People shared the obvious things they didn’t learn til far too late in life – 17 hilariously belated eye-openers

10.

‘Thought a pony was a baby horse until mid-thirties.’
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‘I’ve been calling memes “memays” for years, no one has ever corrected me untill last month when I said it in front of my teenage daughter & her mates. They burst out laughing & rightfully took the piss out of me for the rest of the day. I’ve never felt so old & out of touch 😆’
RegularMini0reos

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‘I thought Montessori was a childhood illness and that children went to Montessori school as it had the support needed for the kids. When I was 18, a schoolfriend told me she went to one of the schools. I asked her, ‘Did, did you get better?’

‘She was very confused until I explained what I thought it meant.’
Cuclean

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‘I always thought ‘making ends meet’ was a dish that people made. I can’t ‘make ends meet’ – as in, they can’t cook it.’
Green-Hurry4163

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‘I’d never seen Dalai Lama written down, only spoken & assumed it was a type of llama found in Delhi that was apparently very wise or….something

‘An imaginary llama was wiser than me anyway, was about 25 at the time.’
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‘I thought “many hands make light work” meant “lots of people don’t get much done” because I thought ‘light’ was as in ‘not much’. E.g. lots of people faff about, better do it yourself, rather than ‘lots of people will make a task easier, e.g. make the work lighter’.

‘Didn’t realise that mistake into my 30s.’
AF_II

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‘I learned literally last year aged 30 that women have all their eggs already in their body. I’m not embarrassed for myself, I’m fucking pissed off that I went to a girls school and didn’t know this, but can show you where a spermatozoa stores it’s DNA

‘EDIT: wow so many comments under here. Glad to see this is a shared POV!!!! Hopefully the UK school system starts educating children more about the women’s side more.
simmyawardwinner

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‘That Liam can be a nickname for William because its literally the second half of the name.

‘I legit thought it was a translation or something.’
chippy-alley

Source Reddit u/HearThePeopleSing