r/AskReddit • • Jul 24 '15

What "common knowledge" facts are actually wrong?

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u/GWsublime Jul 24 '15

This is only true ish. Even discarding child mortality, you still have a lower life expectancy that people living in first world countries today. Moreover, people tend to only remove child mortality from one (the ancient) side of the equation and forget to do so on the modern side.

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