39 ‘Same’ Things That Most People Don’t Know Are Actually Different

One will see you later, the other will see you after a while.

BOTH ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS

But not Ireland. A lot of ppl don't know this

or as we were taught, poisonous: hurts if you bite it, venomous: hurts if it bites you.

:D

Both will spit in your eye.

Both cute

In my language (Swedish) both have the same name but with "land" and "water" at the beginning of the word, like "waterturtle" and "landturtle".

I have never heard of oposumms but they are cute!

had been told 'shrimp' is used more in American English, while 'prawn' is favoured in British English

Good to have that made concrete!

in the uk jam is on toast and jelly is with ice cream...

ignorance, Nevermore.

They also have "capsule shaped" tablets.

seal=floofy sea lion=smooth

Geography lessons payed off 😂!

Crayfish are also significantly smaller than lobsters

I only know this because I am a cat nerd

I know the difference, marg is bloody awful !!!!

"All fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once." - Terry Pratchett

This is getting a bit ridiculous. The distinction between mushrooms and toadstools is another nonscientific one, and there are poisonous muchrooms and nonpoisonous toadstools. I've eaten "toadstools". I'm not going to tell anyone which is which though, because the difference can be so difficult to discern for an untrained and inexperienced person that it can be lethal. This particular arbitrary definition is so dangerous as to be irresponsible. I hope that everyone reading this definition absolutely DOES NOT rely on it to distinguish between 'mushrooms' and 'toadstools'.

Do not eat princess toadstool!

NO NO NO!!!! NOT all mushrooms are edible! If someone calls something a 'mushroom,' even if they are knowledgable, that does not mean it is edible. It might still be deadly!! Do NOT listen to this! Get foraging advice from an expert or a natural history guide, not from a random internet article!

Toadstools are mushrooms, though, just a variant

You kidding me? Toadstool (amanita) is a kind of mushrooms, not all mushrooms are edible and some amanitas are edible...

Ehh... a toadstool IS a mushroom... this is just stupid.

This is dangerously untrue and simplistic and should be removed, the difference between the two (and other fungi) is nuanced and arguable, and some 'mushrooms' will kill you some 'toadstools' are edible as is the case with all fungi, phical differences are another guide but equally involute.

So which one is the Smurf house?

this is not right!!! some toadstools are also edible

One makes Mario grow

blank - safe spotted - not safe

In Polish we call toadstool "muchomor" which sounds similar to mushroom and could be confusing. It literally means "fly killer".

“Toadstool... Toad stool... Toad poop... Yeah I wouldn’t want to eat that in the first place.”

What is the porpoise of this?

This does not really belong here, does it? A champagne is still a sparkling wine, so technically it is a specialisation, not two thing that are confused but essentially are different.

Their expression say that they are disappointed in you that you didn't know this.

Muffins are a main course and cupcakes are dessert.

Do not tell this to all this alternative right movements who claim that there are certain "people" native to places, and that their intermingling with other "races" will weaken the national identity. We may form nations and e may come from different ethnicies, but we are all humans!

"I never know... What's the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite?" "Stalagmite has an 'm' in it"

How do people not know the difference between a butterfly and a moth???

What do you call a Gorilla that has a Banana stuck in each ear ? Answer: Anything you like..... because he can't hear you

Armadillos are native to the Americas, pangolins are native to Asia.

I'm not sure about everyone else, but I'm pretty sure people know this. Right? Or is it just me?

I did a Masters and a PhD in anurans. The distinction between 'frogs' and 'toads is arbitary. Not all dryish anurans are short-leggedish, or smoothish, or stringy-eggedish, and not all mucussy anurans are the obverse in one or more of those characteristics. The notion of frogs versus toads is simply a gradient of perceptions with no biological significance. And the teeth thing that another commernter claimed is a nonsense...

Wasps can be pollinators - there are many species of orchids whose flower structures are predicated on exactly this fact. Look it up.

Paneer is awesome. Especially when coated with a layer of spiced corn flour or spiced bread.

I am not sure about this.. The one on the right is also eaten as a fruit in my natives.. It's more like a different variety of Banana..

in S.A the tangerines are called naartjies. pronounced 'nar-chies' . think it comes from the Afrikaans language.

Like other differences on this list, the distinctions are arbitrary and not consistent. There is not biological difference between kangaroos and wallabies, save size, and small kangaroos and be smaller than large wallabies. Some wallaby species are distinctly plain in colour. My bona fides? I'm a biologist, with three species of macropod that that come out to graze on my paddocks every night.

Rats are amazing, intelligent creatures and it's about time people stopped being scarred of them and start educating themselves about them. They deserve respect.

Unless you drink what may aswell be a bucket of tea like me.

I thought it's more of US/UK thing. UK calls it biscuits while US cookies.. no?