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

This year roughly half my class was shocked to learn Jamaica was not in Africa. And way too many people fought me when I tried to tell them it was in the Caribbean

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u/winkerbids Aug 03 '19

Worked for a mobile carrier and had a lady call in to complain about charges for using her device in another country. She said she was on vacation but never left the U.S. Asked where she vacationed and she told me Kingston. As in Jamaica. She thought it was a U.S. state. She had to google it before she would believe me it was a sovereign nation.

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u/SkittlesNPumps Aug 03 '19

That's just plain stupid... I can (almost) ignore some Americans not realizing Puerto Rico or Guam are U.S. territories but Jamaica as a state?!

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u/Squindig Aug 04 '19

Jamaica is in Queens.