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Listen up, we’re going to let you in on a little secret: everybody has gaps in their knowledge! No matter how smart or experienced we are, there’s at least one thing that slips through the cracks. You know, that awakening moment or fact that is so painfully obvious, it catches us by surprise and makes us wonder how we managed to breezily move through life without acquiring such basic information.

But the good news is that it’s never too late to learn. Luckily for us, anonymous Redditors are setting out to teach us about these little things and life-changing bits of wisdom to save us from any future embarrassment. In several 'Ask Reddit' threads, thousands of people stepped forward to reveal the common things they realized at a hilariously late age, and they didn’t hold anything back.

We at Bored Panda have gone through the community to gather some of the best responses about obvious things that apparently were not evident enough. Enjoy reading through these illuminating stories and hit upvote on your favorite ones. Keep in mind that this is a shame-free and safe space, so if you have had any blind spots you recently discovered, be sure to let us know about them in the comments. We’d love to hear them!

Psst! If you’re in the mood for even more common things that people somehow missed, check out our previous pieces about them here, here, and here.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) I had two uncles when I was growing up who did everything together, both had YMCA-style moustaches, never had any girlfriends, and lived together with three cats.

Didn't realise they weren't just close friends until I was sixteen. "Oblivious" doesn't even come close.

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

My mother says when she was a kid she had an relative who she only realised much later was almost certainly a lesbian. It just wasn't something you talked about openly back then.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) i couldn't swallow pills until a month ago and when i finally did it my mom applauded me with tears in her eyes and wrote it down in my baby book. i'm 23.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) My dad once told me that the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary. 18 years later, I got the joke.

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

How do you keep a fool in suspense? Head back here tomorrow to find out!

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) So a little back story first. I was a really annoying and persistent child. My mother used to tell me that I couldn't accompany my parents out to dinner because "children aren't allowed in restaurants."

Fast forward 20 years and my girlfriend and I are out to eat. When a child runs by being a little shitball I say, "Remember when children weren't allowed in restaurants?"

No...nobody does.

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

Wow, remember when parents were actually considerate of others? I miss that.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) I thought orgasm was a nice word for fart when I was 10. Told my mom I had so many orgasms that my stomach hurt.

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

That must have not ended well… Or your mom laughed her head off

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) I went to Catholic schools growing up. Other kids went to public schools. I thought there were two religions: Catholic and Public.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) As a kid my uncle would play this joke where he would put his hand on your head and make like a jellyfish squeezing your head a little, and say “this is a brainsucker, know what it’s doing? Starving!”

I would always laugh but did not get it until I was like 25

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) I don't know why but whenever someone mentioned that a piece of furniture (or often the dashboard of a nice car) was walnut, I kind of thought they meant the nut and shells all crushed up and smoothened and I wondered how they did it. Then, in my thirties, I realised they probably make it from the tree. Felt like a right walnut that day.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) that I couldn't drink my problems away and that drinking was the problem.

4 years sober

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

Yeah, I can relate...get drunk to avoid your problems..later you're just broke and hungover.....and your problems are still there.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) That setting boundaries is a necessary part of life and whoever calls you "rude" because of it has a problem.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) I always thought that if a guy didn't hold his penis while he was peeing, that it would whip around like a fire hose.

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

As the lone girl in a house full of boys, I clean up enough floor pee to confirm that this surely must be true

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) That the opposite sex does not owe me anything for my kindness.

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

Not just the opposite sex. And being kind is a reward in itself, you don't anything in return :)

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) There is a difference between "dish soap" and "dishwasher soap.".

I was a rookie in the fire house and put the dishes into the dish washer after morning oats and lunch. I proceeded to the load the dish detergent tray with the same soap that I was using to scrub the dishes in the sink...poor choice.

We wind up running a few calls in the afternoon on the engine. When we finally get back to the station and I'm restocking/wiping the rig down, my captain walks out and asked if I started the dishwasher. I said yes. Then we proceeded to go into the kitchen where there was literally a three feet deep sea of bubbles in the kitchen. The engineer and firefighter on duty thought it was hilarious, as did my captain, but being the rookie, I was embarrassed as hell. I opened a door to the outside and used our ventilation fan to blow as much of the suds as I could out the door. After restarting the dishwasher, more of these bubbles started coming out of the dishwasher. I had to rinse that dishwasher out so many times to get rid of all of the residue from the dish soap. The crazy part is, I didn't put that much soap into the machine.

And that, kids, is how I earned the nickname, "Bubbles."

TLDR: Don't put dish soap into a dishwasher...dishwasher soap only.

Edit: I was 21 when this happened.

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

Cue me sprinting to dump 3 mls. of Dawn into the dishwasher to check...

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) As a young child, I would tell my father, "Dad, I'm hungry." He would stop whatever he was doing, extend his hand, and say, "I'm Bill." It infuriated me. For years this went on.

One day, I say, "I'm tired." He responds his usual response and I begin to say, "Daaaaa.....Oh! Oh my god! I GET IT!"

There are very few times I've seen my dad laugh that hard. I was 18.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) Until i was 19 and away at college i did not know that milk curdles or bread molded. I grew up in a family of 8 and we went through that stuff so fast.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) Tasmanian devils are not made up by Looney Tunes

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) Fruit Loops are all the same flavor. I was 27, and I still remember the shock of finding out Toucan Sam had been lying to me my whole life.

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

Toucan Sam that dirty little liar. All this time I thought my favorite flavor was blue

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) Octopuses have BEAKS

Edit: OK NERDS "OCTOPI" ISN'T THE ONLY TECHNICALLY CORRECT TERM AND I'M NOT CHANGING IT.

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

Octopuses is the real correct term, and the rest are accepted

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) when i was about 9 my mother told me that a slut is a woman who likes to have fun. i started describing myself as a slut and i did for about a year or 2

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

How come it's the females that get the nasty names? Why not the males? Double standards? Patriarchy?

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) That driving with the light on in the car was not illegal. I remember my mom saying that as a child.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) Oh this question was meant for me.

I was 16 years old when I learned “flooriting” was not a word.

I grew up watching a LOT of SpongeBob and it was my favorite show. In the show, SpongeBob always fails his driving test because he will always “floor it” instead of driving slowly. When I was little I thought that “floorit” was a single word that meant to go fast and always assumed that someone could be “flooriting” or going very fast.

Fast forward to driving school. I’m in the car with the instructor and another student. I’m driving slowly on the highway and someone aggressively passes me. I made some nervous comment like “man, he’s really flooriting!” And the car just gets really quiet for a second. Then the other student in the car goes, “flooriting? What?”

And that’s when I realized. It all crashed down on me at once. FLOOR IT. It was two different words. It meant putting the gas pedal on the floor. I was shook. I kinda gasped and couldn’t even respond because I was overwhelmed.

It’s been 8 years and I still have never had such a strong, sudden realization of anything. And secretly I still kinda use “flooriting” in my head sometimes.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) An old co worker was 21 or 22 when he discovered that Ponies aren't just juvenile horses, but like another thing entirely. He spent an entire day walking up to anyone he could find going "Hey did you know" it was hilarious.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) I was like 10 when I found out I'm Indian. From India. Little kid me always thought it meant I was Native American and I told people as much until around third grade when I found out that India is a country.

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

Yeah I wish they'd rename the real Americans a proper name to stop this confusion. I always have to say "Indian indian like from subcontinental india".

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) It took me 10 years and $20,000 to figure out how credit cards were supposed to be used.

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

31 yo and still to this day don't have one. No credit is worse than bad credit

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) That narwhals were real. I genuinely thought they were myth until I saw them on a David Attenborough documentary.

Mind. blown.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) I just recently learned that when you buy a stick deodorant, you can remove the little plastic protective cover by just rotating the feed wheel at the bottom. You DON'T need to use your teeth like a fucking animal.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) Black people don't have an extra muscle in their leg that makes them better at sports. (I grew up in a very racist small Kansas town.) Was actually taught that by a fifth grade teacher. Found out in college when my ignorance made me look like a bigot.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) At seven years old, I realized that the moon is not the back of the sun.

A few years later, it turns out that no matter how good you are to your cat, it doesn't grow up to be a dog.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) I didn’t know how to write in print until my first year of college. Up to that point, I only learned cursive, and my teachers were so happy that someone willingly used cursive that they just went along with it.

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When I was in first grade in 1963 we learned to print and in the next couple of years we'd ask our friends, "have you started real writin' yet?" To me cursive was Real Writin'. It still is.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) I asked my senior year drama teacher if I could go to the nurse because I just queefed in the bathroom. Learned the hard way that's not same as throwing up.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) Prima Donna is not Pre Madonna.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) The meaning of birthday suit. I was 26 at the time.

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

For peopling wondering ‘birthday suit’ means naked

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) the end pieces of a loaf of bread keep the bread fresher, longer, so you should not eat them until the very end of the loaf.

This I learned at 52.

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

But they are so good when fresh and crispy with salted butter!

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) I was deep into my teens when I realized it’s “make ends meet” instead of “make end’s meat”. I always visualized it as procuring the last bit of food you could in tough times. Wrong!

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I was in my mid to late 20s when I read on closed captions "London Bridge is falling down". Until that very moment I had always believed it was "London Bridges" like multiple bridges were falling. Lol

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) That the delete key on the keyboard deletes to the right of the cursor. Backspace deletes to the left and I would always move the cursor to hit backspace instead of just hitting delete.

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35 years old and I just learned this now lol. Had to test it out. Mind blown.

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#36

you can't make twins by [making love] really hard.

Someone told me that you get twins when the embryo splits and how that happens is by [making love] really really hard.

So I'd see these like people out in public with their twins and be like "these [friggin] perverts! Just walking around like they aren't sexual deviants!"

I think I was about 15 when I found out that is indeed, not how it works.

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

Who the f tells a child you get twins by f*****g really hard?

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I have a friend who kept getting blisters on his feet. His fiance realized that his shoes were two sizes too big. He thought you were always supposed to buy shoes like that, because that is how his mom used to buy his shoes when he was a kid. He is 28, graduated from Notre Dame with an engineering degree.

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Hunchtoe of Notre Dame if he doesn’t fix that ouchie real quick

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I was 17 in American History class when I felt the need to ask my professor how the slaves took care of all of the rabbits on the cotton plantations, and why it was never in any of the textbooks... That was the day I learned cotton came from a plant and not cottontail rabbits...

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When I was younger and friends parents would ask me if I had any siblings. I would respond with "No, I'm a lonely child".

Was embarrassed that I never realized it was "only child".

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

I’m a lonely child too! My sister tries to find me friends but it doesn’t work

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) You have to adjust baking instructions for high altitudes

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That you should apply for a job even if you don't possess all the listed required qualifications, since it's apparently not actually required most of the time.

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

You can apparently even become president of the USA without any qualifications. As shown on January 20, 2017.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) That envelopes are inexpensive. Growing up, my parents didn't have much money, so they were very frugal and didn't waste anything. I drew on an envelope one time and my mom fussed a bit because I already had drawing paper and envelopes were only for mail and that I shouldn't waste them. Fair enough.

When I moved out for college, I didn't really need to mail anything because email existed and I lived close enough to home to just drive there if I really needed something. When I did have to mail something, I just bought an envelope and stamp together at the post office. It was expensive, but it just reenforced my thought that envelopes are expensive. Paying bills online came about around the time I graduated, so again, I infrequently needed envelopes, and only bought one at a time when I did.

After getting married, my wife volunteered to handle all of our bills and taxes because she likes doing it. So again, I am not buying envelopes.

Finally, at age 38, I found my daughter drawing on an envelope. I gently chided her and told her that envelopes are too expensive to just draw on them and to use her drawing pad instead. My wife overheard me and asked what the hell I was talking about. I explained and she laughed for ten minutes before she calmed down enough to show me the box of 40 envelopes she got at the dollar store. Lesson learned.

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Paper is expensive. That's why envelopes from incoming mail got recycled as shopping lists.

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#43

Diagon Alley = diagonally. Sure, easy, someone pointed that out when the books first came out.

Knockturn Alley = nocturnally. I was yesterday years old for that one.

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I'm 20 and learned last week that shoes over a telephone wire signifies a nearby drug dealer. Up until then I just thought it was a dumb way to get rid of a pair of old shoes.

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my brother recently just found out that a rum and coke is not a "roman coke." he kept making the joke, "when in rome" when we were drinking one night and i finally had to ask what the fuck he was talking about.

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I'm 23 and last year I asked my girlfriend to get some Zoup whilst she was out.

After a 20 minute discussion, me mostly saying "You know, the lemonade", I found out that Zoup is in fact 7UP.

I've been saying Zoup for the past 8 years, why did no one correct me!

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My car (VW Up) is nicknamed 7Up as my other car is a Sprite.

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That "French kissing" and "oral sex" are two completely different things.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) The Paralympics and the Special Olympics are not the same thing.

I feel terrible.

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At age 35 I learned that the spices in the grocery store are arranged alphabetically.

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I was 33 when I learned that Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, etc were Christopher Robin's toys and their adventures were his imagination. I had thought they were magical animals he met in the woods.

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When a machine is not working it is "out of order" There is not a French phrase "Ala Vorder" that means a machine is not working.

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I like to think that I'm a reasonably intelligent person... however, it didn't dawn on me until I was about 18 that the "meat" on cows, pigs, chickens, etc was muscle tissue. I just thought it was kinda weird that some animals had "meat", but humans don't. Then one day it just kind of dawned on me, and I was like, "Ohhhhh...... well, shit."

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

Why is there such a disconnect between knowing the food you eat and where it comes from?

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) That hummingbirds don't have wings like a helicopter.

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How utterly obnoxious and self absorbed I used to be. Been working really hard to not be that person anymore

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At least you realized it and are working on it. Some people never reach that level.

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So, here goes. I must have been a flatulent little shit, because when I was reaaaaally little(2,3,4) my parents decided it would be a fun idea to convince me that my farts were a crime. I guess it started with a small lie and snowballed from there. Sometimes we'd be driving on the highway and see someone pulled over. "Cops caught him farting," my dad would say. Or we'd pass a speeding-trap and my mom would say, "Cops! Hold in your farts!" and we'd all squeeze our butts and squeak with relief when we passed by.

When I was seven they told me Uncle Tim was arrested for gassing a crowded movie theater. At the time I did not know he was selling weed.

I remember being kind of interested in the law, and hearing on the news that someone important had been accused of something(which had a long and complicated name) and my dad said it meant blatantly farting out loud in public. I think it was perjury, but it might have been embezzling or something in Latin. And this was around when the Lewinski scandal happened, so for a while I thought the President of the United States was being impeached for loudly ripping ass in front of a Federal grand jury.

Anyway, I spent the next several years believing I was a Batman villain every time I ate beans. I was in the double digits before I realized they were just fucking with me.

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I don't care if this is made up, I'm going to be laughing all day 🤣

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) I didn't know that the sound you make when you snap your fingers came from the middle finger hitting the ball of the thumb. I don't even know why I didn't know that. I just never thought about it

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

Please raise your hand if you, too just snapped your fingers and were amazed by this fact!

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) That Yosemite is pronounced “yo-sem-ity” and not “yo-zmite”

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When I found that out, I also finally understood where Yosemite Sam must have gotten his name from. Before that, when I hadn't seen it written down, I thought his name was Yo-Sammity-Sam, which now I think about it kinda sounds like a rapper name.

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#58

Pickles are pickled things. Like - you can pickle onions and eggs. Gherkins are pickled cucumbers, they’re not just pickles.

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i've posted this before, but i was well into my 30s before i realized anne frank actually died in the holocaust. i thought she was a survivor, like elie wiesel.

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How to pump gas. I'm moving from NJ to CA. I still don't think I'm ready to do it alone, I'm afraid I'll fuck something up and explode the car.

*19 years old

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For those who don't know, NJ is one of only two states (the other one is Oregon) where it is illegal to pump your own gas. Every gas station is full serve with an attendant who does it for you, and therefore many people there have never pumped their own gas.

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That television and movies don't reflect actual dialog in reality. I had a hard time when I was a kid with social situations, and I knew that but I couldn't place why, so I decided to start imitating popular movie characters. I was eating lunch with a group of other kids and decided to try a Hermione Granger line. I turn to the kid next to me, with no preamble or context and go, "Do you EVER stop eating?". He never spoke to me again.

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I still quote cartoon characters at random moments in conversations without the realisation someone may think I'm insane

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Age 30: That dishwashers don't fill up like a washing machine, they shower the dishes from all angles.

I was always afraid to stop the dishwasher mid cycle.

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same here... no dishwasher growing up, and only found out at thirty when the wife and I bought one...

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I was about 28 (31 now) when I learned wrecking balls are real. I had always assumed they were purely cartoon nonsense, like ACME and Animaniacs.

I still think its fucking ridiculous to scale up a midieval flail and run it into things to demolish them; no part of that has ever safe or a good idea.

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I used to believe that humming birds were mythical creatures and not even real. I saw one at one point and lost my shit.

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One got really close to me today! I got a god look at it and it’s beautiful

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This is fucked up, but I didn't learn how to fart until sometime in high school. Up until then, I thought every time I felt some pressure in my bowels, it was my body telling me I had to take a shit.

I'd go sit on the toilet several times a day, only to be met with smelly air. It usually didn't take longer than a minute to realize it was just a fart, so I really didn't mind.

Then, for some reason, one day I felt some bowel pressure, and I just thought "fuck it, I'm just going to shit my pants", and let loose. Turns out it was just a fart. Actually, it probably wasn't like that at all, as I don't remember the exact situation that led to my moment of clarity. I can say however, that ever since I have learned to fart, I've been a happier person. I think.

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This story has everything. Mystery, suspense, fear, resignation, revelation. Classic.

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I thought the phrase "dawned on me" was "don-donned me" until I was like 29

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

DON-DON is that sound at the start of each episode of Law & Order.

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I was 19 before I realized that boys have a little hole in their boxers and stuff. I only had a sister growing up, and when I started doing home health where I would have to dress clients, I used to get so confused on how to figure out what part is the front cause a lot didn’t have tags. It wasn’t until my friend mentioned the hole that I said “what hole”

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

And the funny thing is guys don't use them. Just pull the waist band down. 😂

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#68

That Sandy Cheeks' name on Spongebob is a joke about when you get sand on your butt when you go to the beach.

I've been watching that show since 1999 and just realized this a couple days ago. 18 freaking years...

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Once you own a home you still pay a shitload in taxes. I always figured if I bought my place it would be free living the rest of my life.

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I was in my 30's when I realized that the Ore-Ida in "Ore-Ida Tater Tots" stood for Oregon-Idaho.

I'm from Washington State.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) That being an edgelord with a chip on your shoulder isn't cool. Any age is embarrassingly late to grow out of it

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HazMat means Hazardous material

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

I think most people weren't aware of this (including me).

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I thought being gay was illegal in the US until I was like 14

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

It was originally and might be again soon sadly :(

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

I guess it depends when you were 14 and which state you're in - 2003 for Texas (there's a shocker).

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

It was for a long time due to some sodomy laws still on the books through, i believe, the 1980s

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Some states still have sodomy laws on the books, they've never been removed. Like other antiquated laws. In Montana, if something like 10 natives gather in one spot you can shoot them because it's considered a war party.

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

Social opprobrium carries greater weight than law. People will enforce that first and make laws to conform to their own prejudices.

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

Um, it was? I mean it pretty significantly was until 2003.... which is ironically when I was 14 so... it WAS illegal until *I* was 14....

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

If those homophobic protestors tried to spout that religious condemnation and hate-talk in Britain, they'd be stoned to death with 3 week old scones. Brutal way to die, I imagine.. We might even decorate the scones with glorious hundreds-and-thousands and little rainbow flags.

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I was 8 when I finally learned there was no r in the word "idea."

For context: I am from Boston.

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I was 16 in 2010 when I learned that Eminem and Slim Shady are the same person (I didn’t listen to rap AT ALL growing up).

When I told my mother, who is wildly more in touch with pop culture, she just looked at me like I grew a dick out of my forehead while laughing and said “no shit, dumbass.” I deserved that one

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

Nobody deserves that kind of reaction, kids shouldn't be shamed for ignorance/not knowing things.

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That your lotto numbers don't have to be in the order drawn to win.....

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I hooked up with a girl that just found out that Alaska wasn't an island.

She thought it was an island because on a map of the U.S., Alaska and Hawaii are down in the left corner.

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

Just a minute, Alaska and see what she says. ;-)

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No one ever told me not to put metal in the microwave (I guess I just never happened to put anything metallic in them). Learned that freshmen year in college when my spoon sparked and scared the hell out of me.

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

I found out as an adult that plates with gold leaf will do the same.

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I don't want to gross anyone out but I didn't realize until I was pregnant that you deliver the placenta AFTER you deliver the baby. I thought it all just came out at once. I cried that day I found out. I'm 26 and due in June.

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I knew the word paradigm. But I'd never knowingly seen it spelled. I consider myself decently intelligent but I read out paradigm as para-dij-um and asked what the fuck word it was.

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Same! I've always been the vocabulary queen, I thought so anyway. Then I saw the written form of entrepreneur and proudly chirped en- tromp-a-noor. My husband laughed till he cried.

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That I don't have to keep my underwear on when I shower by myself. I finally stopped wearing it in the shower when I was around 13-14. My younger sister and I used to shower/bathe together (up until 10yrs) all the time and always kept our underwear on. So I thought we were supposed to and that it was normal.

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😳 Good grief! This is a religious brain-fart-syndrome, correct? The fear of these kinds of parents that showering somehow always leads to sex except when wearing underware. And this is the result. How can parents come to the conclusion brothers and sisters have sex when showering together. I can't even... 🙈🤦‍♀️

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I'll admit it. I'm 24 and I had NO idea the NBC logo was a peacock until like a few years ago. I always thought it was just a bunch of colored panels. I asked my dad why the purple one has a chip in it. That's when I realized...

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I recently how to show my 25 year-old roommate how to change a lightbulb. When he asked what he should do with the dead one, I suggested he take it out back and shoot it.

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Tampons. I thought you couldn't pee if you had one in. So much waste. My mom kept yelling at me "WHERE THE FUCK ARE ALL THE TAMPONS"; I drank a lot of water, peed roughly 5-8 times per day.

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

Ouch removing a dry ish tampon once is bad enough but 5-8 times a day no thanks.

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35 Of The Most Obvious Things People Have Only Just Realized And Shared In This Online Group (New Answers) That emperor penguins are only about 4 ft. tall, not 6 ft. like I imagined.

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I thought PC meant personal computer. And "oh that guy is so PC" meant he was online too much...up until 3 or 4 years ago

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That chocolate milk doesn’t come from brown cows. Seriously dad.

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I learned in my mid-twenties that the term “afternoon” literally means all the hours that are after noon.

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Technically I knew this as well. But practically it's untill around 5, then it's evening.

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Until I was like 13 or something, I always wondered how the baby didn't slip out of the mom when she was taking a shit.

I was not a smart child.

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Wrestling isn’t real. This was 2 years ago.

Edit: The fighting, yes, I didn’t realize that most of the brutal moves I saw as a kid were fake. I was a huge fan of like WWE (or was it WWF?) when I was like 7 or 8, I haven’t watched or cared about any of it since I was at least 10. I’m 29 now, and even a South Park episode didn’t clue me in until my nephew offered to show me how to do his favorite wrestling move. This led to him telling his grown ass aunt that wrestlers don’t really fight like I believed they did. I swear, I thought some of these dudes hated each other or were rivals, like basketball teams or something, and really got paid to beat the living hell out of each other. Yes, I still feel dumb. That South Park episode though made me realize that the storylines were scripted - again, I was a little girl who liked to watch Mick Foley hurt himself, or Stone Cold Steve Austin fight the Rock or whatever, it was fun to me. I just never gave it a second thought growing up that these dudes didn’t hate each other and fought in a cage for a championship belt. my 12 year old nephew just kinda blew my mind a few years ago.

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While it is scripted, the injuries they get are very real and painful.

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That the term adam's apple has Biblical roots.

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That his name is Tolkien not Token!

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That Washington, D.C is not in Washington state. I'm Canadian.

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That Luke destroyed the Death Star in A New Hope. I thought the newly built and not yet finished Death Star in Return of the Jedi was just a partially damaged Death Star from the first film.

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Illegal drugs are a lot more accepted in society than I would have thought.

Edit: it's weird that when you're a kid you're told that drugs are bad. Then you are told that every system designed to teach you that drugs are bad (the DARE program, anti drug PSAs) are ineffective/funny even though you didn't get into drugs because of these systems (aka I didn't laugh at DARE program or anti drug PSAs). Then you read Reddit posts on how drugs ruined lives but at the same time society approves of marijuana use. I get to the point where I just want to go "Hey, society, I give up. Am I supposed to do drugs or not?"

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

🤔 THC and/ or CBD (in medical cannabis) are used as medication. Fe to help with cancer related pain, MS, PTSD, epilepsy... though studies are inconsistent on the effects of THC/ CBD or have been conducted below regular standarts of such medical studies. Still, as long as it helps some patients, it's a good thing. Not every medication works for every patient anyway.

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I thought the refs on NFL just had naturally loud voices when telling penalties. My brother and dad played along with it so I was 100% convinced. I just learned a couple of years ago they have microphones. I'm 24 years old.

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#97

That a girls period lasts longer than 1 day... 11th grade was an exciting year for me.

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The players can’t see the first down line in American Football

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

can someone translate this into soccer for me? preferably with a banana for scale and in metric units. Ta.

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Until I was seventeen I didn't know what the other 98% was when a carton of milk said 2%

I know it's from Parks & Rec, but when I heard Dwyer say it I realised I didn't know either

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#100

I spent far, far too long believing dubstep was a band.

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

reminds me of when I was a kid, and saw "ibid" as a reference in academic books. I was like "F**k i MUST get this Ibid book, it must be fantastic, it knows everything!"

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Not myself but a 21 year old female acquaintance today informed me that she only just learnt that Winston Churchill was in fact, white.

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Not nescessarily learned, but i only came to the realisation that 'anti-gravity' chambers werent actually a thing at about the age of 20

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The months of the year in order. I missed that day in school.

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

and... you've never... seen, used, or noticed... these things called... 'calendars'...?

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#104

I always thought a person was in an 'acoma'! It wasn't until I saw it written down I learnt it was 'a coma' Big face palm moment!

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

The full word is slipintoacoma. One always slips into acoma, never gets there in any other way.

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#105

Driving a car. In my country people living in families owning a car usually learns driving quite early. I am 31 and learnt driving last year.

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

Both my mum and my gf were in their 40s before they learnt to drive. I was 17, because by then my mum had a car and I learnt in that. Don't know whether my Dad would've let me learn in his, but he paid me the ultimate compliment after I passed my test by letting me drive his car back from holiday and he fell asleep in the back!

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#106

I didn't learn Baking Soda and Baking Powder weren't just interchangable names for the same thing until I was in my late 20s.

I made some pepperoni and mozzarella puff pastries for the CFB National Championship game. They came out terrible and everyone was lolling at me, including my sister's douche husband Kevin.

I peed on Kevin's toothbrush when I used the bathroom later that night.

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