40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are

We all grow up with a different skill set depending on our circumstances. A person who grew up on a farm will know how to milk a cow and a person who grew up in a city will be aware of when traffic gets heavier to avoid it. These skills and knowledge are acquired by experience or are taught, but even if you need them, you don’t necessarily have them.

Redditors noticed that some people lack knowledge that they consider to be basic, so they shared what gaps bother them and filled others in when user ej1273 asked “What’s considered basic knowledge that many people don’t know?”

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are Vaccines do not cause autism.

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are Your google search does not trump my years of school and 40 years of medical practice.

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are Low calorie food don't mean healthy food

Vegan doesn't mean healthy

Fats aren't unhealthy

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are That homelessness isn't just caused by bad life choices. It's very often caused by things outside the person's control. It's also a lot harder to come back from homelessness than many people think.

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are The little stick on the left side of the steering column of every car is your turn signal. If you push it up, it will tell people around you that you are turning right and push it down to indicate a left turn.

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are That forgetting your headphones doesn't mean we want to hear you scrolling through tiktok on the bus

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are The words virus, fungus and bacteria aren’t interchangeable

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are Playing music at full volume out of your phone does not sound good or make you look cool.

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are How long it takes a semi truck to stop

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are That I don't control the f*****g prices of where I work at.

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are How to say please and thank you

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are The "essential" in essential oils does not mean essential for human health.

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are Just because you can that doesn’t mean you should.

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are Everything is “chemical.”

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are Yelling louder doesn’t make you more correct.

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are To not stop in the middle of the sidewalk and have a conversation, causing everyone to move around you

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are You can't catch a cold from walking outside with wet hair.

Ps. My mom still believes this to this day.

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are Ride a bike WITH traffic. Walk or run AGAINST traffic.

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are The proper use of lose and loose.

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are The left lane is not a hangout lane. Either pass or get the hell out of the left lane.

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are That your local pharmacy doesn't have any control over the actual production of your meds.

Why is cough medicine out of stock? I don't know. Maybe a factory in Ukraine blew up and they are our main supplier. Maybe Jeff pressed the wrong button and contaminated all the medications in the production line. I DON'T KNOW.

And yes, I am well aware that a pandemic is currently occurring. Thanks for the reminder.

I hate people.

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are Idk if this is considered basic knowledge but it's really good to know:

If your car gets stuck in snow, take out the floor mats and stick them under your tires as best you can, in the direction you are wanting to go (so the tires can drive on them). This helps give you some traction. You can reuse this technique as far as needed, just parking, getting out, and moving the floor mats back to right in front/behind your tires.

It irks me when I watch TV shows where the characters get stuck and can't get out of the snow, when they clearly have floor mats in their car. It has come to my attention over the past couple years that a lot of people don't know this, so now I try and bring it up every time it remotely comes up in a convo.

Also, keep emergency supplies in your vehicle. Jumper cables, a flashlight and batteries (keep them stored separately because corrosion), food/water, gloves, winter boots if applicable where you are, etc. Also, look up the underwater car episode of Mythbusters, just good to know :)

EDIT: as u/ruetheblue says below, if the snow is covering the tailpipe TURN THE CAR OFF. (Carbon monoxide)

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are Shopping carts don't belong in parking stalls

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are If someone has just injured their back or head DO NOT MOVE THEM

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are When your turn signal starts blinking at 2x speed it's a warning that one of your turn signal bulbs is out.

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are Ladies, don't flush your tampons. It doesn't matter if you are on city sewer or a septic system, it is _terrible_ and causes all kinds of issues.

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are Where their water shutoff is in their house.

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are that alcohol is a depressant, not a stimulant.

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are ZIPPERING, the method of keeping a sustained stream of traffic from both sides be it merging or whatever.

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#30

A yield sign means to let the other vehicle go before you, not you trying to beat the other vehicle.

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are Each time you make a credit card purchase, you are taking out a short term, high interest loan which will accrue interest if you don’t pay it off by the end of the month.

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are Don’t put water on a grease fire. This is when your pan/pot catches fire while cooking.

Cover it with the pot or pan lid and turn off the heat

Edit: people in the replies have also added that baking soda and salt can work to smother the fire. Additionally a grease fire safe extinguisher is a good thing to have in your kitchen.

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are How not to fall for a very obvious scam on the internet

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are Drinking alcohol makes a person FEEL warmer but you're much more susceptible to freezing to death.

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#35

Kids don’t need juice.

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are Measure twice, cut once

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No added sugar or preservatives is not the same as no sugar or preservatives. It just means no extra sugar or preservatives during packaging.

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40 People Who Have Noticed An Alarming Number Of Individuals Not Knowing Basic Facts Share What They Are Just basics of using a computer. Especially nowdays when most things are done digitally.
It’s just mind boggling when co-workers wifi does not work, or a program froze and they just don’t know what to do. Then when I reset the router or restart the computer they proceed to call me a Wizard. Like dude, what the heck?

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You can calculate the percentage of something by multiplying it by a number between 0 and 1. Want 80% of something? Multiply by 0.8. Want 180% of something? Multiply by 1.8.

The fact there's a percentage button on many calculators shows that this very basic idea is not well known as it should be....

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Income tax rates are tiered (or bracketed). You will never make less money by getting a raise. Only a portion of your income gets taxed at the higher rate once you enter the next bracket.

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What do you think ?

Dave Burley 1 year ago

Why are there repeats?

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Waite Forit 1 year ago

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tuzdayschild 1 year ago

Because some people haven't seen them yet. Anything else I can help with?

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Keith Podgursky 1 year ago

It's Bored Panda. There are always, ALWAYS repeats. Get used to it.

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4848532 1 year ago

Ugh. Amen to the no headphones. Same for me is people who whistle loudly in stores.

Edison Michael 1 year ago

I was expecting "sugar rush is not real" to appear somewhere. That got to be one of the least know truths in the U.S.A.

Oliver 1 year ago

I got one: how to type using all or most of your fingers. I will see people just typing with their thumbs on a laptop or computer. Your f*****g laptop ain’t your phone.

AffenpinscherMom 1 year ago

I have one. That on every car dashboard. There is a marker, either on the left or right side of your gas tank symbol, and that tells you which side of the car should face the gas pump.

Carrie Laughs 1 year ago

Not on every car I'm afraid. It is on mine, but not my husband's.

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zena bena 1 year ago

That if you watch the pedestriancrossing light when approaching a intersection Ina vehicle,and it is still showing walk then don't slow the he'll down worried the green light turning yellow,if it flashing still two cars can make it thru before yellow,if it solid then turning yellow right away.

Old Roadie 1 year ago

Store bought meat in America: treated with any combination of ~3,000 additives: steroids, endocrine disruptors, carcinogens, immune suppressants (which decrease effectiveness of vaccines and damage DNA). Also: irradiation. Even the packaging (PFAS) is toxic and leaches into food.

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