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[sketchsanchez]

I used to think, until a week ago, that tabby meant your cat was orange.

 

[rtcn63]

I recently learned that Crows and Ravens are different types of birds.

murder v conspiracy

 

[NESpowerhouse]

Let's see... I have a few:
1: How to properly hold a fork (I was gripping that thing full-fisted). I learned this around seven years ago.

2: How to ride a bike. I learned this when I was 12.

3: How to tie my own shoes. Shit, that's something I still have trouble with. I just kinda tie them my own way that mostly works.

Bonus: I just learned 2 years ago that pineapples grew in the ground. What? I always thought they grew on trees. My life is a lie.

 

[Cipher Peon]

I didn't learn what a snowflake actually was until high school.

I thought snowflakes were these rare giant gorgeous ice crystals that fell from the sky and I thought that snow was just... snow.

Then one day I looked at a "snow" that fell on my hand and noticed it had the patterns that I had associated with snowflakes and realized that the world is not as straightforward as I thought it was.

Oops.

It was a pretty good lesson on accessibility and common sense, mostly that in terms of accessibility you can't assume anybody knows anything because there is no such thing as common sense. Really helpful when designing things.

 

[Stinkles]

PopGsf is elaborate performance art.

 

[Skab]

Clip your nails and shave after you shower - everything is more pliable.

Save time by doing both IN the shower. No clean up.

 

[Astral Dog]

I didnt realized sooner you were suppossed to be happy doing stuff in life.

 

[Dual Blade]

That the tampon goes in the vagina, not the urethral opening.

 

[LaMagenta]

For a long time I thought limes were just unripe lemons, similar to bananas in that they go from green to yellow as they ripen. Nobody told me otherwise so I believed this until I was 18 and it randomly came up in conversation.

Omg some one just told me this yesterday, dont worry, you're not alone

 

[LaMagenta]

That the tampon goes in the vagina, not the urethral opening.

At least you knew there are different holes, many men don't smh

 

[Supervlieg]

Bonus: I just learned 2 years ago that pineapples grew in the ground. What? I always thought they grew on trees. My life is a lie.

On the ground, not in it.

 

[Xe4]

Everyone is trudging through life, in one way or a other. Few people don't have problems or issues that effect them every day, and everyone has a different way of dealing with what they have to live with.

 

[LaMagenta]

That my childhood cat didn't run away. My father found her dead in the car's engine. sister told me couple yrs ago, I'm in my 30s.

 

[injurai]

That you don't think your thoughts.

But you do... it's just that saying so is redundant and a tautology.

 

[BeforeU]

Women period lasts 5 days every month. Learned this after I had a serious GF. I always thought it was 1 day thing.

At first I thought she was joking, really blew me away when I found out she wasn't.

 

[AYF 001]

Hard Liquor never freezes so you can keep vodka in the freezer and it will be colder than the ice you pour it over.


HOLY SHIT I SAID!

Sorry, but that's not true. As already pointed out:

It freezes.

Spoiler

You just need a freezer that's something like -80 to -115 C.

Also. it is impossible for any object stored in a freezer to be colder than the temperature of the freezer itself. Your liquor will be just as cold as the ice cubes given enough time, but never colder.

Plus, alcohol has a lower specific heat than water, so it would not cool whatever you are pouring it into as effectively as water.

In addition, the fact that ice is a solid means that in order to melt, means it must absorb enough energy to overcome the enthalpy of fusion to phase transition to liquid water. This allows it to absorb far more additional heat than alcohol, which only exists as a liquid in the solution

TL;DR: Whoever told you that knows nothing about thermodynamics. Water is better at cooling than alcohol.

 

[Scirrocco]

I didn't learn how to shave with a regular razor until i was 23. I used an electric razor until then.

 

[blame space]

Paradise by the dashboard light

 

[MikeDip]

This post makes me so happy.

Dude this is a wonderful post

Thank you thank you! Have I opened your eyes too?

 

[liliththepale]

For far too long, I thought it was just a coincidence that Easter kept landing on a Sunday. lol

W looks like VV not UU

Therefore

Double U looks like double V.

Depends on the font. W was added to the alphabet before U and V were made separate letters (in Latin both letters are called U and are interchangeable in many cases) .

 

[DBT85]

That the reason the metal end bit on your tape measure moves a few mm is so that you can accurately measure using both sides of it. I thought for years that they were just crap and loose.

I know right? I feel bad for UK Gaffers who don't have Lemonade, it's practically all I drink now.

I can kinda understand how befuddled UK gaf when they learn we aren't really fond of tea, that much.

We have loads of lemonade. R Whites have been selling it in London since 1845.

 

[jesu]

For far too long, I thought it was just a coincidence that Easter kept landing on a Sunday. lol




Depends on the font. W was added to the alphabet before U and V were made separate letters (in Latin both letters are called U and are interchangeable in many cases) .

Well it's how I was taught to write it.
Don't know what font that is.

It even bothers people that W is actually double V not double U.
It was mentioned in a thread the other day.
First time I've heard someone think it looked like a double U.

 

[Cat Party]

Narwhals are apparently real. I thought for the longest time that they were some old extinct animal.

 

[PSqueak]

I kinda learned that a pony is a sub set of the horse species and not what you call a baby horse when i was like 18 or something.

 

[liliththepale]

Well it's how I was taught to write it.
Don't know what font that is.

It even bothers people that W is actually double V not double U.
It was mentioned in a thread the other day.
First time I've heard someone think it looked like a double U.

I'm talking about in this kind of font:

Most people render W as VV, but it's not incorrect to render it as UU, and back when W was added to the alphabet V was called U.

 

[Zakard]

A couple of months ago I learned that there are actually two types of people when it comes to wiping their butt. Some do it standing and some do it sitting. Aparantly almost all people think there is only one way of doing it and they dont know about the second method.

 

[Locke Lamora]

Raisins are dried up grapes. Found out that one around 30 years old

Same. Even same age. Never thought about it until last year to be honest.

 

[NESpowerhouse]

A couple of months ago I learned that there are actually two types of people when it comes to wiping their butt. Some do it standing and some do it sitting. Aparantly almost all people think there is only one way of doing it and they dont know about the second method.

Yeah, holy shit, I just learned literally last week that a lot of people sit while wiping their ass.

 

[disappeared]

That toothpicks you get with sandwiches at restaurants are there to keep the sandwich in place. Not until maybe a year ago I always thought they were just a decoration.

 

[Jack Scofield]

I've had a parabolic space heater for a long time now. I've always overthought it and assumed that they were named "space heaters" because they look futuristic or used some fancy technology. I finally realized that they simply heat up a space, or area.

I felt dumb.

 

[Zaptruder]

Soup metaphysically transforms into gravy when poured over food stuff.

Absolutely blew my mind.

If you're adding stuff to soup... at what point does the proportion of non-soup stuff cause the soup to become gravy?

 

[injurai]

If you're adding stuff to soup... at what point does the proportion of non-soup stuff cause the soup to become gravy?

Metaphysically changes, not physically changes. Once you pour soup on some other food, we call it gravy because that is now how it's being used.

 

[Zaptruder]

Metaphysically changes, not physically changes. Once you pour soup on some other food, we call it gravy because that is now how it's being used.

Ok, but you're saying that if I add things to my soup, it stays soup?

So if I put the gravy on the plate first... that's soup. Then if I put my steak on it... that's still soup?

But if I spoon some of my broth over my rice... that's gravy?

Because I was thinking... sure, the physical nature of the experience doesn't change, but at what point does the metaphysical change occur between the distribution of food stuff and liquid?

Like... a soup loaded up with a lot of food stuff (more than liquid) as far as I can tell is something we commonly refer to as a casserole...

And gravy... gravy to me is a thickened sauce made of pan drippings, or something derived from that sort of thing (i.e. could be powdered gravy). Is this a semantic difference brought about by differences in locality?

I remember the thread where Italian americans were apparently using the word gravy interchangeably with the word sauce, so things like hollaindaise or ketchup could qualify as gravy in their vernacular).

 

[GKSilKamina]

I was waiting for someone to avatar quote that post. Thank you.

A couple of months ago I learned that there are actually two types of people when it comes to wiping their butt. Some do it standing and some do it sitting. Aparantly almost all people think there is only one way of doing it and they dont know about the second method.

Wait, people stand to wipe their butt?

 

[Andrew Korenchkin]

Empiricism and the scientific method.

 

[BumRush]

Thank you thank you! Have I opened your eyes too?

No...no, absolutely not. But I enjoyed reading how excited you got about being able to make toast while you watch tv.

 

[Violence Jack]

Interstate numbering also increases going from west to east and from south to north.

So I-5 is on the west coast, I-15 a bit east through Vegas/Salf Lake City and so on until I-95 on the east coast.

Similarly I-10 is along the very southern half of the country and I-90 is northern.

Interstate routes that branch off major, long-distance routes are assigned three-digit numbers. The last two numbers indicate the parent route, and the first digit signifies the road's function (i.e., an odd digit for a spur running directly to a city; an even digit for a road that loops around a metropolitan area).

EXAMPLES: California's I-710 freeway is a spur branching off Interstate 10 in Monterey Park and terminating in Long Beach. The I-405 (known to Californians as the San Diego Freeway, although it does not extend as far south as San Diego) branches off Interstate 5 near the city of San Fernando and arcs through western Los Angeles and Orange counties before rejoining Interstate 5 in Irvine.

Mind blown.

 

[wbsmcs]

One day in class my professor referred to the y-axis as the y-ordinate. About a week later it hit me that it's called co-ordinates because you have 2+ components i.e x&y ordinates/axes.

 

[D1renegade]

Helga's mom was some kind of addict and Mr.Simmons was gay.

 

[FallenOwl]

Helga's mom was some kind of addict and Mr.Simmons was gay.

She was an alcoholic

 

[Rudimental]

Food carries on cooking after you take it out of the oven.

 

[matt05891]

Food carries on cooking after you take it out of the oven.

And the microwave! Learned that not too long ago to listen to the let it sit instruction.

 

[Lagamorph]

Wait....Pineapples don't grow on trees....?
I'm 31 in a month and did not know this....

 

[doop_]

I thought caramel was just made of brown sugar and water till recently.

 

[Zombine]

That Linkin Park isn't a good band.

 

[akira28]

1. Apply soap on dry hands
2. Apply a very small amount of water on your hands
3. Rub the soap and water combo all over your hands
4. Wash your hands

The difference between the two methods is clear when you have very dirty hands.

what? I'm going to have to go dirty up my hands so I can test this new method of yours. I'm having a hard time imagining the difference.

 

[SL128]

On 9/11/2001, we were briefly told in class (1st grade) that a plane crashed into a tower.
Somehow, I wasn't exposed to discussion about 9/11 for years afterwards, and assumed it was just an accident until ~2006.

 

[GKSilKamina]

Wait....Pineapples don't grow on trees....?
I'm 31 in a month and did not know this....

If it makes you feel any better, I didn't know that until I moved to an area that had multiple pineapple farms. I was shocked the first time I saw those pineapple fields, that's for sure.

Spoiler

Though I was nine years old at the time.

 

[True Savior]

That girls could poop while having anal sex

 

[Ivan 3414]

A couple of months ago I learned that there are actually two types of people when it comes to wiping their butt. Some do it standing and some do it sitting. Aparantly almost all people think there is only one way of doing it and they dont know about the second method.

Yeah, and I know a girl named Ladasha who spells it La-a