‘When did you realise something obvious to everyone else but you?’ – 21 blindingly obvious facts that people hilariously didn’t see
11.
‘I didn’t realise that the word ‘misled’ which I pronounced correctly when talking, but didn’t know how to spell, was the same word that I had seen written down in books and which I thought was pronounced ‘myzled’. That was until one day at school, I had to read a passage from a book with that word in it, much to the amusement of everyone in class.’
–BornInPoverty
12.
‘Two years ago, aged 52, I realised that ‘Mallorca’ and ‘Majorca’ are different spellings of the same place.’
–FancyMigrant
13.
‘I was embarrassingly old when I realised that to fill a gas lighter you had to have the butane gas can nozzle pointing down.’
–jd33sc
14.
‘I was a teenager before I realised that there wasn’t a city in the US called ‘Ellay’.’
–Psycho_Candy_
15.
‘Tourist = Terrorist. Needless to say, the aftermath of 9/11 was a very confusing time for me.’
–schaweniiia
16.
‘That they don’t actually have chemicals in the pool that will know if you pee in it. I was well into my twenties before that occurred to me.’
–Buttered_Bourbons
17.
‘It took longer than I like to think about (and also hearing it in an audiobook) to catch on that ‘Diagon Alley’ was just a play on words for diagonally in Harry Potter.’
–Toonee-Heckaroonee
18.
”Vimto’ has a letter ‘M’ and definitely not a ‘N’. Took me a few years to actually use my eyes and ears.’
–Satin-Cat
19.
‘When I was a young kid I didn’t understand how when I put the video cassette in the machine under the TV that the TV company knew to play the show or film I wanted to watch. Five-year-old me unknowingly came up with the concept of on-demand streaming.’
–Dogmata
20.
‘When I was quite young I asked my mum what it was like living in black and white, because old movies were in black and white.’
–Teembeau
21.
‘I was in my 20s when I realised that Mickey Mouse has that surname because he is, in fact, a mouse.’
–DameKumquat
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