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What is a fact that you would expect everyone in the world to know?

Asked by mowens (8403points) August 23rd, 2010

I think this question is self explanatory. It is spawned because a friend of mine had never seen eggs cooked and served any way but scrambled. I was dumbfounded. I had cooked Sunny side up eggs, and he had never seen them before. (at age 20) I thought everyone in the world would have known that sunny side up eggs existed.

So, what is a fact that you think everyone in the world would know?

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daytonamisticrip's avatar

Grass is green.

Trillian's avatar

Water is necessary to life.

mowens's avatar

@daytonamisticrip Even a blind man? He may have been told, but what would he care if it was green? I don’t remember things I don’t care about.

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

Existence exists ;)

Jude's avatar

He who eats spaghetti and meatballs, shits yo-yos.

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

That you should never get in a boat without a personal flotation device.

john65pennington's avatar

Where Fort Knox is located and its purpose.

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

@Adirondackwannabe -....because the sheriff will give you a big fat ticket.and take all your beer ;)

mowens's avatar

@john65pennington I know what it’s purpose is, but no idea where it is. :)

Seek's avatar

Once upon a time, I was helping my church youth group cook a whole lot of food for a fundraiser event.

An 18 year old girl approached me and said “Alyson, what’s this?”

After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I said, “That’s… an onion.”

How the eff do you not know what an onion looks like?

AmWiser's avatar

I personally do not believe that there is one absolute fact everyone in the world would know. Even if someone could come up with a fact they think everyone in the world would know, it could be proven otherwise.

Trillian's avatar

@AmWiser water is essential to life. I challenge you to prove otherwise.

Scooby's avatar

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other’s shoulders! :-/

Says it all really!! :-(

OK, maybe not everyone, just the politicians….... :-/

AmWiser's avatar

@Trillian, yes I know water is essential to life and you know that water is essential to life but apparently this man has proven otherwise. Or so they say;-}.

aprilsimnel's avatar

The earth is round.

rebbel's avatar

The moon is yellow.

jfos's avatar

Water evaporates, accumulates in clouds, and falls as rain.

Rufus_T_Firefly's avatar

No matter where you go, there you are.

downtide's avatar

David Beckham is England’s greatest footballer (well maybe “was” would be more accurate). It seems that even in third world countries all the kids know who David Beckham is.

ucme's avatar

That sleep is, sooner or later inevitable…..zzzzzzzzzzzzz!! I¬|

Blackberry's avatar

People can not come back from the dead after 2,000 years (or ever).

Austinlad's avatar

That when you have to pee, you have to pee.

tinyfaery's avatar

We require food and water to live.

Trillian's avatar

@AmWiser I stand corrected. Well done! Whoda thunk it?

Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

Suffering exists.

Aster's avatar

Men cook and clean until the morning after your wedding. Then it stops forever.

BoBo1946's avatar

Earth is pear shaped.

ucme's avatar

@BoBo1946 I beg to differ my good man. Why every man & his dog knows that the Oith is indeed as flat as a pancake. A little bulged around the middle perhaps, but flat nevertheless :¬D

Aster's avatar

No married man has ever been seen replacing the tp roll.

Trillian's avatar

@BoBo1946 Hehehe, yeah! And the moon is made of green cheese. Sheesh! Everybody knows that.

Aster's avatar

Everyone says money can’t buy happiness but they’ll do anything immoral or illegal to get more.

Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

@Aster I am married to no such man that you describe.

BoBo1946's avatar

@Trillian dang, ruined my day. Thought i had come up with something!

Trillian's avatar

@BoBo1946 What’s wrong? Cheese and some fruit, all we need is some wine!

Aster's avatar

@Blackberry They can hover, though. (-;

BoBo1946's avatar

MsT, ummm….sounds like fun!

LuckyGuy's avatar

Water freezes at 0 C, or 32 F.

janbb's avatar

Never fight a land war in Asia. (hah – ironic, isn’t it?)

Scooby's avatar

The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE ;-)

perspicacious's avatar

Water is wet

NaturallyMe's avatar

That a higher birth rate (when compared to death rate) cannot continue indefinitely without any disastrous consequences for the earth, humanity and any other living beings on earth.

raven860's avatar

How to breathe.

perspicacious's avatar

@NaturallyMe You forgot about the kids.

Rufus_T_Firefly's avatar

Veggie burgers had no natural predators until vegans arrived.

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