35 Things That People Just Realized Recently And Now We Feel Dumb For Only Just Realizing Them, Too

It is no secret that we live in such a vast universe, full of people and creatures that have all kinds of stories, thoughts, experiences—all of which have accumulated for hundreds of years. New things sprout up every decade and every century, and it's quite hard to keep track of all the progress that human civilization has had over the course of time.

As smart as humans are, there are just some times (well, a lot of times) when we really get to the point that we question our own intelligence because we saw or heard someone doing or saying such a ridiculous thought. Sometimes, we also can't trust our brains in remembering something, because as human as we are, we also tend to be forgetful even though we are literally the most intelligent species on the planet Earth.

Going back to how vast the universe is, it is a pretty common thing for us to overlook some things that have happened around us in our lifetime since there is always a lot going on at the moment every single day. But when the moment of realization hits, you would either find it funny or embarrassing that you went through years of life without knowing something so painfully obvious back then.

Part of these realizations is just our adult selves finally figuring something that we once believed in our childhood to be true. While it can sometimes be disappointing, like having to know that Santa isn't actually real, it can be such an enlightening moment.

That being said, strangers online shared their own silly realizations that were so painfully obvious it's actually ridiculous they didn't catch it the first time—and not gonna lie, a lot of these made us realize a lot of things as well!