21 Bits Of Knowledge That People Learned Late in Life

1.

Wasn't until I was 21 when I drank Lactose-Free milk and DIDN'T go sit on a toilet for an hour that I realized I am lactose intolerant. I thought it was normal to have stomach cramps after drinking milk. -u/xeredge

2.

That roadrunners are not the size of an emu. -u/PURKITTY

3.

I learned how to ride a bike at the ripe age of 24. -u/newhvac

4.

That “rolling your eyes” isn’t fully making a circle with your eyeballs. -deleted user

5.

I thought the D in Disney was just some random symbol, kinda like a backwards G. It took me until like 7th grade to realize it and even as an adult I still can’t unsee the backwards G. -u/Death-By-Lasagna

6.

That sodas were called soft drinks because they had no alcohol lol. -u/zejus_christ

7.

Corned beef wasn’t made by cattle that were strictly fed corn. My mom couldn’t stop laughing. -u/Ilikestarwarstoo

8.

Ponies are NOT baby horses. -u/phrygN

9.

I thought an armadillo was a reptile rather than a mammal. -u/failurebeatssuccess

10.

That Abuela and Abuelo were not my Cuban grandparents' actual names. -u/MarzipanJoy-Joys

11.

So. Many. People. Do. Cocaine. -u/LaborRelationsGuru

12.

At roughly 37, I learned pineapples grew from the ground. Not from a tree. -u/Human_Watch4506

13.

That narwhals are real. I thought they were cute mythological creatures, until I saw a brooch a friend had and asked if it was part of the companies mythological line. She asked me if I thought narwhals were myths, like unicorns. I laughed and said of course they are. I was 35. -u/katikaboom

14.

"TP" stood for Toilet Paper. I thought to "TP someone's house" you just put toilet paper over it to look like a teepee. -u/crusoestudio

15.

It’s “for all intents and purposes” not “for all intensive purposes.” -u/charlessturgeon

16.

That our next door neighbors were lesbians and not just “good friends." Lovely people. Didn’t figure it out until I was in college. -u/secretbaldspot

17.

That pufferfish don't use air to inflate. -u/skewed-perceptions

18.

That you can flush used toilet paper. Parents taught us as kids to throw away the paper in the trash can for fear of backing up the toilet. Wasn’t until college that I realized my parents were accustomed to that method because they had sh*tty plumbing where they grew up in Central America. -u/fuckintacos

19.

That those funny X-rays of odd objects inside of someone is not as a result of someone swallowing it whole. -u/raspberrypigeon

20.

I thought everyone’s mouth got itchy when eating bananas. Almost 40 years old and find out I’m somewhat allergic to them. -u/tbr6742

21.

That I needed glasses. At age 21 my friends were hassling me about being dyslexic because I kept getting words mixed up (second year at Uni). Until then, I had just been reading by looking at the shape of words and guessing the words based on the context and wider story. I had been reading this way for years and survived Uni before finding out my prescription was +1.50. The optometrist said it was amazing I hadn’t noticed. When I put the glasses on, everything was in 4K Ultra. I can now see individual letters. -u/CasualPhilosopher25