You know how some disposable chopsticks have a big rectangular bit at the end? Well (Picture: Getty)

If you’ve been going about your life thinking you just break off that big bit on the end of your disposable chopsticks and chuck it away, then we’re sorry to, um, break it to you, but you’ve been living a lie.

You’re also not alone.

Twitter user Trash Panda shared a picture, which reveals the true purpose of that ‘big bit’ you find on the end of some disposable wooden chopsticks, writing: ‘I…. I never knew *collapses onto floor crying*’. It’s already been shared almost 800 times in four hours.

I…. I never knew *collapses onto floor crying* pic.twitter.com/YSa6l7SN2F — trash panda (@bortofdarkness) February 9, 2016

No, she hasn’t discovered you can eat soy sauce with chopsticks – she’s finally realised that big bit doubles up as a stand for your sticks.




Which is pretty nifty really.

The realisation is blowing people’s minds.

Genuinely.

People are embarrassed.

@furioushorses @alanvaarwerk WE ARE ALL AN EMBARRASSMENT TO EATING — trash panda (@bortofdarkness) February 9, 2016

Ashamed.

@bortofdarkness @juhasaarinen I feel like such a philistine in this moment — Beau Murrah (@atlantanz) February 9, 2016

And now we are questioning everything.

Wait, what?

@bortofdarkness This is like learning about the string in the Band-Aids. — Trepanning For Gold (@reubenacciano) February 9, 2016

And don’t worry if you don’t have that particular type of disposable chopstick – here’s how you can make a little chopstick holder out of the wrapper instead.

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