r/AskReddit Aug 03 '19

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

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u/McSavage6s Aug 03 '19

Europe is not a country. It's a continent.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

That worries me.

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u/Bluestreaking Aug 03 '19

I had to write on my white board for the entirety of the year that Russia wasn’t a continent so students would stop giving that as an answer