What was a fact taught to you in school that has been proven false during your lifetime?
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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.
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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.
Thank you for your continued support of the Oxford comma.
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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.
I've been working on my hand writing, and these kids can't read cursive. I worked real hard and my young coworkers were like bart.Bart. I developed my own short hand during college. My notes might as well be encrypted. I can't be old! I'm still with it!
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Not only in School, even at university I was taught the DNA structure was solved by Watson und Crick. But they stole data from Rosalind franklin and even openly admitted it years later.
Along with Franklin, I believe a grad student, Raymond Gosling. I feel I'm forgetting about another big contributor, but who knows.
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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.
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I've been working on my hand writing, and these kids can't read cursive. I worked real hard and my young coworkers were like bart.Bart. I developed my own short hand during college. My notes might as well be encrypted. I can't be old! I'm still with it!
My handwriting turned around after I got a fountain pen. I went from doctor to pre-med handwriting. Having to think more about how to form the letters has me taking my time. No need to rush when I'm writing with a fancy pen full of cool ink.
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Taste buds are arranged by flavor in four sections of the tongue. Complete load of horseshit.
Is it so bad to know your multiplication tables? It’s lowk a quality of life thing yknow. imo it’s just a good thing to know so you aren’t entirely reliant on the calculator for an answer.
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PLUTO IS A PLANET!
Ok Jerry.
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Taste buds are arranged by flavor in four sections of the tongue. Complete load of horseshit.
I need to use multiplication at work every single day, it's extremely handy to remember them.
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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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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.
Various parts that don’t directly make proteins will regulate their production or carry out other vital tasks. Those systems take s lot of space, and all of it was considered junk DNA when it wasn’t understood. Biochemistry has taken huge leaps within the last 50 years, so many notions have been either updated or discarded.
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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.
I don’t think that would surprise anyone. The GOP has been a giant grift since at least Reagan. A loooot of people out there can’t tell when they’re getting scammed.
It’s one reason why educated voters tend to be further left on the political spectrum.
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That America is the best and most free country in the world.
And eagles and burguers
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Unless you are by far the oldest person on Earth, these were disproven far before you were born
Fair, but this is/was still commonly taught in schools. That's what the original question was.
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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.
Eh, Pluto isn't really something proven false, just that we found more objects like Pluto that made more sense in their own category. It's classification, like there weren't always separate categories for feature films and short films, there wasn't a separate category for dwarf planets when it was just Pluto.
Oxford comma is useful. I think what's getting popular is just complete disregard for spelling and grammar.
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Sure. You're very funny.
They exist. There's one in my town.
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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.
I suppose phrasing wins there. I meant u was educated in the 90s that it currently was a territory.
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6 x 6 mothefuckers. Y'all tell me that didn't immediately form "36" in your brain.
Nope, went through "(6 × 5) + 6". Slightly slower, but much more flexible since you can do that with any (base 10 representation of a) number that has a reasonable number of digits.
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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.
The same was told to me even as everybody already had mobile phones with calculators in them or even iPhones
