Learning is a continuous journey that people go on for their whole lives. Even though we might learn things from school or people, books, movies, and other sources, there might be certain facts we miss out on. It can therefore be embarrassing if we only figure those things out for ourselves very late in life.
This list is full of such realizations from folks who feel a bit sheepish about the apparently common knowledge things they learned later on. Who knows, maybe this might be a learning experience for you as well.
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#1
Those roadside memorials are not actually where they buried the person. I always thought that was so disrespectful to just leave people in the ditch where they died.
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#2
A pony is not a baby horse. Also, a reindeer is a real animal.
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#3
I didn’t know the exhaust fan in the bathroom was there to get rid of the humidity in the room to prevent mold. I thought it was there to get rid of the smell.
I was 68.
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#4
I didn’t know pirates were real until I was like 27. Fully thought they were made up characters like leprechauns.
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#5
I wasn’t eating “a sparagus”, I was eating “asparagus”.
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#6
Pufferfish fill with water, not air.
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#7
I was an adult when I found out that Alaska is not an island and, in fact, is attached to Canada. All the maps as kids showed Alaska like an island next to Hawaii.
I swear, I’m a well educated person. 😂.
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#8
Narwhals are real. Age 28.
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#9
I thought baby carrots taste different than big carrot cause the baby ones always seem more wet and I don’t like that….so figured they were also grown differently like maybe they were a different species of carrot – 🥕 turns out they are just big carrots cut up and shaped. I like big carrots 😂.
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#10
Bandicoots are real animals and not just the Crash Team Racing character. I was about 27.
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#11
I just realized the other day that to “make ends meet” had nothing to do with meat. Like I got what it meant from context but I thought it was like I’m so poor I can’t make ends meat like it was some kind of dish.
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#12
That the wax in candles are actually the fuel for the flame. I thought that the wick was soaked in fuel and the wax just melted away to reveal it. I was well into adulthood when I learned this.
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#13
I was 25 when I discovered that Sherlock Holmes was not a real person. I was so disappointed and betrayed.
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#14
That the name Liam is short for William.
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#15
My shoe size lol I though shoes were supposed to fit snug to the foot, turns out I was wearing a half size to a whole size down lol.
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#16
A cow has to have had a baby to produce milk.
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#17
That in “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,” Santa is the dad in a costume. Until I was mid-20s I really thought the mom was cheating on her husband with Santa.
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#18
I vividly remember the moment I realized the “every kiss begins with Kay” commercial was a play on words with kiss literally beginning with the letter K(ay). I thought they were just bold and claiming kisses begin with their jewelry brand. Yes I’m autistic and yes I have more examples, that’s just my favorite and first big one.
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#19
I was diagnosed with adhd at 40. All the signs and symptoms were there my entire life.
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#20
My mom is 64 and she just learned that the sun is a star. She thought it was its own thing I suppose!
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#21
Dinosaur bones in museums aren’t real bones only a cast (sometimes smaller displays will be real but they will state so).
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#22
That the song i thought was called ice capade by janet jackson is actually called escapade.
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#23
The Normans that invaded England way back? Were from NORMANDY….. I’m not sure why that never dawned on me.
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#24
I thought Charles Barkley the basketball player and gnarles Barkley the musician were the same person.
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#25
You always find the thing you are looking for in the last place you look. I get that it means it’s the last place because why would you keep looking after you find it. But what I always thought it meant was the thing is always in the last place you would consider looking at to find it.
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#26
How to pronounce “ethereal”, i didnt know it was like eth-ear-eal like cereal, i thought it was ether-eel LOL.
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#27
I realised the pickle thing around the same age as you.
I was 16 when I suddenly realised that pine cones came from.pine trees.
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#28
How to cook rice without a rice cooker. (Still use one when I can, though. Cause it’s just better.).
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#29
I was too old when I learned blue raspberry is just a mix of raspberry and blue berry and not a real fruit.
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#30
The numbers on the dial on a toaster are minutes, not levels of toasty-ness. 🤯.
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