A Twitter thread asking for the most obvious things people realised well after everyone else did is going off, because essentially we’re all huge dumb idiots walking around this planet and trying not to bump into each other.
I will concede that the first ‘obvious’ fact isn’t that obvious at all, and the fact that more people aren’t pointing this out only serves to make me feel extremely dumb: that the country of Bolivia was named after South American hero and Venezuelan military and political leader Simón Bolíva.
https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/975442948950282240
But everyone else’s shit? Incredibly obvious stuff. 10/10 will make you feel better about your own intellectual failings.
The Domino’s logo is a domino
— Ben Kentish (@BenKentish) March 18, 2018
There was also a (relatively short tbf) early-teen phase when I thought the lyrics were “poppadom preach”…
— Ben Kentish (@BenKentish) March 18, 2018
And since it would be unfair to share everybody else’s here without at least owning up to SOMETHING, here’s mine: I didn’t realise that the ‘quiet game’ my parents played with us on road trips (where the last person to make a noise won a very small amount of money) was actually just buying some peace and quiet until I was like 23. And I distinctly remember asking my friend, age 16, what the word “quiche” meant, having assumed it was spelt “kiesch” my entire friggin’ life.
ANYWAY ENOUGH ABOUT MY OWN FAILINGS (which tbh happen on a daily basis), here’s everyone else’s:
I thought chives were small fish until ~1 year ago.
— Sam Lowe (@SamuelMarcLowe) March 18, 2018
I thought dua lipa was two people until yesterday
— michael wave (@SzMarsupial) March 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/gaisymay/status/975474658169548801
https://twitter.com/a_merat/status/975484328020008960
that the piggy in “this little piggy went to market”, did NOT go there to buy something.
— Afristotle (@Afristotle) March 18, 2018
Flo Rida took his name from the State.
— Nick Evans (@NickEvans1990) March 18, 2018
I remember having a moment of realisation when it dawned on me that the milk in a bottle of milk wasn’t from a single cow.
— tom sawyer (@tdotsawyer) March 18, 2018
That you can put anything in the hotel room power slot literally anything doesn’t have to be the key card
— bc (@444blackcat) March 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/tuucoe/status/975488259726954503
https://twitter.com/deftly_admiral/status/975452723331158016
https://twitter.com/mjc0ughlan/status/975460086515630080
I thought Rosetta Stone was a multi-lingual, savvy, businesswoman.
— Victoria Mitchell (@JournoMitch) March 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/jonathancoe/status/975457065253658625
I thought the word “epitome” was a different word from the one I’d often heard and used which is pronounced “epitomy”.
— Tom Hamilton (@thhamilton) March 18, 2018
I can’t believe I’m admitting this but I didn’t realize lambs were baby sheep until about two months ago. no I’m not kidding yes I feel ridiculous https://t.co/avvwfHMVpn
— Sam H. Escobar (@myhairisblue) March 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/heyteebs/status/975510720174481408
