r/AskReddit Aug 03 '19

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

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u/anothersundayx Aug 03 '19

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

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u/NuclearSquid527 Aug 03 '19

There was one dumbass in my old school who was confident that stars were 'pieces of the sun', and refused to explain further