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From little things to life-changing facts, we learn things every day. So no wonder our series of Today I Learned posts is one of the favorites among our readers. Scroll through mind-expanding facts here, here and here, and make your day well spent.

But this time we’re talking about things that people learned way too late. Think of the fact that birds don't live in nests. “I learned that at the age of 72,” wrote one Redditor in response to someone asking “What fact did you learn at an embarrassingly late age?” And this is just the beginning.

Scroll down to see some more of the funny, yet all too real responses in the thread and make sure to add your ‘embarrassingly late-learned facts’ in the comment section below!

#1

I was 23 on a trip with my girlfriend in San Francisco. We were both getting ready for the day in the bathroom and I needed my hair gel, so I asked if she could hand me my toilet treat bag. She seemed confused, I again asked, "Can you please hand me my bag of toilet treats!?" She ran out of the bathroom laughing.
I thought toiletries was toilet treats.

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#2

People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers That birds don't live in nests. Just for rearing their young. I learned that at the age of 72. And I have a PhD in biophysics. Not zoology. Never too late to learn.

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#3

People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers For most of my life I assumed Neil Armstrong was a black man, because I'd never seen Neil outside the space suit, but I had seen Louis Armstrong. It never occurred to me that there would be anything unusual about a black astronaut in the 60s.

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

I love how children initially never know about racism and do not understand the concept of being excluded because of colour. I wish everyone would grow up without learning how to judge each other and exclude.

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People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers Until the age of 14, I thought Princess Diana was a famous marine biologist. They always called her "The Princess of WALES" so.....

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#5

I learned that I grew up in a white-trashy family around 10 through television. One night, I was watching tv and Jeff Foxworthy came on. I was a very content only child who to the best of my knowledge got everything they ever wanted and had no idea about things could/needed to be otherwise. Well, ole Jeff was well into his skit and I was avidly listening. "If you watch TV on a TV that sits on top of a broken TV, you might be a redneck." Wait, what? I'm watching tv sitting on top of a broken TV. "If you have a broken down car sitting in your front yard that hasn't been moved in years, you might be a Redneck." We have 5 of those, wth this isn't normal? "If you have appliances in your yard... If you've got shacks in your yard... If you live in a trailer next to a house... If... Etc... You might be a redneck." I looked around and painfully realized that I was living all of those things. So, that was the day I found out I was a redneck.

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#6

That the little piggy who went to market wasn't going shopping for groceries. Last year it hit me. I'm 28.

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

Oh. This is embarrassing. I thought that too until like, right now.

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PossumMom
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm 38 years old and you just ruined my life. What a sad, sad day

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Aski Markup
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

😲 I do not know this. Wow, that took a dark turn.

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Robert T
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And as you get older, you will also start to go wee wee wee all the way home!

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

well shoot...so this little piggy went to market = slaughter. This little piggy stayed home = safe for now. this little piggy had roast beef = fattening it up. this little piggy had none = too small still. this little piggy cried wee wee wee = crying from fear. I am traumatized now

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John Montgomery
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean considering ring around the rosie was actually about a disease, I can't say I'm surprised.

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

Wait... What is "this little piggy had roast beef"?????? AAAAAAAAA

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Becky Samuel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pigs were fattened on table scraps. The pig that you were fattening for market would get the best and fattiest parts to increase its value.

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

Nope nope nope nope nope. That little piggy went grocery shopping and nothing else!

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

Lmao yes, I'm continuing the delusion as well. Glad I'm not the only one who can't accept this

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

Oh! Never thought about it in truth, but now you've said it....it's quite sad really. Oh yeah I'm 67!

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

and the smallest (pinkie) is probably the piglet being picked up to fatten up for future markets

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

For my grandchildren, I updated it to "This little piggy went to Target and this little piggy had ice cream instead of roast beef."

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

Had to look it up because why else would he go to market? Answer: every artists rendering shows a pig getting ready to go grocery shopping.

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

The artist didn’t want to upset your tender sensibilities to the reality of the situation.

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

Farm kid here. We knew since age forever. And it realllllly makes that little piggy thing creepy.

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

Wait a second, the whole thing is "This little piggy went to the market, This little piggy stayed home, This little piggy had roast beef, This little piggy had none, And this little piggy cried wee wee wee all the way home." If a piggy had roast beef, then someone had to go buy the roast beef. The piggy went to the grocery store and bought it. Sorry, but I still do NOT believe the piggy was butchered.

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

Someone Tweeted a more accurate translation: "This little piggy was sold to the slaughterhouse, this little piggy's turn will come, this little piggy was forced to eat his cow friend to get fattened up, this little piggy starved, and this little piggy screamed in terror all the way home to await his fate."

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

One of those little pigs was eating roast beef, so all sorts was going down that day

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Mark Berry
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always thought the other little piggy got his roast beef at the market.

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Hollysmom
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had the same realization about "pop" goes the weasel. I'm 61

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Jill Hester
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just was told that a couple months ago! I just turned 52!! Shocking!!!

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Jaguarundi
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm a farm kid. Sadly, I knew that factoid my entire life and corrected a non-farm kid who was saying the rhyme. The screams were legendary.

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Joy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait...I'm reading the comments trying to figure out why everyone was so alarmed. Just got it 🥴

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

I grew up on a farm in the UK. I knew what going to market meant (we also didn't tend to say market for shopping).

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

No. No no no. YOU got it wrong D:. I'm literally eating a pork sausage sandwich right now, but NO :D.

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

nnnoooOOOOOOO!!! SERIOUSLY!?? THAT’S WHAT IT MEANT????? Oh noooooo

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

Um...I was today years old when I learned this. I'm 46.

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

What?!?! What do you mean he wasn't shopping for groceries???

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, they were definitely shopping for soap, which is not a grocery

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

Do we need to take closer look at all our childhood nursery rhymes? Don't think we should, but maybe we need to!!

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

Never knew the real story behind all the piggies and I’m 74!

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steven
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

wait until you find out what "ring a rosie" is all about

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

wait......what??? he's not shopping??? I thought he was going to get the roast beef for the other piggy who had none......OMG NOOOOOOOO (i'm 66)

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

Pigs are as smart and social as dogs so next time you eat pork please be sure you are equally fine eating your dog.

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

But the illustrations in childrens' books show the piggy carrying a shopping basket, so we've been deceived all these years!

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

I wasn't too old when I realized it, but def sad about the realization lol

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

A lot of people dont know this. I knew it early though😐

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

At least you didn’t know that when they were young enough to be upset that the little piggy became bacon

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

oh my gosh, never occurred to me me until now and I’m 45 😅

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Allison Bozell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm 37. Also had no idea, till now, seems like most of us had no idea! Lol! smh

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

My uncle was really gullible when he was little and my mom convinced him that Humpty Dumpty was a grape and he wouldn't believe anyone that told him otherwise.

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

WHAT? Oh no! My life is a lie! WHY ARE ALL THE NURSERY RHYMES SO DARK?

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

Wait. So he went to the market to get slaughtered and eaten?!?!

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Susan Bosse
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I literally just figured that out this year and I'm 52. I'm a college graduate.

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

I never really thought about it till now and I'm JUST realising. Ohhhh not to shop!!! I'm 62

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

Yes he was, he bought roast beef for the other little piggy.

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

Oh noooooooooooooo. I’m 45 and this did not occur to me. I’ve also been a vegetarian for 30 years-so now I am completely devastated to boot.

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

Oh noooooooooooo. I’m 45 and didn’t see it. I’ve also been a vegetarian for 30 years so now I’m also devastated.

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

For some reason this isn't showing up for me? What does it say? Thanks ahead of time.

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

I take my smallest pig with me to my stand at farmers market. I joked with the other vendors that this is the only way I'd ever be taking a pig to market.

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

Probably due to my tendency back then to take things in the most literal and practical fashion, I figured that one out at a very young age. It never occurred to me that anyone would interpret it whimsically instead!

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

Yeah, because it's well know that it's an accurate nursery rhyme, just like the piggy that had roast beef...

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

Pigs eat meat as well as a wide range of other foods they would forage for. The farmers gave the scraps to the pigs including beef.

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#7

People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers My dad would tell me bulls**t things to mess with me as a kid. Usually he would remember eventually to correct it. Sometimes, however, he forgot.

I went through the first 17 years of my life thinking an artichoke was a nocturnal rodent. Went to Italian restaurant and was horrified to see artichoke hearts on the menu. My girlfriend still gives me s**t for it three years later.

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

in our house it was "wild rutabagas"...mom and dad used to go out at night and catch them.

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People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers I was watching Titanic with some friends. When it comes to the part where - spoiler alert - the ship starts sinking and the old couple are in bed together, my friend, let's call her Amy, goes "why don't they just go to sleep?".

There's a pause as everyone looks baffled before Amy explains that you don't breathe while you're asleep so you can't drown.

Amy was 21 and in university.

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#9

People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers It's called "metal" because it's harder than rock.

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#10

I thought morning sickness was just that, feeling sick before noon. One Christmas I announced to my entire extended family that I had morning sickness. I was probably 9 or 10. I'm also a guy.

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People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers I re-named a goldfish "rainbow" when I was 7 because it kept changing color every few months. I told friends about this fish for years like it was some mystical kaleidoscope fish. It hit me in the face a couple months ago that the fish wasn't changing color...my parents were just replacing it when it died without telling me.

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

Goldfish have a lifespan of 10-15 years. Means their fish kept dying every few months, probably because it wasn't taken care of correctly.

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People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers I always thought that you had to legally be 16 to have coffee. Soon after my 16th birthday I went to the nearest coffee store and ordered one. I was sweating and hoping they wouldn't ask for id, because I didn't have any.

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#13

When I was a young boy I had a black football coach (I'm white).

I asked him, "hey coach, do black people get hotter in the sun than white people"

And he responded "well I dono I've never been white"

And then it hit me. "Ohhhhhh"

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People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers I used to think that when listening to a CD the singer had to physically sing it from wherever they were in the world in order for you to listen

So when it was night time I wouldn't listen to my Avril Lavigne CD because I didn't want her to lose sleep for me

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#15

When I first started to grow boobs I thought I had breast cancer, but I was too embarrassed to ask anyone so I just accepted my death.

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

That's sad! (And I don't mean that the author was a sad person, but that it's sad nobody taught het beter before then!)

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#16

People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers That green, red, and yellow bell peppers are all the same pepper at different stages of life.

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#17

People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers Thought reindeer were mythical creatures, like unicorns, that helped Santa at Christmas. Didn't realise until I was 18. My mum took me to see real reindeer that Christmas, my mind was blown

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

A lot of people had this realization with Narwhals....which is fair because if horses with horns don't exist why would whales with horns be real?

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#18

My parents had me convinced that when the ice cream truck played music, it was out of ice cream. I didn't know differently until I was almost 18.

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#19

People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers Pickles come from cucumbers

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Somehow the conversation of superhero names came up with my girlfriend (29) the other day, and she mentioned Wolverine being named after wolves. I kinda looked at her and said "Wolverine was named after wolverines." She stared back blankly. One google images search later and I had taught a biology major about a new animal.

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

I also did not know that there is an animal called wolverine. But then again, English is not my first language. In German that thing is called Vielfraß which literally means "eats a lot"

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#21

I didn't learn the difference between miner and minor until I was like, 12. My dad was a miner and I used to freak out about him smoking or drinking because I thought it was prohibited to miners.

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

Smoking is. Smoking in a mine is very dangerous. Drinking could be dangerous too.

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#22

People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers A week ago I finally made the connection that the hood is short for the neighborhood. I'm 23.

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#23

People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers Just talked to a coworker the other day who didn't know his name was Jason until 3rd grade. His initials were JT and his family called him by that and so he thought that was his name.

During roll call in class the teacher was asking for a "Jason" and he just sat there thinking "some sucker is late for class". Then the name JT was never called and confusion ensued.

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

This one always boggles my mind. If you're going to call your kid JT, why not just make that their official name? Why name your kid James if you're gonna call them Jim....why name them William if you're gonna stick to Bill? It's just something that never quite clicked for me.

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People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers One time in 7th grade science, my class was having a discussion about volcanoes and then out of nowhere, a kid in the back yelled in the most surprised voice ever "wait! Volcanoes are real!?"

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

I rode up the side of a volcano on a camel when I was kid. And a guy set fire to a bush by poking it in the ground. Volcanoes are cool. :D

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#25

I thought lingerie was a fancy word for laundry for way longer than i care to admit. Explains why my mates gave me a weird look when I told them I had to fold my lingerie

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#26

People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers I was convinced cheese grew on bushes till 12-13 years old. My brother is really proud of this.

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

In the UK we had the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax

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People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers I thought it was "war war I" and "war war II" instead of "world war". everyone always just said it like "war war" because Texas.

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People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers I thought cats were a breed of dog until I was about 15.

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#29

i thought that when people lose a body part their organism could regenerate the missing part until i was 13+-. if i saw someone with a half of an arm missing i thought "good s**t, his arm is almost complete"

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

My dear old dad, God rest his mischievous, conniving soul, once told me that actors who are portraying an amputee actually had to have the limb/appendage amputated for the film. This was back in the eighties before CGI was a thing. I believed him. For YEARS.

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It's "For all intents and purposes"

Not "For all intensive purposes"

Learned at age 30.

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#31

There actually ARE carrots in carrot cake. I assumed it was a joke because it's orange and we were all in on it.

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#32

People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers I just learned a few months ago that lightning does not happen when two clouds touch each other. That was a very sad, and very disappointing day.

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#33

People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers I only learned this year that ponies aren't just baby horses.

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#34

I don't know if the realization I've had when I was around 6 years old is something that everyone experiences, but I was completely blown away when my great-grandmother told me that she wasn't always old and was, in fact, a kid once, and so was everyone else. That was the day I learned about the process of aging.

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

I got beat with a wooden spoon by my grandma for asking her what type of dinosaur she rode to school everyday cause I assumed she had walked the earth with the dinosaurs since she was so old... I too never thought she was young. Lol and apparently immortal.

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People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers What lesbians are. I thought they were from Romania. I was 17.

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

Why Romania? Greece, ok, there is the island of Lesbos where the term lesbians actually comes from. But Romania?

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People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers Ray-Bans are called that because they "Ban" the suns rays from entering your eyes.

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People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers I thought the Amish were like an old timey group of actors who were just really into it until I was about 18, revealed that, and was promptly made fun of because they in fact are a functioning society who actually live that way, not actors.

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People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers A few weeks ago I learned that hens lay infertile eggs so roosters aren't necessary. I'm 21.

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When I was 18 I learned that the thing on the bottom of your rear view mirror was used to dim lights from cars behind you at night. I was complaining about a car behind me and my buddy in the Army told me to flip the mirror thing. Mind Blown.

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People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers I thought that all dogs were male and all cats were female for the longest time.

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

I read that so many times already, and it really baffles me. Why? How? What is the thought process?

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When I was cleaning my last apartment the day before moving out, I ran out of paper towels cleaning counter tops. I thought I couldn't continue without going to the store for more, until over the phone, my mother asked why I didn't just use a towel.

Paper towels and towels can serve the same function.. I am 30.

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That girls had nipples. Until I was 13 I thought it was all smooth. That changed when I went to NYC with my parents and saw a lady protesting equal rights with no shirt on. It was quite an experience.

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As a kid I loved Mr. Bean. My mom took a trip to England to visit relatives and came back with an autographed postcard from him, I didn't realize until my twenties that it was in her handwriting. :/

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

I love mr Bean too. His skit in the church is without a doubt the funniest thing I’ve ever seen on tv. (Saying that cos my husband and daughter have both done some pretty stupid, funny things).

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People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers That you only get milk from cows who have recently given birth. I was told by my father that cows produce milk be eating grass and I continued to believe it until I was in my early twenties

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

cow has to be milked regularly so that her body would produce a milk all the time, as well to maintain production it is giving birth regularly. Nowadays breeds of cows giving way more milk than her infant is able to consume. That is why it needs to be milked twice a day (thats for old style milking), otherwise cow is in pain/discomfort.

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People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers When I was a young kid I thought attractive people and celebrities didn't have toes. I thought their feet were perfect like the feet of a Barbie. I wanted to be famous so I could have feet like a Barbie, I thought toes were gross.

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People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers That a blanket doesn't provide it's own heat. Yes, it genuinely took me a while.

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People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers You know the towel hats the woman wear after taking a shower? It took me much longer than I'm willing to admit to realise that their hair is in the towel.

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

I'm very curious why they thought we wear the towel hats if they didn't know about the hair

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People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers Chocolate milk doesn't come from chocolate cows. I thought there were chocolate cows until I was a college senior.

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

You grew up buying premade grocery store chocolate milk, didn't you, and not mixing powder or syrup into regular milk.

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People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers I thought I was allergic to cactus because they hurt me when I touched them, didn't find out that cactus have thorns until I was 12

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People Are Sharing Things They've Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers That there are literally different seasons in different places in the world. I always thought about it as of a fact that I mislearned but it turned out to be true about a year ago. I'm 23.

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

I love that we have the long school holidays, daylight savings and Christmas in summer.

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