Hey Veeky Forums let's have a bit of fun

In this thread we post scientific facts/subjects that blew our minds through the years. Age don't have to be specific, can start and end at any age. Facts doesn't have to be of increasing difficulty. I'll start:

>Age 3: the moon is not a planet
>Age 4: numbers more than 100 exists
>Age 5: dogs and cats are separate species
>Age 7: existence of the number 0
>Age 9: existence of multiplication and division
>Age 10: existence of asteroids and planets outside the solar system.
>Age 11: the theory of evolution. Humans and chimps had a common ancestor (my dad bought a big book on animals with pictures and shit)
>Age 12: the earth has tectonic plates
>Age 13: the cell has organelles and store information in the form of DNA
>Age 15: technically speaking viruses are not living things
>Age 16: human sperm and eggs has half the number of chromosomes
>Age 17: time passes slower around objects with large mass
>Age 18: the model of the atom in highschool is totally wrong.
>Age 19: there's tricks in differentiating equations. t.ODE
>Age 20: quantum tunneling and kangaroos have 3 vaginas

Age 19: Reality is a paradox. There can be no beginning to "everything" as some thing must always precede it.

Age 19: Given infinite time, every Universal configuration will occur, and reoccur. Meaning we'll be right back here someday posting in the same shit /psy/ thread on a Mongolian Origami forum

>kangaroos have 3 vaginas
and you are one of them

Man I smoked a lot of weed that year

Age 33

> Breaking Bad is a great series.

My mind was blown when I learned that the scientific community is approximately 100% concerned with what is published and approximately 0% concerned with what is discovered. This was surprising to me because if the esteem of a scientist is to be determined by his publications that means he has no control over that esteem because it is 100% bottlenecked by whoever makes the publication decision, even when that decision hinges on a "National security letter" written by a complete non-scientist who is likely tarded.

I knew all of that by age 11...

why would >age 15 and >age 16 blow your mind , come on..

> Age 24: Austrlian Aborigines ought to be classified as a non-human hominid.

Euler's identity really made me think when I was 15, I know it's a bit of a meme, but it made me realize how amazing math is, and totally diferent from the very "robotic" school math

>age 31 happily married but can't get pussy.

>Age 32: the great AI has awakened

its hard to pin one down, I was demanding to be read animal encyclopedia at 3 and haven't stopped

Should've brushed up on literacy intead tbqh bro.

>>Age 5: dogs and cats are separate species
Haha yea,I thought dogs were male and cats were female.

P=NP problem really made me think back when i was 9

Muh adhd

ill name my top 5:
>you can't think of a new color
>chihuahuas and newfoundlands are the same species
>the idea of non carbon-based lifeforms
>mathemathics in general: its like this thing that doesn't even exist except in our minds and on paper but it works on principles that have been there since the beginning of time and maybe even before that
>duck secks (pic related)

Age 35: girls LOVE the BBC

>Age 26: i'm still a virgin

it blows my mind every time

P=NP
divide both sides by P
1=N

Solved. When do I get my Nobel prize? Solve this when I was a fetus btw.

>quantum tunneling has three vaginas