I was stunned that my mate who is a big Brock Lesnar fan didn’t know that he started WWE in 2002 , he thought the early 90s
We’ve done a lot of these. Just sayin’.
Would you be stunned to know that I have never heard of Brock Lesnar and had to google WWE?
I’ve mentioned this one before (maybe in one of the threads x-ray vision linked to).
Several years ago, I was shopping in a store that sold SF collectibles. I bought a model of the Protector, which is the starship from the movie Galaxy Quest.
I was making conversation with the guy as he rang up my purchase (keep in mind this was the owner of the store and that this was only a year after Galaxy Quest had been released):
Me: “I didn’t know they had made any models from Galaxy Quest.”
Him: “What’s Galaxy Quest? Is that a comic book?”
Me: “No, it was the movie. The one with Tim Allen.”
Him: “I guess I don’t know it.”
You don’t know it? This is your business. You sell science fiction collectibles. Merchandise from science fiction movies. This was the second biggest science fiction movie to come out last year.
On more than one occasion, people have expressed surprise when they’ve seen me manually move my legs. As in, I pick up my legs with my hands and move them into the position I want. “Oh, so you’re not paralyzed then?” 
#paralyzednotpetrified
Heard in a bar some other night one of the regulars explaining to his friends that there’s no ham in hamburgers and hamburger is named after Hamburg Germany. They were stunned to hear this, I was stunned that anyone with a 3rd grade education doesn’t know that. I was tempted to give them the news about hotdogs.
That’s right, there’s no Frank in your Frankfurters!
(ETA: And we needn’t discuss the composition of Girl Scout Cookies.)
Amura-burgers and Freedom Fries for me! TYVM
Or brownies.
I hear that one all the time.
I was helping a friend out this weekend, changing the oil filter on his car. He was asking me about various car parts while we went along; I’m no car expert, but I answered to the best of my ability.
He eventually got to the catalytic converter and asked what it was, so I told him.
“That can’t be right, I don’t drive a Cadillac”, was his reply.
I guess I wasn’t that surprising for someone with limited car knowledge, but it was still funny that he just assumed catalytic converters were only in Cadillacs.
I’m stunned by the number of Oh-so-Christians who don’t know much about the Old Testament. They can quote ad infinitum from a few choice passages of interest to Christian Literalists – the six-day creation story; Sodom and Gomorrah; a few verses from the Prophets that seem to foresee the coming of [del]Jesus[/del] Emmanuel.
But ask them about the story of Joseph’s life? All anyone seems to know is a vague bit about the “Coat of Many Colors” and something about some plagues and the parting of the Red Sea. (Oops – that was generations later, in the days of Moses). Come on! The story of Joseph’s life if nearly half the book of Genesis!
(I confess, I myself never knew that Samson and Delilah was a Bible story until the day I actually read the thing! I thought it was some Greek myth.)
Two deejays on the morning show on the local classic rock station discussing a news story about Randy Meisner, formerly of the Eagles, who had been the subject of recent headlines, had never heard of him. Really. You’re on a station that plays the Eagles and you don’t know the band members? And these guys had been on the air for at least ten years.
But be advised that your boy can get kicked out of the Cub Scouts for eating one.
Years ago a friend of mine went to the dentist for the first time in her life.
When she came back, she asked me: “Did you know you’re supposed to brush the back of your teeth?”
Me: “Um, yeah, I knew that.”
And this girl was a stripper too. Her whole livelihood depends on her being attractive. How the hell can you not know this?
Also, she wasn’t your typical “bimbo” stripper either. Girl was smart with her money. She owned three homes that she rented out to people. So she did have some savvy.
If a guy at a strip club sees the back of a strippers teeth, then either he or she is doing it wrong.
He probably misheard “catalytic converter” as “Cadillac converter.”
Certain Christian sects are more focused on the Old Testament than others. Catholics, for instance, are much more focused on the NT. I was raised Catholic, and went to Catholic schools. We learned about the “big events” in the OT (A&E, Flood, Moses, David), but not a lot of the smaller stuff. We spent much more time on the NT. Now, some evangelical or fundamentalist Christians might be more heavily OT focused.
There is a Bible reading at ever Mass, and AFAIR, those were always (or almost always) from the NT.
Not too long ago, I read (but don’t remember where) an anecdote from someone’s college days where there was a Hindu exchange student who loved eating cheeseburgers, convinced that they had no meat (did she think they were made of some sort of spiced cheese? I don’t know) and had one of those face-going-blank-with-horror existential meltdowns when someone pointed out otherwise.
Or he thought that you said “Cadillac converter.”
(eta ningered.)
Here’s one people definitely DON’T know, so I’ll spoiler it:
Racer X is really Speed’s brother Rex
You can really impress your friends with that one.