“A girl I knew thought roadside memorials were actual graves.”
Reddit userCelesteAvoirasked thisquestion: “What is something you learned embarrassingly late?”
“I’ve never heard someone say Yosemite out loud.
I’ve been reading it as Yo-sem-ight.”
Asleep-Trifle-8645
2.
“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.”
khitanona
3.
“How to spell ‘garuntee’still working on it.”
willieandthets
4.
“The meaning of the word ‘beastiality.’
Upbeat_Tension_8077
5.
“I once accidentally shouted ‘I love necrophilia!’
during my class in 10th grade.
I had just read a book about a young teenage necromancer and got the words mixed up.
We can cringe together.”
asterierrantry
6.
“Pumpkin spice does not actually taste like pumpkin.”
MAMidCent
7.
“That West Virginia doesnt mean the western part of Virginia.
rosyred-fathead
8.
“When I turned 21, all I knew was that wine is red or white.
I tried to order white wine and the waiter asked which one.
I asked what they had and picked the one I felt most confident pronouncing.”
ForestWanderingOne
9.
“Carrot cake is really made with carrots.
Garden_Circus
10.
“A girl I knew thought roadside memorials were actual graves.”
Midlifetoker
11.
“That POW MIA wasn’t pronounced phonetically as ‘pow-me-ah.’
damnuge23
12.
I was 27 when I realized.”
Paranoid_Orangutan
13.
I really wish it was true.”
Longjumping_Choice_6
14.
“That a quart is a quarter of a gallon.”
thamonsta
15.
“I thought everyone got a vacation for their birthday.
Mine is on December 28, so I had no school for 20 years.
At my first job, I went to my boss and complained they scheduled me.
I was so surprised.”
AffectionateSun5776
16.
“Its ‘chest of drawers’ and not ‘Chester drawers.'”
Jwalkinworm
17.
I ruined that song for my mom when I told her what I heard.”
Conscious_Abroad_877
18.
SteadfastEnd
19.
LemmyLola
20.
“I thought ‘cattle’ was a closely related but separate species of cow until like grad school.”
AstroWolf11
21.
“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.”
bananafishin
22.
“Rhode Island isnt an island.
I learned that at 53 years old.”
vanbrima
23.
“A cup is a unit of measurement.
TheDemonMaker
24.
“My uncle once told me if I got a thousand bee stings Id die.
He meant all at once.
For years, I thought he meant cumulatively.
And I kept count.”
isaacgunson
25.
“That PC means Personal Computer.”
reelbigcasey
26.
“It’s ‘coleslaw’ not ‘coldslaw’.
I just…never looked at the menus too hard.”
Little did I know, socks didn’t work like gloves.
jeremyhayes
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