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Did you know that when a pufferfish “puffs up,” they are filling themselves with water, not air? If you did, congratulations, you have more common sense than most, as this is not as widely known as one might think. But then again, there is so much information out there that it’s entirely possible to be unaware of “regular” things for years.

Someone asked “What is a fact that you only recently learned, but should have known for ages?” and netizens shared their best examples. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to comment your own stories below.

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life Talking doesn't scare the fish, grandpa just wanted us to shut up.

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

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

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life Puffer fish fill up with water to inflate. Not air. I don't know where I thought the fish got the air from.

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1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cause we live in air thus that connection when not thinking about it? edit: or did some cartoon bend our view of reality here as well? 😄

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life 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.

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

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

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life 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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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life 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.

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1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life There are people who do not have an internal monologue. I was like WTF.

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

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

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life 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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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life 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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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life Octopus predate dinosaurs.

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life Oxen are just employed cows, not a whole separate species of bovine.

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life 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!

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life 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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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life Eartha Kitt, the woman who sings Santa Baby, also voiced Yzma from Emperor's New Groove.

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life 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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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life Groundhogs and woodchucks are the same animal.

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

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

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life 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.

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

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

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life 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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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life Linen is not just a particular weave of cotton. It's made from a completely different plant (flax).

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

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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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life That the filter in the dishwasher should be cleaned out monthly. Not my original schedule which was never.

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

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

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life Percentages are always reversible.Example 32% of 78 is same as 78% of 32.

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life Ponies are not baby horses. They are small foreveeeeer

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life 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.

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

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

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life 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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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life Revolving restaurants on towers only revolve on the inside. The entire top of the structure does not move. That would be insane.

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

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

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life 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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1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life 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.

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life A litre of water weighs a kilogram.

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life Narwals are real.

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

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

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life How common stillbirths are.

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

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.

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life The potato company OreIda is a named after two states that produce much of their potatoes, Oregon and Idaho.

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1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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.

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

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

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life Up til she was about 25 my ex wife thought reindeer were made up for Christmas movies.

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life Babies aren't supposed to drink water apparently. Not that I should have known, but never would have guessed.

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

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

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life 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)

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life Pickles are just small pickled cucumbers.... what? Who knew? Apparently everyone.

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life In Super Mario Brothers on the NES, you can continue where you lost your last life by pressing a+start on the main screen.

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life 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.

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

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

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#41

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.

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

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.

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life 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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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life White wine does not come from green grapes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life Abcdefg has the same melody as twinkle twinkle little star.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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It is prerogative, not perogative.

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

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

I think George Carlin asked why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways.

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life 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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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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#52

English is a Germanic language not Latin.

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

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.

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#53

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

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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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.

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

'Expatriate' or 'expat' is the word that white immigrants use for themselves. It's to distinguish them for the kind of immigrant that you don't want.

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life Margarine is made from oil not butter.

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#56

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

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

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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#57

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.

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

put the transmission in second gear, keep the clutch pedal pressed down until the car gained momentum, then disengage the clutch.

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#58

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

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

Salt water does nothing for the ease of peeling. The water temperature change is what is doing it here.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I still have a habit of doing this it's like my body thinks water over my face in any form is going to drown me...

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

If my nose is blocked up, I can't breath while the water is running down my face. If my nostrils are open, I can do it no problem.

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#63

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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.

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“Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 Things They Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life 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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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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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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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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#72

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

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My father is not my biological father, which has tainted my medical history my entire life and I had to go searching for my biological father after my cancer diagnosis.

I love my father, and don’t blame my parents, but that’s some s**t I should have known.

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

Yes, that is a fact everonye here should have known, but didn't..

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How to put air into a tire.

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

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