19 Obvious Things People Only Realized Much Later In Life

11.

“Sweatbands are to collect the sweat and not make you sweat more.” — Bailes22

12.

“Took me a long time to realize pay-per-view was actually words that described it (I’d never seen it written).” — palmettofoxes

13.

“That the Guinness beer company is responsible for the Guinness book of world records.” — brendan008

14.

“That it would be easier to lift the cutlery basket out of the dishwasher to unload the cutlery while next to the cutlery drawer.” — StormriderX8 

15.

“That the piggy in “This little piggy” didn’t go to the market to go shopping… I’m still horrified.” — Valiantlycaustic

16.

“As a non native English speaker. 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. But only recently I realized it’s the past tense of ‘to grind’ something. Now that makes sense!” — shentoza

17.

“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.'” — maven-blood

18.

“That Mike Myers played both Dr Evil and Austin Powers.. I watched those movies since I was 4.” — Gvvm 

19.

“Cigarettes are called cigarettes, as they are small cigars. Cigar-ette.” — Xavarm12