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My own personal story: First day on my first ever job, I was getting taught how to work at a gas station. All the wile, I start pressing this weird switch that I didn't know what it did, but it was fun to press. About an hour later, the police come by and tell us that someone's activated the silent alarm over and over. My bosses and I look at each other because we don't know who did it before I come to the realization and admit it was me pressing the switch thing because I didn't know what it was. The police understood and just basically told me not to do it again unless it was a real emergency

Everyone was confused whenever I asked why they would eat “poison berries “. It wasn’t until I was in my 20’s and wrote it down that someone said “ooooh! You mean BOYSEN-berries.”

I feel the Q-tip person. I didn't know what a sweet potato was until my late teens because I live in New Zealand and we call them "kumera" (the Māori word for sweet potatoes). Every time I found a recipe with "sweet potato" I thought it was for a type of potato that wasn't imported to NZ, and ditched the recipe for a different one with veges I knew. I finally got fed up with the popularity of sweet potatoes, googled "alternatives for sweet potato", and the top result was "five alternatives for kumera". I felt like a complete idiot for days.

That was all very funny, but I especially liked the one about the guy who didn't know that you had to add water to condensed soups!

"O you put it on your wrist" had me dying

Just for the sake of it, I do wanna draw Gladly the Cross-eyed Bear.

Just something to know about the last one. "Hamburgers" don't have "ham" because they were sandwiches made out of two slices of bread and beef in the middle for sailors back some time in Hamburg.

For some reason, I thought this subject was going to be filled with “Oh, so that’s what that was for” seconds before/midst/after disaster moments.

16:37 - Story 45: "I learned at 27 how to clean a toaster. I didn't know there was a trapdoor at the bottom of it." That part hits different when you know about the Protogen species.

That lint roller one broke my heart

The crossed eye bear one was so funny and adorable as heck lmao 🤣

For anyone going "I thought it was duck tape," it's Duck Tape. That's the most famous brand of duct tape, hence why everyone is confused at some point in their lives.

I used to think that bricks were make by weaving. as in weaving for clothes. because in spanish ''cocer'' means bioling or heating food and other stuff (in this case, heating the clay to make bricks). and the word sounds exactly like ''coser'' which is the action of weaving threads with a neddle. never gave it any thought to realize that is what it meant, even at 28 years old when I already knew about the process. like as if my brain had forgotten to update an old entry.

The fake subway surfers footage💀

I was like, "hair tie? How?" And I also thought a lorry was a brand of vehicle.

Actually... those lights on escalators ARE for the blind so far as I'm aware. Most legally blind people can see just well enough to use shining lights as a measure of depth based on how big the lights are as they move towards the lights and whether or not the lights are moving along with whether their foot is covering the lights fully or partially to indicate if they can put their foot down on the step. They can't see regular objects well, so the lights will help them a lot because stairs can be hard enough; let alone moving stairs. However... fully blind people and some people at the very deep end of the legally blind spectrum are probably not going to find it very useful. Fun fact: babies are born legally blind and can't see more than greyish blobs for the first month. Most babies will then see in black and white for the next five months; finally being able to see in full color after a full six months. There are, of course, exceptions; such as premature or late-pregnancies and some people who are born with fewer light cones in their eyes.

DEFINITELY THE BEST QUESTION EVER ASKED! I LOVE WHEN PEOPLE ADMIT THEY DONT KNOW IT ALL.

Took me 8 years to figure out how to set the clock in my old Cadillac. I live in the UK and the car had no paperwork. I got an original owners manual as a christmas gift. You don't press or hold the buttons, you pull them.😂

#9 the movie Clappers can also have colors on them which are used by the editors to find the real white shade. Either automatically by the program or by using the colors as a reference

When I was living with my robot friend at their apartment, which was very tiny. My robot friend said they had a closet, and pressed a button on the wall to open the closet door. Behind it was a space the size of an apartment. I suggested I live in there, and my robot friend was cool with it but still found it strange.

We need a part 2

Ok, I was today years old when I learned that “I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus was about the kid seeing their mom kissing their dad dressed as Santa Claus. 😂🤦🏼‍♂️

Story about my cousin that relates to story 10. He believed for a long time that watermelons grow in water because our uncle put one in a creek to keep it cool and our aunt (uncle's sister) told him that's where it grew. He thought if you planted cheerios the next morning there will be doughnuts, same aunt got him with that by placing a doughnut on a plate where he planted the cheerio. And my favorite is when the same aunt again told him that birdseed grows birds and this was proven by the birds gathering on the yard after the seed was thrown. He was amazed at the "wonders of nature." The one that took him the longest to figure out was the watermelon.

I only knew about the pipe cleaners because my grandpa smoked a pipe and they were always pipe cleaners around

My sister drove for years before she found out the solid yellow line means you are not supposed to pass....it is amazing that she survived!

I bought a drying rack. It came with a folding basket for clamps and an odd plastic bit that has four wide hooks. I thought it was cheap excuse for a hanger to hang stuff like bras on by just one strap. At least that was what I used it for. My boyfriend informed me that the four hooks were meant to be snapped apart and than one could put two each on the 'feet' of the stand... I still haven't done that and still use it as a hanger.

17:36 I on occasion use the buckets at Home Depot and Lowes as a shopping basket especially for small items, on some occassions I will use them as a shopping basket then purchase it for use as a bucket. I just have to tell the cashier either I want it or not.

Story 48- There's no shame in using a Home Depot bucket as a handbasket. Usually I only grab one for my other purchases if I'm actually buying the bucket, but also occasionally if I just can't find a handbasket. Sometimes they don't have any left in the place where they normally stockpile them. I see people doing it all the time, no worries!

good thing it was peper spray. my mother's perfume bottle that she carries on her bag looks too much like a clit vibrator (which I mentioned and she disproved)

I about died laughing. And some of them were news to me.

12:32 I remember the shock of finding out that the small extra pockets over the larger pants pockets. We're originally for pocket lighters. Because back in the time when these pockets were first incorporated. Smoking was certain most everyone did without knowledge of consequences to their health in the past.

I had an over the door canvas and plastic door caddy. For years I fussed with it because the pockets were too small. After over 10 years, I noticed that there was a thin tape holding the pockets closed for packing and shipping. Pulled off the tape and shoes now fit just fine.

6:54, the receptacles is a feature in homes that comes goes. It may be in new homes begining say in 1960. For up to 5 years it may be a feature, then no more. In 1995 it comes back, 5 years ok, then 30 without.

About the no-cheese hamburger: That happens a LOT. When I asked the server in our dining room for a hamburger, she was all apologetic but said they only had beef, turkey, and veggie burgers.

When I was very little I always thought it was “rock paper scissors shoe” but now I realize it’s shoot.

The week I traded in my van, I discovered that the double arrow on my cassette tape player will immediately advance to the next song on the tape. I had always just used the fast forward or rewind arrows. I had the van for 13 years. 😂

I'm 25 and I'm just now questioning why hamburgers are not made of ham. My life is a lie.

Alternating between “Oooh, that’s what that’s for!…to How the heck did someone not know that!” Same, dude. Same. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

This one's a bit more exotic. When i worked construction, one of the guys had himself a short, oldfashioned folding ruler, that he'd gotten somewhere, and found handy. He said the length of the ruler rather puzzled him:it had not been sawn off, but neatly brass-tipped on each end; made that way. "39 inches and some change..." he said. My ears went up. "39 and change? Turn it over ( to read the other side of the rule)! You've got something rare; that's a scientific instrument. It's a folding meter stick." He was suitably impressed at this cute antique that might once have been in the field kit of a botanist or geologist.

Is it weird that I kind of want to normalize getting a ham steak on a bun if you ask for a ham burger? I mean... why not? chicken burgers exist. Fish burgers exist.

I got 2 for me ; I didn’t know you could use a can opener as a bottle opener ‘ And until I was like 15 I thought fried rice was called shrimp fried rice , but I didn’t like shrimp so I would ask for SFR with out the strimp

Built my first PC 7 years ago. Decided to upgrade this year (2023) because rig is aging. Found a mystery SATA cable attached to a mystery component. Weird, I only have 4 hard drives and I have 5 SATA cables. Fast forward to first boot and recall how I updated bios. Realized that I used a CD for that old motherboard I had. TLDR: I rediscovered a CD drive.

My dad announced, like he'd found the cure for cancer, that if you move chairs first, it's easier to sweep under the table. He's 75.

Tape measures also sometimes say how long the shell is, so you don't have to bend the tape against a corner. The end end is also serrated for marking and has a hole to catch onto a nail. No sure it what circumstances you'd be measuring with the end of the tape or happen to have a screw at that exact point, tho.

My husband and I were talking a few months ago and found out that as kids we both thought that when songs were being played over the radio, the performers were actually there in the studio singing them live. Granted for me this could have been because when I was a very small child I had cousins that sang at our local radiio station and would dedicate a song to me.

The escalator lights could be for the blind. Very few blind people have total "lights out" blindness and one of the things that's hard to see with low vision it's the edge of steps. The lights could really help with that.

Same about the grilled cheese 😂😅

My oh that's what it was for moment was when I was a teenager I realized that I misunderstood a saying for the longest time as a kid. The saying being "have a good one." I didn't realize that was supposed to mean have a good day. kid me thought it meant have a good beer. So whenever someone told me this I would reply: "I'm not old enough to drink." And it wasn't until I told someone this and they corrected me. It suddenly made a lot of sense why everyone always gave me confused looks.

6:38 Plus you can use the wiggly measuring tape bracket end piece. To latch on edges of certain measuring surfaces. So you can have it clip in and hold place as you stretch it out in length. If you don't have another person to hold the other end that is.

Ohhhhhh thats what the bell is for!

When I discovered that dryer machine lint collectors were flexibly wobbly. So you could just shake the lint off the catcher over thrash throw away. Making touching the lint with your fingers unnecessary.

The lights on the escalators makes sense. Most legally blind people arent profoundly blin. They often can see lights, or shapes, or a small arsa of visuon.

I relate with way too many of these

Rè plastic bag dispenser. The doll is specifically to store plastic bags. You put the bags in at the top and pull them from the bottom one at a time. Very easy...

For the light switch one, that was very trendy in the late sixties and early seventies. I don't know why. My family just found the same thing with a specific switch. Not helping matters is the fact that the switch and outlet are in different rooms.

When cooking for some time with pans and pots over the stove. Using paper napkins to set stirring utensils. Before realizing one day. I could use the holes in the handles to place the stirring instruments in when not using them.

I think I always thought that the clapper boards were for outtakes or something. Since that's the only time I ever saw them when watching movies.

Everyone: listening to the stories Me: watching the gameplay

LOL I always call it roast beast.

I thought the line in the Cher song was “gypsies tramps and bees” when I was little. And I would picture Tramp from lady and the tramp. Hehe

9:21 I think I had that moment too at some point, but I can't remember if I figured it out myself or if someone told me

On the purses thing my mom and grandma had the opposite problem with me😅 I didn't like going through them cuz it felt weird and invasive so I used to bribe my brothers to get the stuff whenever one of them asked me to grab something out of their purse 😂

#48 this is actually a clever way: take the bucket, put your purchases into it. then at the register, you just buy the bucket with the purchase. done, and you have a bucket.

@9:22 I too always thought it was a "G" and when I would write Disney, I would use a G at first then switch it to a D because duh, it started with a D. But it wasn't until I was taught cursive in school and my teacher showed us how some people stylize certain letter. And there I saw the D that looks like a G. Mind blown. To this day, when I see the Disney logo, I still see that G for a dmfew moments.

Just a few months ago, I showed my dad that the square button on Android phones let you see all of your open apps. He didn't know that it did anything.

On composer island in msm there are natural notes and I wondered “what are these for????” I found out what they were for… in April of this year

The clutch sometimes is enough and u don’t need to hit the gas. Gives a more controlled reverse especially when parallel parking

I drove my Mini Cooper for a year with the tire warning light on thinking I had a faulty tire pressure monitor in one of the tires. turns out you can reset the light to go out and the tire pressure monitors in the wheels aren't used on a Mini, it senses through the ABS.

I had a 2001 Limited Subaru Outback. this thing had all the high-end bells and whistles that were available for the time... problem is, that car had SO MUCH WRONG With it under the hood. My "Ohhh THAT'S What That's For!" moment came mere weeks before it blew its second engine. There was this weird large square on the ceiling in my back seat. It looked like it could be removed, but I could never figure out how. one night I was having fun with my friends and driving them somewhere, and I was playing with the moon roof switch, and apparently I moved it in a way I never moved it before, and low-and behold, that square opened up. my friends then took turns doing that thing you see in the movies when someone stands up through the roof of a limo. I was dumbfounded. I owned that car for two years and I never realized what opened that section. I both loved and hated that car. I loved it for all the cool "rich person" stuff that came with it (I mean- for the time) It had Leather heated seats, a six CD Changer, Moon Roof (and sun roof apparently), power seats, power windows (My first car had the manual windows), Roof Racks, and room in the back to fit a full new tire as a spare... and I hated it because: It blew two engines (not my fault either! I took damn good care of that car!) blew a radiator, and had this unsolvable AC Gas leak- as it would take 1 can of that gas and run through it in a week. My dad tried fixing it many times, but it just wouldn't stop leaking, and finally, the gasket around the hatch window leaked, so anything I had in the hatch back would get soaked in the rain. You get what you pay for- I only paid $2K for it in 2011

...are you sure that was a troll? I could definitely see how those green lights could make the stairs easier to tell apart for someone with poor vision.

Same here about Story 26 (the "G" in Disney)

9:22 I wondered the same thing and then _finally_ figured it out when I was like 15.

Those little green sword or not stoppers their swords

9:22 the thing with "Gisney". It took me about 7 years to see it.

I was in the Czech Republic and went up to this stand selling hamburgers and other stuff so I ordered one expecting beef but no it was ham. It was still good but I wasn’t ready for it

BRO IS PLAYING TRAINWAY SKATERS

I thought the D in Disney was a G for a long time too, until one day, in 4th or 5th grade, while I was playing with writing some penmanship, I was stylizing a D when I noticed it looked similar. Then it hit me lol

2:39 Actually didn't know that old film trick reasoning.

When i finally figured out the three shells.....

Actually @18:05, i have actually asked for a basket in a home depot and got handed one of the buckets by one of the employees.

12:50 what?....... This is life changing.

My friend let me have his Original Xbox (this was around 06-07). He said ot worked great, except that there MUST be a disc in the drive AT ALL TIMES or the tray would jam and you'd have to press the button and wiggle it until it opened. Well, I let it close without a disc once; i messed with it briefly, then I saw a small hole under the tray. I knew PC CD drives had this hole to put a straightened paper clip in, and since Xbox was PC BASED I tried it. The door popped open enough that I could gently pull it open. About a year later I gave it back to him, he got the drawer stuck and knew I could get it open in seconds (would've taken him hours) so he calls me. I popped it open with the paper clip(while he watched), his mind got blown.

1:17 I had a horrible, walking red flag roommate (He was the one on the lease) who would take the batteries out of the smoke detectors, each time he cooked. One time he decided to make deep fried pickles, took his pickles into his air conditioned room, close the door with music blaring, and left the pot of oil on high...We had to evacuate the apartment and call the fire department That only lasted a few months thankfully, and I don't live with a walking red flag anymore, although he apparently has a good reputation in the music gig booking industry 👀 Don't even get me started on the layers of slimy black mold in the bathroom, or the hundreds of dead bugs in the sticky fridge

Today I found out at McDonald's when I asked for an iced Mocha I was saying to my friend I didn't want to slip from my hands, I found out you can ask for a iced cup holder 😅 I didn't you could get 2 types a warm cup holder and a iced one

just play the og subway surfers 😆 also I love ur vids

I realized the pineapple thing like a year ago from a video game.

When I was little I thought it was handburger because you hold it in your hands to eat.

Hey i have a request for the editors. Please either tell the voice actora to talk more relaxee or just change the color of the text when the actor xomments the story

0:33 my neighbor's 10 year old kid came over to help with my clothing business (I give her free clothes) and just learned the same thing about lint rollers 😱

Story 54: I always knew they were called hamburgers, but I never understood why

Ooops, I thought the same about pineapples, but then, I am from the uk. 😂

7:35 me too

You do not HAVE TO use the accelerator when reversing. You can, but better be safe than sorry.

Story #53 - ...DAMMIT!

Bro tf is that background game tencent version of subway surfers?

First three stories I can relate to. Second story was my mom not my dad lol

Being of the millennial generation myself, I totally understand the person about Pipe cleaners. I Only found out a few years ago what they were originally for smoking pipes but in my defence all my life Smoking has always been seen as 'bad' and almost no-one smoked pipes. (The only person I've ever met who did was my paternal grandfather who died when I was 12) So it's understandable why I wouldn't know. Also my 'oh that's why!' moment was Chocolate Eclairs. I was far too old when I realised it Was chocolate Eclair Not Chocolatey Claire, (I had never seen it written down) I had wondered why they had a girl's name.

i was 12 my sis was 10 dad was asleep and mom went out with friends i went looking for somthing to play with in her closet with my sis when mom got back with her 2 friends they see my 10 year old sis hand cuffed to the stair railing and me threating to tickel her with my moms vibrator *nothing sexual going on you sickos * here 2 friends started busting up laughing while my mother looked like she wanted to just die never figured out why she was so angry till i was 22 and learned about virbrators lol

1:00, Story 2, I didn’t know they had more sheets,whoops.