Apparently many people don't realize that "yellow dandelions" are the same as "white dandelions" (read the comments on the YouTube video, it's true). It's easy to blow it off and call them stupid, but that doesn't seem fair to me. I never learned this in school. I only knew it because my mom talked about it a lot. It's not like my friends talked about plant lifecycles all the time. I heard a girl tell an embarrassing story on This American Life about asking her college friends if unicorns were extinct just really rare. It makes sense. Unicorns are just horses with a horn, not any less believable than a zebra if you thi nk about it. What kinds of wierd misconceptions might we all be walking around with because we didn't happen to learn some small detail everyone else knows?
Has anyone had a moment like this where they figured out something that is so silly and and obvious that everyone else already knew?