Going to college was guaranteed success in life.
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I was taught the Philippines was a US territory. I just learned last night that hasnโt been true since 1946. I went to school in the 90s.
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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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Taste buds are arranged by flavor in four sections of the tongue. Complete load of horseshit.
Multiplication tables (I still know them mostly). I have a calculator on damn near every device now.
Things will always get better <-- this one is the biggest lie of them all
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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.
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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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 hasnโt ever stopped since).
I love how much DNA analysis has completely upended so much โknownโ archaeology and anthropology from even just a couple decades ago.
- that Pluto is a planet
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
"You need to learn this because you won't always have a calculator on you!"
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Trickle down economics (well, it's not like there was a time when it was true)
That tastes have specific regions on the tongue. We actually had to protest when that shit was taught at our son's elementary school. Don't know if it came up for our younger daughter.
Poor kids at school had old atlases where Germany was still separated. But I guess that's just obsolete and not false knowledge.
Yeah, I remember that one. We even did an experiment to "prove" it. I was like, "I kinda taste it everywhere". I don't remember what the punishment for that one was exactly, but it was pretty severe, and I didn't do anything wrong.
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