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Have you ever let your mind wander and started thinking about something that’s so common, so everyday, that you hadn’t even considered it before? In a minute’s time you come to some mind-blowing realization, feeling like the king of the world and wanting to share your discovery with the world. 

In another minute’s time you understand that everyone else probably already knows this fact and you feel like a bit of a goof. But fret no more, we’ve got you covered with 45 more of these common facts that people only realized later in life!

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized Not really obvious but x% of y is equal to y% of x

So for example 4% of 75 isn't really easy to figure out at first but if you switch the numbers to 75% of 4, the answer is 3 and that's also your answer to 4% of 75.

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized That raincoats typically have bright colours so you're easier to spot during heavy rain, not because raincoat designers have bad taste

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized There was this really pretty girl in high school who bugged the s**t out of me. Would do obnoxious stuff like go out of her way to talk to me about nothing and one time she laid on me when I had my head down on my desk. She would take my erasers and draw on them and I hated that.

Then I realized she probably liked me.

I realized that, out of the blue, when I was in my 30's.


So watch out ladies. if you show any affection toward me in 15 or 20 years I'll be knockin' on your door still unsure of your intentions!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ahhh, there's nothing like that sudden adult onset of embarrassment for childhood stupidity. It's weird how it kinda hits hard with "OMG, they thought I was a complete idiot. They probably think I'm still stupid too".

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized VERY LATE BUT it's called the alphabet because the Greek "Alphabet" starts with the letter alpha, beta....

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized About six months ago, I had an epiphany while opening up a new deodorant. I realized that I could click it up from the bottom and just remove the plastic top once the deodorant had raised up a bit. I've always pulled the plastic piece off before raising the deodorant. Like, tugging on it, using my teeth, etc. I'm 36 years old! I have an engineering degree!! I came out of the bathroom and told my husband about it. I think it made him re-evaluate what he was doing with me lol. Then I called my mom to let her know she failed that step of parenting me.

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized The division symbol ÷ is just a fraction. The two dots represent numbers.

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized I just finished reading Dracula by Bram Stoker.
At the end of the book, there was a little blurb about the author; Abraham Stoker.
Bram is short for Abraham. I didn't know that.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn’t know that either. Always thought Bram sounded like a pretty badass name.

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When the evil villain in cheesy movies shouts "Curses!" It's because he can't shout curses.

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized A chef is called a chef in a restaurant because restaurants originated in France and ‘chef’ just means boss in French.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seriously. “Chef” literally translates as “Chief”, aka Boss.

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized The houses in Bikini Bottom are car mufflers

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And bikini bottom is below bikini atoll, nuclear radiation fall out have rise to sponge Bob.

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized "Eeyore" is the noise donkeys make.

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#12

35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized That the Guinness beer company is responsible for the Guinness book of world records

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Michelin stars are given to restaurants in the Michelin guide, which was created and is still maintained by Michelin the tire company.

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized Ecuador is spanish for equator and the country is named so because yep....

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

don't feel bad...it took me years to realize that the state of vermont was named for the green mountain range...verde montagne...or that the state of arizona is essentially the arid zone in spanish...zona arida...felt so stupid...

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized 42 here. In the song “Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid and egg...” I never knew why Robin would lay and egg. It seemed so random and weird to me. Just this winter, walking down a hallway at work, it finally clicked into place: Robins are birds. Birds lay eggs.

Yep. Sharp tack over here.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’d understood it to mean Robin farted. When I was a kid, farting was sometimes called laying an egg.

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized I was playing Monopoly, and someone owned a load of properties all clustered together. I said “you’ve got a bit of a monopoly on that part of the board. Hey that’s funny, because we’re playing Monopoly, and you got a... oh I see now.”

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My!
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to play by myself, with six characters. Each one had a section of board to keep their money under, and a stack of properties next to their money. It doesn't work out so well, though, if cats live with you.

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized 'The Los Angeles Angels' is actually 'The the angels angels'.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The name La Brea Tar Pits translated is “The Tar Tar Pits”.

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized The reason that the lower notes are on the left side of the piano is because most people are right handed, and the bass parts are simpler to play, even with the non-dominant hand.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a left hand dominant piano player, I am very aware of this. It caused me a lot of frustration when I first started learning to play.

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized Breakfast is named so because you're breaking the fast from when you were sleeping.

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized Tinder app is so called because it helps spark a connection with a Match.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

UGH! I hate it when something seems SO OBVIOUS to me ONLY AFTER it is pointed out to me. That is actually quite brilliant.

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized That the mommy in that christmas song wasn't cheating with santa but instead, it's the dad dressed in a santa claus costume that's why "I saw mommy kissing santa claus."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yeah yeah, but what the hell is happening with that picture though?

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The fact that I have unusual struggles in life doesn’t mean that my problems are worse or more important than anyone else’s.

There are people out there with problems that are just as annoying and/or numerous, even if they aren’t the exact same as mine.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

On the same vein: just because other people struggle and have problems, and their struggles and problems may indeed be worse than yours, that doesn't mean that your struggles and problems are invalid or nothing. If something is difficult for you or you are in pain, you are allowed to stop and focus on that for a time.

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized Cigarettes are called cigarettes, as they are small cigars. Cigar-ette

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized I always found it funny how Abba songs fit the movie Mamma mia so well ... it took me years to figure out the movie was made around the songs.

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized Your bones are always wet. They've also probably never seen the light of day.
Edit: I forgot about teeth, stop roasting me
Edit 2: teeth aren't bones. Calm down y'all

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Weirder still is that your bones never touch each other. You will know this if they for any horrible reason end up touching each other.

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized Eminem are his initials M & M.

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized As a non native English speaker.
I just recently found out why ground beef is called ground beef.
I was always like "yeah maybe it's the foundation of beef, so it's the ground", like the basis.
But only recently I realized it's the past tense of "to grind" something. Now that makes sense!

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When people said, "it's a double-edged sword," I thought the sword's hilt was also a sword. Only until yesterday, it was explained to me by my brother that it was just sharp on both sides of the blade.

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That it would be easier to lift the cutlery basket out of the dishwasher to unload the cutlery while next to the cutlery drawer. Prior to seeing it on a reddit thread, I'd been leaving the basket in the dishwasher and grabbing as many of the cutlery out that I could manage in one go...

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Im 27 and always liked geography and got good grades for it in school. This holidays i learned that the seasons are reverted in northern and southern hemisphere. I was blown away I didnt know this earlier.

*yes I ment *inverted* not reverted, must've missed that too in english classes

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All the Aussies singing American Christmas songs and being major confused.🤣

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If you wait for the waiter, you are the waiter.

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In the song Africa by Toto for the longest time I thought it was I guess it rains down in Africa not I bless the rains down in africa.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WHY DID YOU BRING THIS UP?? 🎶 It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you! There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do! 🎶

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized That in order to properly use a hand dryer, you have to rub your hands.

I used to just put my hands under it and question why it was taking so long, but then I saw one of my friends rubbing their hands, and I felt stupid.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hate the dyson ones with the 'slot' you put your hands in and it is meant to dry them

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#33

That the little arrow next to the fuel icon on your dashboard, shows which side the fuel tank is on your car.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The fuel tank is always on the underside of the car. The fuel filler door, however... 😋

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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized Mount Wannahockaloogie- I am Aussie so hearing it without subtitles as a kid, I just assumed it was another american attempt at an Aussie sounding name. Seeing it written down made me feel like the dumbest thing alive.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“If you're crackin’ up from having lack of shackin’ up. If you're crackin’ up from having lack of shackin’ up. If you're crackin’ up, why don't you pack it up? You got to find yourself a crazy kind of love. Two-Three-Four. Aaaahh-Way. Lackanookie’s got-me! Aaaaahh-Way. Omaniwannalaya! Aaaaahh-Way. Find yourself a crazy kind of love!” (Thank you, Bette Midler!)

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The word hyperbole is spelled hyperbole. I know the word but never connected the spelling to the pronunciation, and thus in written form thought it was an entirely different word. The funniest (saddest) thing here is I'm dead serious and this comment is not a hyperbole... Smh.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've known the word and the spelling for a very long time, but I still say "hyper bowl" in my head every time I read it 😅

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