People shared the obvious things it took them far too long to work out – 30 hilariously belated lightbulb moments

John Plunkett. Updated November 28th, 2024

16.

‘I will never forget the guy who spent a good part of his life thinking the saying was “Knowledge is Power. France is bacon”.’
miloc756

17.

‘That every show’s first episode is called the “pilot” episode, and it’s not just a crazy coincidence for every show I watched.’
westrxles21

18.

‘The black market isn’t an actual market.’
smol_boi-_-

19.

‘When I was growing up the family would often do road trips to Vancouver, at least once a year. Just outside Williams Lake I would always observe a construction site where some sort of log house is being built. It was always half finished.

‘After like a decade I was maybe 18 and finally made the comment about them “still building that place”. Apparently they build custom log homes on site and disassemble and ship them out.’
Regnes

20.

‘That I wasn’t, in fact, the family member that best washes the dishes. Yes, I’m the youngest.’
urcatsthirdeye

21.

‘Before my cataract surgery I thought Hellboy wore aviator goggles. Post surgery I saw they were remnants of his horns.’
MollyXDanger502

22.

‘So when I was a kid, I saw this rerun of a prank that the BBC pulled off in the late 50’s. It was basically a hoax broadcast they did for April fools day, in which it showed old footage of people picking (or harvesting) spaghetti out of trees.

‘Seriously. For some reason it just never clicked. I spent most of my childhood and my teen years believing it. And I had just never happened upon the subject.

‘I was 19 years old when I found out that spaghetti doesn’t grow on trees.’
MrPhilMcCracken

23.

‘That breakfast actually means breaking the fast.’
droidarmy99

24.

“You can’t have your cake and eat it” doesn’t mean “you can’t obtain your cake then eat it”; it means “you can’t still possess your cake after having eaten it”.
BuildMeUp1990

25.

‘That chickens always lay eggs without needing to mate with a rooster.’
TheGodfearingLegend

26.

‘That the saying is “kit and caboodle” and not “kitten caboodle.” Until I found out the real saying, I always pictures a big basket filled with kittens.’
Guac__is__extra__

27.

‘That the saying is “nip it in the bud” NOT butt.’
Designer_Ant8543

28.

‘The toilet seat should be down to make pooping more comfortable. My whole life, I just thought it was for people who were too small to sit on the full rim of the toilet, so that’s why I never used it. But hey. At least I poop more comfortably now.’
KrispyDangus

29.

‘I had no clue that when you got your tires rotated they actually moved the tires from one spot to another. I just thought they revved them really fast to see if they were wobbly.
decanderus

30.

‘There’s a Garfield comic from 1983 where Garfield says that he hates designer sweaters. Then he lifts an arm and says, “The lizard chewed a hole in the armpit.” It took me until about 2017 to realize that he is referring to the Lacoste crocodile.

‘I have spent basically my entire life referring to every hole that forms in a piece of clothing as being caused by “the lizard” but without actually getting the joke. I thought it was just the surreal, absurdist humor that Garfield is known for.’
Mk38

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