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What was a fact taught to you in school that has been proven false during your lifetime?

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  • darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comD [email protected]

    Please, it's only necessary to think about it seriously for a single moment to realize that a school where children are taught "that the earth is 6000 years old" obviously doesn't exist.

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    Shouldn't exist. That's different.

    Their belief system is based on an a being that can't be sense that banished people to infinite torment for following instincts that he designed them with, then sent part of himself to be tortured and killed as a sacrifice to make up for a curse he put on them, but only if you it was necessary. A ridiculous age of the earth is hardly the craziest thing schools like this teach.

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      It was false then but my seventh and eighth grade science teacher told us that blood was blue. My mom was a nurse so I knew that it was bullshit but was definitely confused because he was my science teacher.

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        That blood is actually blue until it gets in contact with air

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        I remember my science teacher in seventh grade singing this and just being very confused because my mother who was a nurse said it was just a dark red.

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          That fluoride and vaccines are bad for you… tbh, I only believed it for 2-3 weeks until I did my own research, but it was a frightening clarification. Didn’t believe that teacher a single word after that.

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            That fluoride and vaccines are bad for you… tbh, I only believed it for 2-3 weeks until I did my own research, but it was a frightening clarification. Didn’t believe that teacher a single word after that.

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            I think people underestimate the problems with teeth hygiene. It can cause dimensia, so teeth should be brushed before you eat, though avoid mouth wash.

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              I think people underestimate the problems with teeth hygiene. It can cause dimensia, so teeth should be brushed before you eat, though avoid mouth wash.

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              And don’t forget to floss! As soon as I learned that my gums don‘t bleed because of the metal thing, but because food between my teeth decays and that decaying decays my gums, turning it all into poop, I started to floss every second day.

              Why should I avoid mouth wash though? My routine is floss - mouth wash - brushing

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                We congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs.

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                I'm addicted to dopamine, and I'll take any drug I can to get more of it.

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                  The moon was spun out of the same stuff as the earth. That was fact in the early years of my education. A few years later there were multiple theories: co development, captured a wandering planetoid, the Thea impact, and a fourth one I can’t remember but I think it was something dumb like planetary mitosis. By the time I graduated the Thea impact was considered the only viable theory.

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                    Trickle down economics are an effective way to redistribute wealth

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                    Did we conclude that, I thought its still heavily debated.

                    Some argue in the 50s and 60s the US was spending Europe's gold to build highways and infrastructure, gifting Americans the wealth with a continuation of the new deal, they then defaulted in 1971 as inflation eroded foreign debt owed.

                    They had much of Europe's gold due to WWII.

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                      And don’t forget to floss! As soon as I learned that my gums don‘t bleed because of the metal thing, but because food between my teeth decays and that decaying decays my gums, turning it all into poop, I started to floss every second day.

                      Why should I avoid mouth wash though? My routine is floss - mouth wash - brushing

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                      Just the cancer causing it does. I'd read a study on it one time, I believe it's accurate.

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                        I think people underestimate the problems with teeth hygiene. It can cause dimensia, so teeth should be brushed before you eat, though avoid mouth wash.

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                        > It can cause dimensia

                        I'm sorry, what the fuck? And what is "dimensia"? Does it have anything to do with spacetime dimensions?

                        @Nikls94

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                          can i have a job at your place

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                          No but look into datacenter night shift work. Where i am nobody wants that shift. Working in a datacenter is pretty fun

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                            No but look into datacenter night shift work. Where i am nobody wants that shift. Working in a datacenter is pretty fun

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                            interesting. what sort of resumes are you looking for in a data center? security clearances? i have a devops resume, AWS, Linux etc.

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                              That adults are mature and know what they are doing.

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                              ✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

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                              • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.worksC [email protected]

                                I was taught that Jupiter had 17 moons, Saturn has 12 and Pluto has 1. Many more have been discovered since.

                                Then there's the whole "different areas on your tongue taste different flavors." Like you only taste sweet with the tip of your tongue, the middle tastes salty, etc. I remember being given various substances by my fifth grade teacher like sugar, coffee, lemon juice, table salt etc. and we tried putting them on different areas of our tongues and we were like "...no, we taste everything everywhere."

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                                I was always so confused by the tongue areas because it never seemed to work for me. Especially sweet, I tasted sweet far more at the back than on my tip.

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                                  interesting. what sort of resumes are you looking for in a data center? security clearances? i have a devops resume, AWS, Linux etc.

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                                  Pretty much that but also ability to use tools and basic knowledge of air conditioning etc

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                                    That fluoride and vaccines are bad for you… tbh, I only believed it for 2-3 weeks until I did my own research, but it was a frightening clarification. Didn’t believe that teacher a single word after that.

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                                    Fluoride can be bad for you, just at much higher doses than they put in water supply. It can cause issues with bones and neurological development. Again, only in very high doses over a long time. It happens a lot in poorer countries where they can't treat well water.

                                    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletal_fluorosis

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                                      Epigenetics in general really messed with what a lot of people learned in school

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                                      TIL new word. Fascinating. Thanks!

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                                      • drq@mastodon.mlD [email protected]

                                        @turnip

                                        > It can cause dimensia

                                        I'm sorry, what the fuck? And what is "dimensia"? Does it have anything to do with spacetime dimensions?

                                        @Nikls94

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                                        Yeah, you start seeing the full multiverse. It's crazy.

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                                          I had a substitute teacher who saw the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth ads against John Kerry and repeated it to the class like it was 100% fact.

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