfriend of all people pointed out that gas tank direction sign to me, she felt so proud of herself that day and didn't let me live it down.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
It's a little arrow on your dashboard next to the gas tank symbol. It points to which side of the car you fill up on.
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
When did this start being a thing? My car is 26 years old and doesn't have this.
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Foxglove🇮🇪 8 months ago
Doesn't work on all cats though, mine indicates the driver's side but the filler cap is on the passenger side
#51
When you go the liquor store the good liquor is on the "Top shelf". The cr**py liquor is Always on the bottom shelf.
OneHappyPuppy 8 months ago
No, it doesn't work like that. In reality, companies pay for the place in the market shelf. Front and centre, eye level are the most expensive places. Top shelves a bit cheaper, bottom shelves cheap. It coincides with the brand having more money for marketing - means they have more sales, means they have customers, means they taste good.
Pencil 8 months ago
At bars, there's a rack on the front of the ice bin (typically) for holding the cheapest liquor. (Easy access and out of sight.) The rack used to be called a 'well' so now whatever brands a bar has in there are called the 'well vodka' or 'well gin' and it has nothing to do with being good.
Hobby Hopper 8 months ago
The story is that Grey Goose made their bottles tall to force liquor stores to put them on the top shelf.
#52
That not all chicken eggs are fertilized. And I grew up in the country around animals and went to an Ag College.
Bored Botanist 8 months ago
Hens that have mated store the "seed" and can selectively fertilize eggs as she lays them. So, a hen can lay both fertilized and unfertilized eggs. Fertilized eggs don't develop unless incubated. You have probably eaten a fertilized egg.
Robert Benson 8 months ago
You didn't deserve a down-vote for your comment. Some individual chickens DO require a rooster in the vicinity to be ... inspired? ... to lay eggs. But most domesticated chickens that have been bred for egg-laying don't require a rooster.
Load More Replies... Binny Tutera 8 months ago
Had a science teacher in high school who told us if there was a white or red spot when you broke it open that it was fertilized and you shouldn’t eat it. I went to him afterward and said he must’ve misspoke since fertilized eggs are actually fine to eat.
#53
Balloon fish inhale water to expand ... Not air.
Gonna blame Nemo for that.
David 8 months ago
TIL some people call puffer fish "balloon fish". And apparently also a number of other names. -- "Tetraodontidae is a family of marine and freshwater fish in the order Tetraodontiformes. The family includes many familiar species variously called pufferfish, puffers, balloonfish, blowfish, blowers, blowies, bubblefish, globefish, swellfish, toadfish, toadies, toadle, honey toads, sugar toads, and sea squab."
#54
Cigarettes are just a cute name baby cigars. I never made that connection for some reason.
Kallen Kneeland 8 months ago
Not just "baby" (smaller), but also cheaper, made with shredded not rolled tobacco, wrapped in paper not tobacco leaves, usually loaded with chemical additives, and not as richly flavored as cigars. Also, you don't inhale cigar smoke into your lungs, you savor it in your mouth.
Jihana 8 months ago
They're talking about the name, cigarette literally means small cigar.
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 8 months ago
And a major element of why cigarettes and cigars cause lung cancer is the tons of pesticides used to grow tobacco. The same with all that south American marijuana we smoked for years. We are inhaling the poison sprayed on the plants.
#55
One of my mates only realised Elton John was gay when the TV commentary at the royal wedding talked about him and his husband.
Carrie de Luka 8 months ago
I don't have one either tbh. Though I'm quite happy with that - people can tell me if they want me to know, it's none of my business otherwise. I knew about Elton John because it's been in the news many times since he married/divorced Renate Blauel a long time ago!
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T'Mar of Vulcan 8 months ago
I've known since he married Renate Blauel, because I remember my mother saying something like, "That won't last long. He doesn't like girls."
keyboardtek 8 months ago
Did he think that wearing goofy glasses was a British rock star thing?
Wild Cream 8 months ago
It’s not a specifically gay thing either. Some people just have their own fashion sense. Elton John has always liked his fancy glasses.
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That when it itches (like if you have an itch on your leg or something), it helps to scratch back. I remember complaining to someone when I was around ten, that I had an itch, and he said "well, scratch it". I was really surprised that it worked.
Stephanie Did It 8 months ago
How was OP not automatically, instinctively already scratching itches? I never considered that it was something you do deliberately. I have to struggle *not* to scratch an itch sometimes.
Boo 8 months ago
I knew about yawning can be contagious, but today I learned that reading about itches can also be contagious lol.
Wild Cream 8 months ago
Yep, try telling someone about being itchy and scratching an itch and how satisfying it is to scratch….and watch them scratch a phantom itch right in front of you 😂 accidentally just did it to myself right now
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Don't listen to me 8 months ago
But don't scratch back too hard or too long. It can make it worse!
Crissy Newbury 8 months ago
Sometimes it’s better not to scratch ie, insect bites. They can become infected.Resist the urge!
Binny Tutera 8 months ago
Women were taught ( YEARS ago) not to scratch in public. Ever seen Bogie and Bacall in The Big Sleep? She rubs her leg but it’s not working and his character tells her to go ahead and scratch.
Dave Hinckley 8 months ago
And after you scratch that itch, a smaller itch makes itself known, and so on.
#57
It’s called a coincidence because two events co-incide.
Kira Okah 8 months ago
No. Coincidence and coincide have the same Mediaeval Latin origin word (coincidere; "to fall upon together"), but took different routes into English. Coincidence slid through French "coincidence" and was introduced in the 17th century as "occurrence or existence during the same time.", likely through the writings of Thomas Browne. Coincide came through French too, but from "coïncider", in the 18th century with the meanings "be identical in substance or nature; occupy the same space; agree in position", with the "occur at the same time" of coincide meaning first appearing in the 19th century.
Wanda Peachtree 8 months ago
You're splitting hairs here. They're from the same root is the point
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#58
Fez wasn't his name. Its FES for foreign exchange student.
Richard Graham 8 months ago (edited)
He is referring to the character "FES" (played by Wilmer Valderrama) on "That 70's Show"
#59
The Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star are the same song. Took me WAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY too long to figure that out.
Owen 8 months ago
And they only have the same tune, if you are taught the alphabet in that tune. It's... not compulsory.
Load More Replies... Glen Ellyn 8 months ago
The same tune is also used for Baa Baa Black Sheep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FilphJkkT0
Shelley Keenan 8 months ago
Not anymore, they changed the alphabet song to make LMNOP more distinct.
#60
Life is easier if you relax, appreciate what you have and stop trying to control the world around you.
Owen 8 months ago
💯% this. Many times in my life people have been suprised at me for having low ambition. I'm relatively poor, have everything I *want* in life, and have no plan on having any kids. I'm also waaaaay happier in life than the majority of people that tell me I have to want more. No. I don't. They do. I worked hard, aimed low, and got where I'm happy to be. I'll just continue being my happy self. For some reason, this totally pisses some people off.
Ejteh 8 months ago
Reminds me of this: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days… Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me…So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling…” Aldous Huxley, Island, 1962
keyboardtek 8 months ago
And everyone wants to become a billionaire. At a certain point of wealth a human's mind becomes corrupted and diseased and they think they deserve to have everything.
#61
That my 67-year old mom dyes her hair and has been for years. I never questioned why her hair was red in my baby pictures but why she's blonde now. I'm like, "Well her hair just changed." Y'know, like how tons of people have their hair go from red to blonde!!
Serena Myers 8 months ago
Hair colour does change, though. I was born with dark hair, was blonde by the time I was 4 or 5, light brown in teens and adulthood, and now I look like a skunk with stripes of grey and silver!
Don't listen to me 8 months ago
Well lots & lots of kids change hair colour. Not so usual after adulthood. Then everyone goes grey.
Load More Replies... Crissy Newbury 8 months ago
Mine did. I was auburn, then kinda strawberry blonde and now age 72 my hair is totally blonde. Faded.
T'Mar of Vulcan 8 months ago
My mother started out with white-blonde hair and it was brown by the time she was 40. It never went grey, and she was 79 when she passed on.
#62
Pancakes are cakes cooked in a pan.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
::screams at the stock photo:: Get those forks away from that nonstick pan!!
#63
Paper comes from trees on tree farms. It didn't occur to me until I met someone in college who had grown up on one that trees were something that could be farmed - I honestly believed that they were cutting down trees in forests and jungles to make paper (and firewood, furniture, etc.) and that this was the cause of deforestation.
Ron Man 8 months ago
Tree farms aren't usually actual "farms" though. Christmas trees are on a farm type property. But large tree farms where you get paper and lumber are in the forest where they chop down old growth and plant new trees. We have hundreds of tree "farms" like this in the NW. They cycle through in 20 years. So the forest farm you plant today will be harvested in 20 years.
Austzn 8 months ago
Tree farms aren't as good as they sound. They are usually monocultures replacing natural growth forests that were cleared before. They are horrible environments for diverse life.
David 8 months ago
Austzn, They do tend to be same type of tree but they are not all bad. There are a couple near me. I forget if they are poplars or cottonwood (or alder) but they are a fast growing, local variety of tree. Raised for the pulp for paper. So though they are 'monoculture' they are not really changing much since they are a tree that is all over. I have all three of those on my property. And they are in the buffer lands near the local oil refineries so not a lot was happening on that land anyway. Not perfect, but IMO still better than cutting down more natural / diverse woods to make the paper. Also, because they are for profit there is incentive to pay attention to their health while growing each crop.
Load More Replies... Dave Hinckley 8 months ago
Yeah, they're grown to make paper, and then more trees get planted after harvest. Like carrots, or rutabaga.
Rick Seiden 8 months ago
Sometimes it is cutting down trees in a forest without regard to the impact.
Ron Man 8 months ago
This isn't actually true. It hasn't been true for decades.
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You need to check your tire pressure when the weather gets cold.
#65
You can buy individual bananas. I always thought you had to buy them in bunches.
I am 30 years old.
Wild Cream 8 months ago
When I was a teen I worked at a grocery store, and sometimes for lunch I would buy a sandwich and one single piece of fruit. It did always feel kind of like a crime for some reason 😂
#66
That waaay back in the day, we had this messenger thing called ICQ.
it actually means "I seek you".
young me's mind was a thoroughly blown.
#67
Ferrero Rocher have Nutella in them.
Wild Cream 8 months ago
I used to work at a fancy Italian pizza place. One of the deserts was a pizza dough stuffed with Nutella and bananas, folded over like a pizza pop and cooked. Then sliced and drizzled with chocolate sauce, caramel sauce, and whipped cream. Mmmm 😊
OneHappyPuppy 8 months ago (edited)
Doh, of course they do, it's the same company making them. Edit to add /s so I don't get steamrolled in the comments
#68
NABISCO = NAtional BIScuit COmpany.
I always thought it was just a funny name.
#69
Miles Prower A.K.A. Tails from Sonic is a pun on Miles per hour.
Sam Trudeau 8 months ago
I think one of the first times I knew about the character, it said "Miles 'Tails' Prower" so I knew fast
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#70
My fiancee gave me that, "wow I'm about to marry you" look when she made me realize Nilla wafers were VA-Nilla. I somehow missed that.
Crissy Newbury 8 months ago
They changed the name. When I was a kid in the 60s the were Vanilla Wafers.
#71
Chips ahoy is a play on words of the nautical term ships ahoy.
#72
Camcorder.
A CAMera reCORDER.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
Because the camera and the recorder used to be two separate things. TV news photographers had a camera on their shoulder and a U-Matic recorder on a shoulder strap. Everything was powered from a battery belt.
#73
I thought gunpoint and knifepoint were real places. I promised myself I'd never go near them since it seemed like everyone who went there got robbed. I was about 14 or 15 when it clicked.
Dorothea Lehmann 8 months ago
It's in an episode of Friends. One of the earlier seasons.
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In my mid-30s i learned i need to actively resist clinical depression.
i had thought it was cyclical and i needed to let it run its course.
upon learning this, i felt a lot of regret and shame for having wasted so much time wallowing.
Shelley Keenan 8 months ago
I let me Depression out every so often to play or She gets ornery.
Jorie 8 months ago
I have suffered from clinical depression my entire life, and I find that sometimes it's OK to ride along with it, but not for too long. It's critical to start looking at the glass as half full again. I agree, though, that it is continuous hard work. Do not fault yourself for wallowing...sometimes it is necessary.
Wild Cream 8 months ago
Yeah sometimes you get exhausted of constantly fighting. Just letting it ride for a day or two to catch your breath is sometimes necessary.
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I found out that a Perm is short for Permanent and not just a hair style but saying the type of hair style is Permament.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
Permanent wave is the full term. I made the mistake of getting one in the 80's. Wish I hadn't!
Mike F 8 months ago
My mom used to do those in our home (she was a licensed cosmetologist) and stink up the house for the whole weekend
Load More Replies... Don't listen to me 8 months ago
Not just a type. A 'Perm' is an actual patented chemical application to fix hair in a desired shape. Bit like the hardest hairspray you can think of & then some. I didn't think it was used much anymore, it's very damaging to hair.
Binny Tutera 8 months ago
Perms are back! Not as damaging and there are a lot of products out there that help keep them healthIER.
#76
Sitcom= Situational Comedy, felt like a d**n fool when I found out.
#77
I was probably in my 20s, but the fact that odd-numbered highways run North-South and Even-numbered highways run East-West.
Also, the numbers increase as you travel East and North, so San Diego has I-5 and I-8 running through it, and Boston has I-90 and I-95 running through it.
Ampersand (&) is from "and, per se, and". It used to be recited after Z in the alphabet.
David 8 months ago
OP is partially correct. In most places the odd/even part is true. But I-90 runs coast to coast (almost). On the western side, I-90 terminates into I-5 almost at Seattle.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
OP is correct about the Interstate highways. However, the US highways - which predate the Interstates - have the opposite polarity: low numbers are in the east and north, where high numbers are in the west and south. US 1 goes from Maine to Key West; US 101 goes along the west coast; US 20 goes from Boston to Oregon; US 90 goes from Florida to west Texas. And apologies to everyone else in the world for this being so US-specific.
Crissy Newbury 8 months ago
Tell me please why Americans say route- rhymes with scout - but It’s Route (root) 66?
Tim Douglass 8 months ago
Depends on where you are from. We have quite a few regional dialects in the US. (It's big. There are a lot of us)
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That Wednesday is called hump day because it’s the middle of the week, so you’re getting ‘over the hump’. I always thought it was a s*x thing.
#79
That mermaids were fictional.
It wasn't anything like "Well, everyone says they're not real but i think they are", it was more like nobody told me any different and i never really thought about it.
David 8 months ago
I have a relative who thinks they are real because of that stupid mockumentary put out by Discovery / Animal Planet. They thought "Mermaids: The Body Found" was factual.
Kim Shannon 8 months ago
Lol, I'm embarrassed to admit I watched that dumb documentary, although I knew they aren't real. AS FAR AS WE KNOW
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Crissy Newbury 8 months ago
Maybe they are real. I mean zillions of people believe there’s an invisible man in the sky that sees every thing you do and demands you worship him.
#81
I just found out two days ago that “lock/unlock” portion of car keys is called a fob.
#82
The under armor logo isn’t an x, but a u and an a.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
This is what they mean. Under-Armo...e0-png.jpg 
#83
I realized a year or two ago that laffy taffy was called laffy taffy because there were jokes on the wrapper. I'm 23 and laffy taffy was one of my favorite candies as a kid.
#84
That Eeyore was named for the sound a donkey makes. Someone pointed this out to me a while back; blew my mind.
Also, I only found out a couple years ago that "troll" refers to someone dangling bait on a hook in the ocean, waiting for a fish to come along and bite. I'd always thought it was because anyone who'd waste people's time with b******t was a monster, hence, "troll." (Because trolls, as opposed to vampires or weres or what have you, are stupid, ugly bastards rather than s**y or immortal.).
G A 8 months ago
No, that would be a trawl? A troll is a monster that hides from decent society. That IS the correct definition.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
No, trawling is done with a net. "Trolling" is actually a method of fishing - as OP describes it: with a baited hook on a line dragged behind a boat.
Load More Replies... Robert Trebor 8 months ago
A troll hangs out under a bridge to force people to pay to cross. That is why you have to pull up to the troll booth to pay the troll.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
'Oo would cross this bridge o' fate... and so on.
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The "L" of the Staples logo is a bent staple.
#86
Dallas Green of the band City and Colour. His name is both a city and a color.
I listened to him for years before it clicked.
Wild Cream 8 months ago
Omg this actually just hit me like yesterday 😂 I was driving by myself listening to some old City & Colour and was suddenly like “OH!”
#87
That I can just unzip my pants to relieve myself as opposed to also unbuttoning them.
Array Index Out of Bounds 8 months ago
I don’t wear button fly jeans because it makes it difficult to pee stealthily in public.
Kallen Kneeland 8 months ago
I think it depends on whether or not you can pull it out at that point . . . logistics.
Lost Panda 8 months ago
My wife was surprised when I explained that was what the slit in men's underwear is for.
#88
I know this one has been pointed out often, but the D in the Disney logo was not actually a G.
#89
Your job is NOT IMPORTANT.
T'Mar of Vulcan 8 months ago
I disagree. I've had many people come up to me over the years and tell me I was their favourite teacher and because of me they finally understood some concept that helped them in school/university/etc. Others have thanked me for bringing sandwiches for them when their parents couldn't afford to provide lunch. Don't tell me that's not important.
K Barnes 8 months ago
I'm also a teacher and think that my job and impact are pretty important. Lucky us to have a meaningful job. I can also think of hundreds of jobs that are critically important to society.
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Anthony Elmore 8 months ago
I find it a little funny that all but one of the comments took this as an insulting statement and not as a statement of putting your job before the rest of your life.
K Barnes 8 months ago
I didn't think of it that way and see your point! However, meant the other way, I still disagree because if you don't have a safety net and live pay check to pay check your job is super important. If you're wealthy/have a safety net and working to death then I get it.
Load More Replies... Wild Cream 8 months ago
My job isn’t important to the world in general. But it is important to my company. Without my work, about a hundred of my coworkers wouldn’t get paid as much, or would be out of a job. 😊 so it is an important job to me and to them.
#90
That the song, “Centerfield” by John Fogerty is about baseball… I had never really listened to the whole thing, and I always thought it was about flying coach in an airplane. 🤦♀️.
#91
When people say “the Midwest”, they really mean a region in the Eastern USA.
Ron Man 8 months ago
Yes you do, but you may not know it. The "Midwest" is a group of states around the Great Lakes. Chicago is in the "midwest". This region isn't anywhere near the western US or even in the middle of the country. It's what people in 19th Century NYC believed was west.
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Dave Hinckley 8 months ago
It's called Midwest because it was relative to the eastern part of the USA, which is where it started.
Ron Man 8 months ago
If you don't know, and by reading comments, people don't know... The "Midwest" is nowhere near the western US or the middle part of the country. It's an antiquated term from the 18th and 19th centuries coined by people in NYC who had no idea how far west the country actually went. Today, the region called the Midwest is really the western part of the eastern part of the country. It's a meaningless and inaccurate name that stuck.
HardBoiledBlonde 8 months ago
The Upper Midwest is the more slightly eastern part, think Michigan. The Midwest is in the lower middle, think Missouri.
Ron Man 8 months ago
No they don't. It's not even in the middle of the country. It was a bad name that stuck 200 years ago. The "midwest" is very firmly in the eastern part of the US.
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Pencil 8 months ago (edited)
"Essential oils" aren't "essential" for anything. They're highly concentrated extracts that retain the fundamental properties of whatever plant they're derived from and the oil has the *essence* of it. So "essential" only means "the essence of" it doesn't mean it's *necessary* in any way.
Binny Tutera 8 months ago
Actually, there are flower “essences” and they are purer and less dodgy than essential oils, many of which have ingredients that can cause reactions on skin.
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Stardust she/her 8 months ago
That no matter how hard I try, someone will always be better and that I’m just wasting my time
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
You are not wasting your time, because you are valued and loved by me! I've missed seeing your comments/talking with you - hope you are doing as well as you can be <3
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Chris the Bobcat 8 months ago
My mother (the one I noted called the big round hay bales 'tractor eggs') later told me that brown eggs come from brown chickens. Due to past experience,s I did not believe her.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
That reminds me of when I was a small child XD My mother used to insist that the word purple was pronounced "poi-pull". She would pronounce it that way as if it was normal to say it that way, and I would say "No, it's 'purr-pull'." She would then just keep pronouncing it incorrectly and laugh as I got more agitated. She probably thought it was hilarious, but at the time I thought I was losing my mind or that there was something wrong with me XD She also occasionally used to call me "Penelope" as if that was my actual name (it is not; my name is Crystal.) It wasn't like she was using it as a nickname, she would just occasionally... call me Penelope instead of Crystal in normal conversation. I seriously thought I was going crazy as a kid. Now that I'm an adult, I realize that what my mother did was actually pretty mean.
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Mimi M 8 months ago
Took me till full adulthood to realize that Kanga and Roo from Winnie the Pooh together make up 'Kangaroo'. Despite it being clear (from the illustrations) that they are, in fact, Kangaroos.
Dave Sturtz 8 months ago
But how did they come to be in an English wood, of 100 acres?
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Serena Myers 8 months ago
Something my Mum said when I was in my twenties. "I'm getting old, dear, people I remember as looking young are starting to look old" This morning I saw someone on the TV and thought, blurry 'eck, he's looking old, then remembered what Mum said all those years ago. All too true. Sorry kids, your time will come xx
Rick Seiden 8 months ago
A pair of pants is called a pair because the two legs of the pants used to be separate. This is also where the saying, "He puts his pants on one leg at a time like everyone else" comes from.
Forrest Grump 8 months ago
The medication name "Lasix" is a contraction of the words "lasts six" because the effect of a dose lasts six hours.
Pencil 8 months ago (edited)
"Essential oils" aren't "essential" for anything. They're highly concentrated extracts that retain the fundamental properties of whatever plant they're derived from and the oil has the *essence* of it. So "essential" only means "the essence of" it doesn't mean it's *necessary* in any way.
Binny Tutera 8 months ago
Actually, there are flower “essences” and they are purer and less dodgy than essential oils, many of which have ingredients that can cause reactions on skin.
Load More Replies... Stardust she/her 8 months ago
That no matter how hard I try, someone will always be better and that I’m just wasting my time
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
You are not wasting your time, because you are valued and loved by me! I've missed seeing your comments/talking with you - hope you are doing as well as you can be <3
Load More Replies... Chris the Bobcat 8 months ago
My mother (the one I noted called the big round hay bales 'tractor eggs') later told me that brown eggs come from brown chickens. Due to past experience,s I did not believe her.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
That reminds me of when I was a small child XD My mother used to insist that the word purple was pronounced "poi-pull". She would pronounce it that way as if it was normal to say it that way, and I would say "No, it's 'purr-pull'." She would then just keep pronouncing it incorrectly and laugh as I got more agitated. She probably thought it was hilarious, but at the time I thought I was losing my mind or that there was something wrong with me XD She also occasionally used to call me "Penelope" as if that was my actual name (it is not; my name is Crystal.) It wasn't like she was using it as a nickname, she would just occasionally... call me Penelope instead of Crystal in normal conversation. I seriously thought I was going crazy as a kid. Now that I'm an adult, I realize that what my mother did was actually pretty mean.
Load More Replies... Mimi M 8 months ago
Took me till full adulthood to realize that Kanga and Roo from Winnie the Pooh together make up 'Kangaroo'. Despite it being clear (from the illustrations) that they are, in fact, Kangaroos.
Dave Sturtz 8 months ago
But how did they come to be in an English wood, of 100 acres?
Load More Replies... Serena Myers 8 months ago
Something my Mum said when I was in my twenties. "I'm getting old, dear, people I remember as looking young are starting to look old" This morning I saw someone on the TV and thought, blurry 'eck, he's looking old, then remembered what Mum said all those years ago. All too true. Sorry kids, your time will come xx
Rick Seiden 8 months ago
A pair of pants is called a pair because the two legs of the pants used to be separate. This is also where the saying, "He puts his pants on one leg at a time like everyone else" comes from.
Forrest Grump 8 months ago
The medication name "Lasix" is a contraction of the words "lasts six" because the effect of a dose lasts six hours.
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