This article was originally published on parentinfluence.com

Have you ever wondered why eggplants are called eggplants, or why they tell you to break a leg when you’re interviewing for an important job? We take those things for granted and never stop to think about the origin of such phrases, but it turns out there was a lot of thought put into them. There’s a recent trend on Twitter where people share the most random things they’ve found out when they were “today years old” – that is, too late – and some of these revelations are guaranteed to surprise you.

Cashews or Mushrooms?

You probably never gave a lot of thought (or any thought) to how cashew nuts grow, because why would you? We all enjoy eating them, but why would we ever spend time wondering where they came from? Thanks to Twitter user Colleen Ballinger, we’ll never look at cashews the same way again.

It turns out cashew nuts grow on cashew trees, complete with leaves, flowers and even fruits. What looks like an over-sized gremlin hat is the cashew fruit, and the nuts that we eat are its seeds. Now that you know cashews in growth resemble little gremlins, you can go on with your day.