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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I think everyone should get a pass on pronouncing the names of British places. All pronunciations are equally correct. Don't like it? Don't name a place "Michaeleaulourhoroughsbleachhhiffynboroughshire"

Yeah, when "Leicester" is pronounced "Lester", you have no hope of figuring pronunciation out without help.

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