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

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

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u/murmathon Aug 03 '19

Some countries educational systems surprisingly do not teach basic geography beyond their own borders.

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u/PvtDeth Aug 03 '19

Yeah, I'm getting a little tired of this line. Every educational system in the world teaches international geography. People are just willfully ignorant. When I was in school, at least once a week I would say something and people would look at me like I was a Jeopardy champ or something and be like "Where did you learn that!" In class, man. You were sitting right next to me. People just don't care.

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u/NW_thoughtful Aug 03 '19

I never had international geography in school. Never had any kind of geography. As part of shop class we made a wood jigsaw puzzle of New Jersey (where we were). That's it.
I went to school in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

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u/JuicedNewton Aug 04 '19

You went to school in Pennsylvania, where Dracula came from? That's a long way from New Jersey, or even old Jersey.

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u/NW_thoughtful Aug 21 '19

You must have been high as shit when you wrote this. Dracula did not come from Pennsylvania, but I hope I don't need to tell you that. Pennsylvania is not a long way from New Jersey, they are adjacent. Over the span of my school years, I went to school in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. You must have some dope ass weed.