What commonly known thing did you learn at an embarrassingly older age?

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Anonymous wrote:That realtor is not pronounced "real-uh-tor"

again, this is regional.

Jewelry and Realtor are pronounced differently depending on where you were raised.

Must be because I don’t know any other way to say it.... is it real-tor?

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t realize until learning on DCUM in my late 30s that you are not supposed to flush tampons. Oops!

At least you learned on DCUM, not when you were writing a $700 check to the plumber.

That’s how I unfortunately learned when I was 40.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t realize until learning on DCUM in my late 30s that you are not supposed to flush tampons. Oops!

At least you learned on DCUM, not when you were writing a $700 check to the plumber.

I was hearing full lectures on what not to flush down the toilet since I could walk. My Dad was a plumber.

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Popeyes Fried Chicken is NOT named after Popeye the sailor man — different Popeye.

But confusingly, Popeyes chicken licensed the character for a while in its marketing but doesn’t anymore

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Until about age 30 I was pretty sure dilemma was spelled dilemna. (Though pronounced dilemma)

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I just learned what collar stays are from reading this thread.
And checked my shirt collars and yep, there’s a slot for them I’ve never noticed.
48 y.o. Male.

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I was in high school before I realized the air at gas stations was for tires. I had always assumed it was oxygen for medical emergencies.

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How vulgar the word sucks is.

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I was about 40 when I fully processed that a pony was not a young horse

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Anonymous wrote:How vulgar the word sucks is.

I guess I still haven’t figured that out. I just can’t get worked up about someone saying “That sucks!”

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Anonymous wrote:That a "yamaka" and a yarmulke are the same thing. I just thought I had never seen "yamaka" written out.

Dh thought “epitome” was pronounced ep-ih-tohm, and didn’t realize it was the same word that we all pronounce as ee-pit-oh-me.

I had an English teacher who would praise us for mispronouncing words like that. She said it was a sign that we were reading lots of challenging books

I did this recently with hyperbole. I've been pronouncing it like super-bowl but using it correctly. No one ever says "hyperbole" in real life!

I know someone who, if they don't agree with something factual that you say, resorts to "don't listen to that person, they tend to spout hyperbole!" Yes, the irony is completely lost on this idiot.

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Anonymous wrote:When I was 17, I learned that people have sex for reasons besides having children. I did not grow up sheltered in the least and I’ve known how sex works since I was five. However, I am asexual and am on the autism spectrum.

Male or female?

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Anonymous wrote:The meaning of the lyrics of most of my favorite songs from the 70s...and 80's for that matter!

Me too! I just learned today oddly enough that "The Year of the Cat" is set in Viet Nam. Also that "The Hotel California" is about drug addiction. Never realized.

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I didn’t know how ovulation worked until I was TTC. I thought the egg could get fertilized at any time.

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I thought houses were just made of brick. I didn’t know that there were wood frames for brick houses until I was in high school. I grew up in a neighborhood of brick colonials with no construction!