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

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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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[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 37 points 6 months ago

Bell pepper thing is false. Green ones are usually underripe red bells but the other colors are all equally ripe. This is easy to fact check: look for less ripe peppers at the store, they will be red with green splotches rather than yellow or orange. Or you can shop for bell pepper seeds online.

[-] bridge_too_close@kbin.social 14 points 6 months ago

Yeah, seems you're correct. Not sure where I got my take from, probably something I read a while ago. Thanks for correcting me.

[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Damn i had the same assumption as you, had i been asked about bell peppers five minutes ago i would been like 99% certain they were all the same but at different ripenesses.

[-] Syd@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

There's purple Belle peppers too!

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

So its like tea, tea-hee

[-] tooclose104@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

Absolutely wild

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