Posted on Nov 11, 2020

People Are Sharing Things They Learned Way Too Late In Life And It'll Make You Shake Your Head In Disbelief

This post may be slightly alarming.

by Krista Torres

BuzzFeed Staff

@wavymcgrady
please tell me someone else had this same issue..?
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Person saying, "my friends and girlfriends give me so much shit for swallowing my toothpaste but it's just such a habit i can not stop [smiling while sweating emoji] so glad to know not just me

Person saying, "The amount of people who are with you on this is alarming as heck and I'm concerned. Please stop swallowing your toothpaste. [smiling with tears emoji] Or don't...you do you

Person saying, "my cousin didn't know you were supposed to spit out mouth wash till she was about 26. you are not alone"

Person saying, "I found out at the age of 10 that it's not ok to swallow mouth wash [wide-eyed, blushing emoji]"

Person says, "...pickles aren't a real vegetable"

Person says, "I went 16 years not knowing that pickles came from cucumbers"

Person says, "I thought the check oil light was a turtle...until I was 30"

"My cousin told me soy sauce was made of human hair when I was little. I believed him until I was 15 [wide-eyed, blushing emoji]

Person saying, "...I thought the sun made noise until I was 15"

"I thought the sound of chirping cicadas in the summer was...electrical wired getting hot in the heat until like age....22"

Person saying, "At 25 I learned that the moon set. Like you could watch it set. Not that it just faded from the sun"

Person says, "Im 25 and just realized the 'blind driveway' sign doesn't mean there's a blind person living nearby"

Person says, "I thought the runaway truck ramps on freeways were for ppl running away from cops to hide in till i was like 17"

Person saying, "my friends been on meds since she was too little to swallow pills. so they said she could chew...she was 22 before she realized its not the normal way"

This person said, "Growing up I thought the mall was where people went to get malts like milkshakes, I thought this for years"

Person said, "That it's not illegal to turn the light on in the car when your driving"

"When I was a kid my grandma told me the crust of the bread had all the nutrition and I didn't question it until I mentioned it to someone last year"

"I get it I used to eat starbursts w the wrapper on"

"i thought the blinker and the turning stoplight knew where my parents were going. It blew my mind that it always had an arrow for them when we turned"

"I thought that in spacecrafts, such as the international space station that there was a button to turn the gravity on..."

"i spelled Wednesday wrong until high school sometimes things slip through the cracks man"

"I found it at the age of 16 that seahorses were real. I had always thought they were mythical creatures [wide-eyed, blushing emoji]

"I was in my 20s when I learned Pirates were real and it wasn't just in Peter Pan"

"i was in my 20s when i found out tea had caffeine...and that i was heavily addicted to caffeine because that's all we drank my whole life because it was cheap"

"i just found out that you're supposed to rinse out most conditioners in the shower and not apply it after"

"My grandpop's mom used to make him eat a spoonful of Vick's when he was sick"

"I just found out that IOU literally has its meaning in the letters iou. I owe. you. I am a big dumb"

"I just learned today how to open a can with a can opener"

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