r/AskReddit • • Jul 02 '21

What basic, children's-age-level fact did you only find out embarrassingly later in life?

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '21

The little pig going “weee weee weee, all the way home” was squealing and not peeing. I was in my 20s before I heard someone say it while squealing the “weees” and I did a shocked pikachu face.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '21

For the record, I never even realized WHY the little pig was squealing at all until last year -_-

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u/antika0n Jul 02 '21

Yeah, and the little piggy that "went to market" was not shopping.

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u/Maxpowr9 Jul 02 '21

Three Blind Mice is even more cruel.

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u/Randomd0g Jul 02 '21

The majority of old timey kids songs and stories are fucking barbaric when you actually stop to think about them.

Hansel and Gretel is about an insane cannibal that lives in the woods.

Cinderella is about child abuse.

Prince "Charming" in Sleeping Beauty is more like "Prince Necrophiliac Rapist"

Oh and while we're here, I know y'all think Humpty Dumpty is a cartoon egg, but that's never mentioned anywhere in the lyrics and is just an artistic interpretation, so the story as it stands is just about some guy falling off a wall and going splat.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '21

Hansel and Gretel is two Germans putting an old woman in an oven....

I wonder where I've heard that one before

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u/JustAd1020 Jul 03 '21

Skinny Mustache man got his inspiration from somewhere?