AIBU to ask you to tell me things that you learned way too late in life *lighthearted*.

I never knew until last year that the cap on top of a tube has a small pointed bit in the middle to pierce th film. I'd been using a knife or scissors this whole time.

I'm sure there's more.

what Timefortea99 said on second page. It's all about networking. You can be the best specialist in the world but you're not going anywhere if nobody likes you. I only wish I had figured this out earlier.

It will never be 'perfect' so just get going and doing what you can.

OMG to the pineapple thing! 🍍!! - why did I never know this!!

Things I learnt too late - that you will never feel and be as free as you are after 18 and before children!

That it's ok to be me!

I wish I'd learned this years ago:

That after brushing your teeth, you're not meant to rinse your mouth out unless you're using mouthwash afterwards.

Being honest and decent doesn't get you very far. Intact people assume you are a complete pushover and treat you accordingly.
Those thst go through life being total cunts seem to do very well in the end and come up smelling of roses.

That Oxo cubes are meant to be ground up whilst still in their packet to save your fingers getting oxo-ey.

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They grow on bushes weird looking things they are too

Has anyone googled where cashew nuts grow they look weird as hell!

What do you mean pineapples don't grow in trees? Where do they grow?!

In the ground. My mind blew too when I realised...

Similar to the AKA post... that AWOL was a military term "absent without leave". I used the term for years without knowing this.

That peanuts are not nuts. They are legumes.

What do you mean pineapples don't grow in trees? Where do they grow?!

That I am good enough.

I wish I had figured it out 20 years ago.

When you’re young (at school) you maybe wrongly pick up a bit of information and as we generally don’t have too many conversations about, for example, how far Florida is from California, we continue blithely to assume these things are fact.
It’s a bit of a shock to discover that everything you believed was true is all wrong!
I don’t think anyone’s boasting about their misinformed ideas, just incredulous that they’ve not discovered their inaccuracies till now.

That boy George wasn’t George Michael when he was a child

Lol, my favourite yet!
How would that have worked? They were both grown up and having hit songs around the same time

only found out last week that Sandy's surname in Grease is Olsson and not Dee.
What?

I knew that one!
"Look at me,I'm Sandra Dee.... Sandra Dee was a child star of the 50s "ie Rizzo making fun of Sandy singing about how she's such a goody goody and all innocent.
Sandy's real name was Sandra Olssen.

That it isn’t compulsory to pretend to like Shakespeare.

That people who think it’s funny to be functionally innumerate (oh, I’m rubbish at maths ha! ha!) are idiots. They wouldn’t think being illiterate was a joke, would they?

That boy George wasn’t George Michael when he was a child

@gwen Here are a couple of my family’s favorites (not my recipes):

smittenkitchen.com/2011/09/roasted-tomato-soup-with-broiled-cheddar/

cookieandkate.com/2016/spicy-vegan-black-bean-soup/

Both are very easy to make and I find comforting.

I was tasked with helping a small group research "fun facts" whilst working as a ta once. To give them ideas I confidently announced that the Great Wall of China was the only man made structure visible from space. The kids all went "oooo" then one later repeated that "fact" to the head teacher wfho gave me a and informed me that was just a myth.

A bit later I was working as an esl teacher and told my upper intermediate group of French students that the past perfect form of "got" was "gotten" as in "he had gotten away with it". The students said they were glad to learn that as their teacher in France had told them it was "got". Later I looked it up to double check and found out their original teacher had been right, it's only "gotten" in America - I'd just been watching too many American shows!

My mum, who is in her 50s, was complaining once about people confusing "less" and "fewer" as it's "sooooo easy to get right, it's just singular and plural". I told her no, actually it was to do with countable and uncountable nouns, and she went bright red.

I recently had to inform dp, who is 35 with a PhD, that hyperbole is pronounced "hyper-bo-lee" not "hyper-ball".

My brother was in his mid 20s before he realised that the song "smooth criminal" was not in fact written by Alien Ant Farm.

I used to think that Tracy Chapman was a man (just from her voice, I'd never seen her picture!)

Can someone explain how to make soup? I can make one to a recipe, but I can't make one myself because I don't know how much water/stock to add to the veg as some veg need more than others.

K2p I would rather have a sense of humour like most posters on here than a sense of superiority like you.

I thought the song "Dude looks like a lady " was called "Do it like a lady". Do exactly what I don't know but I only discovered the correct lyrics in my 30's.

I never realised about poor piggy either by the way

Thinkif For animals, 1 kg of fat will produce more than 1kg of water. So camels use the fat store to remain hydrated (as well as the energy).