That placing an onion slice or lettuce leaf on the bottom hamburger bun keeps your freshly-grilled burger from soaking the bun.

The phrase "pitch black" is referring to the substance "pitch", which is very black in color. I had always considered "pitch" in that context to be akin to "very", like how some otherwise archaic words survive in idioms.

Took me till my freshman year of college before I realized pickles were pickled cucumbers and not their own, unique vegetable. I thought the way you pickled other things was you put them in pickle juice.

That my casual coffee drinking habit (3-4 coffees/day) is causing the anxiety I've been experiencing for some time. Now I drink one coffee around lunch time, only if I feel I need it and I feel better.

In Greek alphabet we have the letters Ο (Omicron) and Ω(Omega). It took me 37 years to realize that they actually mean O-small and O-big.

Ponies are not baby horses. They are just small horses.

Tamagotchi are in eggs because they're tamago (egg) + Tomodachi (friend)

Figured out in college that there isn't "cup cake mix" in the baking aisle. It's just regular cake mix. I spent forever looking up and down the shelves for "cup cake mix" only to be informed by a nice grandmotherly woman that it is just cake mix put in little cups.

Corn kernels are the seeds. Wanted to grow corn for fall last year, bought a pack of corn seeds only to realize the kernels from the cob were the seeds... felt pretty dumb just realizing this at 33 years old.

I saw a video where a man said he didn’t know banks don’t keep your money. He’s been giving the bank rare coins thinking they put it in HIS account. (I think he thought it was like a safe deposit box)

Vampires don’t have a reflection because mirrors used to be made using silver and it was the silver that wouldn’t reflect the vampires image

We were having breakfast at IHOP. Just got thinking, and i said, out loud, "i wonder what happened to the International House of Pancakes? They used to be all over them place. " I am not smrt.

That eating the crust of bread doesn’t make my teeth strong as my grandpa and mom always told me

“Pearl clutching” references woman putting their hand to their chest (in supposed shock) while *wearing* the pearls. the pearls aren’t just in their pockets or something.

Growing up, my grandmother always used to tell me "Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite," and it always sounded like a quaint, old-timey saying to me. It wasn't until a recent infestation scare in my apartment complex that I learned bedbugs are real critters, and not just a part of a nursery rhyme meant to tuck kids in at night. Talk about an epiphany that itches in retrospect.

That “evergreen” trees/plants are forever green, as in they don’t lose their leaves in the winter. Never broke down the word “ever-green”

They’re called hula hoops because when you use them it looks like you’re dancing the hula.

Half & half is literally half heavy cream mixed with half whole milk. Felt like a real dummy when I learned that one last week.

Hot water can leave your hair heat damaged. I always denied having heat damaged hair because I don't use heated styling tools. I never occurred to me that washing my hair, in my one degree below steam shower, was causing heat damage

A few years ago, I realized that Paris Hilton was famous because her family owned Hilton hotels. I never put two and two together before that and I felt like an idiot.

I learned a couple years ago that it's not "The mayor of bad news" it's actually "the bearer of bad news". I'm 25