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People acquire different knowledge depending on their age. You start to realize that the sun still exists even when the night comes and you can’t see it, and that the moon is also always there, so it’s not surprising to sometimes see it during the day.

You learn these kinds of facts by experiencing them, reading about them or talking about them with someone else. But sometimes they just don’t come up and you end up not knowing what is obvious for everybody else. It is never too late to learn, but you can’t help but feel embarrassed when you’re the last one to find out something.

Reddit user PralineStriking wanted people to remember that embarrassment and asked what things they learnt at an age that seemed too late for them and the thread got over 18k answers. We collected some of the best ones and we would like to know if you found anything that you experienced as well. If not, share your own facts you learnt at a late age that you should have known about earlier in life in the comments!

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) That narwhals are real. I thought they were cute mythological creatures, until I saw a brooch a friend had and asked if it was part of the companies mythological line. She asked me if I thought narwhals were myths, like unicorns. I laughed and said of course they are.

I was 35.

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

They're marketed as the unicorns of the sea, so I can see why people would think this.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) That I needed glasses. At age 21 my friends were hassling me about being dyslexic because I kept getting words mixed up (second year at Uni). Until then, I had just been reading by looking at the shape of words and guessing the words based on the context and wider story. I had been reading this way for years and survived Uni before finding out my prescription was +1.50. The optometrist said it was amazing I hadn’t noticed. When I put the glasses on, everything was in 4K Ultra. I can now see individual letters.

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

"When I put the glasses on, everything was in 4K Ultra" We all who wear glasses felt that

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) That the more work you get done at work, the more they will pile it on. I could have saved a lot of my mental health in my 20’s

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) “Paradigm” is pronounced “pear-uh-dime”. It is definitely NOT pronounced “pear-uh-dig-um”.

…I learned this at age 19. In college. While delivering an oral report.

I try not to think about.

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

I pronounce it as "pa-ra-dime", but that's just an accent thing.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) That Abuela and Abuelo were not my Cuban grandparents actual names

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

My mum's name is not 'Mum' That broke my heart when I was 2 yo 💔

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) I thought everyone’s mouth got itchy when eating bananas. Almost 40 years old and find out I’m somewhat allergic to them.

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

It's called oral allergy syndrome. It really sucks, at least it's only bananas for you. My list of fruit and veg that affects me gets longer every year.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) The Lion King is basically Hamlet. That was Monday. I'm 41.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) The the longest time I always heard of sports teams “Drafting” people. And I am tall, so as a kid I was constantly afraid I’d get drafted for the state basketball team just out of the blue, I thought it worked like a military draft.

I learned this wasn’t the case when I was like 10-12.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) That if you wear a white bra, you can see it through a l white shirt, but if you wear a nude colored bra, you can’t. I was 40 when a coworker shared this with me.

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

The same thing holds for wearing white panties under white slacks. You need to wear nude coloured ones under those.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) That sodas were called soft drinks because they had no alcohol lol

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) That you can flush used toilet paper. Parents taught us as kids to throw away the paper in the trash can for fear of backing up the toilet. Wasn’t until college that I realized my parents were accustomed to that method because they had s***ty plumbing where they grew up in Central America

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) Wasn't until I was 21 when I drank Lactose Free milk and DIDN'T go sit on a toilet for an hour that I realized I am lactose intolerant. I thought it was normal to s**t constantly after drinking milk.

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

In 21 years, you never met anybody who didn't rush to the toilet after dairy products?

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) It’s “for all intents and purposes” not “for all intensive purposes”

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) That our next door neighbors were lesbians and not just “good friends”. Lovely people. Didn’t figure it out until I was in college

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

Hopefully nobody told you they were good friends to avoid talking about same-sex couples with you.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) Ponies are NOT baby horses

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) Womens pads stick to their underwear and not themselves like a band-aid.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) I learned how to ride a bike at the ripe age of 24

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

It's okay...we all learn something new everyday, it's not mandatory for you to learn this when you're a kid.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) Baby carrots are just shaved down big carrots. I was devastated a few years ago.

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At roughly 37, I learned pineapples grew from the ground. Not from a tree.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) Corned beef wasn’t made by cattle that were strictly fed corn. My mom couldn’t stop laughing.

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

Is it just me or is corned beef a lot less affordable these days than it used to be? It seems very expensive for what it is.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) That sea horses are not roughly the size of penguins. In fact, they are incredibly tiny. Stupid Saturday morning cartoons!

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

Omg, you should see the pygmy seahorse, it is super duper teeny tiny, it's just so damn cute.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) That puffer fish don't use air to inflate.

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

I was today years old.... Actually, it's obvious (cause where would they get the air), but who stops to think about it? At least I didn't.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) That puffins are in fact NOT extinct. I had a 3rd grade teacher misinform me. I found the truth as a teenager in an embarrassing group setting where I was quite confidently wrong.

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

For a moment I was like "Where are the legs of that bird in the picture!?" Then I put my glasses on :)

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) Washington state and Washington DC are two different places.

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

I think that's a fair enough misunderstanding to have, especially if you're not from the US.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) That cows are female and bulls are male. I thought they are two different species

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

Technically, a cow is a female that has given birth. Before birth they're called heifers.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) At 42 years-old, I realized there is no donkey in Donkey Kong.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) That Flo Rida spells Florida. Also will I am was William. Realized this last year. I’ll be 42 in a month lol

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

That C.R.E.A.M by wu tang stands for cash rules.everyrhing around me

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) I was 20 years old when I learned that salt lamps are indeed made of salt.

I always thought that it was plastic carved into a rock-like shape

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

Reminds me of a recent post about putting the salt lamp in the dishwasher to clean it...

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) That roadrunners are not the size of an emu.

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

We all know Looney Tunes are to blame for this one. They also don't go "Beep! Beep!" aren't colorful and a coyote could easily outrun and catch one without needing an Acme rocket.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) I was almost 30 when I realized that travelling uphill does not always mean you're travelling north. And similarly rivers can run north because they aren't going "uphill".

I'm not normally that stupid.

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

However long it takes you to travel to a location down south, it will take twice as long on the return journey because you are travelling uphill.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) That when i deposit cash in the bank, there isn’t a specific money locker just for me.

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

When I was kid I thought all my money went into "my' drawer at the bank, so I made sure to write my name on all my dollar bills!

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) That menstrual fluid isn’t blue. The tampon and pad commercials had me fooled.

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

We started getting ads where the fluid they use was red. Apparently they got a lot of complaints saying its disgusting and not suitable for TV. F**k that noise, we need to stop periods being a taboo subject and something we need to hide.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) I thought women get pregnant at a random moment in their life until my friend told me you have to have intercourse in 7th grade.

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

You have to have intercourse in the 7th grade? That cannot be right....

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

Oh for the love of punctuation, and correct placement of words, I believe it should read as "my friend in the 7th grade told me that you have to have intercourse 1st.

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

I thought that till fifth grade when i looked up sex to confirm if it meant gender. From there one thing led to another and i lost all innonence by the time i was 10

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

I used to think that when someone got married and kissed, then the baby would magically start growing in the mom's belly! XD

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

How horrible that would be. Just walking around, minding my own business and BAM! I just caught Pregnancy.

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

I'm literally 15 and all my friends say I'm so innocent. I probably have the innocence level of a fourth grader.💀

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

This is actually how we as a people used to think about pregnancy. It wasn't that long ago that we didn't know how babies were made. Don't get me started on telegony.

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What's "not that long ago"? People in ancient times already knew more than that, so...

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

My daughter asked me the other night if I knew how babies were born. "You lean on the bed like this, and the baby pops out." Sure, sis.

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

I just wanted to say; sentence structure and punctuation are important. And this one reads in a disturbing way...

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

When I was about four I thought the same thing. At age four I also thought boys were gross. In front of my parents and a group of my parent's friends, I told them all that I would grow up to have lots of babies but NEVER get married. THAT got quite the reaction.

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

Waiiit... this sounds like they knew what intercourse was, but not that it leads to pregnancy. So they were just living with that trauma without knowing there was good reason?

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

I still have never been given the sex talk and I'm 29 lmao I learned about it from my CNA class and was even the person to have the most knowledge when doing the group answers in my college biology. I didn't know only one of like ten questions. Everyone else got 7 or less. It was...bad

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

Strangely, as a fairly young child, I knew about sex, but didn't know it's purpose was reproduction and thought it was just a weird thing adults decided to do. Books I read about having a baby said the parents "decided" to have a baby, so I thought they just consciously decided together.

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

That’s the sad state of sexual education in a lot of places. We were in 4th grade when we got told the whole mechanics of making babies. 2nd and 3rd grade was proper names for body parts and about not letting anyone touch your privates/ that it’s ok to tell an adult you trust if someone has touched you.

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

You do not get pregnant when a guy pee's in you (a lot my 7 year old self was told by my mom's friend daughter). I didn't know until I was 11...

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This is so weird to me. I don't even remember learning about where babies came from, but I must have just known because I never really questioned it at all and never thought it would just "happen". However when I was about 6ish, I was getting ready for ballet class and my mum comes in excitedly and tells me no class today, the teacher is having her baby! Apparently I was just like, what? What baby? My I had younger siblings and cousins and neighbours so I'd seen plenty of pregnant women and babies. But apparently seeing this woman multiple times a week since I was 4 for ballet class I never clicked that she was pregnant and just didn't believe my mum until I later saw the baby. Is it possible that because I didn't expect it, I just didn't see it/ notice it?! For 9 months?! Kids minds are wild.

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

Omg the thought of mandatory intercourse in 7th grade made me spew my hot tea just now 😆

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

Wait a minute. 7th grade??? That's way too young to have sex. So then what?? Does your body just hold all the necessary ingredients until it's time?? ( No I'm not that stupid. Just joking.)

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I didn't have intercourse in 7th grade and am now wondering where/how my kids came from.

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

When I was like four I thought the same. I remember telling my parents in front of company (a group of my parent's friends) that I was going to have a baby but NOT EVER get married! Boys - YUCK! THAT got quite the reaction.

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

I was in 8th grade & my sister in 1st at our Catholic school. I had explained the birds & the bees to her in an age appropriate manner, so when her little classmate said her Mommy had a baby in her tummy my sister corrected her. Horrified, the little girl ran to Sister Joan practically in hysterics. Sis & I were called to the Principal's office and she was terrified of getting in trouble. They called my Mom (a nurse) to come to the school. Long story short, she reamed that ignorant prick a new one & we got to go have ice cream.

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

I thought this too until I was almost 20, because well with all the pop culture having people or even the girl herself shocked that she got pregnant, the only way to be shocked that you got pregnant was if getting pregnant happened randomly. Now I thinks it's dumb that anyone would be shocked to get pregnant. Or not have a plan before having sex.

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

Imagine being a woman and just waiting to get pregnant. That must be nerve-wracking lol

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

I had an aunt who wasn't married and I remember wondering when God would know to give her a baby. I was about 14.

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

I thought gestation was standard at 8-9months for humans... Imagine holding that in until you are 18...

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

Learnt this in 6th Grade. Lost all innocence eventually. 😂

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

in kindergarten i thought that when people got married, God knew they were now married and then God made her pregnant. (i went to catholic school until 8th grade)

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

I have zero clue where my kids can from cuz I definitely wasn’t gettin busy in 7th grade. Maybe they’re adopted …

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

I'm beginning to wonder if they even teach punctuation and word placement in school anymore. I'm not that great at punctuation anymore because I forgot a lot of it but, I at least try so sentences don't run together. I have mentioned this a few times and I always get down voted like it's not important. Yes, punctuation and word placement is important people.

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

Man I missed out. I didn't have intercourse in the 7th grade. Lol

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

You have to have sex in 7th grade?! Well damn guess i missed the time frame xD

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

You were in SEVENTH GRADE and had that little education about reproduction??? That's seriously sad!

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

damn. You don't know what you just started with that statement.

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

He or she had to write thus "women only get pregnant after having intercourse" (A "bunk-up" in London Cockney slang")

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

That's more Normal then you think. Don't worry on that one

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

Having intercourse, in the 7th grade is not necessary for pregnancy to occur. It's all about sentence structure, my friend.

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

I might get downvoted for this but when I was real young I thought that everyone had to marry their siblings….I was sooooo scared

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

I must have been a late bloomer. Didn't happen until high school

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

I thought this was how it happened too when I was a kid. God just brought you a baby at a random time! Lol!

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

Yeah. Intercourse in seventh grade is a really bad idea on so many levels.

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

I though that women became pregnant the second they get married, I was a stupid child.

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

Heard a kid referring he caught his parents sleeping very close, then mom cried a bit but did look pleased

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

I thought that when you were married, at any random time after that , a baby grew. When I was little, that was usually the case. Also, I was about 40 when I did the math and figured out that my mother was a " love child ".

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

We did have a girl disappear from my middle school and the rumor matched up pretty well with this.

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

Don't worry too much. Mankind took a long time to understand that too.

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

Holy f**k. 7th grade . I'm not sorry at all, go shoot yourself before you ever breed.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) I thought the D is Disney was just some random symbol, kinda like a backwards G. It took me until like 7th grade to realize it and even as an adult I still can’t unsee the backwards G.

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

I used to think the y in Disney was actually a p and called them Disnep.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) "TP" stood for Toilet Paper. I thought to "TP someone's house" you just put toilet paper over it to look like a teepee.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) I was 16 when I found out you're meant to spit toothpaste out after brushing your teeth, I had always just swallowed it and thought that's just what you do... Idk how tf I don't have flouride poisoning

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

No, you wont have fluoride poisoning. Safety assessments of toothpaste assume 100% consumption.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) I thought an armadillo was a reptile rather than a mammal

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) Those containers Chinese food come in unfold into plates.

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

Not everywhere. Chinese food containers in Austria do not do that.

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Up until 15 I believed If I swallow a seed and then drinks water a tree is going to grow inside me.

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“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers) That the game show Wheel of Fortune is named after the tarot card

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

They did a pilot for “Wheel of Suffering and Desire,” but it didn’t test well with non-Buddhist audiences.

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