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People Are Sharing Things They’ve Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life, And Here Are The 50 Best Answers
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!
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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.
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.
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.
Until the age of 14, I thought Princess Diana was a famous marine biologist. They always called her "The Princess of WALES" so.....
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.
That the little piggy who went to market wasn't going shopping for groceries. Last year it hit me. I'm 28.
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.
in our house it was "wild rutabagas"...mom and dad used to go out at night and catch them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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"
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
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.
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!)
That green, red, and yellow bell peppers are all the same pepper at different stages of life.
Yeah kind of. Green peppers turn into the other colors eventually, but they don't go through all the color stages. Some are meant to be red or yellow. They get sweeter the riper they get too. Sometimes you can also find them in white and purple.
Load More Replies...it is not????! from green it turns to its breed colour. Yes i seen those articles that state its the same pepper, but no, its not... Some pepper varieties stay green, even when they're fully ripe, and can be enjoyed this way. Others might turn yellow, orange or other colors when ripe. For example, the chocolate bell pepper starts out green and ripens to a dark brown color
Yeah. No. It's only partly true. Unripe peppera are green, but all the fancy colors are produced from different strains of plant.
Load More Replies...Probably will be downgraded, but the lowdown on peppers is all start as green. Some of them change colors when ripened, but a couple of varieties remain green even when ripe. So, you never know if a green pepper is ripe or not, but other colors prove they are now ripe. Same for tomatoes. Some varieties stay green, while others turn orange, yellow or (most commonly) red. Hope that helps a couple of people.
As someone who is anaphylaxis allergic to bell peppers... the amount of cooks and waiters in restaurants I have to explain this to IS TO DAMN HIGH! >:(
This is also why the colored ones cost more. They have to stay on the plant longer. If picking them green, the farmers can usually get more than one crop per year.
That is true, Green peppers are unripe. If they were left on the plant they would change color.
It's not 100% false. There's a partial truth to this.
Load More Replies...Are you saying they are or they you thought they were and they are not? Because they definitely are not.
Are you saying they are or you thought they were? Because they are not.
I'm genuinely surprised by how hard it is to find loose green bell peppers here in the UK. I frequently see them wrapped in cellophane as one green, one yellow (or orange), and one red, so I have to buy them as a three-pack with the two colors I neither need nor want, but finding loose green peppers where I can just buy one at a time is damn near impossible here in the UK. I can find loose red peppers all over the place, but green, not so much.
Many Latinos incorrectly believe this about lemons and limes as well, that limes are just unripe lemons because in Spanish we very often simply call them "green lemons" (limón verde) - They are, in fact, two different things.
really - WOW. Since red ones are the sweetest I assume those are the oldest?
My brother has discovered that he's sensitive to certain chemicals that are present only in the orange state. None of the others upset his stomach.
They're just like traffic signals: 1. Green, Go, good to eat. 2.Yellow/orange, wait for them, they're sweeter 3. Red, sweetest, Stop and pick them.
And the green ones are the cheapest and the red ones the most expensive....makes no sense to me at all as it's the same freaking thing. It all tastes the same, too.
Wait a minute. I’ve seen green, green peppers when I was a kid, in my 30’s, and now as an old man. I saw one yesterday!
No. The green one might be unripe red, yellew or orange, but a yellow won't turn to red.
Another trivia I just learned from Bored Panda, after the bird nest one.
Yes! Annoys me when people say "green peppers" meaning bell peppers, it's also why they taste different!
As fire bug points out Green peppers are technically underripe peppers but they do not go through each of the other colours. Green peppers turn in to either Red, Yellow or Orange peppers when ripe. Same for Tomatoes and Chillies, being closely related to peppers.
Funny how the only person that knows is downvoted. And even funnier how some websites repeat the same mistakes. One addition to that and one questions: some breeds are naturally green and yellow, though. But what about the purple ones? They must come from green, right?
Load More Replies...They are each a different strain of pepper, but they do change from green to their respective color as they ripen.
This is not correct. Bell peppers do change colors as they grow, but that's not what you're getting at the grocery store. Source, I've grown different varieties of peppers for years and also. https://pepperjoe.com/products/yellow-bell-pepper-seeds?gclid=CjwKCAjw-sqKBhBjEiwAVaQ9azpCbjjLXOK47Q9NNdb_L-4ao6Dn0GdD4YTLCflJjKfeoV1anHIu2xoC2nAQAvD_BwE
Wait is this not right? I thought it is. Green: not yet ripe. Yellow: more ripe: Red: At it's ripest. I actually thought they were different peppers, but just last week someone pointed out to me that "nope they're the same thing, just in different stages of ripeness" I'm so confused.
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
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.
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.
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.
A week ago I finally made the connection that the hood is short for the neighborhood. I'm 23.
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.
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.
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!?"
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
I was convinced cheese grew on bushes till 12-13 years old. My brother is really proud of this.
In the UK we had the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax
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.
I thought cats were a breed of dog until I was about 15.
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"
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.
It's "For all intents and purposes"
Not "For all intensive purposes"
Learned at age 30.
There actually ARE carrots in carrot cake. I assumed it was a joke because it's orange and we were all in on it.
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.
I only learned this year that ponies aren't just baby horses.
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.
What lesbians are. I thought they were from Romania. I was 17.
Ray-Bans are called that because they "Ban" the suns rays from entering your eyes.
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.
A few weeks ago I learned that hens lay infertile eggs so roosters aren't necessary. I'm 21.
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.
I thought that all dogs were male and all cats were female for the longest time.
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.
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.
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. :/
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
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.
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.
That a blanket doesn't provide it's own heat. Yes, it genuinely took me a while.
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.
Chocolate milk doesn't come from chocolate cows. I thought there were chocolate cows until I was a college senior.
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
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.
I love that we have the long school holidays, daylight savings and Christmas in summer.
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Just a couple years ago it dawned on me that Eminem = Marshall Mathers = M. M. = M&M = Eminem
See, and I thought it was because he was chocolate on the inside. (Only joking.)
Load More Replies...I wondered as a kid why we couldn't just print more money and make everyone millionaires. Appreciate my mum trying to explain inflation to a 5 year old.
And I’m sure you’re smart as hell now. The main thing I’ve taught my kids is be curious. If you’re curious your whole life you never stop learning.
Load More Replies...I was like 35 when I realized the reason why police dogs are called K-9 is that they are canine. English is not my first language, but still, I am not proud of that one.
Ask a person from Q8 what they think about that ...
Load More Replies...When I was little my older cousin told me that clouds don't move, they look like they're moving because earth is rotating. Also I asked my gran why they don't show other countries on the weather forecast on TV and she said it's because other countries don't have TVs. I believed both for many years until I went to school and was laughed at when I shared my "valuable knowledge". Don't lie to your kids when they ask questions just because you think it's easier than explaining the real answer.
In kindergarten I asked my Father how islands stay in the same place without floating away. He said “giant bolts” My first grade teacher thought I was crazy when I was telling other kids this.
Ok, I'll tell one on myself. In my early 20's (1974-ish), I'd just gone on the road with a disco band and one of our first gigs was playing a rather nice hotel club in Texas. Back in the day we got half off hotel restaurant food, so I was in the main dining room before work one night with another band member and wanting to sound like a well-traveled man of the world, I ordered the chicken... medium-rare. The waiter politely informed me that chicken wasn't generally served rare before taking my order.
When I was very little, at the start of Star Trek "Space, the final frontier" - Wo has a front ear? Why is it the last one? Is it something to do with Mr Spocks pointy ears?
My fiance, 27, believed until last year that butter was made from corn instead of milk. I'll annoy him with this little mistake for all eternity.
If it is European butter then it is milk. If it is American then you never know. Americans are substituting everything with corn, pretty sure there is a brand of butter which contains corn in it just because they can ^^
Load More Replies...Listening to Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix, I always thought he said "'scuse me, while I kiss this guy"
"Banoffee" means banana and toffee - I thought it was some Italian word until I was well over 30.
I thought it was banana and coffee lol. I stayed away from anything banoffee coz I despise coffee. Well now I'll give it a try.
Load More Replies...near by my home there is nunnery and monastery with several kilometers distance between them. When I was young I heard a story about a secret tunnel between them. While I was in the church of the nunnery with my granny and my mother to light some candles it hit me: The secret tunnel was there as an easy solution to meet even if it was bad weather. And the reason why there is a baptismal font in the church who is run by women who are not allowed to mary and become a mother with "normal" men was that it was used to baptism the children of the nuns and monks. As they weren't allowed to mary either. It was absolutely logical for me. My Granny and my Ma dragged me out of the church laughing, because there were several nuns praying while I told my wise thougts who weren't very amused about it. :-)
Until a few years ago, I thought milk was a liquid in its own right. I didn't realise that milk is approx. 88% water. I'm 52.
Canyou please explain this? Milk is a liquid, why do you say it's not? Apple juice is mostly water, also, as are many liquids, including alcohols. I don' t understand whst exactly you mean.
Load More Replies...I enjoy to read each and every one of this post and comments. I've learned sooooo many new things.
I am a city boy born & raised. My friend & co-worker still lives on the farm he was born on 50 years ago. He prides himself on his outdoor skills & will pontificate about some country-related thing to me, the ignorant city slicker. A couple of years ago he set up a wildlife camera & started posting pictures of the various critters it was capturing. One picture had the caption “I don’t know what these critters are”. I knew what they were. They were voles. Photographed on the farm he’s lived on his whole life. He’s still trying to live that one down. Whenever I want to razz him I just say “Voles”.
When I was 11 I learned that nuns could eat popsicles AND! Drive cars! I was shocked when I found that they could do everything everyone else does.
Until recently I thought when butterflies flew together they were saying hello to each other. My husband pointed out that they're actually trying to mate. I'm 54. In my head they'll always be saying hello !!
When I was littleeeee I thought Mitsubishi was "Mrs. Bitchy" Parents let it happen because they got a kick out of it
People that start a sentence with the words “no offence..” and then continue to offend someone, had bad parents that didn’t care about that their kid was an asxhole…No offence though..
Load More Replies...When I was little, my older brother told me that the reason homeless people have dogs is so they can eat the dogs when they get hungry. After that, I was heartbroken everytime I walked by a homeless dog :(
I'm 37 and learned maybe couple of months ago that Dalai Lama is not his name but his title. I seriously thought his first name was Dalai and his surname was Lama 🤦♀️
That's OK, for a long time I have thought that he is a llama.
Load More Replies...(Germany 37 y. o) First time I was stopped by police, I put my keys out of the window and come out with hands in the air, laying on the car, my 5 years old son just copied me. The polices were laughing and confused . I only saw police stopping people in American action movies.
That's painful... my best friend threw our friendship away few months ago, she did not knew a lot of things and got very passive aggressive if I tried to explain something to her. Our last discussion and the reason why our friendship ended, I tried to explain to her that USA is not Canada or South America but apparently, I'm an idiot who doesn't know anything :|
Not me, but a relation. A Winnebago (mobile home) made a fast, hard turn in front of us. Our driver said, "Wow, you'd think the water would spill out of the top." And in that moment as he heard himself say it, he realized how ridiculous his notion was: he had presumed purely from the way it looked that the ladder up and over the top of the Winnebago was a pool ladder.
I use to think elbow grease was something you squeezed out of your elbow ! Like a pimple almost 😂
I was about 14 before I learned that an engineer could be somebody who doesn’t drive a train.
well it took me till 8 or 9 to realizes the whole world wasn't America 😐
I thought my brother was going to lose his toes or possibly die. He was 2, maybe 3 years old at the time, I was 8-ish when I saw my parents hoist him up and sit him on the kitchen counter after he stubbed his toe. We spent the whole afternoon in the kiddy pool and under the sprinklers, so when I saw his toes with the wrinkly water skin and my parents panicking over him I was sure he was losing his foot, or he might be dying. Wasn't until I was well into my twenties that I realised my baby brother was never about to die or lose his foot
Food poisoning had nothing to do with an assassin trying to kill you. Probably 8th grade cleared that one up once we started cooking class and watched a video on it. Also, for years I believed that the 27th president, William Howard Taft got stuck in a bathtub. It wasn't until maybe a few years ago that it was revealed to be an urban legend. However, I actually learned this "fact" (and thought it was hilarious) through a National Geographic Kids magazine.
I seriously thought for a long time that the fact that seasons are flipped on the southern hemisphere compared to the northern hemisphere was a joke.
Many years I though i was asking the Lord for "jelly bread " instead of "daily bread "when citing the Lord's prayer...
Mine demonstrates the need for sex education that goes beyond the mere mechanics of procreation. When I was in sixth grade, c.1987, I found a piece of A4 paper at my aunt's house with "What AIDS looks like under a microscope" and some random blotches. Somehow I discovered that if you fold it in half and held it up to the light, the blotches combined into the silhouettes of three men in a very specific sexual position. Given that "AIDS" was already known to be a life-threatening... something, from this I came to believe that homosexual activity itself led to an earlier death than heterosexual activity. And I had already done some of that.
With the exception of being super young or not a native English speaker just WOW! The ones that say they’re at universities are really scary. Half of these are simple observations. A cucumber jar says ingredients- cucumbers. Half of these are clever parents, the other half have stupid parents who didn’t teach them to be curious.
I'm sure there are holes in your own knowledge that you're completely unaware of.
Load More Replies...Just a couple years ago it dawned on me that Eminem = Marshall Mathers = M. M. = M&M = Eminem
See, and I thought it was because he was chocolate on the inside. (Only joking.)
Load More Replies...I wondered as a kid why we couldn't just print more money and make everyone millionaires. Appreciate my mum trying to explain inflation to a 5 year old.
And I’m sure you’re smart as hell now. The main thing I’ve taught my kids is be curious. If you’re curious your whole life you never stop learning.
Load More Replies...I was like 35 when I realized the reason why police dogs are called K-9 is that they are canine. English is not my first language, but still, I am not proud of that one.
Ask a person from Q8 what they think about that ...
Load More Replies...When I was little my older cousin told me that clouds don't move, they look like they're moving because earth is rotating. Also I asked my gran why they don't show other countries on the weather forecast on TV and she said it's because other countries don't have TVs. I believed both for many years until I went to school and was laughed at when I shared my "valuable knowledge". Don't lie to your kids when they ask questions just because you think it's easier than explaining the real answer.
In kindergarten I asked my Father how islands stay in the same place without floating away. He said “giant bolts” My first grade teacher thought I was crazy when I was telling other kids this.
Ok, I'll tell one on myself. In my early 20's (1974-ish), I'd just gone on the road with a disco band and one of our first gigs was playing a rather nice hotel club in Texas. Back in the day we got half off hotel restaurant food, so I was in the main dining room before work one night with another band member and wanting to sound like a well-traveled man of the world, I ordered the chicken... medium-rare. The waiter politely informed me that chicken wasn't generally served rare before taking my order.
When I was very little, at the start of Star Trek "Space, the final frontier" - Wo has a front ear? Why is it the last one? Is it something to do with Mr Spocks pointy ears?
My fiance, 27, believed until last year that butter was made from corn instead of milk. I'll annoy him with this little mistake for all eternity.
If it is European butter then it is milk. If it is American then you never know. Americans are substituting everything with corn, pretty sure there is a brand of butter which contains corn in it just because they can ^^
Load More Replies...Listening to Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix, I always thought he said "'scuse me, while I kiss this guy"
"Banoffee" means banana and toffee - I thought it was some Italian word until I was well over 30.
I thought it was banana and coffee lol. I stayed away from anything banoffee coz I despise coffee. Well now I'll give it a try.
Load More Replies...near by my home there is nunnery and monastery with several kilometers distance between them. When I was young I heard a story about a secret tunnel between them. While I was in the church of the nunnery with my granny and my mother to light some candles it hit me: The secret tunnel was there as an easy solution to meet even if it was bad weather. And the reason why there is a baptismal font in the church who is run by women who are not allowed to mary and become a mother with "normal" men was that it was used to baptism the children of the nuns and monks. As they weren't allowed to mary either. It was absolutely logical for me. My Granny and my Ma dragged me out of the church laughing, because there were several nuns praying while I told my wise thougts who weren't very amused about it. :-)
Until a few years ago, I thought milk was a liquid in its own right. I didn't realise that milk is approx. 88% water. I'm 52.
Canyou please explain this? Milk is a liquid, why do you say it's not? Apple juice is mostly water, also, as are many liquids, including alcohols. I don' t understand whst exactly you mean.
Load More Replies...I enjoy to read each and every one of this post and comments. I've learned sooooo many new things.
I am a city boy born & raised. My friend & co-worker still lives on the farm he was born on 50 years ago. He prides himself on his outdoor skills & will pontificate about some country-related thing to me, the ignorant city slicker. A couple of years ago he set up a wildlife camera & started posting pictures of the various critters it was capturing. One picture had the caption “I don’t know what these critters are”. I knew what they were. They were voles. Photographed on the farm he’s lived on his whole life. He’s still trying to live that one down. Whenever I want to razz him I just say “Voles”.
When I was 11 I learned that nuns could eat popsicles AND! Drive cars! I was shocked when I found that they could do everything everyone else does.
Until recently I thought when butterflies flew together they were saying hello to each other. My husband pointed out that they're actually trying to mate. I'm 54. In my head they'll always be saying hello !!
When I was littleeeee I thought Mitsubishi was "Mrs. Bitchy" Parents let it happen because they got a kick out of it
People that start a sentence with the words “no offence..” and then continue to offend someone, had bad parents that didn’t care about that their kid was an asxhole…No offence though..
Load More Replies...When I was little, my older brother told me that the reason homeless people have dogs is so they can eat the dogs when they get hungry. After that, I was heartbroken everytime I walked by a homeless dog :(
I'm 37 and learned maybe couple of months ago that Dalai Lama is not his name but his title. I seriously thought his first name was Dalai and his surname was Lama 🤦♀️
That's OK, for a long time I have thought that he is a llama.
Load More Replies...(Germany 37 y. o) First time I was stopped by police, I put my keys out of the window and come out with hands in the air, laying on the car, my 5 years old son just copied me. The polices were laughing and confused . I only saw police stopping people in American action movies.
That's painful... my best friend threw our friendship away few months ago, she did not knew a lot of things and got very passive aggressive if I tried to explain something to her. Our last discussion and the reason why our friendship ended, I tried to explain to her that USA is not Canada or South America but apparently, I'm an idiot who doesn't know anything :|
Not me, but a relation. A Winnebago (mobile home) made a fast, hard turn in front of us. Our driver said, "Wow, you'd think the water would spill out of the top." And in that moment as he heard himself say it, he realized how ridiculous his notion was: he had presumed purely from the way it looked that the ladder up and over the top of the Winnebago was a pool ladder.
I use to think elbow grease was something you squeezed out of your elbow ! Like a pimple almost 😂
I was about 14 before I learned that an engineer could be somebody who doesn’t drive a train.
well it took me till 8 or 9 to realizes the whole world wasn't America 😐
I thought my brother was going to lose his toes or possibly die. He was 2, maybe 3 years old at the time, I was 8-ish when I saw my parents hoist him up and sit him on the kitchen counter after he stubbed his toe. We spent the whole afternoon in the kiddy pool and under the sprinklers, so when I saw his toes with the wrinkly water skin and my parents panicking over him I was sure he was losing his foot, or he might be dying. Wasn't until I was well into my twenties that I realised my baby brother was never about to die or lose his foot
Food poisoning had nothing to do with an assassin trying to kill you. Probably 8th grade cleared that one up once we started cooking class and watched a video on it. Also, for years I believed that the 27th president, William Howard Taft got stuck in a bathtub. It wasn't until maybe a few years ago that it was revealed to be an urban legend. However, I actually learned this "fact" (and thought it was hilarious) through a National Geographic Kids magazine.
I seriously thought for a long time that the fact that seasons are flipped on the southern hemisphere compared to the northern hemisphere was a joke.
Many years I though i was asking the Lord for "jelly bread " instead of "daily bread "when citing the Lord's prayer...
Mine demonstrates the need for sex education that goes beyond the mere mechanics of procreation. When I was in sixth grade, c.1987, I found a piece of A4 paper at my aunt's house with "What AIDS looks like under a microscope" and some random blotches. Somehow I discovered that if you fold it in half and held it up to the light, the blotches combined into the silhouettes of three men in a very specific sexual position. Given that "AIDS" was already known to be a life-threatening... something, from this I came to believe that homosexual activity itself led to an earlier death than heterosexual activity. And I had already done some of that.
With the exception of being super young or not a native English speaker just WOW! The ones that say they’re at universities are really scary. Half of these are simple observations. A cucumber jar says ingredients- cucumbers. Half of these are clever parents, the other half have stupid parents who didn’t teach them to be curious.
I'm sure there are holes in your own knowledge that you're completely unaware of.
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