33 of the Wildest ‘How Do People Not Know This?’ Moments

‘You mean we fought ourselves?’
33 of the Wildest ‘How Do People Not Know This?’ Moments

Though we can’t all be trivia masters or Jeopardy! champions, there’s certain knowledge you expect people to know. One guy had a coworker who actually believed that cutting a pizza into slices made more pizza, and that pouring soda out of a 2-liter bottle and then back into it would create more soda.

While there’s no clear answer as to why she thought being in charge of an office pizza party bestowed someone with Jesus-like abilities, it’s clear that certain bits of knowledge completely escaped her for many years. 

Apparently, basic math and science facts have eluded many, resulting in thoughts that hinge on conspiratorial. Redditors have disclosed the times they were pushed to the edge of frustration and wondered “How do people not know this?,” including a lot of cases against enrolling your children in religious schools.

smiling_desperado777 e 4y ago That it is not called COVID-19 because there were 18 other Covids. 915 ...

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SandyInStLouis 4y ago My mother was in her 40's when she learned the Civil War was NOT between North America and South America. She looked at me and said You mean we fought ourselves? 1.6K ...

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LaLionneEcossaise 4y ago в On 9/11, when I arrived at my office, coworkers were discussing what had happened. Someone mentioned attacks on both coasts. I was surprised to hear that, as I hadn't heard anything about the West Coast being affected. Turns out they thought D.C. was in Washington state. + 2.6K ...

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BadSanna 4y ago I grew up in Alaska but I went to fifth grade in Las Vegas. My first day they had me introduce myself to the class and to tell them some interesting things about Alaska. I mentioned it was the largest state and everyone started arguing with me. I looked at the map of the US on the wall and instantly understood why they were confused. Alaska was shrunk down in a little box in the corner. I laughed and said, Did you think it was an island, too? Crickets. Pretty sure they thought it was an island.

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Dangercakes13 4y ago Went to a middle school where the teachers did the group well-performing students with students still having some struggles approach and I had to sit next to a total asshole for half a year (not because he was having trouble with grades, there's no shame there, he was just also an asshole) but the thing that really hit me was that he just refused to accept the concept of time zones. Thought I was making them up. I even showed him a time zone map that came with our damn calculator and he was like a Westworld

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Falafelmeister92 ОР . 4y ago E In 12th grade, a classmate asked what a verb is. And after we explained it to him, he asked how he is supposed to identify them in the text. 1.2K ...

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MoMoMospeechtherapy 4y ago - When I lived with my old roommates. I was choking on some food, and immediately I started trying to cough and put my hands on my neck (universal choking sign). They looked at me and stared blankly, asking, What is it? Are you hot? They're in their 20s... + 1.8K ...

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BRUHSKIBC 4y ago Had to explain to a 21yr old that a hysterectomy was not reversible. This was after he told me that his fiancé would just get a hysterectomy and then have it reversed when they want to have children. They both attended private religious schools their entire education. + 2.6K ...

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softball1111 4y ago OBGYN here. I once had a young patient in labor who thought her belly button was going to dilate and that was how the baby was going to come out. To which I politely replied no my dear it comes out the same way it went in. + 360 ...

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discostud1515 4y ago o I once made out with a girl, nothing else. The next day she called me, crying asking if she could be pregnant. We were both 22. + 4.5K ...

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NeonMoth229 4y ago . Some third graders I knew thought you could become President by killing the former one. They thought John Wilkes Booth became President by shooting Lincoln. + 5.9K ...

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queen-of-carthage 0 4y ago e My friend insisting Chanukah and Hanukkah are two separate holidays 71 ...

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Roses88 E 5y ago That adding black Oreos into a white milkshake will make the milkshake brown. She kept saying that's too much chocolate. I didn't ask for a chocolate shake. I don't like chocolate 257 ...

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becelav 5y ago That eagles aren't as big as planes and the only reason they look the same size when up in the air is because the plane is 30,000+ ft in the air and the eagle is much closer. And no, this wasn't a child. She was 19. We were on a date. + 915 ...

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Olivo0205 . 5y ago - Two people at work were apparently struggling to get the water cold in the sink but could no manage. Asked if I could help turn it down. I turned off the hot and turned on the cold. One woman asked how I did it. I turned off the hot, and turned on the cold what a concept. 1.1K ...

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Grombrindal18 4y ago A friend of mine who got a history degree, mostly because her boyfriend (now husband) did, didn't know who we fought against in the American Revolution. ummm... the French? 97 ...

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SantiagoandtheMarlin 0 4y ago e I heard a guy once complain that the suppositories he was given were so big he had to cut them in half to take them. + 2K ...

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 4y ago . Edited 4y ago Whenever someone doesn't realize that dinosaur is NOT a catch-all term for anything extinct. No, mammoths and saber-toothed cats were not dinosaurs. 239 ...

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nofacenofood . 5y ago e That the fact that a laptop is wireless doesn't mean you don't have to charge the battery + 2.5K ...

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krissy_the_witch e 5y ago e BONFIRE UT That periods are not able to be controlled like the urge to pee + 2.5K ...

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 E 5y ago That 'Boomers' were not people who survived explosions. 533 ...

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DarkAngel319 . 5y ago Alaska and Hawaii are still states, even though they are not attached to the continental US + 1.8K ...

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LurdOfTheGraveyurd . 5y ago That birds do, in fact, have muscles. Seriously, they were asking how birds can fly if they don't have muscles. I didn't manage to convince them. 1.5K ...

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Walking_Glitch E 6y ago Anything you multiply by zero comes out to zero. This was to a 55+ yr old man and his wife. One of them just was NOT getting it. + 325 ...

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stonemender e 5y ago - Just because the sun and moon appear to be the same size in the sky, they are not the same size. + 4.4K ...

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 G 5y ago I had to explain to my sister how you don't get a longer ride if you sit at the back of the roller coaster. + 9.3K ...

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arcant12 5y ago Edited 5y ago That gonorrhea is not a country, it's a STD. Edit: a few have asked... A student walked in to my history class and said my mother's boyfriend is from gonorrhea! I asked her to repeat herself thinking I had heard things wrong...but she said the exact same thing. We had just finished a unit on Ghana. She thought we did a unit on the country of gonorrhea. I never figured out if the boyfriend was from Ghana or if she heard them talking about an STD. + 2.2K ...

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 6y ago . I had to explain to a friend that Amish people know electricity exists, and that they just didn't believe we should use it. I also had to tell her that we generate electricity in power plants, and that it doesn't just float around in the air. + 1.5K ...

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vitaminba 4y ago . Narwhals are real. Apparently some people think they're imaginary, like unicorns. I was shocked to discover that some people don't think they exist. I expressed this to my sister, who was surprised to learn they actually exist. 2 ...

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Galaxy_Ranger_Bob 4y ago There was a woman in my office that was in charge of planning parties. She thought that cutting a pizza into more slices made more pizza. She also thought that if you poured soda from a two liter bottle into an eight ounce bottle then poured it back into the two liter bottle, you'd make more soda. 1 ...

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 6y ago That different hemispheres have different seasons at the same time of the year. + 404 ...

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maiafinch 4y ago . My aunt once argued with me that H20 was was not two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen, but a word on its own-maybe spelled Aitchtwooh? I was never clear on that. It's just another word for water it doesn't stand for anything. I was 13. I still get mad remembering it. + 6.2K ...

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icerobin99 e 4y ago . Edited 4y ago - My mom thought Liechtenstein was a fictional country in A Knight's Tale 634 ...

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