What's the dumbest thing you thought as an adult that you recently learned was wrong?

https://lemmy.world/post/11718611

What's the dumbest thing you thought as an adult that you recently learned was wrong? - Lemmy.World

I just realized while cooking that a measuring-cup cup (as measured out as 250mL in a glass measuring cup) is the same as one of the actual 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!

Until he was 50 years old my father did not know how his mother could see through walls.

When he was little his mother sat in the living room while he was playing with his sister in their playroom. With a wall and a hallway between them. But every time he tried to pull his sister’s hair or something their mother would shout from the living room for him to stop it. He was really angry and confused because he couldn’t fathom how she could see them.

On his 50th birthday his mother revealed that she could see them perfectly fine through the reflection in a wardrobe that stood in the hallway.

mirror/reflection

Yep, that’ll do it, altho its weird he didn’t see her. Mirrors reflections are usually bidirectional, no? Like if I see you <-> you see me usually…

I think it had a glass door so was only half reflective.