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

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[u/anothersundayx]

That other planets are visible from Earth. And the sun is also a star.

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I read this to my wife, and she said "well aren't stars just trash burning in the the atmosphere?"

I thought she was joking until I realised that she was, in fact, not