35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized

Not really obvious but x% of y is equal to y% of x

So for example 4% of 75 isn't really easy to figure out at first but if you switch the numbers to 75% of 4, the answer is 3 and that's also your answer to 4% of 75.

That raincoats typically have bright colours so you're easier to spot during heavy rain, not because raincoat designers have bad taste

There was this really pretty girl in high school who bugged the s**t out of me. Would do obnoxious stuff like go out of her way to talk to me about nothing and one time she laid on me when I had my head down on my desk. She would take my erasers and draw on them and I hated that.

Then I realized she probably liked me.

I realized that, out of the blue, when I was in my 30's.

So watch out ladies. if you show any affection toward me in 15 or 20 years I'll be knockin' on your door still unsure of your intentions!

VERY LATE BUT it's called the alphabet because the Greek "Alphabet" starts with the letter alpha, beta....

About six months ago, 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!! I came out of the bathroom and told my husband about it. I think it made him re-evaluate what he was doing with me lol. Then I called my mom to let her know she failed that step of parenting me.

The division symbol ÷ is just a fraction. The two dots represent numbers.

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. I didn't know that.

When the evil villain in cheesy movies shouts "Curses!" It's because he can't shout curses.

A chef is called a chef in a restaurant because restaurants originated in France and ‘chef’ just means boss in French.

The houses in Bikini Bottom are car mufflers

"Eeyore" is the noise donkeys make.

That the Guinness beer company is responsible for the Guinness book of world records

Ecuador is spanish for equator and the country is named so because yep....

42 here. In the song “Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid and egg...” I never knew why Robin would lay and egg. It seemed so random and weird to me. Just this winter, walking down a hallway at work, it finally clicked into place: Robins are birds. Birds lay eggs.

Yep. Sharp tack over here.

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. Hey that’s funny, because we’re playing Monopoly, and you got a... oh I see now.”

'The Los Angeles Angels' is actually 'The the angels angels'.

The reason that the lower notes are on the left side of the piano is because most people are right handed, and the bass parts are simpler to play, even with the non-dominant hand.

Breakfast is named so because you're breaking the fast from when you were sleeping.

Tinder app is so called because it helps spark a connection with a Match.

That the mommy in that christmas song wasn't cheating with santa but instead, it's the dad dressed in a santa claus costume that's why "I saw mommy kissing santa claus."