Thought of a couple more childhood misconceptions:
- Sitcoms and soap operas are the same thing. I think I saw a bit of some soap opera and some sitcom, didn't understand what was going on, but noticed that they had similar settings and similar-looking characters (probably something like, adults roughly the same age in modern houses or apartments… given that I would have been used to shows featuring kids, talking animals, sciencey stuff, probably some fantasy or sci-fi settings, etc., adults in houses at least wouldn't be the default).
- The "K" in "401(k)" stands for "kilobytes"; it's in parentheses to indicate that it could also be just called a "401", with the "k" implied. (I saw the term in a context where I had no idea what sort of a thing it was; I think maybe I thought it was a type of modem, like 56K.)
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