30 People Confess Things They Didn't Know Until Embarrassingly Late In Life

Tutti frutti means “all the fruits” in Italian.

I'm face blind, and I just found out how bad it is. Apparently my UPS driver who I see every day at work is the guy who grew up down the street from me, and I thought they were two different people because the UPS guy wears a hat.

I learned in therapy last year that I can ask for things I need and things I want. I was 42 years old at the time.

In Greek alphabet we have the letters Ο (Omicron) and Ω(Omega).
It took me 37 years to realize that they actually mean O-small and O-big.

Vampires don’t have a reflection because mirrors used to be made using silver and it was the silver that wouldn’t reflect the vampires image

The phrase "pitch black" is referring to the substance "pitch", which is very black in color. I had always considered "pitch" in that context to be akin to "very", like how some otherwise archaic words survive in idioms.

Tamagotchi are in eggs because they're tamago (egg) + Tomodachi (friend)

Ponies are not baby horses. They are just small horses.

That my casual coffee drinking habit (3-4 coffees/day) is causing the anxiety I've been experiencing for some time. Now I drink one coffee around lunch time, only if I feel I need it and I feel better.

Figured out in college that there isn't "cup cake mix" in the baking aisle. It's just regular cake mix.

I spent forever looking up and down the shelves for "cup cake mix" only to be informed by a nice grandmotherly woman that it is just cake mix put in little cups.

We went to London in primary school and went to the Houses of Parliament. I’ve only just realised they say “ayes” and “nos” when referring to how people vote. Not “eyes” and “nose” I thought it was a covert way to vote by turning your head a certain way or something. I only figured it out when I was watching a video with captions….

Took me til my freshman year of college before I realized pickles were pickled cucumbers and not their own, unique vegetable. I thought the way you pickled other things was you put them in pickle juice.

We were having breakfast at IHOP. Just got thinking, and i said, out loud, "i wonder what happened to the International House of Pancakes? They used to be all over them place. "
I am not smrt. ?

I saw a video where a man said he didn’t know banks don’t keep your money. He’s been giving the bank rare coins thinking they put it in HIS account. (I think he thought it was like a safe deposit box)

It was never Napoleon ice cream ?

Corn kernels are the seeds.

Wanted to grow corn for fall last year, bought a pack of corn seeds only to realize the kernels from the cob were the seeds... felt pretty dumb just realizing this at 33 years old.

Growing up, my grandmother always used to tell me "Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite," and it always sounded like a quaint, old-timey saying to me. It wasn't until a recent infestation scare in my apartment complex that I learned bedbugs are real critters, and not just a part of a nursery rhyme meant to tuck kids in at night. Talk about an epiphany that itches in retrospect.

That eating the crust of bread doesn’t make my teeth strong as my grandpa and mom always told me

The first little piggy wasn't going shopping.

That placing an onion slice or lettuce leaf on the bottom hamburger bun keeps your freshly-grilled burger from soaking the bun.