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Ah, finally I can share mine that i learned a while ago.

Using hand soap , you know these soap bars when washing hands.

Put water on one hand, grab the soap bar with the DRY HAND and rub the var against the wet hand. Then put down the soap bar hand rub hands and wash like ordinary.

The bar will not be soggy, crack or look nasty or leave a puddle of half dilluted soap,instead it will stay in really good shape and almost no soap will be wasted on the puddle below it. And the soap will jist last for ages this way and still be effective.

Maybe we just forgot this way and that is why the liquid soap has taken over, in my house we have one toilet where guests usually uses and there the hand soap bar gets ruined really quickly so we replaced it with a liquid soap dispenser...but it always surpises me how often it needs to be refilled.

Earlier this year I found out you're supposed to run the sink water until it's hot, then start your dishwasher. Also sprinkle in some powder detergent inside the door, especially if there is a tray for PreWash detergent.

Have relationships. Turns out I can’t do it all all by myself and if someone isn’t willing to or able to work with me it’s not a viable relationship

Not too long ago I learned that you're not supposed to rinse your mouth out after brushing your teeth, but instead just spit out the toothpaste. Apparently you're supposed to leave a coating of it on your teeth for it to work properly.

Not recent, but I spent the majority of my teenage years dealing with awfully frizzy and unmanageable hair because I was shampooing daily (also using an excessive amount). I was under the impression that you need to thoroughly shampoo all oils away every time you shower in order to be "clean." When I moved to university and no longer had parents around to tell me that I stink, my hygiene standards became more... relaxed, but I was surprised that my hair was a lot healthier!

I don't know about "wrong", but I recently found out people think it's weird that I attempt all the across clues in a crossword in order, and then all the down clues? Evidently most people jump around and make use of the extra letters they've been getting?

It never even occurred to me to not just do all the clues in order. 😬

For years I kept dating and being in relationships and putting a lot of effort into it. Also socializing and making friends too.

I gave up about 5 years ago and I'm much much happier with my life. It's amazing how much better I feel on a daily basis when my energy and efforts aren't going into a black hole from which no joy comes out. I also rapidly achieved a lot of life goals after 10+ years of achieving almost none of them.

Being mostly totally alone is completely awesome and I'm annoyed that other people convinced me it was terrible and awful.

Not actually recent, but a while back I learned that what we call the "bottom" of the banana is actually the top, flowering end. Turns out it's way easier to open a banana at the flowering/non-stem end. So many years I'd been opening them at the other end, trying to snap off the stem part, mushing up that end of the banana most of the time.

Tying my shoes wrong my entire life.

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm

I learned that soap is a salt and that acids like vinegar break it down and kind of rerelease the fatty acid that made it up.

It was very gross.

Granny knot. Making the knot the right way helps top never having to re-tie my shoes during the whole day.

Walking in general. Physical therapy both sucks super hard and is vastly improving my life. I've had a decades long back injury caused by a dog attack, but I've apparently been walking in a way that guards a wound not entirely there.

Thank you PT.

FUCK you PT.

Opening cereal/fruit/granola bars and similar foil wrappers. I would tear them on the serrated part and then only a sliver of the wrapper would come off and I'd have to try to widen the resulting hole in order to extract the bar, often crumbling part of it in the process. However, quite by accident I discovered that if I instead ignore the serration and tear against that foldy seam part that runs down the entire bar, then it separates right down the middle like magic and I can easily remove the bar. Often works on 8/16oz cheese too.

I started looking up basic stuff after I saw a video of that guy who would shit in his hand in the bathroom and thought that was normal.

Turns out I was brushing my teeth backwards, you're supposed to use mouthwash, then floss, then brush, and don't spit.

Swallowing pills. A friend pointed out that tilting your head down helps with swallowing and I had never thought about it before. It really does make it easier!

Cleaning cast iron. I used to add water cold and bring to a boil. Now I heat first until grease is almost smoking, then add a bit of water and let it steam and sputter itself clean.