What's the dumbest thing you thought as an adult that you recently learned was wrong?

cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 199 points –

I just realized while cooking that a measuring-cup cup (as measured out as 250mL in a glass measuring cup) is the same amount(s) as one of the actual plastic baking measuring cups that go inside each other like Russian dolls lol

I thought they were different somehow (something something imperial metric yadda yadda yaddda)

Your turn to come clean Lemmings!

**EDIT: to clarify, I mean volumetrically for measuring liquids

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Rhode Island isn't really an island. Like, yeah it's named after one of its islands, but people who live in the state are on the continental part. I thought the whole state was an island lmao

California also isn't an island, but it's named after a fictional island in a Spanish novel, and was once thought to be an island.

I used to think it was named after Calphurnia from Julius Caesar when we read that in class. I literally pronounced her name as "Ka-la-fern-ee-uhh", fuck

The name comes from cal- meaning hot, and forni- meaning sex, from which we get the English word fornication.

Therefore California means “land of hot sex”

I'm about to start parroting this around, and I don't even care if it's true or not

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