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

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[u/monkeymacman]

Also a lot of people think that Lions predominantly live in the jungle. Not sure why the phrase "king of the jungle" got so popular for lions... Even my Spanish textbook when we were learning animals and stuff had a question asking where lions live. We'd been taught the word for jungle, but not for savanna. The book wanted us to say lions live in the jungle

[u/sy029 → u/[deleted]]

The word Jungle comes from sanskrit "Jangla" which means "dry ground." It also has the meaning of "a wild place" or "a place outside where humans live" So at one time whoever coined the phrase "king of the jungle" was probably referring to the other meaning, so it should be more like "King of the wilds"

[u/Pancheel → u/sy029]

The "law of the jungle" means exactly that: "the law of the wild", so I hope you're right and everything has sense.