Which piece of common knowledge did you genuinely have no idea about? – 17 facts that passed people by
10.
‘I thought every country was an island.
‘I’m from Hawaii.’
-B1TCA5H
11.
‘I just realized recently that a quart is a quarter of a gallon.’
-de_re_metallica
12.
‘I had a dumb moment when I was 13… I had always wondered how difficult it would be for pregnant women to have to worry about their periods.
‘I’m a woman.’
-nzseashell
13.
‘“Beatle” is not the British spelling of “Beetle.”’
-GoodDog2620
14.
‘At 42-that the written word “epitome” was not pronounced as eh-PIT-tome but as eh-PIT-uh-mee – a word that I had heard and used 10000 times.’
-remesabo
15.
‘I was 25 when I realised that clay pigeons are shaped like a disk and not like pigeons.’
-Freudian_Sleeps
16.
‘I was 31 when I learned that chickens can lay eggs without babies inside them. I always thought there was some process where they removed the fertilized part and put the egg back together’
-richarddraggin
17.
‘I didn’t know pickles were actually cucumbers… as a man in my 30’s’
-jwktiger
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