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

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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.

OMG, this is news to me?! Are you serious? I thought it’s just plastic applicators, wrappers, and pads that you’re not supposed to flush?

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I was in my twenties before I could grasp that miles per hour was literal. If you are driving 20 miles per hour, you would have driven 20 miles in an hour.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

OMG, this is news to me?! Are you serious? I thought it’s just plastic applicators, wrappers, and pads that you’re not supposed to flush?

DP. I actually don’t flush tampons Bc I didn’t think it was a good idea but I was actually under the impression that they were designed for flushing if I was so inclined. Weird! I wonder if that has changed from the 90s.

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Anonymous wrote:In middle school I thought Marion Barry was two people. Mary and Barry. "They" were on the news a lot (scandals) but it took until high school that I realized it was one person and that person was the mayor of DC. Granted, I'm pretty sure I didn't the governor/mayor/ect of anyone in Virginia at the time either.

I was going to post this! I was in elementary school but also thought Mary and Barry were two people!

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Anonymous wrote:I threw a big dinner party last year and served quinoa. I pronounced it quinn-o-a. Everyone laughed at me, so it was a little embarrassing, but I'd never heard it pronounced before!

I’ve heard this pronounced both ways.

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Anonymous wrote:I threw a big dinner party last year and served quinoa. I pronounced it quinn-o-a. Everyone laughed at me, so it was a little embarrassing, but I'd never heard it pronounced before!

I’ve heard this pronounced both ways.

still doesn't make it correct. It's Keen-Wa.

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Anonymous wrote:You all are making me crave Turkish delight.

You can get them at any middle Eastern store.
Now the baklava, the really good type, has to come from overseas. The philli dough never tastes good

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

OMG, this is news to me?! Are you serious? I thought it’s just plastic applicators, wrappers, and pads that you’re not supposed to flush?

DP. I actually don’t flush tampons Bc I didn’t think it was a good idea but I was actually under the impression that they were designed for flushing if I was so inclined. Weird! I wonder if that has changed from the 90s.

I actually started a heated debate on this around 2010 - if I recall. Flush or Toss, or something like that. I couldn't fathom "tossing" it, so I always flushed. After that debate, I changed my ways.

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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.

it is??

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Anonymous wrote:I was in my twenties before I could grasp that miles per hour was literal. If you are driving 20 miles per hour, you would have driven 20 miles in an hour.

Your third or fourth grade math teacher failed you.

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Anonymous wrote:That “this little piggy went to market” meant it was going to be sold as meat. I thought it was going to the grocery store.

I never realized that either until just now. 48 y.o.

I think you were right the first time. After all, one little piggy got to have roast beef.

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Anonymous wrote:I was about 20 before I realized you had to open the paper tea bag to put the actual tea bag in steaming water.

Lol. I’m sure you were like: why do people drink tea; it’s so tasteless!

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Anonymous wrote:That you should hover on public toilets, not touch them. Toilet seats are encrusted with foul bacteria

Omg sooooo not necessary. Sit and go. It’s fine!

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Anonymous wrote:That headphones had a Right and Left ear. I’d didn’t know it mattered until I was 30.

Wait. What? Is this true? How do you know which is which? Why would it matter?

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

OMG, this is news to me?! Are you serious? I thought it’s just plastic applicators, wrappers, and pads that you’re not supposed to flush?

DP. I actually don’t flush tampons Bc I didn’t think it was a good idea but I was actually under the impression that they were designed for flushing if I was so inclined. Weird! I wonder if that has changed from the 90s.

I actually started a heated debate on this around 2010 - if I recall. Flush or Toss, or something like that. I couldn't fathom "tossing" it, so I always flushed. After that debate, I changed my ways.

Tampons were marketed, I'm pretty sure, to be flushable back in the 60s--70s and everyone flushed them. I imagine part of the concept of OB tampons was that there wouldn't even be an applicator lying around to tell the world you were having a period. I think the cardboard applicators used to be flushed as well. It might actually be that when they replaced the original cotton (I imagine it was) with fibers that expanded more it became more apparent there was an issue.