What was a fact taught to you in school that has been proven false during your lifetime?
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My favourite one was that the earth is 6000 years old
Where did you go to school? Everybody knows its 2025 years old.
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We don't know what the appendix does, the whole pluto thing, I think the Oxford comma is going out of style, and cursive in general.
But I love cursive, mine was "very nice" according to my teachers.
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The question was about things taught at school.
It's called a Christian school, i wouldn't recommend it
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"This is the best time of your life, it will never be as easy."
I wasted more time at school than at work and I didn't have Fridays off, so that was a lie. -
The appendix is a vestigial organ that doesn't actually do anything in humans. (It might still fit the definition of vestigial, but it's far from useless and we keep learning more about how valuable gut health is.)
My appendix came damn close to killing me. I vote “not valuable”.
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That I was a republican. The teacher gave out this political alignment quiz that was incredibly biased asking things like "do you like lower taxes or higher taxes?" and "do you like more freedom or less freedom?" All the questions basically lead you to the same answers. So the entire class basically had the same result.
This was in middle school so I wasn't even politically engaged yet. I didn't realize how crazy this was until years later.
Seems like the teacher was ahead of their time.
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I was taught the Philippines was a US territory. I just learned last night that hasn’t been true since 1946. I went to school in the 90s.
Philippines was a US territory
that hasn’t been true since 1946.
I mean... It was a US territory. Well, at least it was under control of the US in some way. I think one of/the first cruel and unusual constitutional challenges was over something that originated in the Philippines.
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The multiplication table is still fact even if you have a calculator.
6 x 6 mothefuckers. Y'all tell me that didn't immediately form "36" in your brain.
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We don't know what the appendix does, the whole pluto thing, I think the Oxford comma is going out of style, and cursive in general.
But I love cursive, mine was "very nice" according to my teachers.
Oh I didnt think of the Pluto thing! Thats a good one
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We don't know what the appendix does, the whole pluto thing, I think the Oxford comma is going out of style, and cursive in general.
But I love cursive, mine was "very nice" according to my teachers.
Oxford comma for life!
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-Coequal branches of government
-Separation of Church and State
-Life terms for SCOTUS ensures political impartiality
-The second amendment was so that we could defend ourselves (see: redcoats)
-Bohr system -
-Coequal branches of government
-Separation of Church and State
-Life terms for SCOTUS ensures political impartiality
-The second amendment was so that we could defend ourselves (see: redcoats)
-Bohr systemUnless you are by far the oldest person on Earth, these were disproven far before you were born
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That CO2 makes up 0.03% of the atmosphere.
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Study and work hard will make you successful.
Depends on your definition of successful
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That I was a republican. The teacher gave out this political alignment quiz that was incredibly biased asking things like "do you like lower taxes or higher taxes?" and "do you like more freedom or less freedom?" All the questions basically lead you to the same answers. So the entire class basically had the same result.
This was in middle school so I wasn't even politically engaged yet. I didn't realize how crazy this was until years later.
Ironically, I have read that there was a study that found that the most gullible kids in elementary school grow up to be republican. I'm not kidding.
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My favourite one was that the earth is 6000 years old
I am a Christian and I don't believe that. I could go on at length about how the Bible doesn't support that idea.
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Pluto is a great test for what types of person someone is.
If someone says Pluto is still a planet. They have a personality where they are immovable and can't accept scientific change.
If they do say pluto is a new kind of dwarf planet they arw more accepting of new information and belive in the scientific method.
It's a great quick test when meeting news people.
I recently heard that they discovered hundreds of Pluto sizes "planets" beyond Pluto, so they had to decided do we add 100 more planets or just demote Pluto to planetoid and ignore the rest
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Did they finally find that out? Last time I checked even PhDs in aerospace engineering still added "we think" at the end of their explanations.
The wing experiment with hundreds of pressure sensors shows lower pressure on top and more on bottom.
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Gravity Waves didn't exist according to my highschool science teacher
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It's called a Christian school, i wouldn't recommend it
Sure. You're very funny.
