Obvious Things People Learned Embarrassingly Late In Life

There are people you know, people right now, living among you, people you work with, who don't know that pickles are cucumbers. There are competent people, with lives and families who have yet to learn that you shouldn't put metal in the microwave. And there's probably some phrase you've been saying wrong your entire life, like "for all intensive purposes" that you have yet to realize is wrong. So good luck with that and enjoy some painfully obvious things people didn't realize for way too long.

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