17 Really Obvious Things That Lots Of People Don't Know But Should
Last week, we shared a Reddit thread of people sharing really obvious things they just realized. Like the fact that Men's Wearhouse is a pun:
Well, we've now found another Reddit thread where there are even more obvious discoveries people are just now having. So, we knew it was our duty to spread the knowledge — just in case you didn't know.
1."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. That’s funny, because we’re playing Monopoly, and you got... oh I see now.'"
2."Raincoats typically have bright colors so you're easier to spot during heavy rain."
3."'Eeyore' is the noise donkeys make."
4."A chef is called a chef in a restaurant because restaurants originated in France and ‘chef’ just means boss in French."
According to Merriam Webster, it’s the French spelling of the word that gave us chief, meaning “boss” or “leader.”
—Anonymous
5."It is called Tinder because it helps spark a connection with a match."
According to the Milwaukee Journal, Tinder was actually supposed to be called Matchbox before Tinder was ultimately chosen. It was the idea of setting a spark and starting a fire.
6."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."
7."The measuring stick/pole on the inside of gas stations is for identifying the height of potential robbers."
8."The houses in Bikini Bottom are car mufflers."
9."In the song 'Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg...' I never knew why Robin would lay an egg. It seemed so random and weird to me. Walking down a hallway at work, it finally clicked: Robins are birds. Birds lay eggs."
10."The Guinness beer company is responsible for the Guinness Book of World Records."
According to the Guinness World Records, "The idea came about in the early 1950s when Sir Hugh Beaver, Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery, attended a shooting party in County Wexford. There, he and his hosts argued about the fastest game bird in Europe and failed to find an answer in any reference book."
11."It's called the alphabet because the Greek 'alphabet' starts with the letter alpha, beta..."
12."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."
—Anonymous
13."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. Recently, I realized it's the past tense of 'to grind' something."
14."Breakfast is named so because you're breaking the fast from when you were sleeping."
15."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!!"
16."Teletubbies are named like that because they have a 'telly' on their 'tubbie.'"
17.And, finally, since this info comes from a Reddit post after all: "Reddit means read it."
