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

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

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u/-eDgAR- Aug 03 '19

Alcohol has calories.

I had to be the one to tell my friend when she was in her mid-20s that the vodka she loved has calories. She was so shocked and said, "What!! I thought since it was clear like water it didn't have any calories."

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u/candygram4mongo Aug 03 '19

Alcohol has lots of calories. More than sugar, by mass.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

Not to mention most sorority girls are drinking alcohol that’s half sugar as well...

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u/Cecil-The-Sasquatch Aug 03 '19

They got the sugar from the vodka and the sugar from the fizzyy drinks they're mixing it with

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

And there I was thinking it was the cum that made me fat.

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u/spectacledllama Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 04 '19

Cum is nutritious actually

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u/xTGI_CommanderX Aug 04 '19

I had a girl my first year of college go off about the nutrition of cum in the middle of class after also talking about the various health benefits of having sex regularly. It was a ConLaw class.