‘What’s the worst bit of general knowledge you’ve heard someone get wrong?’ – 21 stupidly confident people

12.

‘Until I was 21 I thought wolves weren’t real animals and instead mythical creatures. My boyfriend at the time drove me all the way to a wildlife park in Southampton from South Wales to show me they were real.’
–BanditIsMyDad

13.

‘My MIL very confidently said she saw an eclipse where the sun came between the moon and earth.’
–Mischeese

14.

‘Pub quiz… ‘What does a proctologist look after?’

Dad: ‘Eyes.’

Everyone else: ‘Dad, it’s your arse. You’re a nurse. You work for the NHS.’

He used to do three crosswords a day, including the Time Cryptic… No idea how he made such an eye of the answer…’
–gogoluke

15.

‘At a quiz in Crewe and the question was ‘Which document limits the power of the monarchy?’. The P45 apparently.’
–Wrong-Pizza-7184

16.

‘One of my friends thought the capital of Sweden was Gotham City.’
–SuperflyUK1

17.

‘I am English, that is, I was born and brought up in England.

I was once asked by an American where is was from and I told them I was English, I came from England. They confidently told me I was a fake because ‘English is just the name of the language, nobody IS English. If you really came from over there you would say you were British’.’
–prustage

18.

‘Watching a Chelsea Barcelona game in the mid 00s with an ex and when I was talking about Ronaldinho (Brazilian) she said ‘So Brazil is in Barcelona?’

I didn’t know how for respond, just sort of glitched for a few seconds because I couldn’t comprehend how completely wrong she had got it.’
–Choccybizzle

19.

‘I asked my mate if he fancied going away for a weekend to Oslo but he said no because he thought it was a suburb of Amsterdam. Then he changed his mind because he ‘realised it’s in Canada’. I didn’t have the heart to tell him it’s actually in Germany.’
–Bacon4Lyf

20.

‘I found this more cute/silly than confidently incorrect, but I remember a co-worker once asking me if we had any ‘Coriolanus tea’. Took me ages to work out she meant chamomile.’
–ChoreomaniacCat

21.

‘One of my friends once told me only North Wales was part of the UK, and South Wales was independent.’
–tyger2020

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