People have been sharing the ‘common knowledge’ things they didn’t learn ’til so much later in life – 17 eye-openingly belated epiphanies
10.
‘That some people liked Margaret Thatcher and thought she was a good PM.
‘I grew up in a Scottish mining town. She was universally hated. I was too young to realise that if people were voting for her they must think she was decent. Then I grew up, and for decades just assumed everyone looked back on her with the same hatred as the people I knew. I was living and working in London when she died. Honestly, the revelation of realising that people (who didn’t know her) liked and respected her and would grieve her death took my breath away. I never saw that coming.
‘Naive, perhaps. It was a shocking thing to me. These days, I’m shocked by very little.’
-AuroraDF
11.
‘Until my late twenties, I assumed Est. in signs like Est. 1835 meant “estimated.” Like the business was so old but was estimated to have been started sometime around 1835.
‘But then I started seeing pretentious businesses that would est.2012 or something and got really confused how they couldn’t remember when they started the business when it was just a few years ago.
‘Established. It means established’
-SamAtHomeForNow
12.
‘That puffer fish inflate themselves with water when they blow up… not air’
-sailormikey
13.
’47m – I found out a few weeks ago that raisins were just dried grapes. Mind blown. I’d always just assumed they were a fruit in their own right!’
-Salt_Safety2234
14.
‘Until I did sex ed at school, I genuinely thought women peed out of their rectum. Hear me out: my logic was “I sit on the toilet to poop, while women sit to do both, so it must come out the same end…”‘
-Jack_In_Black89
15.
‘I was well into adulthood when I discovered that moles weren’t badger size.
‘Thanks Wind in the Willows.’
-mightlisten
16.
‘I only just learnt a few months ago (age 32) that “it’s curtains for you” is probably because of curtains closing at the end of a play. My whole life I was just imagining standard window curtains and thought it was to do with ripping them down or something.’
-Namerakable
17.
‘I didn’t know the sun was a star until I was about 25. I just thought it was in a category of its own given that it’s The Sun.’
-IndependenceInn