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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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  • N [email protected]

    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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      @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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        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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                          That glass is actually a very thick liquid. It's actually much weirder than that. https://gizmodo.com/the-glass-is-a-liquid-myth-has-finally-been-destroyed-496190894

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                          I tried to argue this with a science teacher who chose that specific material for a question about phases, and I assumed she was asking for this tricky reason. She marked me wrong and wouldn't accept my personal research on the topic as makeup. I was humiliated. I hope she's dead now.

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                            Some children are taught in school that God created the earth. Some of us were allowed to learn that humans cannot effect climate change, allowed to discuss it openly, and allowed to graduate with that idea without ever being corrected. Children are being taught today that slavery and colonialism were good things for some people.

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                              Racism used to be a problem until Lincoln and MLK fixed it.

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                                There's essentially no difference between reps and dems tbh

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                                "Essentially no different" is overselling it. "A lot less difference than there should be" is better.

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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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                                  Mouthwash cancer?

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

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                                    how do I find a data center role in particular? normally i am searching "Linux" to get devops roles.

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                                      I was taught that Pluto is a planet. How could they have been so wrong???

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                                      • cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.worldC [email protected]

                                        Were you guys eating coffee grounds in your 5th grade science class? Your next teacher either hated it because you guys were bouncing off the walls or loved it because you were all wide awake and paying attention.

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                                        A tiny amount on like a q-tip. Not enough to effect anything except flavor

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                                        • lukecooperatus@lemmy.mlL [email protected]

                                          Basically everything I can recall being told in D.A.R.E program classes (war on drugs era propaganda taught in public schools in the USA) was utter nonsense and fabricated bullshit. After actually having personal experience with most of the substances they vilified, none of the effects - good or ill - are what I was taught in that ridiculous program.

                                          On the contrary, some of the fear tactics they used made me curious to investigate on my own. The breathlessly scared rural teacher describing the mind bending effects that "magic mushrooms" was supposed to have sounded fascinating to teenage me. In reality, they are very fun and therapeutic to use, but nothing like the wild Alice in Wonderland mind journey they made it sound like it would be.

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                                          The only hallucinogen that lives up to D.A.R.E hype is DMT. Things like mushrooms and LSD will give funny visuals and help you think in a different perspective, but you're still "you" and still on Earth.

                                          DMT though? You can straight up leave this reality and lose yourself if you take enough. You can see things and creatures that couldn't possibly exist. You can meet God, and live entire lifetimes before crashing back into reality 15-20 minutes later.

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