Trending badgeTrendingPosted 54 minutes agoSubscribe to BuzzFeed Daily NewsletterCaret Down28 Times Celebs Were Completely Clueless About History, Science, And Basic Common SenseRaven-Symoné really said, "I am from every continent in Africa except for one." 💀by Kristen HarrisBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink We can all be a little clueless sometimes, and I, for one, am glad that there are never cameras around to capture it happening to me. For celebrities, however, it's another story, and they often have viral moments with this energy: Warner Bros. Pictures / Via youtube.com Here are 28 times celebs were completely clueless: 1. During The Kardashians Season 7, Kim Kardashian tried to convince her All's Fair costar Sarah Paulson that the 1969 moon landing by astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin was fake. Hulu And when a producer asked what she'd say to people who doubted her conspiracy theory claims, she cited a totally reliable source that's not at all known for spreading misinformation. 🙄 Hulu In response, someone from NASA - you know, the people who sent Armstrong and Aldrin to the moon - publicly corrected her on Twitter. Sean Duffy / Via x.com 2. Here's another one that has all of NASA shaking its head. While competing on Stars on Mars in 2023, Ariel Winter mistook fellow competitor Lance Armstrong - the former professional cyclist who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles for doping - for astronaut Neil Armstrong - the first person on the moon, who died in 2012. In a confessional, Ariel excitedly said, "Lance Armstrong is a real freaking astronaut. He is a real astronaut. He is Lance Armstrong. You need to google him. You need to know everything about him because he is so cool." FOX / FOX Image Collection via Getty Images Lance himself said, "There's probably 20-year-olds out there that get me confused with Neil Armstrong. If I were Neil Armstrong, I'd be dead. I'd prefer to be Lance Armstrong at this point." FOX / FOX Image Collection via Getty Images 3. On a Season 6 episode of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Porsha Williams visited the First African Baptist Church, which was used as an Underground Railroad safe haven. After learning about the building's history, she revealed that she thought the Underground Railroad was an actual railroad. Bravo / Via youtube.com Here's the full clip: View this video on YouTube Bravo / Via youtube.com 4. Speaking on a panel in 2017, Hugh Jackman reportedly said that, when he was cast as Wolverine in X-Men, he didn't know wolverines were real. He said, "I didn't even know there was a wolverine. I literally, embarrassingly, did about two weeks of research on wolves. I was rehearsing for three weeks, and I was shooting, so I was kind of on my own. I remember going past an IMAX in Toronto, and there was an IMAX documentary about wolves, and so I thought, 'I'll go and see that.'" Joe Pugliese / TV Guide / TM & Copyright (C)20th Century Fox Film Corp. / Courtesy Everett Collection During filming, director Bryan Singer was confused by some of his acting choices. Hugh continued, "He said, 'Are you sort of walking funny? What's going on?' And I said, 'I've been doing this thing with wolves,' and he goes, 'You know you're not a wolf, right?' I said, 'Well, there's no such thing as a wolverine.' [Bryan said,] 'Go to the zoo, dude.' I literally didn't know it existed." Hilde / 500px / Getty Images/500px 5. In 1994, Shaquille O'Neal visited Greece. When he returned, Sports Illustrated asked him if he saw the Parthenon, to which he responded, "I can't really remember the names of the clubs we went to." Nathaniel S. Butler / NBAE via Getty Images For the record, his personal assistant, Dennis Tracey, told the Orlando Sentinel, "I'm sure he was just kidding. The hotel we were in was overlooking the Parthenon. We had even talked about it." Milos Bicanski / Getty Images 6. In 2018, a fan asked Bebe Rexha where she'd go if she could travel in time. In a since-deleted tweet, she replied, "I would go to Paris 1940s," seemingly unaware that Paris was under Nazi occupation from 1940 to 1944. Bebe Rexha / Via x.com Then, in response to another fan who questioned her answer, she admitted history class wasn't her strong suit. Bebe Rexha / Via x.com 7. During the height of One Direction's fame, a teen magazine asked Niall Horan about his pet peeve. Seemingly thinking the term referred to an actual pet, he answered, "Rabbits. They are pointless and do nothing." Marc Piasecki / WireImage / Via Getty However, he evidently learned what a "pet peeve" is by 2023, because he told Seventeen, "Indecisive drivers on the road. Hate them. My number one, my whole life, is people being untidy in your space." Seventeen / Via tiktok.com In the TikTok comments, fans didn't let him forget his past gaffe. Seventeen / Via tiktok.com Seventeen / Via tiktok.com Seventeen / Via tiktok.com 8. On a 2024 episode of his podcast New Heights, Travis Kelce revealed that he recently learned the real title fo
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