Child-Level Facts That People Learned As Adults

I just learned that Mount Rushmore is not naturally formed.

Coral is an animal! I always thought it was an undersea plant

Depends what you consider a child I suppose. But in my mid 20s I moved up the food chain from server to bartender at the restaurant I worked at. Some one order a Roman Coke. I didn't know what was in a Roman Coke so I told him so and but that I would figure it out. I figured out that what I had been understanding as a Roman Coke my whole drinking life, was in fact a Rum & Coke...that, I knew how to make!

My mum use to tell me that putting too much vinegar on your chips makes your blood dry up so I’ve been scared of putting too much on. I’m 25 now and just realised my mum wanted me to save everything due to her being a single mum and in alot of debt.

I was 23 when I learned I was allergic to apples.

Someone was complaining about their throat closing up after smoking, and I responded with “oh yeah like when you eat an apple?” You can imagine how the conversation went from there.

I wasnt even going to post here but i HAD to after this! A coworker of mine years ago put a spoon in the microwave while making oatmeal, and when we literally flipped out at him in the break room he deadpan looked at us and said "I thought it was just forks that couldn't go in the microwave..."

I was well into my 20's when I came to the horrifying discovery that the old bedtime saying "don't let the bedbugs bite" was referring to an actual real bug! I honestly thought that was just a saying until you move into apartment complex where people move in and out constantly and track those evil spawns in 😕

I had a friend who at 25 found out pepperoni was indeed not a vegetable.

He ordered a meat lovers supreme. The waitress was both surprised and amused when responding to his concerns about why pepperoni was on this meat-only pizza.

That the alphabet is called alphabet because of alpha and beta, the first two letters in the greek alphabet.

Was living in Georgia, early 40ish. Watching news and they were talking about fighting and war in Georgia, and I was like what, is the South rising Again!!!! After some additional research, I learned Georgia is another country as well as the name of a US State.🙄

Why there are no “10” birthday candles in stores. I was complaining by about it with my husband and he said “you’re supposed to put 1 and 0 together” and that was the lowest point in my entire life.

I was in college when I learned that Alaska is not an island. I thought that because US maps always showed the continental US and then Alaska at the top like an island and Hawaii at the bottom as an island. (I am American.)

I always thought the Major League Baseball logo was a human with a bird's head getting ready to swing at a pitch. I'm not sure why it never struck me as odd that the MLB would use a bird man in their logo. I just couldn't see it as anything else.

My 31 year-old girlfriend thought islands don’t touch the bottom of the ocean

Reindeer are a real animal. When I found out about Father Christmas I thought that meant reindeer weren't real. I was very much an adult when I was very confused (and excited) to see one in real life.

The Chronicles of Narnia (which I read over and over growing up) is a big fat Christian allegory.

I was in college when I learned this.

When I was about 30 I found out that the white puff ball dandelion and the yellow flower dandelion are the same plant. I saw a time-lapse video of the yellow flower turning into the puff ball and it blew my mind. So naturally I shared it on facebook and said "guys, you aren't gonna believe this." I'm still teased about it to this day.

As a kid I used to think the Black Market was an actual place like a bazaar where all the criminals would regularly meet up

I recently learned raisins are just dried grapes

I was about six years old in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and would watch the evening news. They reported on the guerrilla war we were fighting in Vietnam, and I thought for several years that we were fighting actual gorillas.

Horses don’t have toes inside their hooves. I was 24.

Thought the former leader of North Korea was Kim Jong the Second for an embarrassingly long time. I somehow managed to avoid hearing his name said out loud. Or... written in a serif font, apparently.

As a kid, I thought banana republic was a place. Was mercilessly mocked during high school because it was the name of a clothing store....

Learnt later in college that banana republic was actually does refer to a places, and the story behind it is messed up. I wonder why BR named themselves that?

For ages, well into my twenties, I thought what an amazing coincidence it was that water freezes at 0 degrees centigrade and boils at 100 degrees. Never occurred to me that they might have used those temperatures to set the scale.

Hibernation doesn’t mean they sleep for 4 straight months. They just, like, do less.

My sister thought it was a coincidence that so many series started with an episode called 'pilot'.

The cat milk we buy is FOR cats, but it does not come FROM cats.

I have a master’s degree :-/

Goodbye is short for “God be with ye”

I was like 17+ when I realized that women grew body hair too, they just had to shave it all.

I used to think ANONYMOUS was a name of a poet.