Probably because both involve bubbles. And bubbles are fun! But the end goal is different. Boiling is for safety (kill bad bugs). Distillation is for purity (remove everything else).
Think of boiling as a rough cleaning—like shaking a dusty rug. Distillation is like putting that rug through a high-tech washing machine, then a dryer, then a museum-grade vacuum.
Fun detail: in a distillery, the leftover water (the stuff you don’t drink) is called “stillage.” It’s thick with minerals. You can actually taste the difference. Boiled water? Tastes flat. Distilled? Tastes like nothing—literally.
