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A huge number of aspects of the US's geopolitical enemies, and its own mythologization of the Founding Fathers and early settlers.
There was also a really bad political test with liberalism on the left and conservativism on the right, and we had to take a test and put what we got in front of everyone, which was very strange.
That blood is actually blue until it gets in contact with air
Easy to proof: Vaccumated capsule to draw blood.
No contact with air and still red.
Supersize me was fake and tonsils are not a useless byproduct of evolution.
I would say "cursive is how adults write, you'll need to know it", but that wasn't true then either.
Cursive is such a bad way to write. I used to have to decipher sloppy cursive notes on how to check airplane fixtures. I even learned it in school!
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was seen as just one of several possible theories, rather than accepted fact.
Haven't seen anybody post this but how gender and sexuality is, schools are so fucking about straight mom and dad only relationship and nothing else. Man and wife bullshit when there's infinite amounts of gender and sexuality and diversity out there. Fuck I hate Amerikkka
I am from germany. Sex ed is not just manditory but also part of normal lessons all two years. The body, genetics, sex itself and how a baby is made and how protection and STDs work and which are there next to condom and pill
Funnily enought i wasnt present the whole male sex ed part so idk if they talked about queernes. Being in a psychiatric hospital they only had german, math, english, classes so litterly only the essentials
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.
"You need to learn this because you won't always have a calculator on you!"
That wasnβt so much a βfactβ told in school as it was a prediction, and it was true for them. Some people carried pocket calculators, but most people didnβt. Some supermarkets has calculators built into their carts, but most didnβt.
Failing to predict societyβs norms in 20 years isnβt the same as teaching a false fact.
Some supermarkets has calculators built into their carts
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Yep, back in the 90s they were in some places. My local supermarket had one like this, except without the annoying ad on the left side.
Tiny photocell powered calculators used to be everywhere. There were βthinβ ones to fit in your Costanza sized wallet, Mousepads with them built in, and my wristwatch in 6th grade had one with tiny rubber keys.
It was a magical time till be alive. 5318008
Basic mathematical literacy is a prerequisite to being able to use a calculator.
I feel have super power by being to calculate accurate tips without needing to crack out my phone.
In my college Econ 101 class I was taught that "economic liberalism" would lead to political liberalism. I knew that was a myth back then, but my professors insisted. Twenty years later we've got economic nationalism and political fascism taking over everywhere.
My sysadmin professor told me to not learn about tape backups because they are going away soon
Like 3 years later ransomware was invented
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.
Trickle down economics (well, it's not like there was a time when it was true)
-Coequal branches of government
-Separation of Church and State
-Life terms for SCOTUS ensures political impartiality
-The second amendment was so that we could defend ourselves (see: redcoats)
-Bohr system
"Those bullies will be working at a gas station while you'll be the boss!"
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 hasnβt ever stopped since).
I love how much DNA analysis has completely upended so much βknownβ archaeology and anthropology from even just a couple decades ago.
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
The multiplication table is still fact even if you have a calculator.
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.
Oxford comma for life!
I was taught to use the Oxford comma by my parents, Ayn Rand and God. I had a strange upbringing.
Itβs useful, helps with the flow of the ideas, and is more like the sentence is spoken.
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.
Thank you for your continued support of the Oxford comma.
I learned that itβs not ok to be intelligent but completely incapable of remembering to do things or remembering the things that the teachers thought it was important for me to remember.
Study and work hard will make you successful.
Broadly speaking, failing to put in effort does tend to lead to worse outcomes.
...Unless your parents have the last name "Musk" or "Trump".
The appendix is a vestigial organ that doesn't actually do anything in humans. (It might still fit the definition of vestigial, but it's far from useless and we keep learning more about how valuable gut health is.)
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.
