30 Random Things Twitter Told Us That We Should Have Learned In School
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
Nice catch! Many of these are bound to be fake, as people spread fake facts ALL THE TIME.
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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.
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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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..
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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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.
What does native american have to do with anything?
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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.
Bet Wesley never does that. (If you get the reference, respect)
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
Not sure about this one. Read some Plutarch and you will find that there was a tonne of poisoning going on.
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...
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.
It's allways fun to chug wine or beer in a container full of glass?? Maybe that's just me.
"Europeans man ..." well it beats cutting the hearts out of sacrificed children. Aztecs man ...
All these old customs come from everyone having been a murderer apparently.. :/
I read enough of chinese historic manhuas to know, they should do the same with their tea 😂😂😂
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 🤔
Also not a fact. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/of-drinks-and-clinks/
Load More Replies...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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How the fuck are teachers meant to teach you about a broken heart? Or to deal with loss?
Probably by using the exact same predetermined techniques that therapists and counselors already use?
Amanda McGuirt haha
Gosh aren't you all smiles today Edward? Maybe Amanda thinks resilience classes and other mental health techniques should be taught.... I know I do!
@Edward: Due to the educational system in the Netherlands teachers do have 1 on 1 time with their students in primary school. There are also remedial teachers and teachers that can act as a confidante if a pupil wants or needs one.
So you’re saying a large class is the appropriate space to apply extremely personal one-on-one therapy techniques or were you just talking complete shit, Amanda?
I don't know Edward, that's not my field of knowledge. I was only suggesting that we could help children with actual problems that they are going to face later on in life. That's all. Yours.
Doing dishes, vacuuming, cooking, and the most important of all missing schooling in America: Critical Thinking Skills!!
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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!!
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)
Americans are taught that it was George Washington Carver, one of the first and most prominent black American Scientist, who invented peanut butter.
It wasn't him though. https://www.biography.com/news/george-washington-carver-peanut-butter
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.
Great article - didn't like all the snarky remarks though
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.
I’m a design teacher and have mentioned the Salvador Dali/Chupa Chups fact a few times
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.
some of the
oops. accidentally pressed enter. meant to say that some of these are cool but aren't really necessary to learn in school.
I love useless facts.
And what do they teach at American schools? How to be a pregnant prom queen?
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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!
Littoface like
How the fuck are teachers meant to teach you about a broken heart? Or to deal with loss?
Probably by using the exact same predetermined techniques that therapists and counselors already use?
Amanda McGuirt haha
Gosh aren't you all smiles today Edward? Maybe Amanda thinks resilience classes and other mental health techniques should be taught.... I know I do!
@Edward: Due to the educational system in the Netherlands teachers do have 1 on 1 time with their students in primary school. There are also remedial teachers and teachers that can act as a confidante if a pupil wants or needs one.
So you’re saying a large class is the appropriate space to apply extremely personal one-on-one therapy techniques or were you just talking complete shit, Amanda?
I don't know Edward, that's not my field of knowledge. I was only suggesting that we could help children with actual problems that they are going to face later on in life. That's all. Yours.
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!!
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)
Americans are taught that it was George Washington Carver, one of the first and most prominent black American Scientist, who invented peanut butter.
It wasn't him though. https://www.biography.com/news/george-washington-carver-peanut-butter
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.
Great article - didn't like all the snarky remarks though
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.
I’m a design teacher and have mentioned the Salvador Dali/Chupa Chups fact a few times
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.
some of the
oops. accidentally pressed enter. meant to say that some of these are cool but aren't really necessary to learn in school.
I love useless facts.
And what do they teach at American schools? How to be a pregnant prom queen?
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