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.
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.
"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
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.
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?
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.
"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
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
"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
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.
"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
