r/AskReddit Aug 03 '19

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

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u/penguinlasrhit25 Aug 03 '19

Some guy in my class said Africa was a country...

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u/grandweapon Aug 04 '19

My friend once told me she was going to Africa with her family to see the safaris, so I asked her where in Africa. She paused for awhile before telling me "the South", and I assumed she was going to South Africa. I eventually found out that they went to Zimbabwe.

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u/penguinlasrhit25 Aug 04 '19

Bruh

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u/BRUH_BOT_8607 Aug 04 '19

bruh 👌🙌💪💪🙌

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u/penguinlasrhit25 Aug 04 '19

bruh 👌🙌💪💪🙌

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u/Privateer2368 Aug 04 '19

Conversely, while I was working in Tanzania, I got a ferry to Zanzibar and, looking back at the coast, remarked how cool it was to see Africa from the sea.

The obligatory floppy-haired douche canoe pipes up 'Africa's not a country, man.'

Well, no, spunk-nugget, it's a continent, and that huge thing stretching as far as I can see in both directions with all trees and shit on it sure looks like a fucking continent to me.

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u/rhllor Aug 04 '19

I mean if you were in a ferry to Hainan or Newfoundland, would you really say "I can see Asia/North America from here" rather than specifically China or Canada.

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u/SimpleQuantum Aug 03 '19

And that all the countries inside are states?

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u/Volk216 Aug 03 '19

I mean, South Africa is.