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Things that you thought you knew, that were wrong your whole life.

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JakeAssBeatClap
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I realized today, after 22 years on this pleasant earth, that the phrase "Up and at em" was not "Up and adam."

I feel like such a dingus. I never understood how telling someone to wake up was synonymous with people named Adam, but I thought nothing of it. Today I realized it's a completely logical saying that means get up and ready.

I also was told growing up that if you crossed your eyes a bunch your eyes would stay that way. My parents used to say it. I assumed that's how people with lazy eyes got their lazy eyes. It wasn't until I was off in college and about 18 that I realized you can cross your eyes as long as you'd like and not have them stay that way.

MFW I realized these things





Anyone else have these sort of things happen to them that may make me feel better about my self?
Sep 22 2014 6:34PM
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GuacamoleMane
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Play it by ear. I always thought it was play it by year
Sep 22 2014 6:36PM
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.FRY.
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This happens to me all the time, but I'm having a hard time coming up with any examples.
Sep 22 2014 6:38PM
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soulskier
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My freshman roommate thought rum and cokes were Roman cokes for the longest time, we saw no need to correct him either
Sep 22 2014 6:39PM
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messplay
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Chevrolet. You don't say the T at the end.
Sep 22 2014 6:40PM
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IKEA
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When my parents played "can I play with madness" by iron maiden when I was a kid, I thought it was "can I play with magnets"
They still laugh about it
Sep 22 2014 6:40PM
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Joshua.
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THEpancakemanPlay it by ear. I always thought it was play it by year


what.
Sep 22 2014 7:02PM
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Miomo
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I only recently consciously realized that Coldplay and OneRepublic are different bands, even though they're pretty different. I just always associated them in my head synonymously.

And apparently "splitting image" is actually "spitting image". I don't believe it.
Sep 22 2014 7:44PM
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Blurst
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I always thought the Bob Marley song was Jah Man but its Jammin'
Sep 22 2014 7:47PM
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uni-corn
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I used to think this dude was named Buzz Lightgear.

Sep 22 2014 7:48PM
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swaggerboi
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butt naked and buck naked
Sep 22 2014 7:52PM
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Lemuel
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Took me about 21 years to see the "D" in Disney. Looks like a backwards G thing. Such a stupid font.
Sep 22 2014 8:18PM
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DIPED_IN_SAUCE
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I thought this was a weed waxer
Sep 22 2014 8:22PM
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270on420out
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Thought my dog was a boy until I was 11.
Sep 22 2014 8:28PM
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El_Barto.
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A lot of people think "intents and purposes" is "intensive purposes". You all are retards, use your brain just a little and be less stupid
Sep 22 2014 8:28PM
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hippy.
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not my whole life but i thought old people saw in black and white i found out when i was like 6 or 7 that they didnt
Sep 22 2014 8:29PM
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El_Barto.
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hippy.not my whole life but i thought old people saw in black and white i found out when i was like 6 or 7 that they didnt


Cones, the photoreceptors in the retina which process colored light, degenerate with age and nearly every old person does see in black in white.


















jk...you were a dumb little shit
Sep 22 2014 9:02PM
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theBearJew
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I've had instances where this happens, cant remember them right now. Will check back if new ones arise.
Sep 22 2014 9:14PM
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APunx176
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They don't really sound alike, but I used to call pontoons croutons and the other way around until I was like 11 and found out I was saying it wrong.
Sep 22 2014 9:16PM
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AT-AT
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LemuelTook me about 21 years to see the "D" in Disney. Looks like a backwards G thing. Such a stupid font.


Holy shit, i thought i was the only one.
Sep 22 2014 9:19PM
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B.Aussie
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I thought that all cats were girls and all dogs were boys until I was 8.
Sep 22 2014 11:57PM
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skiersupreme
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spelled definitely like this "deffinitley" until this year
Sep 23 2014 12:01AM
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Dolan.Escobar
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I used to think les miserables was pronounced like it looks and lay miserob was something else.
Also i thought i had free will until it struck me at age 24 that we were all just uber complex chemical reactions that duplicated ourselves
Sep 23 2014 12:22AM
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iFlip
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I used to think people had pools so that they could wash their mattresses. Now I know that it takes a crane to get your mattress out of a pool.
Sep 23 2014 12:37AM
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DubV134
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Fucking beavers eat wood, not fish not berries or anything else really. Learned very recently since a beaver moved in to the pond at the park beside my place, figured it was time to learn about this curious animal
Sep 23 2014 12:39AM
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Olimar
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I thought it was wheelBARREL for the longest time until I got a smart phone like two years ago and autocorrect wouldnt recognize the word and I eventually looked it up and learned it was WheelBARROW
Sep 23 2014 12:52AM
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1kewldewd
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El_Barto.A lot of people think "intents and purposes" is "intensive purposes". You all are retards, use your brain just a little and be less stupid


I never knew that tell now.
Also I thought it was "flicked off" instead of "flipped off" until this year
Sep 23 2014 2:20AM
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theabortionator
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Hmm. I can't remember anything but definitely had some of those.
Sep 23 2014 2:40AM
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theabortionator
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I've got learning problems so lots of speech related things when I was little. Curve instead of curb, "madician" instead of magician, shit like that.

I made it to 16 thinking that there was a dude in the sky with super powers that had nothing better to do than judge me and burn people that didn't believe in him.
Sep 23 2014 2:59AM
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level_juan
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Thought that instead of 'from the get go' it was 'from the gecko' until very recently. That saying made so much more sense after I started thinking just a little bit
Sep 23 2014 3:59AM
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stizzle
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It took 25 years to find out that Narwhals actually exist...
Sep 23 2014 9:45AM
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ANDR01D
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I thought that the NFL QB Jim Kelly was actually colorblind until I was age 14. Turns out it was just my dad and his friends mocking him when he threw an interception.
Sep 23 2014 9:52AM
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Charlie_Kelly
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"What comes around is all around Lahey"

"Don't you mean whats all around comes around, Ricky?"
Sep 23 2014 10:01AM
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steezyjibber
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El_Barto.A lot of people think "intents and purposes" is "intensive purposes". You all are retards, use your brain just a little and be less stupid


Holy SHIT, I never knew that. haha wow
Sep 23 2014 10:13AM
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steezyjibber
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I still always get it mixed up. Is it "case and point" or "case in point"?

About to look that up now.
Sep 23 2014 10:13AM
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plyswthsqrrls
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Used to say "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less" until pretty recently. This is why my only friends are squirrels
Sep 23 2014 11:12AM
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saskskier
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I have a friend who thought you only had a limited number of words to use in a lifetime when she was a kid. She stopped talking for like three weeks to try and save them for later until her mom told her she had unlimited words.
Sep 23 2014 11:23AM
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.Rybak.
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OlimarI thought it was wheelBARREL for the longest time until I got a smart phone like two years ago and autocorrect wouldnt recognize the word and I eventually looked it up and learned it was WheelBARROW


Are you fucking kidding me? I never knew that.
Sep 23 2014 11:33AM
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987321654hgfd
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hippy.not my whole life but i thought old people saw in black and white i found out when i was like 6 or 7 that they didnt


Guilty of this one too. Not only did I think they saw in black and white, I thought the entire world was just black and white back in the day and color was a recent discovery.
Sep 23 2014 11:33AM
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.Rybak.
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hippy.not my whole life but i thought old people saw in black and white i found out when i was like 6 or 7 that they didnt


Me too. Then I thought one day randomly everything went in color.
Sep 23 2014 11:36AM
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cornholio
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skiersupremespelled definitely like this "deffinitley" until this year


i spelled it "definately" for a solid 20+ years. i think i figured it out from newschoolers by always seeing it spelled as "defiantly", i was going to be a nerd and correct someone and realized that i was almost as much of a dumbass
Sep 23 2014 11:42AM
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.Rybak.
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cornholioi spelled it "definately" for a solid 20+ years. i think i figured it out from newschoolers by always seeing it spelled as "defiantly", i was going to be a nerd and correct someone and realized that i was almost as much of a dumbass


I always google words before I correct someone. And find out im worng.
Sep 23 2014 11:45AM
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seward
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y'all r dumbz
Sep 23 2014 11:46AM
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RubberSoul
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soulskierMy freshman roommate thought rum and cokes were Roman cokes for the longest time, we saw no need to correct him either


i think they actually are called roman cokes sometimes, but only cause it sounds like that

steezyjibberI still always get it mixed up. Is it "case and point" or "case in point"?

About to look that up now.


case IN point. "in point" is itself an older idiom that just means like, relevant or pertinent
Sep 23 2014 11:49AM
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Iliveinutah
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until this summer i thought new England was in Europe. my friend told me she just got back from new England and i asked when she got her passport, she then enlightened me on where it was. and i live on the east coast....
Sep 23 2014 11:52AM
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yuck
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LemuelTook me about 21 years to see the "D" in Disney. Looks like a backwards G thing. Such a stupid font.


same with the B in the Bay, fuck this B in particular i couldnt see it until i was in my late teens

Sep 23 2014 11:55AM
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Turner.
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snowballsdeepuntil this summer i thought new England was in Europe. my friend told me she just got back from new England and i asked when she got her passport, she then enlightened me on where it was. and i live on the east coast....


Wait, really?

Also I was guilty of "intensive purposes" and "play it by year" a lot too. Same thing with "a hair's breadth" meaning that something was close. Always thought it was "hair's breath" cause like maybe a hair wouldn't breathe that much, and the distance it breathed was really small. Fucking dumbass.
Sep 23 2014 12:01PM
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Turner.
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yucksame with the B in the Bay, fuck this B in particular i couldnt see it until i was in my late teens



Fuck, double posting here but I'm really glad to know I'm not alone on this one. Took me forever to figure out how that was a B
Sep 23 2014 12:03PM
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Iliveinutah
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Turner.Wait, really?


yes , and I'm damn near about to graduate college... its shocking i know
Sep 23 2014 12:09PM
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Daph
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I always thought the tree in the REI logo was an A so my brain thinks of REI as AREI. I must be a pirate

And the D in Disney never got me, it was the y. Always looked like a P to me. Lol disnep.
Sep 23 2014 12:36PM
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