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

True. The rest of the world’s garbagemen/sanitation workers lead much more dangerous lives

Maybe the shooting part, but money wise garbage men get quite a good pay in Germany too, as far as I know. You even need a better education than what is considered the lowest here.

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thanks so much for that. It really helps things. We had no idea until you dropped that wonderfully ignorant comment.

I believe that happened twice. 😂

Yea, and the Emu's won!!!

And the rabbits

And a zillion rabbits?

...and we lost -_-

Oversimplified :D

Ufffff nasty birds

and lost!

Yes but we don't talk about that strawberry pizza

Brop Bears..? Toats also?

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Ah yes. Definitely an officially declared war. And not because farmers went to the department of defense for help, instead of the agricultural one.

well not to nitpick but Dexter was pretty sinister

and gauche meaning lacking ease or grace; unsophisticated and socially awkward comes from the French for left and adroit for clever or skillful in using the hands or mind comes from the french for right, proper

I was taught that they believed left handed people were evil in the past because people used to wipe their a$$ with their left hand. There was no toilet paper so left hands were dirty, hence evil or sinister. Have no idea if that professor was right.

Fwiw eye prescriptions say OD for right eye and OS for left eye. It is O-something Dexter and sinister. This will help you with contact prescriptions in particular.

Yes. Someone who is ambidextrous etymologically has two right hands. And "two left feet" means clumsy. However, scouts shake with their left hand; this is seen as a gesture of unequivocal trust, the logic being that shields are held in the left and swords in the right; thus, to shake with the left hand one has to put down one's shield while leaving the other person armed.

Latin word for right is dexter.

Huh…. That‘s a good point. With their logic, women would bleed out, wouldn‘t they? I would LOVE to ask them how that works in their opinion!

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Me neither.

Nope

Me too, except a couple of stains on a tissue

I only remember one I think and not pretty sure.thars curious never thought about it before . O_O

And also don't realise that just because you arn't good with [subject] then you can do something else. Or just bad teacher... 🤷‍♂️ /s Had a bad teacher in statistics, failed. And then a good one almost the highest grade, but made an careless error on the exam :P

I always hated this as a mindset. I used to to long-term subbing for science teachers, and i usually ended up with the lower ability sets. They were usually pretty discouraged by the point I met them, so I always made a point of saying I didn't expect them to be getting As, especially not right off the bat, but that there were going to be things they were good at that I wasn't. This conversation usually (but not always) happened AFTER I'd had to draw a diagram on the board, so they were well aware of my "skill" in that area. I poked fun at myself immediately - primarily because it disarms anyone who might want to mock, but also because a lot of the kids were good artists, and I wanted to lampshade the fact that people have different skills.

Nothing wrong with humanities. We need art and humanities to balance science and math.

I am a math major. I envy people in the arts ( draw , paint, sculpt ).

I never got that. I'm a chemist and I think science and the humanities can be very compatible.

What if you're into both?

Reggie Jackson's 3-homer World Series game happened when I was ten. If somebody had tried to tell me I had to be right handed, I would have said "tell Reggie that"

When I have my period, the flush water in the toilet is a deep red colour for a few days. (Toilet paper etc. too, of course) I therefore assume that it is much more than that. (For a more scientific approach, I would probably have to weigh my pads before and after, but I don't want to do that, even if it would be interesting)

It's definitely way more for me.

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