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pantherghast , Simon Robben/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages There are people who do not have an internal monologue. I was like WTF.

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Tucker Cahooter 7 hours ago

I don't have an internal monologue, I have an external dialogue with myself, usually ending with me telling myself to shut up

19points

Intelligent-Pop9553 , Licet Studios/Youtube Report

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75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages It wasn’t new information, but through the footage during severe storms from massive waves crashing on ships today, realizing how terrifying it would be to cross the ocean in the 1400s.

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WindySwede 6 hours ago (edited)

[or] On a not so large wooden boat!

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#4

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages Oxen are just employed cows, not a whole separate species of bovine.

InfernalOrgasm , L Church/Flickr Report

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Zephyr343 7 hours ago

Do they get a 401k and health insurance?

8points

mentat70 , Ron Lach/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#5

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages When you say no because you don’t feel comfortable doing it and someone pushes you to do it anyway, just don’t do it. I just learned about boundaries and I’m freakin’ over age 50.

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Mayblater 5 hours ago

This can be a hard thing to learn. 8 sisters and 3 brothers here. I have to keep learning everyday. You figured it out at 50ish l, Awesome keep going. So much to learn

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#6

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages Human skin doesn’t have the ability to sense water. We can only tell that something is wet because of temperature or pressure, but we don’t have the proper receptors for water itself.

That’s why sensory deprivation tanks with room temperature or barely warm water work so well, and why you can’t tell if clothing left out to dry is damp or if it’s just cold.

When I read that somewhere, it was a huge mindf**k. Now I think about it constantly.

Edit: We know that humans don’t have these receptors because we know that certain animals DO. Including fruit flies and cockroaches. Which is weird.

Edit: To all the people saying that they test an object’s wetness by placing it against their lips or cheek, this is still exactly the same principle I’m describing above. You can’t feel the wetness, you’re feeling the sensation of air moving against the wetness. It’s no different from holding the object in your hand. We rely on cues like temperature and pressure to decide if something is wet.

Edit: A lot of people are saying this is b******t and I made it up because you CAN tell when something is wet. Congrats, you’re restating exactly what I already said. We rely on environmental cues to determine it. Also, what I’m referring to is hygrosensation. Do your own research. Google it.

eli-the-egg , Pixabay/Pexels Report

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Feathered Dinosaur 6 hours ago (edited)

You can easily confirm this: wear a latex glove and put your hand in water (preferably cold). Your hand will feel wet even though there are zero water molecules touching your skin

13points

hay9 , anoldent/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

#7

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages Cooking food in a cast-iron skillet increases the iron content in your meal. I don't know why I never thought of it like that until recently...

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 7 hours ago

So you are eating the pan?

10points

#8

My cat used to never drink a lot of water and she would just spend a lot of time staring at the bowl, turns out she was experiencing whisker fatigue so I got her a wider bowl.

Poor cat.

LBNTAckee Report

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Bex 7 hours ago

My girl likes moving water, but won't drink from those cat fountains. So I keep clean water in a bowl for her, and the cold watwr dribbling out of the bathtub faucet all the time. 99% of the time she's not sleeping, she's playing w the water in the tub. She's weird and almost 18 and the love of my life lol

12points

casualladyllama , Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine Report

#9

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages That the “Spanish flu” probably started in Kansas soldier barracks and spread due to WW1. The only reason it’s named the Spanish flu is because Spain was the only country that reported on it- many other countries had a media blackout on it.

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Zephyr343 7 hours ago

They all masked up and didn't complain. They did what they needed to. Media blackout was probably for the best

5points

Mysterious_Lesions , Ardail Smith/Flickr Report

#10

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages To be tea, it has to come from the tea plant. Black, white, green, oolong teas are all the same plant but with different processing and harvesting.

Anything else that calls themselves a tea is actually a tisane - including roiboos.

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Mayblater 6 hours ago

Mushrooms as well. Brown, white blah. It’s all harvest time. Magic as well. Harvest time makes the difference

2points

Existing_Kangaroo453 Report

#11

Talking doesn't scare the fish, grandpa just wanted us to shut up.

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Brian Hawley 4 hours ago

But they can hear footsteps. Talk all you want, but walk gently

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#12

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages A litre of water weighs a kilogram.

anon , Lisa Risager/Flickr Report

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Peter Parker 7 hours ago

Metric system, best system!

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jamesiscoolbeans , patrice schoefolt/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages Groundhogs and woodchucks are the same animal.

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Peter Parker 7 hours ago

How much ground would a groundhog hog if a... ah never mind, it just doesn't work the same..

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#14

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages Eartha Kitt, the woman who sings Santa Baby, also voiced Yzma from Emperor's New Groove.

Mr_Archer1216 , Nesster/Flickr Report

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Ginny Moses 7 hours ago

Catwoman!

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bearclawmcgee2 , Donald Tong/Pexels Report

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75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages Ponies are not baby horses. They are small foreveeeeer

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 7 hours ago

What if you have a giant sized pony and a midget horse?

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sufferpuppet , cottonbro studio/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#16

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages That the filter in the dishwasher should be cleaned out monthly. Not my original schedule which was never.

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WindySwede 7 hours ago

And then the whole machine! There are special cleaning products for that. Se your manual.

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FluffyTid , Pia B/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#17

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages Octopus predate dinosaurs.

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Ru Bee 6 hours ago

Ain't no way octopus eat dinosaurs 😜

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Starbucks__Lovers , Timothy Tolle/Flickr Report

#18

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages When they kept liquor stores open at the beginning of the pandemic, it was to ensure that alcoholics wouldn’t overflow the hospitals even more by suffering from alcohol withdrawals.

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Zephyr343 7 hours ago

That is depressing but makes sense

10points

#19

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages Linen is not just a particular weave of cotton. It's made from a completely different plant (flax).

estreya2002 , Sara/Flickr Report

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Rachel Pelz 6 hours ago

Takes a hell of a lot of work to get linen from flax. But guess what, cotton doesn't grow in most parts of Europe but flax does.

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#20

It’s not the stripper that spins- it’s the pole. Blew my mind, I thought those ladies were masters of centrifugal force AND core strength!

bri_like_the_chz Report

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Peter Parker 7 hours ago

Now explain to us how you found out, please.

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GiuseppeJ03 , Pixabay/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#21

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages Babies aren't supposed to drink water apparently. Not that I should have known, but never would have guessed.

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Amina Trabelsi 7 hours ago

They get enough Water through milk, they start drinking Water during weaning, no Need before!

6points

Wonderful_Whereas402 , Alena Darmel/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#22

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages I knew that a litter of kittens can have different fathers but I just found out that twin humans can have different fathers also. Crazy.

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Don't listen to me 58 minutes ago

But not identical

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#23

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages When using nasal spray, you are supposed to **inhale** and spray simultaneously. I discovered this while watching TV a few weeks ago.

Nobody ever showed me how to fkn use a nasal spray, and it wouldn’t have occurred to me to do it on my own because it feels a bit uncomfortable, but my allergy sprays work sooooooo much better now.

I feel like a dumba*s.

snappyirides , NIAID/Flickr Report

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Tucker Cahooter 7 hours ago

Presumably the instructions to do so were on the packet or leaflet.

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i_just_say_hwat , Barry Tan/Pexels Report

#24

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages Up til she was about 25 my ex wife thought reindeer were made up for Christmas movies.

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 7 hours ago

"Look reindeer!" "Better get the brolly out then."

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tristnaber , RDNE Stock project/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#25

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages How common stillbirths are.

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Dusty's mom 7 hours ago

And yet conservatives want to force women who have experienced them to be examined in case of attempted abortions. I can't imagine the trauma on top of the tragic pain.

24points

Swimmingllama , Marco Antonio Victorino/Pexels Report

#26

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages The potato company OreIda is a named after two states that produce much of their potatoes, Oregon and Idaho.

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sofacushionfort 6 hours ago (edited)

C&H sugar = California and Hawaii. Domino sugar = Dominican Republic

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#27

Narwals are real.

victims_sanction Report

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 7 hours ago

And they are having a whale of a time! But for what porpoise?

10points

Turbulent_Juicebox , Timothy Vollmer/Flickr Report

#28

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages Until yesterday I thought blackened chicken was just that, chicken that had been grilled the f**k out of.

Turns out it's a delicious blend of spices.

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Zephyr343 7 hours ago (edited)

And I thought jerk chicken meant they were the ones picking on the other chickens

11points

#29

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages Percentages are always reversible.Example 32% of 78 is same as 78% of 32.

Jedihallows , fauxels/Pexels Report

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Isabella 4 hours ago

This is just basic arithmetic.

1point

#30

How the Spanish arrived in the Philippines to conquer and settle. They did not sail East from Spain, you you would think. They sailed West from their Mexican colony across the Pacific.

casapulapula Report

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Nicky 6 hours ago

This is really interesting.

1point

T-LAD_the_band , João Jesus/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages Another one I only learned about 2 years ago. There are people who are "mind-blind" and can't visualise objects or images in their mind. It's called Aphantasia and I (and about 3% of the population) have it. Never know other people could mentally visualise their thoughts.

**edit: Thanks for the many upvotes and replies.** Seems like this is quite interresting to many people who have it or don't understand it. I wanted to add some information that came to me during some conversations here:

1) It seems to happen in different "degrees" on a visual spectrum. Some people are also face-blind, some can visualize very simple forms like square for example. Someone here said that it's maybe like with different image qualities. Some can see images in 4K HD, some have blurry edges on their images, some see only very simple shapes, some can't image anything visual.

2) I can clearly explain to you what my house looks like, I can describe every part of my house from memory, I could draw it to you, but maybe I would get the textures a bit wrong but everything that is there every day, I can describe it. for example, the couch I sit in every day is something I could draw and know if I touch it that it's my couch, but I might get the color wrong or the texture. The older a memory, the more faded it is.

3) I don't have many memories from my childhood. It's very vague. Like not even a picture of the moment. But a blurry picture where I can't focus, I might see a face or a house that I saw many many times, or a really huge event for me as a child (like dancing in front of the whole school at a talent show) I remember the event, some details, (like the cool sunglasses I was wearing with led lights in it) but everything around it is one vague blur, no further details about the stage, theater, audience, I only remember the applaus very well ;-)

4) something else clicked: I'm a real story teller and i'm kind of a "funny guy" so people like to listen when I talk/tell stories. But I had different occassions where I'm telling something that I recall happened to me (altough maybe I would spice it up for humorous effect) , but then afterwards I had people coming up to me to say that they told ME that story and it happened to them and I guess I create a false memory as it was my own. (and felt really bad about it)

*** edit 2:
5) apparently you people SEE numbers when doing calculus?! Now I understand why my partner thinks it's odd that I "still" count with my fingers or try to write in the air. That's all I got to work with!

*Questions I still have. People who don't have this. Can you really taste a taste when thinking about it, and smell a smell?*.

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Nicky 6 hours ago

I also have Aphantasia. I also write in the air! For some reason, It is easier for me to sort of remember an image if my eyes are open and just think about the picture. When I close my eyes, all is black.

2points

#32

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages Maybe not recently learned but a few years ago when I found out how our solar system is just bumping along through space really fast, I can’t believe I didn’t know that. Thought we were stationary. Big ole dumb.

softstones , pingnews Report

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WindySwede 7 hours ago

PBS space did a good job portraying this https://youtu.be/1lPJ5SX5p08

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#33

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages In Super Mario Brothers on the NES, you can continue where you lost your last life by pressing a+start on the main screen.

Dainiad , JOE MADONNA/Flickr Report

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Peter Parker 7 hours ago

about 30 years too late for me, but good to know.

10points

#34

Sigh, to remove the top from deodorant, you need to twist it up. I was pulling the plastic barrier out with my teeth.

I know.

chaos_abounds Report

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Lost Panda 7 hours ago

Old Spice breath...

2points

FaveDave85 , Juan Pablo Serrano/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#35

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages Abcdefg has the same melody as twinkle twinkle little star.

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Sue Denham 6 hours ago

And also "Baaa, baaa, black sheep".

2points

Dougsbar , Nannette Turner/Flickr Report

#36

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages Pickles are just small pickled cucumbers.... what? Who knew? Apparently everyone.

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Peter Parker 7 hours ago

The name is kind of a subtle hint..

5points

#37

For 42 years of my life I thought that historical people who killed themselves by sticking their heads in the oven (ie Sylvia Plath) were just _metal as f**k_ and baked their brains to death, and only just learned that old timey ovens ran on highly toxic coal gas that basically knocked you out permanently.

illepic Report

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Lost Panda 7 hours ago

Never thought it was baking, but the natural gas from the oven. Never truly thought "What about before nat gas?"

3points

tnmoltisanti420 , Jimmy Tan/Flickr Report

#38

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages Margarine is made from oil not butter.

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Peter Parker 7 hours ago

I can't believe it's not butter!

5points

reddittheguy , Ed Castillo/Flickr Report

#39

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages If you write on a dry erase board with a permanent marker, you can remove it by writing over it with a dry erase marker and then erasing.

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Rachel Pelz 6 hours ago

You can also just use some disinfectant on a papertowel. Will remove the permanent marker and you don't even have to follow the lines exactly.

2points

monkeyselbo , Donald Tong/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#40

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages After decades of doing it wrong, I realized from NASA's website that the abbreviation for US time zones during Daylight Saving Time is EDT, CDT, MDT, PDT... That is, Daylight Time. EST, CST, MST and PST are for standard time, which is what we just went back onto a week ago.

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Barbara Burns 6 hours ago

Daylight Savings Time is pure insanity. For the love of God, could we please just stop doing it?

17points

#41

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages Revolving restaurants on towers only revolve on the inside. The entire top of the structure does not move. That would be insane.

CurNoSeoul , Elviz Low/Flickr Report

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Val 7 hours ago

Yes, I ate at the top of the Space Needle. It was little disturbing for me. I hate heights.

3points

#42

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages White wine does not come from green grapes.

(Excuse me, but does it not stand to reason, f'r Crissakes?).

druu222 , fauxto_digi/Flickr Report

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 7 hours ago

Red grapes make white wine, the red colour is added, taken from the red skins. Red or green grapes make white wine.

5points

FuzzyAssociation4687 Report

#43

English is a Germanic language not Latin.

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 7 hours ago

English has a lot of Latin through the French language due to the Norman conquest. Originally Germanic but also now a Latin language as well.

6points

#44

Soaking dishes in the sink overnight actually works. My parents wouldn’t go to bed if there was a dirty dish. That’s how I was raised. If it was stuck that meant work harder.

Recently my wife and mother in law let something terribly cooked on soak overnight and I’ll be damned if worked.

I honestly thought “letting it soak” was code word for “lazy a*s.” Or used as a trope in media to represent someone that shirked work or was too good/too lazy to do dishes.

ohyeahwell Report

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Dusty's mom 7 hours ago

Add a couple tablespoons baking soda and fill with hot tap water. I've gone back a couple hours later and could easily clean most pans. One reason to not leave dishes in the sink is if you have ant or fruit fly problems.

5points

#45

That if you boil eggs in salted water, the peels come off easier. Plunge them in cold water for an even better effect.

anon Report

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 7 hours ago (edited)

Roll your boiled egg around in a mug, gently breaks the shell, makes it easy to peel.

3points

#46

It is prerogative, not perogative.

Who_needs_an_alt Report

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 7 hours ago

That's your perogative.

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#47

There's a wee triangle next to the petrol light which indicates which side of the car the fill cap is on.

Just realized this about my car yesterday and I think it applies to all cars.

I've been driving for two decades.

SixicusTheSixth Report

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Kira Okah 7 hours ago

It does not apply to all cars, or even cars by age. Neither of my parent's cars, my sister's car, or our non-working one have this, these cars range in age from 2001 to 2022.

5points

#48

That Sherbert doesn’t have two R’s in it and is Sherbet! Who the hell says Sher Bet!? I’m in my late thirties and just found this out in 2023.

I_throw_Bricks Report

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Dusty's mom 7 hours ago

Always been sherbet for me, but Mom was a stickler for proper pronunciation. Relatives called it sherbert. It's fine. No big deal.

3points

#49

Correct way to do a rolling start in a manual car when the battery is dead.

Put the transmission in Neutral gear.

- Instruct the person outside to push the car forward to gain some momentum and keep pushing until the vehicle reaches a speed of about 5-10 mph.

- Disengage the clutch and shift into second gear and quickly engage--or "pop"--the clutch

Don't Try This With an Automatic , not possible and will damage stuff.

whiplash369 Report

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Pernille 5 hours ago

And remember that if it's a diesel car it will kick back like a horse just before it starts. My dad always had crappy cars when I was growing up so I have been pushing cars from a very young age, didn't have a drivers license until recently, but I'm an expert on pushing ars to start.

1point

#50

If your tee shirt has a tag at the bottom, it's always on the left (at least if you're a guy, not sure if this is one of the things that's mirrored for the ladies).

So many wasted seconds figuring it out.

JUSTICE_SALTIE Report

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Jihana 7 hours ago

It's on the left as well.

4points

#51

Gunna get buried here but I thought expatriates was only referring to Americans living abroad and was spelled like ex-patriots. I thought it was really odd but never questioned it. However it seemed odd enough to me to also never bring it up so I am learning.

RedSonGamble Report

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StrangeOne 5 hours ago

I used to think it was someone who moved abroad and became a permanent citizen, getting rid of any ties of their birth country. Hence Ex-Patriots. It's apparently the complete opposite. Someone who moved abroad for a temporary time then moves back to their home country.

1point

#52

Pineapples do not grow on trees. I was barely in my 40s.

anon Report

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Nicky 6 hours ago

He's correct! Just googled the image and it blew my mind!

3points

Lance LaRocque 6 hours ago

They are a berries. It is multiple berries fused into a supersized berry.

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Lost Panda 7 hours ago

Wait... what?

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iseefractals 6 hours ago

You've obviously never seen Elvis's Blue Hawaii. 360_F_5080...pzxnYw.jpg

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Nicky 6 hours ago

Pineapples are flowering plants that bear fruit and grow on the ground! Just googled it! Like you, I had no idea!

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WindySwede 6 hours ago

A grass.. sort of, they are in the order of Poales.

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9 animals and counting 6 hours ago

They grow on bushes.

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#53

That opossums are great for the environment and if your dog attacks them, you should stop them. And if you're brave enough to move them to safer grounds, they will emit a foul odor while playing dead. It stinks, but if you're willing, pick them up like a kitten (scruff of neck)and relocate. Don't worry, like skunks, the smell comes from there a**s, but! they don't douse you with the smell. It's just to deter predators.

SquishymustNotdie Report

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Barbara Burns 6 hours ago

I love opossums - they eat a HUGE number of ticks and other parasites!

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Johnwayne18889 , Jacques-Louis David Report

#54

75 Facts People Recently Learned That They Should Have Known For Ages The Holy Roman Empire only ceased in the 19th century because of napoleon. For some reason I always think of the early 12 century.

For some reason it’s hard to fathom Rome only ceased to exist in a bastardised form 300 years ago.

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Dusty's mom 7 hours ago

The empire, not the city.

4points

Dead_Man_Redditing Report

#55

You are only supposed to have a few crackers with your soup.

So growing up my parents were not fond of having me. So by age 5 i didn't eat unless i made my own food. So when i got to the point where i could make soup i would eat a whole sleeve of crackers for every bowl i ate. I didn't find out until just recently how unhealthy it was. I always ate soup when i was alone since its single serving. The few times i got it at a restaurant i assumed they wanted you to pay more to get the rest of the crackers so they tease you with 2 packs.

Edit: Wow, thank you for all the amazing responses. For context my parents always had food around, i was never without anything. But my parents basically ignored me whenever they were not emotionally abusing me. I couldn't tell you why, but i was often told i was a mistake. They both passed during the pandemic but i was able to build a relationship with my dad a bit before they passed. I have 2 boys of my own now and of course i am over compensating by showering them with love!

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Zephyr343 7 hours ago

??? Does it matter how many crackers you have with your soup?

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#56

Diagon Alley is diagonally. Realized this like 20 years after watching the first Harry Potter movie.

anon Report

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Jihana 6 hours ago

Same with Nocturn Alley.

5points

Popping_n_Locke-ing Report

#57

Parkways used to be roads that … ended in a park.

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Brian Hawley 3 hours ago

Something Street is in a settlement. Something Road originally led to a settlement.

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#58

That the von Trapp Family Singers were real people and The Sound of Music was based on a true story.

TheLittleUrchin Report

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Brian Hawley 3 hours ago

Loosely. Like most “true stories “

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#59

I didn't know lamb was a baby sheep until very recently. I was reading a farm book to my 3 year old kid and I was enlightened... I cried. No wonder the lamb chops are so small. I should have known! I know.

Nervous-Eye-8905 Report

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Lost Panda 7 hours ago

Wait until they learn what veal is

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#60

If you type something wrong on an iPhone calculator but only want to get rid of the most recent digit you typed, you just swipe.

Concertcat24 Report

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Alison Key 2 hours ago

I did not know that! Just swiped some numbers - so entertaining!

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#61

When you snap your fingers, the sound is from your finger hitting your palm.

manderifffic Report

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ciro castellano 2 hours ago

absolutely not. it's the air that compresses in your knuckles when you bend your finger toward your palm

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#62

That asbestos is found in nature. I just thought it was some awful human invention used for insulation.

yepitsdad Report

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Kira Okah 6 hours ago

They are fibrous formations (known as asbestiform) of crystals that naturally occur. Only six of these are classified as asbestos, and they are stable so long as they are not damaged to release the fibres...which their mining and asbestos removal absolutely does.

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#63

I always knew that Alaska wasn’t like, an island the way an inset on a map of the US depicts it, but I never realized just how gigantic and how far away from the ~~mainland~~ contiguous United States it actually is. Same goes for Hawaii—never realized how far southwest it is from us. I’m in my mid-30s, reasonably intelligent, and I noticed this stuff when looking at a world map like sometime last year. Embarrassing.

ElderTheElder Report

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Dusty's mom 6 hours ago

Remember that flat maps with Mercator Projection will show distortions. Try looking at a globe for better size reference.

6points

#64

Space heaters are called that because they are used to heat up a space. Not because they use space age technology.

Strong_Ad_3722 Report

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#65

The Aztecs had only been in that area for about a century before the Spanish arrived, were just as obsessed with conquering the local people, and likely were just as bad as the Spanish to those people.

In addition to ruinous taxes and tributes, the Aztecs demanded their vassal states supply them with people for their rituals that sacrificed tens of thousands of people per year. Some of these sacrifice rituals specifically called for children or pregnant women.

I always thought the native peoples of the Americas were pretty innocent victims of imperialism and colonization, but the Aztecs lost to just a few Spaniards because the other peoples of the area joined the Spanish against them.

I don't know what's worse, to be enslaved in a silver mine or to lose your life or your kid's life to human sacrifice.

zazzlekdazzle Report

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FreeTheUnicorn 3 hours ago

There aren't any activities that could make a people deserve to be colonised. Just like genocide is always wrong, no matter the culture. Just because it turns out indigenous people are people and not colourfully dressed dolls with no agency, doesn't mean they aren't the wronged parties.

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#66

Ok, I feel dumb but in my defense I’m not a wine drinker. I had no clue wine types are named after the grape variety that was used to make it.

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Nicky 6 hours ago

A Japanese friend saw others wine tasting at a party. He asked if they wanted him to guess what kind of wine it was. He took one sip and said, "Grape."

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#67

Being born and raised in Florida, I only recently learned we have native crocodiles.

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Dusty's mom 7 hours ago

Taught me something! Thought we only had alligators. Thanks!

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#68

Bryers was the best ice cream years ago. Now it's garbage. Take look at the containers. They are now frozen desert. Bryers no longer legally meets ingredients of ice cream. Sad where it is now.

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Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 6 hours ago

As someone who lives in the desert, I can assure you that no one has frozen it. Additionally, the desert is not filled with Breyers frozen dessert.

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#69

It took me WAY TOO DAMN long to realize that it's called deodorant because it de-ODOR-izes you! I think I was 29 when I figured this out. I am 30.

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StrangeOne 4 hours ago

Antiperspirant stops sweat. Deodorant masks the odour of the sweat.

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#70

I guess this only applies for my context. But I (30 yo) only quite recently learnt my neighbouring country (Malaysia) is in Borneo as well. I’ve always thought Malaysia was only the mainland part.

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Kira Okah 6 hours ago

East Malaysia is the Borneo part, the mainland part is Peninsular Malaysia.

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#71

When you have your face in the flow of the shower you can just open your mouth and breathe, you don't need to hold your breath and take your face out of the shower flow when you need to breathe, as I was doing for most of my life. It seems even more stupid now that I've written it down, but I genuinely just realised this a couple of years ago, I'm 37...

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#72

It is the “Cupid Shuffle,” not the “Cuban Shuffle.” Source, went to a wedding Saturday, thought I misheard the name, looked it up and found I’d been mishearing it for years.

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Agfox 5 hours ago

That may count as a mondegreen

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#73

How to put air into a tire.

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Zephyr343 7 hours ago

Is that a question or a statement?

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#74

On Duck Hunt on the NES if you have a p2 controller you can direct the ducks.

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Lace Neil 3 hours ago

But can you shoot the dog?

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