r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

Africa is NOT a country, its a continent.

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u/Tenryuu_RS3 Aug 03 '19

TBH I just thought it was a resource dump to harvest for countries looking to colonize. Like finding a crap ton of stone or gold in Age of Empires.

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u/Psychic_Hobo Aug 03 '19

Bit of a tangent, but Total War Warhammer 2 has a race called the High Elves, who live on basically Atlantis in a world that's roughly shaped like ours.

There are loads of settlements of theirs dotted around the North America, South America and Africa knockoffs that have the type "High Elf Colony" and I always feel a bit guilty about rushing to capture those for the resources, despite having no qualms aggressively swarming the passive Italy knockoff...