What is something you thought you knew your whole life and only just recently found out you were wrong the whole time? - eviltoast

Mine is that at my age (barely made it into Gen Z on the old end) I just found out today that a Bo Weevil is an insect (beetle) and not some kind of mole or similar rodent.

  • Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
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    16 hours ago

    “Cake” in “let them eat cake” is “brioche”. I had thought that cake meant cheap chemically leavened bread-ish, but it actually was an out of touch elite being genuinely confused about bread shortages, not someone callously suggesting the peasants eat shittier food.

    Also it probably wasn’t Marie Antoinette.