Your teacher, mom, and virtually any adult with a thoughtful mind would never approve of Twitter as a learning tool. And how would they with this whole infinite source of the not-very-serious side of the internet where memes, jokes, and burns are roaming free?
But people are proving them wrong by sharing incredible facts brought to them by Twitter that should have been put in the textbooks. From realizing the symbol “&” is a ligature for the word "et" to finding out that an 18-inch pizza has more of a good thing than two 12-inch pizzas, these are some of the facts that could have been part of my wisdom bank this whole time.
So scroll down, upvote your faves, and after you’re done with this post, check out our previous list of 30 random facts that will make you feel "today years old."
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And still today, Natives are being harassed by police for protesting there peacefully. Nothing much has changed..
Look, I am not saying we should believe all that Twitter has to offer. But it turns out, the things we were taught at school are not so innocent either. Some facts we still believe to this day are complete myths, and they had better be laid out bare before you become "today years old" to realize they aren’t true.
You probably would place a pretty high bid on the fact that Columbus discovered America. You’re not the only one. A 2005 survey showed that 85% of Americans believed Columbus discovered the continents and only 2% correctly answered that he couldn’t have discovered America because it was already inhabited by Native Americans.
The London Underground maintain several stations that trains never use. They are reserved for TV and movie locations so as not to close down functioning stations
Another fact which turns out to be a myth is the tongue map idea, which suggests that different parts of our tongues identify different kinds of tastes. However, the University of Florida Center for Smell and Taste stated that “the locations of those taste buds aren't in accordance with the 'tongue map.'” And even if taste buds are indeed receptive to certain types of tastes, the difference in reality is tiny.
You've probably heard how Einstein failed math in school and was not an A student in general. It turns out, the only exam he failed was an entrance test to the Zurich Polytechnic he had to take in French, which he didn’t speak well at the time.
Let's just ignore the human rights abuses suffered by the Nepali minority group...
A small group of wooly mammoth existed on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until about 2000 B.C.
She’s also small and behind a ton of protection. She’s beyond amazing.
Read a funny story about him. He used to pay meals with checks. People didn't cash them cause Dali's signature was more worthy than the pay, so he got many free meals doing so. Not sure if its true, but like this story.
Did you know you can get free extra pizza slices if you cut your pizza into 8 pieces instead of 6? ;)
Googol Plex (it's a number) is so large that if u wrote each of its zeros on separate atoms in the universe, there won't be enough space to finish writing all the zeros.
My identical twin cousin just told me that, although wearing exactly the same clothes and has quite similar voice, their toddlers can still tell them apart.
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You know I was taught a bunch of stuff in school, but I kinda wish that I was taught life skills; how to deal with loss, a broken heart, finances, rudimentary DIY, etc. You know everything that actually happens to you after you leave school.
We have some schools now that do (Netherlands) including growing food, but yeah, those are important survival skills
Cute - but I don't think anyone can teach you how to fix a broken heart. (: I learned the rest in school though. I didn't necessarily RETAIN it but that's not the teacher's fault.
The study of psychology can help you deal with it. That's how I overcame a lot of problems that hurt my feelings. I'd go research about the feeling I feel and why and really now it's much easier to deal with anything. People sometimes think I'm a bit "cold", though... ^^"
I don't know when you graduated from high school, Steve Barnett, but nowadays schools do a little bit of everything. And I don't know where you are from, but here in the USA where I live, each state's legislature decides what the schools teach instead of the people who actually know about education and learning. If you live in the USA, then instead of griping about what you didn't learn, try to get involved so that you can be somebody who decides what gets taught, thus saving others from your sad fate. I'm sorry for being nasty, it's just that I'm tired of schools getting blamed for what lacks in their curriculum because people just don't understand the school doesn't get to decide what is taught. It sucks.
Hi Cathy, no, you're not being nasty. I left school (UK) a long time ago, 35 years odd. Things might have changed here, I don't know. Thank you for your comment.
FINALLY. Thank you Cathy Jo Baker.
That's the parents' job.
I can't possibly fathom how parents expect the school to teach their children healthy coping mechanisms. Looks like it goes out if fashion with the decline of multigenerational families.
I wish I had a thousand likes to give this. I especially love the plural usage of parent...as in it takes both parents to teach life skills. We shouldn’t rely on the government to supply this knowledge but actually take responsibility for teaching our own offspring.
You know, I'm a mom now and my daughter is learning a lot more life skills than I ever did in school. She is being taught to understand mathematical concepts, not just memorize them. She is discussing real-life issues like racism through books. She's learning what it means to be a part of a community. She's only 7. I think there's still way more skills that should be tsught (finances being a major one!!!) And I know how broken the system is at its core. I studied to be a teacher and we live in NY and, at least from where I stand, we are growing, little by little.
Littoface Good response!
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Doing dishes, vacuuming, cooking, and the most important of all missing schooling in America: Critical Thinking Skills!!
fun fact, if you would put all the bloodveins in your body in one straight line... you would die
Wow you attracted a lot of bots
How come it is not possible to report them so the administrators could check and delete them? 🤔😡
No you won't! You'll soon as you pull out a few..
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I always felt there should be a Life101 course in high school to teach people lots of survival skills like: how marketing works on you, the banking system, credit card lures and traps, living within your means, how to shop and cook, negotiation skills, etc. etc.
In Middle School (US, grades 6-8), we had Home Economics (cooking, sewing, nutrition) and Industrial Education (basic tool use, fun industrial projects). In 10th grade we had General Business (letter writing, banking, budgeting, basic laws, comparison shopping).
I had to take a Personal Finance Literacy course in my sophomore year of high school. I thought most schools offered that, but if they don't, I agree that they should.
Like.... vocational high schools. Yep, they do teach you these things, if that's part of your major. For example, my high school major is tourism commercialist (roughly translated) and I literally had those subjects in school.
My daughter's homeschool curriculum already includes that. She's 4. She likes doing math problems involving a Very Silly Person who gets more and more credit card debt buying toys he doesn't need. :)
That would be life skills, health, shop, and home-ec.
It would be nice if they taught the 3 'R's for a change instead of ... what are they teachiing now? Not a damn thing buy how to be petty and pissy about what someone's wearing or how those 'in charge' can throw their weight around.
And critical thinking skills!!
You know I was taught a bunch of stuff in school, but I kinda wish that I was taught life skills; how to deal with loss, a broken heart, finances, rudimentary DIY, etc. You know everything that actually happens to you after you leave school.
We have some schools now that do (Netherlands) including growing food, but yeah, those are important survival skills
Cute - but I don't think anyone can teach you how to fix a broken heart. (: I learned the rest in school though. I didn't necessarily RETAIN it but that's not the teacher's fault.
The study of psychology can help you deal with it. That's how I overcame a lot of problems that hurt my feelings. I'd go research about the feeling I feel and why and really now it's much easier to deal with anything. People sometimes think I'm a bit "cold", though... ^^"
I don't know when you graduated from high school, Steve Barnett, but nowadays schools do a little bit of everything. And I don't know where you are from, but here in the USA where I live, each state's legislature decides what the schools teach instead of the people who actually know about education and learning. If you live in the USA, then instead of griping about what you didn't learn, try to get involved so that you can be somebody who decides what gets taught, thus saving others from your sad fate. I'm sorry for being nasty, it's just that I'm tired of schools getting blamed for what lacks in their curriculum because people just don't understand the school doesn't get to decide what is taught. It sucks.
Hi Cathy, no, you're not being nasty. I left school (UK) a long time ago, 35 years odd. Things might have changed here, I don't know. Thank you for your comment.
FINALLY. Thank you Cathy Jo Baker.
That's the parents' job.
I can't possibly fathom how parents expect the school to teach their children healthy coping mechanisms. Looks like it goes out if fashion with the decline of multigenerational families.
I wish I had a thousand likes to give this. I especially love the plural usage of parent...as in it takes both parents to teach life skills. We shouldn’t rely on the government to supply this knowledge but actually take responsibility for teaching our own offspring.
You know, I'm a mom now and my daughter is learning a lot more life skills than I ever did in school. She is being taught to understand mathematical concepts, not just memorize them. She is discussing real-life issues like racism through books. She's learning what it means to be a part of a community. She's only 7. I think there's still way more skills that should be tsught (finances being a major one!!!) And I know how broken the system is at its core. I studied to be a teacher and we live in NY and, at least from where I stand, we are growing, little by little.
Littoface Good response!
Littoface like
Doing dishes, vacuuming, cooking, and the most important of all missing schooling in America: Critical Thinking Skills!!
fun fact, if you would put all the bloodveins in your body in one straight line... you would die
Wow you attracted a lot of bots
How come it is not possible to report them so the administrators could check and delete them? 🤔😡
No you won't! You'll soon as you pull out a few..
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I always felt there should be a Life101 course in high school to teach people lots of survival skills like: how marketing works on you, the banking system, credit card lures and traps, living within your means, how to shop and cook, negotiation skills, etc. etc.
In Middle School (US, grades 6-8), we had Home Economics (cooking, sewing, nutrition) and Industrial Education (basic tool use, fun industrial projects). In 10th grade we had General Business (letter writing, banking, budgeting, basic laws, comparison shopping).
I had to take a Personal Finance Literacy course in my sophomore year of high school. I thought most schools offered that, but if they don't, I agree that they should.
Like.... vocational high schools. Yep, they do teach you these things, if that's part of your major. For example, my high school major is tourism commercialist (roughly translated) and I literally had those subjects in school.
My daughter's homeschool curriculum already includes that. She's 4. She likes doing math problems involving a Very Silly Person who gets more and more credit card debt buying toys he doesn't need. :)
That would be life skills, health, shop, and home-ec.
It would be nice if they taught the 3 'R's for a change instead of ... what are they teachiing now? Not a damn thing buy how to be petty and pissy about what someone's wearing or how those 'in charge' can throw their weight around.
And critical thinking skills!!