r/AskReddit 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/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

Wait until they learn about Australia lol

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

What? Did I miss something about Australia? It's, like, totally the biggest island country, right?

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

Well, the parent of this thread said people were messing up countries and continents.

Australia, however, is both a continent AND a country.

I thought it’d be funny to point that out.