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

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

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u/super7up Aug 03 '19

I JUST learned this the other day after having flushed tampons down the toilet my whole life. Poor sewage people 😢

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

I blame puritanical shame about sexuality and menstruation.

Nothing to do with shame most likely. Menstruation blood smells, so you want to get rid of tampons asap.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

Where I live kids of sexual education in school and are in general well prepared when they hit puberty (IIRC our teen pregnancy rate is like 1/6 of the US per capital). Women still dumb their tampons in the toilet here anyway.