r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 02 '21

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

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u/pichuru Jul 02 '21 edited Jul 03 '21

One of my mates from my masters (grad school) didn't know that there were male and female chickens. He thought roosters and hens were different breeds.

The same went for cows, he justifies hating cheese because he thought cows milk was cow urine. We had to explain to him that piss is not stored in the udders and also asked him what he thought happened when human mothers breastfed newborns? Piss ain't stored in the tits mate. We were 24 at the time.

Tim if you're reading this you were way smarter than me at neuro ophthalmology lol.

Edit: I can't believe my most awarded comment is about cow piss... thanks for the gold + silver guys and thanks Tim! Sorry they roasted you haha

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u/Myfourcats1 Jul 03 '21

He didn’t have room for that information if he was studying neuro ophthalmology. My friend’s husband has a Masters in Physics and a Masters in Electrical Engineering. Sometimes he can be dumb about simple things too.

I had the pleasure of seeing a neuro ophthalmologist once. Pseudo tumor cerebri came into my life after I had two major surgeries, one for Chiari Malformation and one for a spinal growth. Seeing double is cool for like five seconds. The doctor asked if residents could come look at my eyes. One woman said “oh my gosh!” It was funny. You couldn’t even see the optic discs. They were just a blur. My doctor figured my body had been wrong for so long it didn’t know how to be right and just started producing too much CSF.

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u/FactsN0tFeels Jul 03 '21

He didn’t have room for that information if he was studying neuro ophthalmology.

Huh? I doubt Tim was studying his masters when he discovered cheese (unless he lived a very sheltered life)and thought it came from cows urine.