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What's the dumbest thing you thought as an adult that you recently learned was wrong? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just realized while cooking that a measuring-cup cup (as measured out as 250mL in a glass measuring cup) is the same amount(s) as one of the actual plastic baking measuring cups that go inside each other like Russian dolls lol

I thought they were different somehow (something something imperial metric yadda yadda yaddda)

Your turn to come clean Lemmings!

**EDIT: to clarify, I mean volumetrically for measuring liquids

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My parents told me to always leave the "big mosquito bugs" alone as they eat the little mosquitoes. Then I told everyone to do the same for years. Turns out those "big mosquito bugs" were actually "Crane Fly" and they do not eat mosquitoes....

https://www.mrbuggs.com/giant-mosquitoes-aka-crane-flies/

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I grew up calling them Mosquito Hawks and was told the same thing. Urban legend with good cultural penetration, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Dragon flies and bats however are doing good work

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

In Oklahoma we call them "skeeter eaters"

I work in pest control. I never correct anyone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Heh whoops