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It’s no big secret that knowledge is essential to humanity. I mean, just consider all the things we wouldn’t be aware of if people didn’t believe in lifelong learning!

Folks would still think that the Earth was flat and sat on the back of a giant turtle that was flying through space, half of us would’ve perished from hunger and deadly diseases, language wouldn’t have been a thing, and yadda yadda yadda. The point is, we’d have an empty planet.

Most will probably agree that the enthusiasm one has for learning new things fades away straight after schooling, which is somewhat understandable. You know, we get busy with work and whatnot. However, as the saying goes, “It’s never too late to learn,” so even if you’ve just discovered that ponies are not, in fact, little horses – just be glad that you did. 

What’s something you learned ‘embarrassingly late’ in life?” – this internet user turned to one of Reddit’s most enlightening and thought-provoking communities, inviting its members to unveil a couple of things that they happened to learn way too late in life. The now-viral thread managed to garner nearly 36K upvotes as well as 31.8K comments containing some pretty surprising answers. 

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#1

35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group This is something my little sister did through high school. We're about 8 years apart so we never overlapped in school. She's always been a straight-A student, and I found out she worked extra hard because she "wanted to catch up to me" in school. So we could be in school at the same time. I almost cried.

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Bi Frog
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now THAT is adorable and wholesome! :)

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    #2

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group While watching Game of Thrones, I asked my husband when dragons went extinct. He had to pause the show for that one.

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    Donkey boi
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They haven't gone extinct. I saw them a few years ago on Komodo Island!

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    #3

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group That Bonsai are not a species of tree, but a way to grow them. Any tree can be a bonsai.

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    Bi Frog
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    WAIT WHAT I thought Bonsai was a species of tree! You can do that with any tree? Why do they all look the same?

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    #4

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group I was like, 22? working at a restaurant making myself a salad, and I asked the chef for bumps and he stared at me for like, 60 solid seconds trying to figure out what I wanted. I explained to him I wanted bumps for my salad. I have all the rest of the toppings but now needed bumps. Guys … my family told me croutons were called bumps my entire life. I called my dad that night and confirmed that bumps are indeed, actually called croutons.

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    Unknown
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depending on the restaurant I'm surprised the cook didn't just pull some coke out no questions asked

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    #5

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group I live near the Hospital for Joint Diseases….when I was a kid I thought it was a special hospital for people who had two different diseases at the same time.

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    #6

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group I thought that horses had toes until I was 22. I thought the hoof was a “horseshoe” and the toes were tucked inside. How did I learn how wrong I was, you ask? I was walking past a cavalry museum and saw a horse statue and loudly remarked “it must hurt so bad when they fold a horse’s toes to put them into the shoe!” Dozens of horse enthusiasts turned and looked at me with wild bewilderment in their eyes.

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    glowworm2
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Early prehistoric horses had toes. When they evolved, the toes slowly started to disappear.

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    #7

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group I learned that pork and beans are not called "cowboy beans". I was 18 and asked a grocery store clerk to help me find the "cowboy beans". We were looking everywhere and I was getting frustrated because I know that every store carries these beans. After a while I pick up a pork and beans can with a picture and say "see, it looks just like this!" He says "you mean pork and beans?" Then I realize that my mom called them that so that I would eat them. The look of disappointment from that grocery store clerk haunts me to this day.

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    SuperChicken
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Isn't there a real recipe for Cowboy Beans, though?

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    #8

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group When I was ten years old, I considered orgasm to be a nice word for a fart. I told my mother that my stomach hurt from having so many orgasms.

    Asruhk , Scott Wilcoxson Report

    Paulo Freitas
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, i once got a few slaps from my mom from something similar, kid at school had made up a song ( we where 10 or 11 tops ) and it went like " A, E, I, O, U, VAIS LEVAR NO CU " it was a dumb rime, but ( a part from the voals) it means " you're gonna get it in the a*s " an me with all my Innocence thought it meant " you're gonna get spanked in the a*s " in sum, i sung it Next to my Mother, and got a few slaps, and later, much much later, i understood it meant " you're gonna get sodomized "

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    #9

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group When you're an adult...you shouldn't buy shoes that are "a little loose, incase you get taller".

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    Boii
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can always get heavier, something none of us was thinking about back when our parents got us new shoes.

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    #10

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group That you don't have to stand *in* the shower while the water warms up.

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    ᶜʰᵃᵒᵗⁱᶜ ˡᵉᵍᵃˡ
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm feeling personally attacked by this list. I just stood at the other end so I didn't get splashed

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    #11

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group I though Mick Jagger’s name was McJagger, and people just never said his first name for some reason.

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    #12

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group Jackalopes are mythical creatures. I was... 18 I think? To be fair, I've seen a platypus, rhino, and a giraffe. Those are some bs animals.

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    Donkey boi
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How can you say they are mythical, then provide clear photographic evidence of their existence?

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    #13

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group That pineapples grow on the ground, and not in a tree

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    LH25
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the baby ones are really cute

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    #14

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group You don't have to rip the plastic top off of your new deodorant with your teeth or pliers or anything. You can just turn the base until it comes up enough to just take it off.

    SanibelMan , cottonbro studio Report

    ᶜʰᵃᵒᵗⁱᶜ ˡᵉᵍᵃˡ
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I will become a statute for the next several seconds while I contemplate my stupidness

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    #15

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group Houston is not the name of the guy astronauts talk to

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    User# 6
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ow lord. That reminds me of the time I had a car break down whilst visiting the UK over 20 years ago. The AA dude that picked me up kept referring to this guy called 'Leon'. Leon said this, Leon said that, etc. I just sort of nodded, pretending I knew what he was talkind about. It wasn't till Ifinally got home two days later I realised he was talking about Lyon, the French city where my local breakdown service had their European headquarters...

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    #16

    I suspected it was the same with lots of people but I found out it wasn't gorilla warfare but guerrilla warfare maybe in my twenties. The disappoints of growing up... they just keep coming.

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    #17

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group I was probably 21 or 22 when I learned that whole milk is only 3% fat. I always thought it was 100, and when I saw reduced as being 2% I thought "why wouldn't they do 50% or somewhere in the middle?"

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    Dodo
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can console myself with the fact that I didn't know this because my country doesn't use the % to differentiate. But honestly I sort of thought it was 100% too

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    #18

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group Learned this yesterday, actually… apparently you need to RSVP to events even if you will not be attending.

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    Red Ruffensor
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My Ukrainian mom said it stood for Remember Send Vedding Present.

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    #19

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group My sister was in her 50's when she found out the meaning of: "you have an addictive personality". She thought after all these years of therapy that it meant that people were addicted to her personality. We laugh hysterically when we talk about this (in a very sad way).

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    Boii
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That would be very sweet if it wasn't so dark. Hope she is doing well <3

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    #20

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group Just this week I found out about the little button on the back of the socket driver that pushes the socket off. I have owned the same socket set for about 30 years, and I have a dedicated screwdriver that I keep with my sockets and use to pry them off when I’m done using them. I will be 55 years old soon.

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    zak
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hopefully you at least knew about the button/switch that changes the direction the socket spins, or did you have one socket wrench for tightening things and another one for loosening things? 😆

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    #21

    I was 19 when I learned that women have to give birth (or at least be pregnant) to have breast milk. I'd always thought that it's available at all times. I was a very sheltered kid. Don't judge me.

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    Boii
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's not too embarrassing, I see why one would think that. Especially without proper Sex Ed.

    Robin Roper
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Which almost everyone in the US has received - somehow there is the pervasive believe that learning how your body actually works will make teens interested in sex. In fact, by breathing, most teens are interested in sex. Keeping them poorly informed also helps them become interested in become unplanned parents.

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    Beck
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No one has commented on several of these. I will have to check comments later.

    the flame Demon
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    most of it is long sentences about how breast milk works

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    Nonesuch
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unfortunate females with pituitary gland tumors can have breast milk production outside of motherhood. Prolactin levels go haywire.

    StrangeOne
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, I have prolactinoma. It's a benign tumor in the pituitary gland. That gland is what release prolactin (Hence, lactation) during pregnancy, but also when you are preparing to nurse a child, regardless of being pregnant or not. Wet-nursing or cross-nursing is a thing. Men can get prolactinoma, too, and experience the same symptoms. Babies can also leak milk. It was once referred to as "witch's milk". I learned that in prenatal class.

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    TMoxraaar
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We don't pee out of our vaginas either.

    LK
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is inaccurate. Milk is not stored in breasts. It is produced in response to a baby suckling, or a breast pump mimicking suckling. Giving birth, or even being pregnant, isn't always required. Lactation can be induced. There are woman who have successfully breastfed adopted babies. It's unusual, and it needs a lot of dedication, but it can be done.

    Stargirl
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some of this is true, but I will challenge your "milk is not stored in the breasts." Any mother who has experienced engorgement can tell you otherwise. Milk is also produced in the breasts between feedings, but it is stored and then tiny muscles around the milk ducts tighten to move the milk out in response to baby suckling. Once the milk starts flowing (or jetting for some of us!) baby just has to swallow. It's called let down reflex and it is the weirdest feeling.

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    Matthew Fox
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not entirely accurate but it's not like it happens all the time.

    Illicit
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some Women make breast milk without being preggo.

    Felicia Dale
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did you know that some men can produce milk from their breasts?

    LJ Robinson
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A woman doesn't have to be pregnant to produce milk. It can happen naturally or be induced, if that's your thing.

    David
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually they don't. Pregnancy is by far the most common reason for women lactating but women (and even men) can lactate for other reasons. Google Galactorrhea. I've known at least two women who had issues with this, both related to medications / health issues outside of pregnancy. "Galactorrhea happens to around 20 to 25 percent of women"

    Leoninus Fate
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I {hate it since I am a gay man with a family of many females... so I, unfortunately, know} that some women can also get Pseudocyesis, or false pregnancy, and their bodies will start production for "milk" {andother effects such as weight gain and morning sickness} and there are many other reasons for them to start giving "milk" such as tumors, drugs, Herbal meds, and medicine

    Leoninus Fate
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    also to blow some minds since I don't see it noted, but Men can make milk too! its called male Galactorrhea, it happens when prolactin in the body is high when there are tumors and more

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    Cecilia Bragg
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    'Normally' you need this word for the discovery to be true. Some illnesses and mechanical stimulation (yes sucking... grow up) can induce a milk flow

    Okasan Willis
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can also happen with certain medications

    Marla Singer
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ever thought about how we get all that cow's milk? Yeah, it's cruel.

    Icecream Sarang
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fun fact: it can be triggered through other means.

    Kim Armand Nielsen
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It actually is! This is prooved by the existence of wet nurses! Cows have to give birth before lactating. Farmers trick is to keep milking hence keep the lactating in work. In natur stops the lactating once the calf starts feeding grass!

    Brigitta Iszkra
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not just human women, all female mammal, including cows

    Celtic Pirate Queen
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You know how many men I've met that thought women pee from their vaginas? (An embarrassing number). No guys, we have a urethra just like you do. It's just not part of our penis.

    Riley Quinn
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In many respects, rural farm kids are so much more worldly than suburbanites. Wait until this person finds out about wet nurses.

    Bron
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not exactly. You can stimulate milk production even if you’ve never been pregnant (women do if they’re adopting)

    David Paterson
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At what age did you learn that cows have to give birth or order to produce milk?

    Brian Droste
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Milk cow's can not produce milk until they get pregnant to produce milk for their calves.

    Agnes Jekyll
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I met two men, TWO--one 21, the other 28 who thought women could produce milk when they went through puberty.

    René Sauer
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always thought the same about cows. And I had Sex-ed. I just assumed cows were an exception to all other mammals

    Hobby Hopper
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Humans are the only animal I know of that have enlarged breasts even when they're not lactating (chime in if you know any others), so I can kinda see how you could make that mistake.

    Jo Walsh
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That applies to all lactating female mammals ( yes even the egg layers(platypus, echidna) )

    ThatBookGirl
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    From one sheltered kid to another. I am not judging you :)

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    #22

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group Until I was in school for environmental studies, I thought “mourning dove” was “morning dove.” I usually heard them calling in the mornings, so “morning” made sense to me.

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    Lil Miss Hobbit
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was today days old when I discovered this.🤣

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    #23

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group Coca and cocoa are two different plants, not one magical organism lol

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    Paulo Freitas
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yea mate, cocoa makes you feel warm ínside and happy, Coca makes you f*****g fly and search for ninjas in the backyard....

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    #24

    That Cheesecake Factory is a restaurant and not an assembly line of workers making cheesecake. I always envisioned you would go in there and watch them and eat a slice, sort of like a brewery. Edit: I’d like to add that I’ve lived in close proximity to multiple locations my entire life, and my sister used to go all the time with her friends. I thought they all just really liked the cheesecake, and the factory vibe of it all. It’s not until my now fiancé asked me to meet her and her friend there for drinks that I figured it all out, at about age 22-23 lol

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    SuperChicken
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Their cheesecakes are so rich, but so worth it.

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    #25

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group Birds have sex. I thought that the mother bird laid the egg and the father fertilised it later. I was 18 and asked my mother what the birds were doing…

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    Boii
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can only imagine your mum's amusement

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    #26

    I was taught it's fine to flush tampons down the toilet, and would even flush pads, and sponges when I'd clean the bathroom. I didn't learn that it was a *huge* no no until sometime in my mid to late 20's. I'm surprised the pipes at the house I grew up in weren't constantly exploding.

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    and_a_touch_of_the_’tism
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think a piece of my soul just died. Don’t flush *anything* other than TP and the product. Even ‘flushable’ wipes wreak havoc on your plumbing… as we discovered upon returning from sabbatical. The house sitter had flushed baby wipes down the toilet… cost about $300 to fix.

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    #27

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group the saying is: "Nip it in the bud" and not in fact *nip it in the butt*

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    glowworm2
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I knew exactly what the saying was thanks to Barney on the Andy Griffith Show.

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    #28

    Narwhals are real animals I thought they were mythical like unicorns.

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    TheNightOwl
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unicorns are real! I should know! I almost died getting this picture! Dz7kyKvXgAAF31A.jpg Dz7kyKvXgAAF31A.jpg

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    #29

    That in Billy Joel‘s hit song „We didn’t start the fire“ the line of „homeless vets“ meant homeless veterans and not homeless veterinarians. I was about twenty five before i put those pieces together, and always thought there was a big homeless veterinarian problem I had never heard about

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    Boii
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's fine, the homeless veterinarians appreciated your concerns very much!

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    #30

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group Not me but my mom: waiting for the shower to be warm BEFORE stepping in. She grew up with a bathtub most of her life, and didn't get a shower until she moved out of my grandparents' place in her 20s. She was apparently talking to a coworker about the winter weather one morning. While lamenting, she goes, "And don't you just HATE getting into a cold shower on these cold days?! It takes SO LONG for the water to get warm!" Coworker: "Uh... Cheryl.... You know you can just WAIT until the water gets warm, THEN hop in...."

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    ThatG
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Surprised Pika-Cheryl-chu face…

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    #31

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group I thought that ‘prima donna' was 'pre-Madonna' and that it meant everything before the singer Madonna and just assumed she was some kind of universal queen.

    vienna_versailles , Madonna Report

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    #32

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group I was maybe 17 or 18 before learning that it was Timbuktu, not Timbuk 2. I thought there was an original Timbuk out there somewhere

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    Sam Juan
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be fair, there's a company called Timbuk2 that manufactures and sells really great messenger bags and knapsacks.

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    #33

    The "D" in the Disney logo was a stylized capital letter and not a backwards G.

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    #34

    That I was in fact NOT missing a testicle. Thought there was supposed to be 3 until I was like 14 years old.

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    zak
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *speaking into a microphone* "Testes, testes. One, two... three?"

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    #35

    When people say quote unquote I thought they were saying quote on quote

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    Juliette the Fox
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait… i actually thought thought it was quote on quote until this post

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    #36

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group I didn’t know I was circumcised until I was ~15 or 16. I was arguing with a girl online. I thought the head was the foreskin and that circumcision cut the actual head of the penis off.

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    Boii
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Again, it's sad that a 15/16-year-old boy doesn't know about that kind of stuff. Sex Ed is important and prevents many bad things!

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    #37

    Why I was really young my sister told me she threw her guts up. So I was really afraid of vomiting my entire insides up for years.

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    Jake B
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can just stuff them back in. It’ll be fine.

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    #38

    That Jacques Cousteau was a real person. I always just thought he was a fictional character like Sherlock Holmes until I was in my 30s.

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    #39

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group That the porta potty doesn’t somehow know when someone’s inside. That the sign only changes to “occupied” when you physically lock the door. Many people walked in on me during my childhood. EDIT: I was dragged to many outdoor craft fairs and whatnot as a child. So I had to use them more often than most other children.

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    bottomless.abyss.of.bordem
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was a teenager, I worked shoveling sugar beets. Only girl on site. Only a port a potty. Of course, massive periods on work days. SO embarrassing. I just kept wadding up more TP and trying to aim it towards the pads. Then we ran out of TP, something else to blame the rib for. Even if it was technically my fault.

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    #40

    Let me tell you about how I thought you were awarded a "Pullet Surprise"

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    zak
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Anyone else misread that as "Pullout Surprise", or am I the only one with a dirty mind 😅

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    #41

    I thought ponies were just baby horses until the age of 23. EDIT: Until I was 23, I didn’t think horses aged like turtles. I’m dumb, but not *that* dumb.

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    Sam Juan
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As soon as they turn 23, ponies become full grown, adult horses.

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    #42

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group A few months ago 2 of my colleagues both handed in their notice at around the same time. I kept reading/hearing the sentence ‘they’re both moving on to pastures new’ being thrown about the office in the weeks leading up to them leaving and I hadn’t heard this phrase before and thought that was the name of the rival company that they were going to. I thought it was weird that nobody was talking about how they were both leaving for the same company. I was in the car with one of the ones who was leaving and said ‘so where is that you and X are going to be working? Is it..’ and just before I could embarrass myself and say ‘pastures new’, they interrupted me and said they’re not going to the same place and asked me where I had heard that. I think at that moment I realised I was stupid and didn’t mention it again.

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    wyngerd
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't get it, "pastures new"? Help english is my fourth language and I am not advanced enough to get it.

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    #43

    35 Lessons People Admit They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Group That a coma was "A" coma. Until I was probably 19~ I thought it was acoma. I thought you fell into acoma.

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    #44

    My parents were divorced the whole time and my mom was not, in fact, taking a vacation lmao

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    #45

    In the last year I found out peanut butter is brown. I’m 34. And horrendously colourblind, if that wasn’t obvious.

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    TheNightOwl
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Come on, how were you supposed to know that? “I mean, could you really like someone with curly red hair?” “And what’s wrong with curly red hair?” “What’s your problem, Invisible Man?” “I have curly red hair!” “Well how was I supposed to know that?”

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