50 Times People Missed The Most Basic Facts: “Blew My Mind”

Condensation is water from the atmosphere turning liquid on the outside of a glass due to how cold the glass is. It’s NOT because water from inside the glass magically phases through the glass outside. I regret that it took be 17 years to find this out, even though I passed AP chemistry and AICE biology...

I actually have to talk to women if I want to ever meet any.

I thought the semicolon tattoo was for people who had Crohn's disease or colon cancer or something and had lost part of their colon.

I was told a couple weeks ago that hay was just dried grass, I thought it was its own thing that grew and I just never saw it.

The bald spot on the back of my head. I mean, I knew it was there for a few years, but last month we moved into a new house and the upstairs bathroom has a large wall mirror across from the vanity mirror. So now every morning while I brush my teeth all I can do is stare at my bald spot. All this time I've been walking around like this unaware of just how large and obvious it was.

Oh, mine is bad.

Until the age of 19 I didn't realize that the handicap symbol was a guy in a wheelchair. I thought it was a character from some Asian language that meant handicapped.

It was a mindf**k the first time I realized what it actually was.

I swear this is the only other one I have.

My family was terribly, terribly poor until my teenage years. When I was 14, we went down to a sit-down restaurant for the first time. I ordered a burger, as was my way. Now, I had no idea what grades of cooking existed as it just wasn't something that had come up.

>**Me**: I'd like a cheeseburger please Miss.
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>**Waitress**: Medium?
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>**Me**: No, large please.

Needless to say, that was embarrassing.

That honey is mostly sugar..

Toddlo:

I sold honey door to door as a kid. Once a guy came to the door and I gave him my sales pitch, he stated that he couldn’t have sugar because he was diabetic. I assured him that the honey was pure and sugar free. He bought two tubs.

I had an Aunt Grace. I thought the song Amazing Grace was about a woman named Grace for my entire childhood, at least, and only yesterday sat down and consciously realized it wasn't. I'm in my sixties.

I said "thingers" instead of "fingers" for an embarrassingly long time of my life. It always went in my brain that you use thingers to pick up things with.

That absolutely everyone is going through some hardship of some sort. Some are just more skilled at hiding or compartmentalizing it, and we all have our own way of dealing with it or trying to escape it.

I’ve realized that I don’t actually like the taste of alcohol. I started drinking because I thought it was the thing to do when you grow up and become an adult. Almost a year without a drop now, I don’t miss it one bit.

It's called a K-9 unit because *Canines*!

I thought it was just a random letter-number designation, because you know, everything needs a name.

That chores while still being a chore can in fact feel good once they are completed and not just a burden. Now I do chores and it relaxes me a bit kind of takes me put of my own head. If I'm angry...find a chore to do. If I'm bored...find a chore to do. It makes everything seem less chaotic at times.

I always thought John Doe was a very popular person, until I realised it's a placeholder name.

My roommate and I googled “what is pepper?” the other day because we realized we had no clue if black pepper was a plant or a mineral...

Edit: it’s a plant.... I’ve just never seen a peppercorn tree.

Edit 2: I get it, it’s not a mineral.

I didn't know babies only drink milk for the first six months and that water can be toxic for them. Learned that in r/JUSTNOMIL.

That as a person with a vulva, I can simply slide over the c****h of my swimsuit to pee! No need to take off my wet, cold one-piece and drag it back on again after I pee! My husband shared this magical method with me - I was 42.

Different wines are named after the grape used to make the wine. I didn't realize there were different kinds of grapes, I guess? I thought that it was just green grapes = white wine / red grapes = red wine and that whatever makes it a shiraz or a merlot or whatever was some other magical s**t that happens in the barrels.

Horses scratch themselves behind their ears just like a dog does, i.e. with their hind legs.

When I moved to the states I kept wondering what "ped xing" with a guy crossing the road meant. I knew it meant that somebody was crossing the road but how did xing meant "crossing"?! A decade later I realized it, x=cross.

EDIT: Thanks guys I hope I have enlightened you all.

That the the division sign is just an incomplete fraction
÷ x/x.