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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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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And still today, Natives are being harassed by police for protesting there peacefully. Nothing much has changed..

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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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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Caligula declared victory and his soldiers brought back chests full of seashells as proof.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/of-drinks-and-clinks/

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Tor Rolf Strøm
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nice catch! Many of these are bound to be fake, as people spread fake facts ALL THE TIME.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's the same concept of shaking hands my grabbing each others forearms instead of hands. This was to check each other for small knives.

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Left-handed soldiers supposedly had their hands chopped off because they had an unfair advantage - they could grab their swords while shaking hands .

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Scotland you would offer your visitor a drink from a drinking vessel called a quaich. You need two hands to hold it so when you give it to your guest you can't reach for your sword or knife. Likewise when you are both drinking together. It's a sign of trust and welcome that there is no need for weapons..

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Kimberly Greenock
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My husband is scottish. He got several quaichs at our wedding. We also were given several for each of our boys when they were born. I love the history behind them.

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Lil Bare
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The more sophisticated version would be to use copper mugs - no?

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Hans Leenders
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Next to being incorrect (see the Snopes link of None), the guy who tweeted this is, looking at his name, not Native American. Thus very probably of European descent.

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Bob Belcher
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same reason why you shook forearms and not hands, to check for daggers. That's why women were assassins as well, no one shook a woman's forearm.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, this isn't a fact. We're not actually learning anything. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/of-drinks-and-clinks/

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It started originally as a linking of arms while holding each others drink, then you would both sip from the others cup. I believe the Cheers and clinking of glasses was a way of saying "I trust you" because you didn't ask to do the whole sipping each others drinks debacle. Being British, I've always quite admired the Vikings and such, who rather than sneakily murdering someone and thus creating a whole polite social etiquette... They just marched into the other guys house and finished him

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the 21st century, a racist, misogynistic man with a proven record of failure in every previous business dealing and a trail of sexual assaults was elected to run a country of 340 million people. Americans man...

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sorry but that it horseshit. Toasting is a facet of etiquette meant to signify the unification in ritual. Just as every wafer is part of the body of christ (if you subscribe to such bronze age mysticism) every raised glass assents to the toast of the moment. If someone toasts something you do not agree with, you have the option to deliberately not raise your glass to it, in protest. Whether you raise your glass or not however, you do not start drinking until the hostess does so.

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Berlinda Dunbar-Nye
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's allways fun to chug wine or beer in a container full of glass?? Maybe that's just me.

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Gerry Higgins
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Europeans man ..." well it beats cutting the hearts out of sacrificed children. Aztecs man ...

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James C.
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is similar to why people (mainly men) may approach each by handshaking, then putting the other arm over one's shoulder. This was a sign of trust between Kings & Soldiers, alike, as you were trusting they wouldn't stab you in the back, literally.

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Lenka Smetanová
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I read enough of chinese historic manhuas to know, they should do the same with their tea 😂😂😂

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I heard it was to scare off evil spirits, and by clinking the glasses the noise would scare them off or cast them out of someone’s body 🤔

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also not a fact. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/of-drinks-and-clinks/

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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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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A small group of wooly mammoth existed on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until about 2000 B.C.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She’s also small and behind a ton of protection. She’s beyond amazing.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

...which is perfectly logical if you have French or Latin as your first language

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But how would we know? It's not like, 'Oh hey Bob, it's you - high five!' or anything. They're surly little guys.

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