What was a fact taught to you in school that has been proven false during your lifetime?
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I was taught that the moon landing was fake.
Jesus Christ, how? Why? I'm so sorry
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Allergies are entirely genetic. Apparently they ain't or so I hear but it's a bit above my paygrade biology wise
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Sure. You're very funny.
I was also taught this in school, along with many very unscientific things. When they eventually taught us about evolution (they had to because of national curriculum) they couldn't stop stressing how it was "just an outdated theory" and showed us additional videos which "disproved" it
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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.
So presumably NASA is anti-science ?
Because they have redetermined that Pluto is a planet.
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Stomach ulcers are caused by stress. Nope.
Alcoholism runs in families. Nope.
Heart disease runs in families. Nope.
Dont know about the first two, but heart disease do. heart stroke happened to my mother and both her parents, her dad died from it. My fathers dad died of brain store and doctors say he heart is also weaken(mostly from smoking 30+ years)
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There are 10 Commandments.
No - there's 14.
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That blood is actually blue until it gets in contact with air
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Haven't seen anybody post this but how gender and sexuality is, schools are so fucking about straight mom and dad only relationship and nothing else. Man and wife bullshit when there's infinite amounts of gender and sexuality and diversity out there. Fuck I hate Amerikkka
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I would say "cursive is how adults write, you'll need to know it", but that wasn't true then either.
"You need a pen licence because that's what you use at work".
Um no. Secretaries, lawyers and journalists used typewriters and engineers used propelling pencils. Builders had these odd rectangular shaped pencils that could write on anything. Fitters and boilermakers used chalk.
Only schoolchildren used biros.
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What? How is multiplying by 5 more convenient than any other number?
When dealing with base 10 representations, multiplying by 10 is a simple matter of adding zeroes;
dividing numbers that end with a zero is (usually) an afterthought;
doing both operations in that sequence is the same thing is (usually) equally trivial, the only effortful thing I have to do is adding or subtracting a multiplicand, once or twice or thrice.It's not easier than having the result imprinted in my memory, but it cuts away ~ three quarters of the table.
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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.
the quiz:
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Eris? Didn't Sephiroth kill her?
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6 x 6 mothefuckers. Y'all tell me that didn't immediately form "36" in your brain.
I was thinking of a bed for some reason
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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.
That's funny. I had a teacher do something like this but in the other direction. All the questions had answers that pretty much forced you right into the blue. Shit like "do you think homeless people should be given assistance or should homeless people be shot and dumped into the sea?" Or "I think everyone deserves to find love vs gay people are the spawn of Satan".
It is worth noting that I went to a very left leaning and notoriously "hippy" private school (against my will). I eventually managed to get expelled for smoking weed and not snitching on all my friends.
I don't think teachers really should be pushing their political or religious agendas no matter what. School is for learning core basics in various categories.
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Haven't seen anybody post this but how gender and sexuality is, schools are so fucking about straight mom and dad only relationship and nothing else. Man and wife bullshit when there's infinite amounts of gender and sexuality and diversity out there. Fuck I hate Amerikkka
can you be more specific
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My sysadmin professor told me to not learn about tape backups because they are going away soon
Like 3 years later ransomware was invented
holy crap a sysadmin class? that is wild, son. i must be an old man
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I would say "cursive is how adults write, you'll need to know it", but that wasn't true then either.
cursive sucks ass. im not reading that garbage
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holy crap a sysadmin class? that is wild, son. i must be an old man
I went to a trades school which offered IT computer systems as a 2 year diploma. Fast track to a job back in the early 2010s. That path would never get you into IT today lol
The specific class I mentioned was windows system administration
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"Those bullies will be working at a gas station whole you'll be the boss!"
haha. yea...
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There is no such thing called umami.
