Life is full of fun lessons and hard facts . Most of us learn what we need to in order to grow and mature as competent adults in society.
However, there are some of us who inevitably arrive a little late to the party. Have a look and check out these 15 facts that I learned very, very late in life.
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“”I was 20 when I learned that white meat and dark meat come from the same chicken.” – Reddit u/IAmTinyJoe
When my 5-year-old niece explained to me how white milk comes from white cows and chocolate milk comes from brown cows, I thought it was cute. If a 20-year-old adult tried to tell me such nonsense, I’d tell them to get their head checked.
The colors of the rainbow in your toilet.
When Buzzfeed Community member BennyM81 was just a little kid, they used to believe that every single person on earth peed in a different color. I kind of like that idea, if I’m being honest.
Well, I suppose if you’re offering…
“Once, when I was 20, a friend told me he was sad and that he had blue balls. I didn’t know what blue balls meant yet, so I asked him if there was anything I could do to help.” – Buzzfeed u/AshtonK
Apparently, there’s some confusion surrounding the term “in-laws.”
Buzzfeed Community member bornagainproperties79 went almost their entire life without realizing that the term “in-law” meant that two people were related only in the legal sense of the word.
“I thought buffalos were birds, and that buffalo wings were from said birds.” – Reddit u/AussiePickle27
My goodness. I’d be terrified to ask what AussiePickle27 thinks “hot dogs” are made of. How did they manage to go their entire life without ever seeing a picture or image of a buffalo?
I guess Dobermans and Rottweilers do look the same…
For more years than they’d care to admit, Redditor JamesandtheGiantAss was positively convinced that Dobermans and Rottweilers were the same breed of dog — they thought that Rotties were just fatter versions is all.
You are not smarter than the average bear.
“I have a cousin who quotes Yogi Berra on a fairly regular basis, and it wasn’t until last Thanksgiving that I realized he’s a real person, and that my cousin hasn’t been admiring the words of Yogi Bear all this time.” – Buzzfeed u/hellothereitsanna
I can follow your logic, but you’re still incredibly wrong.
It took an embarrassingly long time before Reddit user JagerKitteh was made to realize that limes and lemons were two different fruits. They used to think that limes were just unripe lemons.
A lesson in biology.
“I didn’t know that women could get pregnant without having an orgasm. I learned that this year. At age 26,” writes Reddit user hbic.
If a woman needed to have an orgasm in order to get pregnant, then the human race would have died out millennia ago.
A horse of course!
Buzzfeed Community member Booknerd13 says, “I only recently found out that ponies are not baby horses, but full-sized ponies.”
That’s right, a baby horse is actually called a foal. The males are referred to as colts and the females are called fillys.
Results of plastic surgery.
Buzzfeed Community member mirandude says that they thought the term primadonna was actually written as “pre-Madonna,” and that it referred to a musical artist who came before the time of the iconic pop star.
Yes, wolverines are very real.
Buzzfeed Community member krystalw4fe00ea7c says that they only very recently discovered that a wolverine was an actual animal. Before that, they just figured he only existed in comic book form, as a member of the X-Men.
You shouldn’t take instructions so literally.
“I thought the phrase ‘mix by hand’ meant to literally shove your hands in the batter and mix, not use a spoon or a mixer. I didn’t learn the truth until my mother found me wrist-deep in brownie batter.” – Buzzfeed u/jvisc930
I said “guerilla,” not “gorilla.”
You’ve more than likely heard the term “guerilla warfare” before? Well, Redditor tonymush used to think that it meant a war that was being fought between humans and gorillas. Like a real-life version of The Planet of the Apes .
How can you tell the difference between a lion and a tiger?
“I thought lions and tigers were the same animal[sic] all throughout my teenage years — that lions were the boys, and tigers were the girls.” – Buzzfeed u/lizk41ced1621
h/t: Reddit
