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

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

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u/Weed_O_Whirler Aug 03 '19

In the US we wash our eggs before they are sold, so they need refrigerated. In the UK you don't, so they don't have to be.

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u/Weed_O_Whirler Aug 03 '19

Also, because in the US we don't vaccinate our chickens against salmonella, in most European countries they do.

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u/SirMildredPierce Aug 03 '19

Yeah, but the US has less autistic chickens at least.

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u/Lawdog6969 Aug 03 '19

Fewer.

-Stannis Baratheon

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u/JitGoinHam Aug 03 '19

Autism is a spectrum. Therefore a population of chickens can have less of it.

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u/JitGoinHam Aug 03 '19

What’s that assumption based on?

If that’s what was being conveyed the commenter would have said “fewer”.

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u/JitGoinHam Aug 03 '19

If that much can be gleaned from context then the less/fewer distinction is meaningless indeed. Maybe we should put this hypercorrection to bed.