Only in America

Didn't they fight the emus as well? Lol

Prejudice towards left-handed people has even shaped language. The word "sinister" (as a synonym of creepy/ominous) originates from the Latin word for "left hand", whereas "dextrous"/"dexterity" similarly comes from the Latin word for "right hand".

This teacher probably also thinks girls can hold in their periods.

People who are into the sciences and maths tend to think those are the only worthy professions and the humanities are a joke. I'm not surprised this teacher said s**t like that.

The average amount is around 50ml, which is 3-4 tablespoons, but it varies a lot between one person's different periods and between individuals.

yeah he kinda sucked

He was a liar, a moron, a rapist, and a con man. He didn't discover sh!t. Norse got to No. America in 1015 and Italian scholars have known about the "New World" since 1345!!! We have to stop with this piece of garbage.

I'm originally from Philadelphia and Italians on the East Coast still celebrate Christopher Columbus day. They're just adamant about it.

Specifics please

It was 1492. You can't measure a 15th century explorer by 2023 standards. Should we talk about what Spain did to the Aztecs? Yes he was a douchebag, yes, he was an awful human being. He was a product of his time.

What you were taught probably wasn't wrong. You just weren't taught all the downsides of it.

Geez, he even looks evil in that portrait.

They didn't lie... They just treated Native Americans as 'collateral damage'. That is horrible, but what we were taught was factually correct. I was actually taught about Columbus in 1985 by a teacher in Texas who was native American. Wild times

Yeah, but without him the world would've been a lot different, and no one can deny the balls it took to travel the ocean with the boats they had

I am Italian and I have to listen to other Italians whine and complain about Columbus losing his "hero status". I tell them to look up to Colombo as played on TV by Peter Falk as a role model. That Colombo never cut off the arms of his slaves.

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Nope

A system to prevent the abuse of power has never existed. It is sort of like someone saying, "Make it idiot proof." Can't be done, there is always an idiot that will find a way to mess something up no matter what you do to prevent it. And there will always be people that find a way to abuse power that they have been given.

Nope. You can have excellent grades, but if your social skill-set leaves something to be desired, you won't easily land a highly paid job.

I wish it did. Someone was bullying my friend and threatening to kill people so I reported them and they got suspended and it won't even affect them when they're an adult

While this is true, it is not a valid excuse for being unable to do basic math, just like always having access to autocorrect is not an excuse for being sloppy about your spelling.

i took one look at myers briggs and i thought, "hey isnt that just zodiac signs but more complicated?" lolol

There's an element of truth to this. Sadly the current opioid crisis in the US has lead people to believe that addiction is inevitable, but that's not true either. I used morphine for several months following a major trauma, but slowly reduced the dosage as the pain levels diminished. Not because I was worried about addiction, but because as the pain reduced the feelings it brought of simply not giving a shot about anything are not something I was comfortable with. I knew deep down that I really _should_ give a shot. Some people apparently like this feeling, others like me absolutely do not.

Yeah, and guess what replaced it in most foods? *Yep, sugar* (which is "fat free").

Made from then teeth of dead soldiers, probably - as was the usual method for high quality toothwork at the time.

I've covered this on here before. While that may be the outward explanation given....we still, to this day do not understand HOW anesthesia functions. We just know that it does, and the line between "working properly" and "no longer breathing" is very, very fine even in ideal circumstances. An infant, is about as far removed from ideal as you can get, and an infant that REQUIRES surgery is even further removed. At the time, the risk of using anesthesia on an infant, was greater than performing surgery without....but the average person, let alone parent probably isn't going to accept this. Nor would they accept the more blunt rational of "it doesn't matter if they feel it, because they are never, ever going to remember it" Medicine is about risk assessment. All of it comes with risk, always, you could be the 1 in 1,000,000 allergic to that popular OTC med....doctors have the job of finding the LEAST RISKY course of action.

In America, at least, the federal prison system is so broken that it does more harm than good.

TBF the push to eat more carrots was real; with most foods rationed they were in plentiful supply and were pushed almost as a sugar substitute. The 'good for the eyes thing was not pure invention, but was picked up and exaggerated by the RAF to possibly help hide the fact that some British planes were starting to be equipped with radar. Carrot cake anyone?

If Columbus had truly believed that, he would have never sailed west.

This is a misconception, but not entirely inaccurate. The true statement is that we typically only use 10% of out brain at a time, but the parts of our brain used changes depending on what we are doing. Essentially, we use all of our brain, just not all of it at the same time.

Not only was the Titanic found, but it also serves as bait for rich fools.

But wouldn't stress weaken your immune system, making it easier for harmful bacteria to grow in your body?

I was told that if I ate apple seeds an apple tree would grow in my stomach.

Planethood for Pluto now!

Everyone knows that blood is blue just look at your veins. LOL. A variation of this I have heard is it is red going away from the heart because it is oxygen rich, and blue when returning to the heart because the oxygen has been used up. Nonsense of course, it just looks blue because of the colors that the skin blocks letting only blue to reflect back to our eyes.

That’s just how science works. They find a theory and then they learn more and realise that their theory was wrong. No doubt it’ll happen again in future.

Taking into account that paper bags were previously used, which were practically single-use bags and that to make them it was necessary to cut down trees, it can be said that it served for a time to save the environment as an intermediate step to other types of bag materials.

IIRC, there's a certain gene that can cause baldness, only on the X chromosome. But it's not the sole reason that can cause someone to go bald.

We will eventually run out of oil, though, as it cannot renew itself once depleted.