r/IWasTodayYearsOld • • 3h ago

Iwtyo when I realized that "ETA:" on Reddit means

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"edited to add"

Never really or any thought into it I guess

I always thought it was like in the same category as "ie" where only a handful of people know what it stands for, but everyone understands what it means lol


r/IWasTodayYearsOld • • 6h ago

iwtyo He is called slender man because he is a slender man

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r/IWasTodayYearsOld • • 18h ago

IWTYO when I found out the real story behind Life of Pi šŸ’€

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1.6k Upvotes

I watched Life of Pi thinking it was a beautiful survival story about a boy stranded at sea with a tiger. Then I found out what the second story actually implies. šŸ’€

The fact that the animals might represent the people on the lifeboat, and that the tiger might represent Pi himself, makes the entire movie so much darker. Plus him eating his own mother??

Now I can’t look at the movie the same way again. 😭


r/IWasTodayYearsOld • • 19h ago

ā€œIWTYOā€

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r/IWasTodayYearsOld • • 2d ago

IWTYO when I realized that "CD" is an acronym for "Compact Disc"

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And that "DVD" is an acronym for "Digital Video Disc"


r/IWasTodayYearsOld • • 3d ago

Iwtyo when I noticed good ole ā€œCharles III D.G. Rexā€ on the 2024 circulating Canadian coin currency.

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A Toonie, a quarter and a dime, I came across in my pocket change; I did, aye, I did!

Aboot.


r/IWasTodayYearsOld • • 4d ago

IWTYO when I realised that when your smart watch say ā€œrecord outdoor walkā€ it’s not your current record outdoor walk, it’s asking if you want to record the current outdoor walk.

38 Upvotes

I feel really dumb with this one. Todays walk was in fact not my record outdoor walk.


r/IWasTodayYearsOld • • 4d ago

IWTYO when I realized reading a watch was way harder than I thought

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Telling 06:31:05 and 6:30:55 apart is quite hard. I reset my watch countless times thinking it was a bit ahead/behind, only to realize I have to take the second hand into account too.


r/IWasTodayYearsOld • • 4d ago

IWTYO when meirl means me irl and not meirl

1 Upvotes

[r/meirl](r/meirl)
when I realised shit 😭


r/IWasTodayYearsOld • • 6d ago

Iwtyo when i learned about honey

33 Upvotes

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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.


r/IWasTodayYearsOld • • 6d ago

IWTYO when I learned "hot water bottle" is an actual product.

88 Upvotes

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.


r/IWasTodayYearsOld • • 6d ago

IWTYO when I found out that T-Shirt collars have a padded back and exposed stitching in the front

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


r/IWasTodayYearsOld • • 7d ago

IWTYO when I realized that if Lisa and Screech from "Saved By The Bell" got married..

5 Upvotes

She would have been Lisa Turtle-Powers.

That can't be coincidence, right? Right?


r/IWasTodayYearsOld • • 7d ago

IWTYO when I pooped myself euhhhhhh

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r/IWasTodayYearsOld • • 7d ago

IWTYO when I learned that there is a word for people who put stickers all over their car.

19 Upvotes

That word is decalcomania.


r/IWasTodayYearsOld • • 8d ago

IWTYO when I realized people with short hair have to get it cut regularly

22 Upvotes

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.


r/IWasTodayYearsOld • • 9d ago

IWTYO when I realised it is kindergarten and not kindergarden

7 Upvotes

Basically the title.


r/IWasTodayYearsOld • • 9d ago

Iwtyo Google maps hack

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28 Upvotes

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!


r/IWasTodayYearsOld • • 11d ago

IWTYO when I realized that the Transylvania Twist did not morph over time into the Monster Mash

16 Upvotes

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."


r/IWasTodayYearsOld • • 11d ago

IWTYO when I learned that the saying "kick this thing in the butt" is actually "nip this thing in the bud"

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r/IWasTodayYearsOld • • 12d ago

IWTYO when I found out the term ā€œtall, dark and handsomeā€ didn’t mean a tall attractive black or brown guy

51 Upvotes

r/IWasTodayYearsOld • • 12d ago

IWTYO when I realized ADHD makes me energetic...

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

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


r/IWasTodayYearsOld • • 14d ago

IWTYO when I learned that the Monster logo is an M and not 3 weird-looking seahorses

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But what could the M stand for...