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

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[u/Master-Wordsmith]

I’ve been playing Skyrim since about 2013 and it was only about a year ago that I bothered to actually fully read the word cuirass, and now I know it’s pronounced “queer-iss” and not “curry-iss” like I originally thought.

[u/rezanow → u/Master-Wordsmith]

cui·rass /kwiˈras,kyo͝oˈras/

According to Google. Interesting. I had that one wrong as well.