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

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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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#1

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.

[deleted] , Ricardas Brogys Report

Final score:

312points

Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago

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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#2

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.

[deleted] , Christina Victoria Craft Report

Final score:

301points

kermit 2 years ago

I mean it’s still an accomplishment

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#3

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.

demolitiondubz , Houcine Ncib Report

Final score:

296points

Juan Ghote 2 years ago

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

82points

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#4

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.

pooveyfarms , Rod Long Report

Final score:

293points

iseefractals 2 years ago

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

217points

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#5

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.

[deleted] , Keren Fedida Report

Final score:

281points

kermit 2 years ago

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

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#6

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.

[deleted] , Constanza S. Mora Report

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265points

Samantha Mix 2 years ago

You're not wrong....

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#7

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

patinaYouUgly , Henry Söderlund Report

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264points

Nika De Beer 2 years ago

That's hilarious!

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#8

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.

livid54 , YUSUF ARSLAN Report

Final score:

262points

Stephanie Did It 2 years ago

I like that. "What a walnut" is my new passive aggression

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#9

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

Feels2old , thom masat Report

Final score:

256points

Matt MacFarlane 2 years ago

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

55points

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#10

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.

tropicalzhu , John Bussell Report

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243points

Priscilla Reshell 2 years ago

True

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#11

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.

[deleted] , Tim Wildsmith Report

Final score:

234points

Wax0nWax0ff 2 years ago

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

368points

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#12

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.

The_e-Detective , Sung Jin Cho Report

Final score:

230points

troufaki13 2 years ago

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

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#13

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.

fireslayer17 , Mohammad Esmaili Report

Final score:

225points

Pumpkin Spice 2 years ago

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

52points

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#14

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.

dianasaurusmex , Marcela Rogante Report

Final score:

218points

kermit 2 years ago

I’m dying

58points

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#15

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.

Trugem6 , Helena Jacoba Report

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212points

Esha 2 years ago

"Mmm chunky milk"

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#16

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

[deleted] , Lottie Corin Report

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212points

SabbeRubbish 2 years ago

Neither is the road runner!

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#17

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.

sfw8580 , Etienne Girardet Report

Final score:

205points

kermit 2 years ago

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

80points

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#18

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.

T33n_T1t4n5 , Serena Repice Lentini Report

Final score:

202points

Soulstice 2 years ago (edited)

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

84points

Finlay Wood 2 years ago

I prefer Octopodes (Since Octopus is originally a Greek word)

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B 🇺🇦🇨🇦 2 years ago

🧡

3points

Delta Dawn 2 years ago

octopodes

2points

Ryan Ecker 2 years ago

Octopi, octopuses, and octopodes

1point

RJS 2 years ago

Yes. Search for “John Oliver octopus” for the details if you’re skeptical.

1point

Nonya Bidness 2 years ago

This, exactly. I tell people this all the time. I see giant pacific octopuses quite often. My favorite girl is now swimming in the Pacific.

0points

Liquid butter 2 years ago

I thought it was octapo

0points

Aidan Wells 2 years ago

my Spanish teacher calls them octopodi

0points

pusheen buttercup 2 years ago

Along that same topic, octopuses have arms and not tentacles :)

0points

CJay M (They-them) 2 years ago

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M. William Bell Premium 2 years ago

Nice edit. People used to think that Octopus was a word of Latin origin (and therefore octopi), but it’s not. It’s a Greek word, and therefore should be made plural with an “s.”

27points

Lula Lulu 2 years ago

Thank you! I was going to say this myself. Always prefered octopods...

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marsBars 2 years ago

Hilarious!! I'm dying yo

26points

WordWeaver 2 years ago

Octopodes?

12points

Rowan 2 years ago

Thought this said octopedos

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ProgHead777 2 years ago

Actually, octopuses is the more correct pluralisation of octopus. Google it.

8points

Bobby 2 years ago

Octopus comes from Greek, not Latin. The Greek plural of pus, or pod, should be pedes. Octopedes is technically the correct plural

6points

Nupraptor 2 years ago

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4points

smugdruggler 2 years ago

Octopi is incorrect anyway because "octo" is from the Greek and pluralising with an "I" is from Latin. Technically the correct Greek form would be "octopodes" but "octopuses" is an acceptable anglicisation.

3points

UpQuarkDownQuark 2 years ago

“The three plurals for octopus come from the different ways the English language adopts plurals. Octopi is the oldest plural of octopus, coming from the belief that words of Latin origin should have Latin endings. Octopuses was the next plural, giving the word an English ending to match its adoption as an English word. Lastly, octopodes stemmed from the belief that because octopus is originally Greek, it should have a Greek ending.“ Merriam-Webster

3points

Guido Pisano 2 years ago

"octopussies"

3points

Potato patato 2 years ago

Octoussy 😏😩

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Zack Podany 2 years ago

An octopus can fit through any opening large enough to accomodate its beak.

2points

George Foxworth 2 years ago

Technically, OCTOPI isn't correct. Octopus is a Greek word, not latin. Only latin has the plural "I".

2points

Peter Trudell Jr 2 years ago

Octopi is actually incorrect formation. Octopusses or Octopodes is the go-to proper forms.

2points

Philly Bob Squires 2 years ago

Mouse - Mice... House - Hice! It makes sense now! Look at that row of hice!! Asparagus, Asparagoose, Asparageese?? I'll leave now!

1point

GBTY Team 2 years ago

Octopodes. Get it right.

1point

john li 2 years ago

Octopi isn't correct either the root word is Greek so the correct plural is octopodes

1point

Whipple Walker 2 years ago

Octopodes

1point

Luna Crow 2 years ago

I've also heard the argument that because of the Greek root "octo" the pluralization should be "podes" instead of the latin "i" ... Octopodes. It's fun!

1point

Alexandros K 2 years ago

It’s actually octopodes if you really want to get down to it.

1point

Ozymandias73 2 years ago

Fishes. Peoples. Couple of my favorite alternatives.

1point

Jennifer Potter 2 years ago

Meeee tooo!!! It's shocking! One gets mesmerized by their soft fluidity and its so ABRUPTLY SURPRISING that it has that sharp organ!!!

1point

Deborah Harris 2 years ago

Sorry I can never look at an Octopus seriously again without thinking of that scene with 'The Deep'

1point

B 🇺🇦🇨🇦 2 years ago

Deborah noooooo 😂🧡

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Mosheh Wolf 2 years ago

Typical American who had never cleaned calamari or octopus before eating it.

0points

JP Purves 2 years ago

Make it singular: An octopus has a beak. Thank me later.

0points

Kitty 🇺🇦 2 years ago

OP is right. Octopi would be the correct word if the word were rotted in Latin. It’s not; it’s rooted in Greek. So if we wanted to be reeaally accurate, we could say octopodes, as -des would be the Greek plural suffix.

0points

Niall Mac Iomera 2 years ago

I've also heard "octopodes" is the correct term.

0points

Stephán I Mortichesky Ryu Iwasaki 2 years ago

Squids have this too.

0points

Jigsaw's Puzzle 2 years ago

They do? I thought that was squids.

0points

Brook Schmidt 2 years ago

Octopi isn't correct. It's octopuses.

0points

猫草 2 years ago

how is this a "most obvious" thing? i think many people are not that familiar with octopus anatomy?

0points

Greymom 2 years ago

I read that as octopuses have "breaks" and I was very confused!😂

0points

pusheen buttercup 2 years ago

Clams have eyes

0points

Jessica Julian 2 years ago

Octopuses, Octopi, or Octopus (as the plural) are all correct. Same goes for Hippopotamus-es-i, and Rhinoceros-es-i.

0points

Lady of the Mountains 2 years ago

I believe octopuses is the roman plural, and octopi is the Greek plural. Octopus is a Roman word, but English is made of Frankenstein words, so you can mix and match if you want

0points

A Thousand Years Wide 2 years ago

I learned this from Batman! (The 90s animated show)

0points

Jaithesaint 2 years ago

I read that, corrected it, looked at the top comment, laughed, and said…I bet the edit is addressed to all the nerds who corrected this. LMAO well

0points

kermit 2 years ago

SQUACK

0points

Anthony Nizza 2 years ago

I thought octopi was the plural.

0points

Scotira 2 years ago (edited)

As far as I know it's both correct. Edit: one just sounds weirder than the other 😅

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#19

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

adhdgf , Timothy Meinberg Report

Final score:

201points

WordWeaver 2 years ago

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

33points

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#20

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.

knight_ofdoriath , Erik Odiin Report

Final score:

200points

troufaki13 2 years ago

So this lie is universal...

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#21

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.

greenoctopusink , JESHOOTS.com Report

Final score:

191points

censorshipsucks 2 years ago

I will now use flooriting, thanks.

78points

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#22

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.

CGY-SS , Tim Green Report

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178points

Robert T 2 years ago

I pity the foal!

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#23

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.

DimensionalNet , Prashanth Pinha Report

Final score:

170points

censorshipsucks 2 years ago

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".

61points

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#24

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.

bangersnmash13 , Anna Shvets Report

Final score:

169points

marsBars 2 years ago

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

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#25

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.

ArtemisArt , NOAA Photolib Library Report

Final score:

167points

Anthony Nizza 2 years ago

I'm still amazed that they are real!!!

43points

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#26

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.

Captain_Hampockets , Charisse Kenion Report

Final score:

167points

Wax0nWax0ff 2 years ago

Teeth are the best tools

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#27

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.

Broncos_Fan , Philippa Rose-Tite Report

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166points

kermit 2 years ago

What the heck 5th grade teacher

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#28

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.

Sparky62075 , Ganapathy Kumar Report

Final score:

162points

Priscilla Reshell 2 years ago

A cat is good enough ☺️

102points

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#29

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.

Hugh_manateerian , RODNAE Productions Report

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156points

Stephanie Did It 2 years ago

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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#30

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.

datboyEVZ , Adhy Savala Report

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152points

Pumpkin Spice 2 years ago

A 'queef' is a vaginal fart...

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#31

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.

iremovebrains , chrisweger Report

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150points

Stephanie Did It 2 years ago

And this, children, is why we learn to read.

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#32

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.

the_meat_n_potatoes , Christian Bowen Report

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144points

Storm 2 years ago

For peopling wondering ‘birthday suit’ means naked

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#33

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.

The_Patriot , Fredrik Rubensson Report

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142points

Caro Caro 2 years ago

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

114points

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#34

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!

um8medoit , Chris-McKee Report

Final score:

131points

Laura Carney 2 years ago

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

33points

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#35

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.

BetsyPeachBucket , Ujesh Krishnan Report

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129points

Scott Kelly 2 years ago

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

8points

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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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52points

Susie Elle 2 years ago

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

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#37

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.

ChicagoButtas Report

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kermit 2 years ago (edited)

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

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#38

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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49points

Wilko Lunenburg 2 years ago

Well, at least the teacher was allowed to tell about slavery.

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#39

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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kermit 2 years ago

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

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#40

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

Poorly-Drawn-Beagle , Kari Shea Report

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46points

Mary August 2 years ago

Learned that here and now.

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#41

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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45points

Wilko Lunenburg 2 years ago

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

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#42

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.

philosofik , Rhodi Lopez Report

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44points

Robert T 2 years ago

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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43points

Lauren Caswell 2 years ago

TIL this omg

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#44

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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43points

Foxxy (The Original) 2 years ago

Really? I thought it was just some idiots being stupid.

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#45

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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40points

Alaina Jones 2 years ago

BP censor police missed one!

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#46

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!

VenatusUK Report

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39points

Robert T 2 years ago

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

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#47

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

Final score:

37points

troufaki13 2 years ago

They are

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#48

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.

Vic_Hedges , Stuart Grout Report

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36points

Anthony Nizza 2 years ago

Nothing to feel terrible about. You learned.

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#49

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

Final score:

35points

Anthony Nizza 2 years ago

They are?!!?!!!

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#50

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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35points

Humanoid Panda 2 years ago

The o.g. toy story.

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#51

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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33points

Stephanie Did It 2 years ago

Wallah! 😖

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#52

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."

YonderPricyCallipers Report

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33points

WordWeaver 2 years ago

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

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#53

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.

Fit_Tumbleweed_5904 , James Wainscoat Report

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33points

GwynWasTaken 2 years ago

How

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#54

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

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33points

Wilko Lunenburg 2 years ago

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

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#55

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.

trampabroad Report

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33points

Auntriarch 2 years ago

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

14points

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#56

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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32points

BananaNutBread 2 years ago

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

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#57

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”

OctopussQueen , Kevin Schultz Report

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32points

Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago (edited)

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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32points

kermit 2 years ago

Pickles are delicious

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#59

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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32points

Wilko Lunenburg 2 years ago

Didn't they teach this at school?

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#60

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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32points

ProgHead777 2 years ago

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.

25points

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#61

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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Susie Elle 2 years ago

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

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#62

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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28points

Jan Rosier 2 years ago

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

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#63

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.

Final score:

27points

kermit 2 years ago

Miley Cyrus was a lie to you?

19points

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#64

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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27points

kermit 2 years ago

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

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#65

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.

Final score:

27points

Stephanie Did It 2 years ago

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

39points

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#66

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

Final score:

26points

Sawdust 2 years ago

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

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#67

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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25points

RK Barbo 2 years ago

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

6points

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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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25points

kermit 2 years ago

SpongeBob is no longer a son to me

4points

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#69

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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Wilko Lunenburg 2 years ago

Still better than renting

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#70

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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25points

Linda van der Pal 2 years ago

Well I was 43 when I first heard of ore-ida tater tots...

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#71

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

AeroBassMaster , Mitch Kemp Report

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23points

Anthony Nizza 2 years ago

What's an edgelord???????

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#72

HazMat means Hazardous material

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Circa 2 years ago

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

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#73

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

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22points

Nika De Beer 2 years ago

Sometimes it seems like it is

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#74

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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22points

Guido Pisano 2 years ago

it is like "talk a pirate day"?

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#75

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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22points

SabbeRubbish 2 years ago

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

27points

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#76

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

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22points

kermit 2 years ago

Bro..

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#77

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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21points

Robert T 2 years ago (edited)

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

11points

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#78

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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21points

Sue 2 years ago

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

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#79

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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21points

Foxxy (The Original) 2 years ago

The placenta is the easy part. Pretty much just slides right out.

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#80

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.

Final score:

20points

Stephanie Did It 2 years ago

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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#81

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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20points

Scotira 2 years ago

😳 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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#82

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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20points

kermit 2 years ago

Cursed guacamole

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#83

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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19points

Don Golosso 2 years ago

This is the most American thing I read today.

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#84

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.

DFTBAwesome Report

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19points

Minath 2 years ago

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

31points

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#85

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.

rachaelonreddit , Yomex Owo Report

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18points

tw 72 2 years ago

4 feet tall is still plenty d@mn big for a bird

16points

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#86

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

Final score:

18points

troufaki13 2 years ago

But... it does mean personal computer. No?

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#87

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

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17points

Bored Person 2 years ago

I don't understand how 7% of USA still believe this

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#88

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

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16points

Donny Bereznak 2 years ago

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

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#89

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.

Inorezyou Report

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16points

kermit 2 years ago

My friend got birthed in the toilet somehow

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#90

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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15points

James016 2 years ago

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

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#91

That the term adam's apple has Biblical roots.

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15points

kasa alex 2 years ago

I learnt that just now.

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#92

That his name is Tolkien not Token!

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14points

Guido Pisano 2 years ago

Not Fungible Tolkien

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#93

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

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14points

Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago

...it's not?? (I'm Australian)

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#94

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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13points

Guido Pisano 2 years ago

recycle recycle recycle

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#95

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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13points

Scotira 2 years ago

🤔 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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#96

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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13points

#97

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

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13points

Monday 2 years ago

I wish it only lasted 1 day....

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#98

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

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12points

censorshipsucks 2 years ago

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

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#99

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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12points

kermit 2 years ago

I del don’t understand

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#100

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

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11points

censorshipsucks 2 years ago

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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#101

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

Final score:

11points

#102

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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Matt MacFarlane 2 years ago

Then there's the Vomit Comet..

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#103

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

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10points

censorshipsucks 2 years ago

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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10points

Stephanie Did It 2 years ago

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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9points

Robert T 2 years ago

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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kermit 2 years ago

Peeth brushing

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Deborah Harris 2 years ago

My Daughter realised at the age of 22 that Diana Princess of Wales wasn't welsh :D

11points

Snorky The Pig 2 years ago

I used to think that during sex, the penis went into the vagina like a hotdog into a bun. Years later I learned about erections and where all the holes are.

4points

Anthony Parisi 2 years ago

As a kid, I thought planes leaving behind a fuel exhaust trail were actually "skyscrapers". (It looked like they scraped the sky!) :-))

4points

broken_guy 2 years ago

lol i just found out that pickles aren't a different vegetables and that they are in fact cucumbers

3points

JJ 2 years ago

Usually they are a different kind of cucumber than those mostly used for salads. Pickle cucumbers are smaller, a bit harder to bite and have a bigger, harder peel with small thorns (very small, they don't hurt that much, but you can feel them). You can use them freshly, too, though, but many people dislike the peel. I only grow those pickle cucumbers because they seem to be more resistant.

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similarly 2 years ago

Until I was in college, I used the spelling "artical" for magazine or news articles, and "article" for government documents. Somehow got it confused with principal and principle maybe? I was in high school before I learned that facade is pronounced with a soft c (hence the funny tail on the c in French.) I'd only ever seen it in print, and had never heard it pronounced until then, so I did the obvious and called fay-kade.

3points

Kyle D 2 years ago

As someone who received no sex education in school or at home, and no experience around them and the subject honestly never having occurred to me since as said, I never saw any others first hand, I was an almost embarrassing age when it dawned on me after a comment that was made to me, that all boys are born uncircumcised. I presumed it was like being born with blue eyes, or black hair. You were born with foreskin or you weren't. And if you happened to be, the parents removed it, depending on religious beliefs.

3points

Yu Pan 2 years ago

I thought people could only have sex if they are fully naked. My friends laughed at me. I was 17.

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Aileen 2 years ago

I used to think that getting engaged to someone was just another way of saying you were going steady with them. So I remember telling one of my friends, "My mom says I can't get engaged until I'm at least sixteen!" And was surprised when she gave me a weird look and said that she was told that 21 is the minimum age (or so her mom told her).

2points

pandamonium 2 years ago

I recently found out that in the song Gaston from Beauty And The Beast that he says "so I'm roughly the size of a barge" (a barge being a large boat) i always thought he said roughly the size of a bard (a bard being a poet who traditionally told epic tales and such and was usually a small man) so i was always really confused by that but then one day my friend told me it was barge and not a bard and explained to me what a barge was and it all makes sense now. As a highschool theatre geek I'm very disappointed in myself for not realizing that sooner!

2points

Guile main 2 years ago

I didn't know that Nick Jonas was part of the Jonas Brothers

1point

Deborah Harris 2 years ago

No way lol ... it's his name :D

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Giles McArdell 2 years ago (edited)

Banoffee pie, I thought "banoffee" was an Italian word until I was well over 30, penny dropped in a restaurant when I was pointing at the menu saying to a friend "hey, Banoffee pie has bananas and toffee in it" - "Dude, it's literally in the name" - "What?... Ohhhh"

1point

JustinTime 2 years ago

I first heard Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar On Me” when I was 12. I didn’t realize it was about sex until I was 30.

1point

Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 2 years ago

The other day a guy I know found out there were more than 6 months in a year. He's said a lot of dumb things tbh.

0points

Sardonyx_3 2 years ago

idk why you were downvoted. Here's an upvote to stop you from getting banned. :)

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Deborah Harris 2 years ago

My Daughter realised at the age of 22 that Diana Princess of Wales wasn't welsh :D

11points

Snorky The Pig 2 years ago

I used to think that during sex, the penis went into the vagina like a hotdog into a bun. Years later I learned about erections and where all the holes are.

4points

Anthony Parisi 2 years ago

As a kid, I thought planes leaving behind a fuel exhaust trail were actually "skyscrapers". (It looked like they scraped the sky!) :-))

4points

broken_guy 2 years ago

lol i just found out that pickles aren't a different vegetables and that they are in fact cucumbers

3points

JJ 2 years ago

Usually they are a different kind of cucumber than those mostly used for salads. Pickle cucumbers are smaller, a bit harder to bite and have a bigger, harder peel with small thorns (very small, they don't hurt that much, but you can feel them). You can use them freshly, too, though, but many people dislike the peel. I only grow those pickle cucumbers because they seem to be more resistant.

1point

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similarly 2 years ago

Until I was in college, I used the spelling "artical" for magazine or news articles, and "article" for government documents. Somehow got it confused with principal and principle maybe? I was in high school before I learned that facade is pronounced with a soft c (hence the funny tail on the c in French.) I'd only ever seen it in print, and had never heard it pronounced until then, so I did the obvious and called fay-kade.

3points

Kyle D 2 years ago

As someone who received no sex education in school or at home, and no experience around them and the subject honestly never having occurred to me since as said, I never saw any others first hand, I was an almost embarrassing age when it dawned on me after a comment that was made to me, that all boys are born uncircumcised. I presumed it was like being born with blue eyes, or black hair. You were born with foreskin or you weren't. And if you happened to be, the parents removed it, depending on religious beliefs.

3points

Yu Pan 2 years ago

I thought people could only have sex if they are fully naked. My friends laughed at me. I was 17.

5points

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Aileen 2 years ago

I used to think that getting engaged to someone was just another way of saying you were going steady with them. So I remember telling one of my friends, "My mom says I can't get engaged until I'm at least sixteen!" And was surprised when she gave me a weird look and said that she was told that 21 is the minimum age (or so her mom told her).

2points

pandamonium 2 years ago

I recently found out that in the song Gaston from Beauty And The Beast that he says "so I'm roughly the size of a barge" (a barge being a large boat) i always thought he said roughly the size of a bard (a bard being a poet who traditionally told epic tales and such and was usually a small man) so i was always really confused by that but then one day my friend told me it was barge and not a bard and explained to me what a barge was and it all makes sense now. As a highschool theatre geek I'm very disappointed in myself for not realizing that sooner!

2points

Guile main 2 years ago

I didn't know that Nick Jonas was part of the Jonas Brothers

1point

Deborah Harris 2 years ago

No way lol ... it's his name :D

0points

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Giles McArdell 2 years ago (edited)

Banoffee pie, I thought "banoffee" was an Italian word until I was well over 30, penny dropped in a restaurant when I was pointing at the menu saying to a friend "hey, Banoffee pie has bananas and toffee in it" - "Dude, it's literally in the name" - "What?... Ohhhh"

1point

JustinTime 2 years ago

I first heard Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar On Me” when I was 12. I didn’t realize it was about sex until I was 30.

1point

Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 2 years ago

The other day a guy I know found out there were more than 6 months in a year. He's said a lot of dumb things tbh.

0points

Sardonyx_3 2 years ago

idk why you were downvoted. Here's an upvote to stop you from getting banned. :)

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