40+ Ridiculously Obvious Facts People Learned Way Too Late In Life

"I recently realized I was allergic to carrots. I just thought they made everyone's mouth numb, you know, just like almonds.... I also learned recently that I have an almond allergy."

Chelsi

• Published in Interesting
• March 3, 2022

With all the things that people come up with every day, even geniuses would have a hard time keeping up. Jokes, idioms, and word shortcuts are all over the world and you're bound to be confused once in a while.

Then there are also things that you never paid attention to. And things that you never bother to get to know since no one ever really brings it up or corrects you.

This is when gaps in obvious knowledge exist. What's worst is that sometimes we are only able to bridge those gaps when we're adults.

These things include stuff like thinking existing places are fictional or being haunted by misunderstanding idioms and then having other points out how wrong you are. Nevertheless, we can find comfort in the fact that all of us make mistakes like this.

In a Reddit post, the entries for the painfully obvious things that Redditors lately realized were a lot. They were also hilarious.

You would be surprised that numerous people might share the same struggles you do when it comes to these obvious facts. At least scrolling through this list would enlighten you on more than one common fact and maybe you can also help a fella out if they come to you with the same dilemma.

This is the post that might make you realize about your obvious knowledge gaps

This OP is lucky to be alive and not have severe reactions with the amount allergies they have

The difference in word meanings made this OP spend more time there than necessary

If that would actually case, who would be incharge of that?

Math is not easy

NOw you know what to name your next deoji

Ah this is one of many words shortened that fools people when unexplained

Now they can take a tour in college campuses and not get lost

Yet they still teach it to a lot of kids

And the Grammy for realizing why the Grammys is called as it is goes to...

The root of idioms can be quite confusing

We wonder which other places does she think are made up

It's a good thing they still gave him what he ordered, maybe they thought he had an accent

Maybe this OP felt like they were in a simulation themselves after realizing that

OP wasn't wrong in the tradition part at least

Hopefully, this OP asked that question to close friends

It would've been a good laugh if he could've known how you figured it out

Sometimes the obviousness just hits you

Dude, Dave wants to congratulate you on that realization

Not stylish but definitely useful

Ms. Rabbit would like to be referred to as Jessica anyway

Knowing about your allergies in the first place is so dangerous

The mom had a little fun of her own

That was your Prima realization era

The CGI must have been really good, huh?

Idioms really mess you up even if it's already your first language

OP thought they were only consistent with their decorations

A lot of people have judged the mommy who was kissing Santa Claus because of this

Here's the start of confusion

then realization dawned on OP

Disney wanted to be clever

Cursing without getting censored and being witty at the same time

It would have been frustrating searching for it

The start of an embarrasing story

and the end of it

You've gotta do what you've gotta do

This is understandable, especially if it's not your first language

Far out, that must've been a moment

This is like the entry about the birthday suit

A confusing thing until someone spells it out

The sad realization for kids who thought they were the king of the world as they held wheel

Ah the rare adventurous dolphins that only swim for recreation

Did this OP try to avoid roll-ons because of this?

It'll be too tiring to say the whole thing to everyone if cowboys wanted to be friendly

The obviousness of this is actually clever

It's what's obvious but in another language

Imagine if he tried to take the second one back to the store

You might've seen a different event for paper view

The versatility of this plant

The joke went right over this OP's head

What kind of kid show is this?

Some of these things might not be as common as it seems or that's what you can tell yourself to take the embarrassment down a notch. They are all educational though and now you can go around with your newfound confidence of knowing these facts.

Have you ever had a moment like these Redditors? What did you realize, we would like to hear them in the comments.

Chelsi