‘What’s a ‘common knowledge’ fact that you genuinely had no idea about?’ – 21 people who were more clueless than they realised

13.

‘Ellen Paige and Elliot Page are NOT siblings.

‘I thought they were Hollywood actor siblings, like the Hemsworths and Gyllenhaals and Baldwins. And they have similar facial features, so…’
–sjbluebirds

14.

‘That a lot of countries don’t actually go by the name we call them in English. Like Germany is Germany to me, but it’s Deutschland to them.’
–Racthoh

15.

‘I learned that the yellow dandelions and the white fluffy dandelions are the same just different stages of dandelion at 33… I thought dandelion was just a generalised name for weeds that grow on lawns.’
–Caitlionator

16.

‘I was 25 when I realised that clay pigeons are shaped like a disk and not like pigeons.’
–Freudian_Sleeps

17.

‘As a man, I didn’t learn the difference between a dress and a skirt until my late twenties.’
-tjg357

18.

‘Not me, but a friend, who was finishing her master in IT: “What do you mean penguins are birds?!” She thought they were fish.’
–Hakunamatator

19.

‘I used to think that prohibited meant allowed because if a sign said it, people were doing it. It’s only luck that I was never interested in doing what was prohibited before I learned the correct meaning.’
–scratchfury

20.

‘I thought slow as molasses was related to some type of slow crawling furry creature.’
–ItchyNebula7437

21.

”Beatle’ is not the British spelling of ‘Beetle’.’
–GoodDog2620

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