I always thought when people recommended a hot water bottle for cramps/muscle pain/etc. that it was literally just putting hot water in a plastic water bottle, like you'd drink out of. I only just learned it's actually a rubber bottle that you put hot (or cold) water in. I had heat packs/ice packs growing up but those were stuff with like clay.

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So i was on reddit, if course, and read a post about a woman afraid to give her baby honey. I had to look it up. I have 4 grown kids and i did not know that babies under 1 were not allowed honey due to infant botulism.

Really helpful if you have a plain shirt without a tag or where the tag faded

She would have been Lisa Turtle-Powers.

That can't be coincidence, right? Right?

That word is decalcomania.

People with short hair but especially men like how often are you getting a haircut? I cannot fathom going one every month or two months. That sounds awful I’m so sorry. As a woman with long hair I get a haircut like once a year or even longer if I’m just not in the mood or don’t have the money/time. I am seriously flabbergasted about this revelation.

Basically the title.

Saw a comment on another thread, you can swipe left on the circled part and it'll show you if you need to turn right or left next!

In the song Monster Mash Dracula asks the question "Whatever happened to my Transylvania Twist?" and the response is "it's now the Monster Mash." Several decades ago my child brain decided that Dracula, being essentially immortal, had just been around for so long that the song he knew as the Transylvania Twist had, over time, changed into or become known as the Monster Mash.

IWTYO when I realized that a more literal version of this exchange would be "I thought that the popular thing was the Transylvania Twist" and "No, now the popular thing is the Monster Mash."

So I can do everything I forgot to do or fetch.

Had this thought last week actually and im not over ir.

But what could the M stand for...

Okay this one is embarassing.

I am 27 yo. My whole life i tought Sinatra was black. I've rarely seen his photos, I knew about him only from the songs.

Even when I stumbled upon his photos, I never really took a closer look. I just had this idea that he was black and took it as a fact.

Today I saw his photo in some article that was not black-white. I tought no way. At first I tought that it's a proper example of white-washing. But later when I Googled him and took a closer look at his face... What the hell? How did I ever tought this guy is black? He has like... zero facial charateristics of a black person. He is white as white can be. Yes he has a tan but dude is white... Not Cristiano Ronaldo white. Proper white. I'm really shocked and embarassed.

Luckily, I never embarassed myself with this in front of anybody.

was going through a master list of nunya sites (what ppl usually use incognito for), and discovered a use that extends beyond hiding your own search history from yourself (or hoping that what you search doesn’t affect social media recommendations/ ads in your daily life 😬)

TL;DR: Incognito protects you (a little) from malware/ dangerous sites.

when you restart your computer, all incognito tabs are wiped by default, just as an inheren feature of that browsing mode.

pardon the following run-on sentence:

this means if you‘re in the (very scary) position I was just in where, even after opening a link in a new tab (allows you to preview it just in case) and all seemed fine, you click on the tab and you have fullscreen (probably fake) malware notifications going off and fake messed-up-files stuff, followed by the horrific realization that keybinds don’t work (windows logo + tab, alt-tab, ctrl-tab, etc), when you force power off your PC/ device, the problematic tabs will automatically be gone when you turn the computer/ device back on. This prevents “startup” malware issues where the problem just comes back as soon as your browser is restarted.

Hope this finds its way to anyone that might have stopped using incognito after realizing it doesn’t actually fully protect your data from being harvested, in the hopes it will one day save someone’s phone/ PC etc.

Okay, it wasn’t actually today, but I can’t believe how long it took me to figure that out.

I dont know how to feel. Ive never seen a real life fight in person before, only fights Ive seen are in movies or tv show. So the years of me watching clips of live WWE footage, I thought it was real.
I was in discord googling and seeing who famous had the same names as ourselves and Roxanne Perez comes up and I start saying "oh she looks really strong, oh shes in WWE she must be strong" and I get a reply "This is like someone still thinking Santa is real 😭 how do I break the news to them WWE isn't real" And I was confused googled and and yeah it says WWE is scripted.
I actually feel sick in my stomach Im 22 and Ive been watching clips for years and never realised?? Its a sport no? sport cant be fake, its a live sport how do you fake a live sport?? Im so embarrassed and I feel so stupid. ;w;

That these little round bits on my potato peeler are to gouge out the potato eyes rather than stopping to use a veg knife.

Really meant goodbye in Japanese , obviously not the sucka part like we say in the States, but specifically “Sayonara”

yall. google it. there is no cure. this genuinely might make me go vegan.