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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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hispanic! at the disco 5 years ago
And still today, Natives are being harassed by police for protesting there peacefully. Nothing much has changed..
hispanic! at the disco 5 years ago
Plus the mountain was sacred to the Lakota people.
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Kisses4Katie 5 years ago
There were people in maga hats yelling at the native protesters to "go back where they came from". I don't even know what to say to that.
Phunny Philosopher 5 years ago
No freaking way! That's crazy. There is a level of stupid that is impossible to work with.
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Martha Meyer 5 years ago
Can't believe the amount of Americans who don't know this and/or get aggressive when told.
Jace 5 years ago
I didn’t know either... but I’m not defensive or aggressive about it now that I do. It’s one of yet another of the thousands of horrible things I know about my country. I highly recommend “A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn.
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Lil Bare 5 years ago
That Mountain is scary. Megalomaniac. Poor ppl of the KKK must be really insecure
Marek Yanchurak 5 years ago
And, minor quibble, they never cleaned up the big rubble pile underneath it like they were supposed to.
Blackheart 5 years ago
This is true, but if taught, needs to be age appropriate. Many artists were terrible people who did terrible things, but that does not necessarily negate their work. People are a product of how they were brought up, as well as the time and society in which they lived.
Jace 5 years ago
This is true; people are products of their culture. That doesn’t mean we should ignore the people behind the art. Who someone was, and more importantly HOW they were, does matter when considering whose art we should continue to value and promote.
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Elisabeth Moriarty 5 years ago
Disgusting how the Native people of America are treated I say give it back and carve faces of the great native chiefs like Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse oh how I wonder how the American police would act if they were among the protesters nothing has changed
Dawn K 5 years ago
Crazy Horse's legacy is celebrated in the Crazy Horse Memorial, an uncompleted monumental sculpture located in the Black Hills, not far from Mount Rushmore. Started in 1948 by sculptor Korczak Ziółkowski (who also worked on Mount Rushmore), the Crazy Horse Memorial would be the largest sculpture in the world when completed.
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Berlinda Dunbar-Nye 5 years ago
The Crazy Horse monument down the road is way cooler...........
Georgia Valentine 5 years ago
It is a sacred mountain that belongs to them. Taking off the faces of people who helped murder them is the least anyone can do.
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Rich Ferg 5 years ago
Why does nobody ask the question who lost the land to the native Indians? Who came before them? They were NOT the very first humans to occupy that land or for that matter all the land now called the United States. I would stop acting like the Lakota people were the very first. They were NOT.
Weishaar Jamie 5 years ago
No wonder trump picked it as the backdrop for his fascist 4th propaganda show.
Mimi M 5 years ago
"In 1915 the Daughters of Confederacy approached him to do a statue of Robert E. Lee at Stone Mountain, Georgia. Work began on the monument in 1923, the major financial backing coming from the KKK. This monument was never completed, as Gutzon couldn’t overcome disagreements with the organization sponsoring the sculpture. Construction on Rushmore began in 1927, and ended in 1941. Borglums son Lincoln, oversaw much of the work in later years, as his father was often travelling to raise money for the project." History isn't pretty, but it often isn't simple either.
alicia grinavic 5 years ago
I'm just wondering why Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama thought it was so great?
Martha Higgins 5 years ago
The Chief Carver of the mountain was Luigi del Bianco, artisan and headstone carver in Port Chester, New York. Del Bianco emigrated to the U.S. from Friuli in Italy, and was chosen to work on this project because of his understanding of sculptural language and ability to imbue emotion in the carved portraits.[2][3]
Jo Ellen Washburn 5 years ago
The abomination was carved into a sacred mountain known as the Six Grandfathers.
Nameless 4 5 years ago
He was also a crazy person. Wanted to create a secret chamber for the national archives within the monument, or something
Marek Yanchurak 5 years ago
It was indeed started, but never finished (https://www.nps.gov/moru/learn/historyculture/hall-of-records.htm)
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Sasha Kuleshov 5 years ago
Tear it down, put a museum inside and the revenue goes to the Natives :D
Iapetos 5 years ago
Or, better: Give it back to the natives (Cheyenne, preferrably), and let them do whatever they want with it.
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Kady Maree Mcgrath 5 years ago
Is the KKK like traditional land or something cause I'm not American
Dawn K 5 years ago
The KKK is not land. The KKK or Ku Klux Klan, is the oldest and most infamous of American hate groups.
Load More Replies... Kimberly Reetz 5 years ago
And yet Obama embraces it and the mainstream media called it glorious
BringOnTheDownvotes 5 years ago
This is passed around alot and while he was involved in klan politics and attended meetings theres been no proof he was an actual member
Wouldn't You Like to Know 5 years ago
And when the supreme court gave them the land back they decided against taking it.
Dawn K 5 years ago (edited)
The Supreme Court didn't give the land back to them. The Sioux nations have maintained they are the rightful owners of the Black Hills. They took the federal government to court and in 1980 the U.S. Supreme Court agreed the land was taken from them wrongfully. As a result, a trust account was set up with $102 million for compensation. The Sioux said they did not want the money, they want the Black Hills back. The fund is reportedly now worth more than $1 billion.
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Steve Barker 5 years ago
And the Lakota people stole it from the Ojibwa, who massacred and stole it from the Nakota, etc. Get off your high horse a*****e. Borglum was a Klansman, MLK was a womanizer and serial adulterer, you can shove your virtue up your a*s.
Toast Of Saint Louis 5 years ago
No but this little tidbit should be know by all. This is something that was not and is not being taught in schools.
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Aria Whitaker 5 years ago
Yes. There are even a couple on display at the Smithsonian...
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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.
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Gareth Graham 5 years ago
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.
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స్టీఫెన్ ఆండ్రూ 5 years ago (edited)
Let's just ignore the human rights abuses suffered by the Nepali minority group...
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chi-wei shen 5 years ago
A small group of wooly mammoth existed on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until about 2000 B.C.
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Mishte Tine 5 years ago
She’s also small and behind a ton of protection. She’s beyond amazing.
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Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 5 years ago
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.
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Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
Did you know you can get free extra pizza slices if you cut your pizza into 8 pieces instead of 6? ;)
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Aisha Boudy 5 years ago
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.
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Saurin Apriliawan 5 years ago
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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CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
5th cousins is a really large gap as far as genetics is concerned.
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littlesaresare 5 years ago
Penguins also release air trapped beneath their feathers to boost their speed while jumping out of water. It is a very cool thing to see in person.
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Martti Laurson 5 years ago (edited)
Not the other side of the galaxy, but opposite side of where earth is now. The whole galaxy turns, therefore could have not been on the other side of galaxy. All stars have rotated. If a cat sits on a roomba and that makes a half turn, the cat still sits on the same spot on a roomba, but in a different location in the room, not on the other side of the roomba.
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Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
I have a funny story about the little pocket. One day we were at a family BBQ, my younger brother who was around six went up to my mum and asked what the small pocket was for. She said go ask Poppa, big mistake. My Poppa said it is to put condoms in, in which my brother asked what a condom is for and my Poppa replied that it is to put your w***y in. My brother walked away looking puzzled until about 10 mins late he asks “But how do you get your w***y in there”. He thought he had to put his w***y in the actual pocket.
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Amanda Reicha 5 years ago
My dog must be an outlier. She sometimes faces the mountains, which are to the west of where I live and sometimes faces the valley, which is to the east.
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Steve Barnett 5 years ago
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.
Anne 5 years ago
We have some schools now that do (Netherlands) including growing food, but yeah, those are important survival skills
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Tom Hardeveld 5 years ago
fun fact, if you would put all the bloodveins in your body in one straight line... you would die
Irina Rachow 5 years ago
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.
Vernice Aure 5 years ago
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).
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Jennie-Lind Normand 5 years ago
So as a Canadian I wonder why we weren't taught that a Canadian invented peanut butter, we were taught about insulin and basketball being Canadian (among other things), but not peanut butter (I find that weird)
Dianna Siever 5 years ago
Americans are taught that it was George Washington Carver, one of the first and most prominent black American Scientist, who invented peanut butter.
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Lea S. 5 years ago (edited)
These are all interesting facts - I love lists like this. But on another note...poor teachers. They barely make a living, they're constantly disrespected and defunded, they are now looking at going back to school at the height of this pandemic. There's also lists everywhere of things you should've been taught in school. Are we incapable of learning ANYTHING ourselves? What makes this a list of things I should've learned in school? They are supposed to teach us this ever-evolving list of 'life skills' everything from cars and appliance repair to cooking, planting a garden, etc. Forget that necessary life skills are relative to who/where/what you do/want to do. The history of every civilization where everyone used to live, everyone's different points of views about history, every important historical figure (good or bad) AND all the different diseases/conditions/disabilities a person has. Where does it end? WHY the things on this list - please someone give me some insight.
Tracy 5 years ago
There are several here that I wouldn't expect to learn in school, like the cost of movie theater popcorn vs filet mignon, who designed chupa chups, and how many faces a chicken can recognize.
Lea S. 5 years ago
I swear it's in vogue right now to lament all the things you weren't taught in school. As if once you graduate that's it, you're done. You can't learn anything at all now - just have to go through the rest of your life confused.
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Theron Roberts 5 years ago
oops. accidentally pressed enter. meant to say that some of these are cool but aren't really necessary to learn in school.
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Steve Barnett 5 years ago
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.
Anne 5 years ago
We have some schools now that do (Netherlands) including growing food, but yeah, those are important survival skills
Load More Replies... Tom Hardeveld 5 years ago
fun fact, if you would put all the bloodveins in your body in one straight line... you would die
Irina Rachow 5 years ago
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.
Vernice Aure 5 years ago
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).
Load More Replies... Jennie-Lind Normand 5 years ago
So as a Canadian I wonder why we weren't taught that a Canadian invented peanut butter, we were taught about insulin and basketball being Canadian (among other things), but not peanut butter (I find that weird)
Dianna Siever 5 years ago
Americans are taught that it was George Washington Carver, one of the first and most prominent black American Scientist, who invented peanut butter.
Load More Replies... Lea S. 5 years ago (edited)
These are all interesting facts - I love lists like this. But on another note...poor teachers. They barely make a living, they're constantly disrespected and defunded, they are now looking at going back to school at the height of this pandemic. There's also lists everywhere of things you should've been taught in school. Are we incapable of learning ANYTHING ourselves? What makes this a list of things I should've learned in school? They are supposed to teach us this ever-evolving list of 'life skills' everything from cars and appliance repair to cooking, planting a garden, etc. Forget that necessary life skills are relative to who/where/what you do/want to do. The history of every civilization where everyone used to live, everyone's different points of views about history, every important historical figure (good or bad) AND all the different diseases/conditions/disabilities a person has. Where does it end? WHY the things on this list - please someone give me some insight.
Tracy 5 years ago
There are several here that I wouldn't expect to learn in school, like the cost of movie theater popcorn vs filet mignon, who designed chupa chups, and how many faces a chicken can recognize.
Lea S. 5 years ago
I swear it's in vogue right now to lament all the things you weren't taught in school. As if once you graduate that's it, you're done. You can't learn anything at all now - just have to go through the rest of your life confused.
Load More Replies... Theron Roberts 5 years ago
oops. accidentally pressed enter. meant to say that some of these are cool but aren't really necessary to learn in school.
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