'[She]... asked if Mickey Mouse was a cat or a dog': 25+ Odd musings from people who were wildly misinformed

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jul 10, 2024 5:00 PM EDT

If you've been the victim of your older sibling telling you a falsehood you believed for decades, you may be entitled to compensation. Surely these people must've had that experience, since a lot of them grew up believing things like "horses lay eggs" or "you should stare into the sun for health reasons." If not for an older sibling messing with their head, maybe some people just didn't pay attention in school, or were misled by some kind of movie or TV show. There are clearly lots of reasons why someone might not be knowledgeable about a subject, and it's really funny every time. 

People responded to u/aaronxr's question on the r/AskReddit sub. They shared that they had a coworker who refused to drink that ever-important liquid, water. That's right, instead of drinking water, that dude sipped on tea day and night, perhaps not realizing the two ingredients that create a cup of tea. Hmm. He's not the only one… It's not uncommon to meet someone who only drinks juice or soda because they don't like water, and were apparently just never told to do otherwise. At least we have the internet, a free resource to find almost any information! Not that the water-haters of the world will change their minds. 

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  • 01
    'Attended a work quiz...one of the questions asked was, "What was the first man-made object to break the sound barrier?" ...A female co-worker offered her answer: "A dog."""
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    Reddit, one of my old coworkers never drank water because "water makes you rust." Who's the biggest idiot you know? He drank tea almost exclusively, failing to realize it has water in it. He also hung truck nuts from his beat up old car.
    via u/aaronxr
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    5342 A butterfly garden consists of an area full of specific. plants to attract butterflies. My coworker was mad because there were no butterflies in his recently planted butterfly garden.
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    He said "Stupid caterpillars keep eating all the leaves on the bushes. So every morning I go out and squash all the stupid caterpillars. I've got a pile of dead caterpillars and no butterflies."
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    V... A kid in my grade 9 history class turned to me on the first day and asked "Is Scandinavian another word for Chinese?" Years later he was seen drinking a can of gravy, because he couldn't decide if he was hungry or thirsty.
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    godlovesaliar I teach GED and have heard some fantastic ones from my students. -Pointing to Africa on a globe "That's Texas, right?" -"Wait, so the sun and the moon ARE different things?" -"I'm never going to need to use math or science." Well what kind of career do you want to have? "One of those CSI guys."
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    When I worked at a Trader joes store I had a co- woerker named Mike who tried to cook his chicken nuggets in the plastic bag contained in the cardboard box. This does not sound like a big deal.....except it was in a toaster oven. On top of this idiocy, I told him to just write-off the item off
    via r/AskReddit
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    and get another. He refused and actually peeled the plastic off of them and ate them as well.One serious knuckle dragger there.
    via r/AskReddit
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    durkberger My sister has done all of the following (note: she is 26 years old, and all of these have occurred around and after the age of 18): caught a loaf of bread on fire in the microwave, insisted that her headlights wouldn't work because she's almost out of gasoline, set countless frozen pizzas aflame from neglecting to remove the cardboard ring on bottom,
    via u/durkberger
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    asked my mom if mickey mouse was a cat or a dog, asked my dad if our boat had brakes (he told her yes, but they don't work because they're wet), thought Canada was a state, thought Washington, D.C was in the Pacific Northwest, asked why we (as humans) can't air-condition the outside world, asked how to spell VCR (she thought it was a word), and just last week she bought two right shoes.
    via u/durkberger
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    [... My mother once told me that a horse ate a needle and thread, which sewed its intestines shut (perfectly, like with stitching). When I asked where she heard this she replied "In a book I read." I asked if the book was fiction, and she said "Yes, but most of the time fiction is more real than non-fiction."
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    Another time, she called me from her cell and said she was annoyed because her landline hadn't been working for the past 6 months even though she'd been paying the bill. I tried her number and it rang, but she couldn't hear it, so I told her I'd help her troubleshoot. I told her to check the ringer volume on the cordless, check that it was plugged in, etc... When I asked if the cord was in the wall well, she said "It
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    is, but the cord is cut." I was like ".... the cord is cut? Like in half?" "Yes," she says. I said "Well... there's your problem. Get a new cord." Long pause, then she tells me "No, I don't think that's it. I'm going to go find a man because a man would probably know." EDIT: Her cellPHONE. Not a jail cell.
    via u/[deleted]
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    JefeV88 A guy I went to high school with, then worked at a cheese factory was certainly the dumbest guy I have ever known. While working at this cheese factory, we had a block dumping room where we would dump the cheese out of the cardboard cases they came in, stack them on another pallet and toss the cardboard into a large hydrolic compactor. He
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    actually asked one day what would happen to him if he was in there while it was pressing the boxes. Despite what everyone was telling him, he was somehow convinced that the boxes would protect him. The boxes that this thing was designed to crush. He
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    actually started to climb in it before a couple guys stopped him. I'm actually surprised he hasn't somehow offed himself already.
    via u/JefeV88
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    Wuhrsy In my health class in the 10th grade and we somehow got on the topic of driving. Eventually a girl in the back of the class asks, "So, if you're texting while you're driving and you run a red light and hit someone, is it your fault?" She was dead. serious, and then argued with the teacher about how she doesn't think she should be at fault for that, "because
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    she was texting." I'm honestly not sure if it was a hypothetical question, or if she had already done this and was still confused why she was at fault, but it terrifies me that there are people like this that drive on same roads I do everyday.
    via u/Wuhrsy
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    bukowskionfire Posted this before but I will share again: Attended a work quiz one night at which one of the questions asked was 'What was the first man made object to break the sound barrier?' After some deliberation a female co-worker offered her answer: "A dog."
    via u/bukowskionfire
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    Not only was she being serious, she actually took the hump with us for laughing and queried as to what was wrong with suggesting a dog, saying it. was a better answer than most of ours.
    via u/bukowskionfire
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    general_chase A girl I knew back in Jr. High. "Horses lay eggs." oh, and don't forget "Paris is the capital of Europe, right?"
    via u/general_chase
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    Trojan_Moose I knew some Greek guys in high school who were pretty adamant that Greece won both WW1 and WW2 - single handedly as I understand it.
    via u/Trojan_Moose
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    Bigzdave Theres a kid I know who got a tattoo at 14 that said "Water is thicker than blood"
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    brainbows My dad's ex-wife once commented during a storm, "I don't know why the electric companies charge so much. All they do is catch lightning. It can't be THAT hard."
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    hatrackhotel "Why are there no real pictures of dinosaurs?" is what first comes to mind, but it feels too out of context to call her an idiot.
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    swagmeister23 This dude I know was bragging how he got a 5k a year life insurance that payed a million dollars. Catch? He claimed that you got payed the million after 10 years even if you did not die! So you're telling me we all only have to raise 50k and get a million? Come on... guy never backed down either... he's in for a surprise
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    mightymdc I once told my cousin she was made of molecules. She promptly went to tattle on me to her dad. She was 14 at the time.
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    skinsfan55 In a 7th grade history class one of the kids asked the teacher "do they have democracy in England?" and the teacher replied "no, I think they have a king and queen like in France..." Completely serious.
    via u/skinsfan55
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    S... Was called a "river-nerd" when I objected to a girl saying that rivers can absolutely not flow north, or as she put it, "up the globe".
    via u/Sirupsen
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    Bogcat A kinda-coworker argued that thunder and lightning are only related because similar weather patterns cause them. This is why you can get a thunderstorm without any lightning, and lightning storms without thunder.
    via u/Bogcat
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    n... I know a guy who stares at the sun. That's right, HE STARES AT THE SUN! He seems to think it's good for his eyes.
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    gattack Girl from high school in an extremely rural area: "My uncle 'splained to me that the Earth really is only 6000 years old because if it was billions of years old like they say, well, that just doesn't make sense because the Earth's rotation is slowing down, so if it was billions of years old that means back then the Earth
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    would have been spinning so fast we all would have flown off the surface of the Earth." Poor girl, really sweet actually. My first lesson in keeping a straight face.
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    nucleophilic In freshmen science, in high school, a girl suddenly decides to speak up and ask, "is lava hot? I mean, can you swim in it? Would it burn?" The same girl (different class) also asked, "where's North America? I know where it is but... where is it on a map?"
    via u/nucleophilic
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    drum_love I'm going to go with the amazing sentence. "Is it pronounced Iran or Iraq?"
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    jjcarcetti My fathers receptionist thought that every time there was a "new moon" there was literally a new moon replacing the old one.
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    [deleted] There was a girl in my US History class, in high school, who thought George Washington fought in World War Two.
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    snakebarnes On my freshman orientation day at my University we were put in groups with older students who had volunteered to show us around, tell us boring facts about the school, etc. I had been wearing a shirt of the Canadian flag. Our "group leader" walks up to me and asks "Do you speak Russian, or did you just visit Russia?"
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    Confused, I responded "Neither?" Her witty response was "Oh, well I thought because your shirt...?" TL;DR: sorority girl confuses Russia with Canada
    via u/snakebarnes
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    dollar_on_10 My buddy's girlfriend has him "start" her food by taking the first couple bites.
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    ChronicMonstah Some guy in my university chemistry class, trying to sound smart, asked the teacher what the chemical formula of a tree is. Needless to say, he did not come off as very smart...
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    bismarck803 I spent most of a class. period explaining to this girl that the blue part of a globe is water and that we live on the Earth, not inside of it.
    via u/bismarck803
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    Who_what_now A friend of mine in middle school took Spanish for a year and didn't know how to spell the word "si". She spelled it "C".
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    kowtownow Girl asked science teacher: "If I have babies with a guy wearing purple contacts, will my kids have purple eyes?" Not the sharpest tool in the shed.
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