What did you discover relatively late on in life that everyone else had known for years?

I discovered that each episode Sesame Street was actually a compilation of sketches that we shuffled and shown again and again. Once it was pointed out I kept noticing sketches from previous episodes I never told my children though I didn’t want to spoil it for the,

Ah - sorry - must have been writing this as the previous message was posted. Sorry, Moth62

Please, Bradford lass, what IS a dental dam?

And Truffle, I always fastened my suspender belt at the front!

Patticake, in Yorkshire we had Yorkshire puddings and gravy on their own, before the Sunday roast . I'm told the idea was to fill us up so we didn't eat too much meat! And my great aunt would eat any left over cold puds with jam on Monday!

The thing I discovered when in my late 60s was that,( although I say it my self I'm a very good speller) I had been spelling the word 'dilemma' incorrectly since school. The teacher wrote it on the chalk board and i copied it down as dilemna . obviously misreading one of the ms as n. When my daughters pointed it out I denied the error vociferously until shown a dictionary!! Of course, these days, the computer would have told me!

I didn’t know until I went to college (not in Yorkshire) that Yorkshire puddings could be served WITH the rest of the meal! In our house, they were allus served wi’ gravy BEFORE the rest of the dinner. Apparently, when money was scarce, parents would serve it like this and say to their children, “Them as eats t’most puddin’ can get t’most meat”!!

That freddy Mercury was gay!

Re the Oxo cube crumbling in the foil, I did learn that, but still can't crumble the chicken ones. They are too hard.

Sorry, Jeanlizzie, I missed your question. It’s as Phloembundle says.

How through my mind she runs can sound so close to with my mancheros is beyond me.

I have also just discovered the petrol filler symbol, PageTurner, and have shared it with lots of people.

I had a really intelligent friend who thought that a turf accountant was somebody who sold lawns!

I’m learning new things every day.

EllaKeat Your thinking of Bovril which is made from beef extract but us vegetarians can have marmite (yay! )
Lots of these things are news to me ??‍♀️

The stranglers lyric is --- through my mind she runs.

I discovered whilst a Counselling course that my father was a Cohersive bully. And that it was not our fault that all his children suffered from low self esteem and anxiety

When you open a medicine package, the list of contraindications/instructions is always at the end which has the sell by date on it.

Learned that you didn't have to please your parents all the time. Nothing dreadful would happen if you pleased yourself sometimes

The petrol pump icon position doesn't work on all cars - looked at mine today and gauge is on far left of dashboard with pump icon below. Fuel cap is on right side of car.

When I saw PMO of ads for cars in newspapers, I used to think it meant Private Motorists Only, and wondered why, till I discovered it meant Perfect Mechanical Order!

What a sheltered life I’ve lead! I’m learning loads on this thread today! Thank goodness at least I do know that lambs are baby sheep ?

My father always gloomily told us the worst ever news....but never when things became normal.....so it was only recently that I was aware that the 2 week Cuba Crisis in 1962 is actually over .....I'm 73!!

I was in my twenties when I discovered Yorkshire puddings were made to accompany beef and served with gravy. In our house they were served with golden syrup for pudding!

How about this one then - it wasn't until my mid 20s that I learned that suspender belts fastened at the back, not the side like my skirts. I had been using one for years and used to complain bitterly about the strap adjuster being right under my bum when i sat down!! - painful!

I had my beloved old Peugeot 306 for twenty years ...as I was showing it to the chap who ended up buying it - he did something to the rear wiper control which made it squirt water up to clean the rear windscreen. I had no idea!

A seasonal one! I always thought that the three kings were 'Vory and Tar' meaning Very noble and black. I still think of them like that.

I only discovered when we traded our last car in that it had a place in the boot to plug in the cool box. I spent years moaning about leads trailing through the car from the cigarette lighter.

As a teenager I didn’t know that Australia had summer when we had winter. In my 20s I found out what ‘phallic symbol’ meant.

There are many things I am discovering now that I hadn’t thought of before, so still not too old at 73 to learn new tricks. Can’t think of any right now.

This is a good explanation of gravity (apologies for the basic level but it’s set at the level my brain can grasp) www.physics4kids.com/files/motion_gravity.html

I thought there was something like a big magnet right at the centre of the Earth but it turns out every object pulls on other objects to a greater or lesser degree, depending on its mass. I genuinely had no idea (which is probably why I failed O Grade physics)

How does gravity work then?

After 25 years of making Christmas cakes I was amazed to learn that marzipan can be bought in shops.

I didn’t know until last year the Scottish English border was diagonal southwest to northeast! In my mind it was straight east west. I’m half Scottish half English and I’m amazed I’ve never noticed when driving north !