A poor thing sir, but my own - one that took me, literally, almost 40 years to find out:
On the original "Newlywed Game," when the lucky winning couple were shown their special grand prize, the one picked just for them, I'd always thought that it really was picked just for them.
But then I had occasion to correspond with a former contestant who'd appeared on the show with her husband in 1968.
She told me that the four couples were given a list of possible grand prizes and asked to check off which ones they would like to win. Talking among themselves, they figured that the grand prize would likely be a boat, since they'd all checked off "boat." And sure enough, the grand prize *was* a boat. (Which my correspondent and her husband won; they ended up selling it so they could put a down payment on their house.)
When I found that out, I realized that, as a kid, I'd half-assumed that after the winning couple was declared, a bunch of stagehands were frantically moving the grand prize into place behind the couples so that it could be revealed just seconds later. In fact, they probably took their sweet time about it.