Always embarrassing realizing you don't know basic facts about your friends. Like yeah hey, here's this person I love dearly, I've known them for 23 years, we've been through so much together. They're currently working in a lab.... developing... medicine? and also getting a PhD. I think. Don't ask me what subject.
I once met up with an online friend in person, and after the meeting my mother was asking all sorts of questions about their life (in a friendly way, not in a paranoid-about-this-stranger-my-child-met-on-the-internet way. I was at this point an adult with a a child of my own.)
Eventually, when I was able to satisfactorily answer almost none of them, my mother asked in exasperation, "What did you just spend two hours talking about?"
And I was like, "....books?"
