30 ‘Facts’ People Learned In School That Have Been Disproven In Their Lifetime

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Didn't they fight the emus as well? Lol

Prejudice towards left-handed people has even shaped language. The word "sinister" (as a synonym of creepy/ominous) originates from the Latin word for "left hand", whereas "dextrous"/"dexterity" similarly comes from the Latin word for "right hand".

This teacher probably also thinks girls can hold in their periods.

People who are into the sciences and maths tend to think those are the only worthy professions and the humanities are a joke. I'm not surprised this teacher said s**t like that.

The average amount is around 50ml, which is 3-4 tablespoons, but it varies a lot between one person's different periods and between individuals.

yeah he kinda sucked

A system to prevent the abuse of power has never existed. It is sort of like someone saying, "Make it idiot proof." Can't be done, there is always an idiot that will find a way to mess something up no matter what you do to prevent it. And there will always be people that find a way to abuse power that they have been given.

Nope. You can have excellent grades, but if your social skill-set leaves something to be desired, you won't easily land a highly paid job.

I wish it did. Someone was bullying my friend and threatening to kill people so I reported them and they got suspended and it won't even affect them when they're an adult

While this is true, it is not a valid excuse for being unable to do basic math, just like always having access to autocorrect is not an excuse for being sloppy about your spelling.

i took one look at myers briggs and i thought, "hey isnt that just zodiac signs but more complicated?" lolol

There's an element of truth to this. Sadly the current opioid crisis in the US has lead people to believe that addiction is inevitable, but that's not true either. I used morphine for several months following a major trauma, but slowly reduced the dosage as the pain levels diminished. Not because I was worried about addiction, but because as the pain reduced the feelings it brought of simply not giving a shot about anything are not something I was comfortable with. I knew deep down that I really _should_ give a shot. Some people apparently like this feeling, others like me absolutely do not.

I was addicted to Tramadol (Ultram in America?) for 6 months after shoulder surgery but I managed to wean off it. That was not a fun experience - I didn't sleep properly for a month due to restless leg syndrome

It sucks because opioids are the only help for certain kinds of pain but also that for sone people they are instantly addictive. Seems like we need to treat people like individuals 🤷🏻‍♀️

I can take them for 2 days after surgery and then I become sweaty and vomit. But I do need pain relief those few days after surgery. My last surgery I was told to take advil and tylenol. I was in agony for a week. People that don't need them that take them knowing they can get addicted are not very smart.

My body is probably definitely addicted but you know what? At least they make me feel somewhat like my age (25). At least I can have good nights sleep. Mostly pain free ones too. At least it works with my mood stabiliser med ridiculously well. And at least the side effects are easy to deal with. ...Autoimmune disorders are no jokes. Edit: It's prescribed at a low dose, my doctor knows what he's doing.

As a person diagnosed with a debilitating, degenerative and chronic medical condition, I miss darvon because it helped more than anything else has. As a child of an addict to multiple substances, I can understand the need to protect against addiction. I don't understand not letting me have darvon in n fear of addiction while letting me have tramadol in larger amounts than I am willing to take each day. Plus there is so little supervision on muscle relaxers. I could probably refill my 90 day script every 30 days and they wouldn't care. So they only care about opioid addiction, not any other addiction? Why?

Turn of which century?

The turn of which century?

many many people in this thread don't understand the difference between addiction and dependency. you can 100% be dependent on opiates without being addicted.

Now, those of us in chronic pain are seen as drug seekers, and the more we insist the pain is genuine, the more of a "risk" we are perceived to be. It's very frustrating.

I'm so thankful I never got addicted. When I was hospitalized for months with diverticulitis I was regularly taking morphine, oxytocin, and occasionally fantasy throughout thst time ajs after recovery from major abdominal surgery. I was given contact info for rehab and told i should be making arrangements in advance... somehow, as much as I have an addictive personality and a family history of addiction, I got off them with essential no real struggle

Profits Before People...big pharma, hospitals, doctors - money is more important...

Total c**p

Yeah, and guess what replaced it in most foods? *Yep, sugar* (which is "fat free").

Made from then teeth of dead soldiers, probably - as was the usual method for high quality toothwork at the time.

I've covered this on here before. While that may be the outward explanation given....we still, to this day do not understand HOW anesthesia functions. We just know that it does, and the line between "working properly" and "no longer breathing" is very, very fine even in ideal circumstances. An infant, is about as far removed from ideal as you can get, and an infant that REQUIRES surgery is even further removed. At the time, the risk of using anesthesia on an infant, was greater than performing surgery without....but the average person, let alone parent probably isn't going to accept this. Nor would they accept the more blunt rational of "it doesn't matter if they feel it, because they are never, ever going to remember it" Medicine is about risk assessment. All of it comes with risk, always, you could be the 1 in 1,000,000 allergic to that popular OTC med....doctors have the job of finding the LEAST RISKY course of action.

In America, at least, the federal prison system is so broken that it does more harm than good.

TBF the push to eat more carrots was real; with most foods rationed they were in plentiful supply and were pushed almost as a sugar substitute. The 'good for the eyes thing was not pure invention, but was picked up and exaggerated by the RAF to possibly help hide the fact that some British planes were starting to be equipped with radar. Carrot cake anyone?

If Columbus had truly believed that, he would have never sailed west.

This is a misconception, but not entirely inaccurate. The true statement is that we typically only use 10% of out brain at a time, but the parts of our brain used changes depending on what we are doing. Essentially, we use all of our brain, just not all of it at the same time.

Not only was the Titanic found, but it also serves as bait for rich fools.

But wouldn't stress weaken your immune system, making it easier for harmful bacteria to grow in your body?

I was told that if I ate apple seeds an apple tree would grow in my stomach.

Planethood for Pluto now!

Everyone knows that blood is blue just look at your veins. LOL. A variation of this I have heard is it is red going away from the heart because it is oxygen rich, and blue when returning to the heart because the oxygen has been used up. Nonsense of course, it just looks blue because of the colors that the skin blocks letting only blue to reflect back to our eyes.

That’s just how science works. They find a theory and then they learn more and realise that their theory was wrong. No doubt it’ll happen again in future.

Taking into account that paper bags were previously used, which were practically single-use bags and that to make them it was necessary to cut down trees, it can be said that it served for a time to save the environment as an intermediate step to other types of bag materials.

IIRC, there's a certain gene that can cause baldness, only on the X chromosome. But it's not the sole reason that can cause someone to go bald.

We will eventually run out of oil, though, as it cannot renew itself once depleted.

Well, if global warming melts the arctic ice and the gulf stream is diverted, it is quite possible that northern Europe will experience this cooling.

You mean Toblerone?

But no common sense

The statement is absolutely correct. There is nothing worse than having a meeting with a client or your CEO and being asked a question and having to answer that you have to look it up because you have not prepared for the meeting.

The thing about weed is that it is generally safer than "regular" cigarettes in the short term... however, it can (and does) have some pretty nasty effects in the long run (we're talking about regular usage, of course). So the notion of weed being "perfectly safe" is a lie as well.