We go through life being continuously reminded of our limits. But instead of trying to hide them, we should stay humble — it’s what allows us to remain open to new ideas, perspectives, and experiences, all of which are essential for personal growth.
So in an attempt to remind you that no person is born all-knowing, we present a discussion we found on the subreddit ‘No Stupid Questions.’ It began when a platform user CelesteAvoir asked others to share the facts that they’ve “learned embarrassingly late” and has blossomed into a fascinating collection of stories, adding some levity to the universal quest for knowledge.
#1
Until 2018 I thought Elon Musk wasa kind of truck stop bathroom cologne, from the makers of Jovan Musk. I really wish it was true.
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#2
My uncle once told me if I got a thousand bee stings I’d die. He meant all at once. For years, I thought he meant cumulatively. And I kept count.
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#3
Can I point to something that other ppl were wrong about? I was in a room full of ppl discussing a cruise some of them took to and around Alaska. I asked if they saw any narwhals, and they all – the entire room looked at me dumbfounded, and some started laughing. Every single one of them thought narwhals were mythical creatures. I still can’t believe it. I guess they should be embarrassed bc I don’t think many of them even looked it up and I guess I should be a little embarrassed that ppl actually don’t think they’re real.
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#4
I’m from Belgium and I was nearly 30 when I found out what really happened in congo. We just casually brushed over that part in high school history as “it was the fashion at the time to colonise. We left when they were self-sufficient enough to run their own country, and then they effed it up”.
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#5
Hump day is referring to the middle of the week, like over the hump, and not the day everyone humps. I always found it weird at my office job when someone would say happy hump day, like, dude, I’m pretty sure you can’t say that here. I was 27 when I realized.
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#6
That the bad moon is on the rise, not the bathroom on the right. I ruined that song for my mom when I told her what I heard lmao.
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#7
That a quart is a **quart**er of a gallon. Duh.
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#8
A cup is a unit of measurement. I always wondered how you could have one cup of something in a recipe when everyone has different cups.
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#9
The little arrow on my dash beside the gas pump icon points to the side of the car with the gas door. Rental cars were a 50/50 shot of getting it right if I forgot to look first before driving, so it was a good thing to learn. At 40 years old. Haha.
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#10
That Rhode Island isn’t an Island. I learned that at 53 years old.
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#11
I thought the term “birthday suit” meant a suit you’re literally supposed to wear on your birthday.
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#12
Until I was 19, I thought fly fishing was fishing out of a plane or helicopter. I figured it just flew really low and slow and that they had really long fishing lines.
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#13
That cattle is just the species name for cows and bulls. I thought it was a closely related but separate species until like grad school 😭😂.
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#14
I’ve never heard someone say Yosemite out loud, I’ve been reading it as Yo sem ight lmao.
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#15
Pumpkin spice does not actually taste like pumpkin :/.
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#16
It’s chest of drawers and not Chester drawers.
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#17
That Jessica Rabbit wasn’t actually a rabbit and that “Rabbit” was her last name because she married Roger. I was in my 20s when I figured it out.
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#18
That the ABC song and twinkle twinkle little star song have the same melody. I was 27 years old when I realized it. Blew my mind then 😂.
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#19
The crust of the bread does not in fact contain all the nutrients.
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#20
A girl I knew thought roadside memorials were actual graves.
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#21
Carrot cake is really made with carrots. I thought because they usually pipe a little carrot on the top and the fact you ate it around Easter they just called it that for no other reason.
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#22
Its coleslaw not coldslaw. I just… never looked at the menus to hard. Coldslaw makes sense its cold. Who is Cole???
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