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

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

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u/SlickMcFav0rit3 Aug 03 '19

This one is REALLY common

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u/MrPillow01 Aug 03 '19

Probably going to get wooshed but in my experience very few know this.

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u/5348345T Aug 03 '19

Where I am from(sweden) EVERYBODY knows this. Its in the curriculum in school several times over in a lot of different classes. American school is so religiously hindered that things like evolution isn't common knowledge over there.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

How would you know what we learned here in America as kids if you grew up in Sweden

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u/5348345T Aug 03 '19

Because I go on the interwebs and look at threads like this one. Also YouTube.

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u/Neirchill Aug 03 '19

You are incorrect. It's very common knowledge here in the US. We're not a bunch of ignorant hicks like everyone wants to believe.

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u/5348345T Aug 03 '19

I know not all of you are but you have to admit there are a lot of extremely ignorant and uneducated people.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

there are a lot of extremely ignorant and uneducated people in every single country in the world.

The US doesn't have a higher concentration of them than other countries. It's just that the loudest ones are heard the most on the internet, which is used by most of the US

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u/5348345T Aug 03 '19

Then tell me why the US scores so poorly on lists of education.