That you CANNOT gain more weight from a sugared drink than it actually weighs.
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The definition of "cardiovascular system." Budtenders are just built different.
Then there was the extremely wealthy guy who didn't know what I meant when I said "install." He actually asked me "What means "Install""? Native English speaker, over 50, owned a couple businesses. He'd never heard of installing a program or a dishwasher.
Women have three holes down there, not two. To be fair to him, the only women in his life he lived with for any length of time was his mother who was extremely private about all bathroom stuff and hid all her monthly items.
I had the same experience once, but I was explaining it to a woman. I'm a guy.
Lol, it took me until I was 12 to figure that one out. I always thought women had cloacas, like birds. Turns out that a curious kid with an aging encyclopedia and parents that absolutely did not want to talk about biology are a bad combination.
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I didn't have to explain it, but I found myself in a situation where I was informing a grown woman that fish are indeed animals.
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Just before the US election, I had to explain to a coworker that JD Vance was not going to be Kamala Harris’ VP and vice versa. I knew this person for 9 years, never thought they were a genius or anything but damn, I was dumbfounded when she asked if I could believe it, I think she has always thought whichever side wins has to take the other sides VP. I immediately lost a lot of hope for us that day.
That is almost how it used to work. For several decades in the US the winner of the general election became the president, and the loser became the VP. The theory was that would cause the parties to work together. I don't remember why or when we changed that.
I think it was "runner up became VP." Because there were supposed to be multiple candidates, not just two and only two parties.
Might have worked with a ranked choice system.
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Evolution and other basic, elementary-level science to those who insist on the existence of some Skyman.
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I was in my late twenties when I learned that the numbers on a toaster are simply time and not degrees of toastiness.
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That South Africa is a country. And Northern Ireland is not. To be fair, she was always up front about her knowledge of geography being abysmal.
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How to make a call using a land line phone. That made me feel very old.
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I once had to explain the concept of having multiple Internet browser tabs to an elderly woman. She was certain nobody else could ever manage accessing a webpage AND their email at the same time, and was angry at our 2fa system for requiring that.
Another time I had to explain to my romantic partner at the time that winter actually lasts from the 21st of December through the 20th of March. He was convinced that winter coincided with the Christmas season, and that spring started on January 1st.
that's why i consider our calendar to just objectively be bad, why would the year start randomly slightly halfway through the winter? surely the obvious choice is either having new year's on the winter solstice so the year starts when things get brighter, or having new year's roughly when winter tends to end?
I've always felt that one of the solstices being the start of the year was the obvious answer, I always went for summer just because that feels like the better time to throw a party outdoors for it.
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That wood glue used to be made from horse bones and that, yes, the horse dies. Another I had to explain the correlation between 1 cube meter, 1000 liters and 1 ton.
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