What was a fact taught to you in school that has been proven false during your lifetime?
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- that Pluto is a planet
PLUTO IS A PLANET!
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Eh, it's more like our definition of what a planet is changed. I still think of Pluto as a planet.
It's a planette
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That humans came out of Africa once and then settled the rest of the world. In reality there was a constant migration of humans in and out of Africa for millennia while the rest of the world was being populated (and of course it hasn’t ever stopped since).
I love how much DNA analysis has completely upended so much “known” archaeology and anthropology from even just a couple decades ago.
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PLUTO IS A PLANET!
I thought it was Mickey Mouse's dog
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Junk DNA.
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I was taught that the moon landing was fake.
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How planes generate lift.
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I thought it was Mickey Mouse's dog
!IT'S BOTH
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- that Pluto is a planet
This was my first thought as well!
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Taste buds are arranged by flavor in four sections of the tongue. Complete load of horseshit.
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How planes generate lift.
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.
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Study and work hard will make you successful.
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That humans came out of Africa once and then settled the rest of the world. In reality there was a constant migration of humans in and out of Africa for millennia while the rest of the world was being populated (and of course it hasn’t ever stopped since).
I love how much DNA analysis has completely upended so much “known” archaeology and anthropology from even just a couple decades ago.
Whats about DNA??
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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.
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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.
NASA has a webpage on aeronautics that says lift is the mechanical force created by a solid object turning a flow of liquid or gas. They also have an equation for calculating lift for any solid object/fluid combo.
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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.
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Going to college was guaranteed success in life.
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That America is the best and most free country in the world.
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"You need to learn this because you won't always have a calculator on you!"
That wasn’t so much a “fact” told in school as it was a prediction, and it was true for them. Some people carried pocket calculators, but most people didn’t. Some supermarkets has calculators built into their carts, but most didn’t.
Failing to predict society’s norms in 20 years isn’t the same as teaching a false fact.
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Junk DNA.
Junk DNA is still a thing - some parts of thr genome are verifiably junk, and the rest is just "unkown". It's just that some of the "unknown" bits back in the day have now been found to actually be useful. At least this is my understanding as a non expert.
