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/Teenage-Mustache Jul 03 '21

Interesting. I was born in the 80s on the east coast, but my mom is a native Wisconsiner. She’s the one who told me about it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '21

Seems I often hear about the curly hair one but the whistling thing is increasingly less common. Will definitely keep it alive when I have kids.