What's the big mystery of your childhood that you finally solved years later?

I learned that the brown part of the bread doesn't contain the nutrients, it's just the more cooked out a layer.

My brother lied to me to get me to eat crust when I was a kid.

I have a memory from when I was six of an old man cracking jokes with the kids and spitting

his dentures into his food.

I thought it was hilarious and I knew this man was named Frank.

Casually mentioned it to my grandmother.

Turns out I was remembering my great-grandfather and that day was my great-grandmother's

funeral.

My dad used to occasionally burst out with this one line of a song,

Sad Barnacle Bill the Sailor. Only ever that line. When I was six or so, I asked him why,

and he said it was an old drinking song that was absolutely filthy and I was too young to hear the

rest of it. This continued once or twice a year until I was 18. I told him that I was an adult now and he

could tell me the rest of the song. I distinctly remember him looking up from the newspaper,

sighing and folding it, then going, the truth is I can never remember the rest of the song.

And then he went right back to reading the newspaper. I mean, your dad wasn't wrong about it being

filthy. Barnacle Bill is written in its entirety on Wikipedia.

And let me tell you, it is too long and definitely not YouTube appropriate.

Not the biggest mystery, but one day my friend was over in my house playing video games.

My mom calls us over to her room to help flip the mattress over. So we did. We then went to

another friend's house. My mom then calls that friend and says, there were two $20 bills on top of the dresser. Did you take them? I said no. I asked my friend and he said no as well. Then like five minutes later, my friend asks if we want to go to the toy store because he has $40 in $2.20 bills. I say yes and we go and he buys me a yo-yo or something. It took me years to

finally realize that my friend stole from my family. The entire time I lived in my childhood home,

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