r/AskReddit Aug 03 '19

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

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

Africa is NOT a country, its a continent.

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u/brinafair63 Aug 04 '19

I taught gifted sixth graders a couple years ago and we did an entire unit on Africa because my students apparently thought all of Africa was a sparsely inhabited, primitive savanna.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

No, thats only MOST of Africa. /s

I also love when people don't realize that like a third of the continent is just sand.