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hispanic! at the disco 4 years ago

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

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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago

I am just confuzzled.

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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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Whitehart 4 years ago

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

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Gareth Graham 4 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

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None 4 years ago

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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hispanic! at the disco 4 years ago

I wish people could do that

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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

Printer ink can cost up to $5000 per 1 liter. (0.26 US Gallon)

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స్టీఫెన్ ఆండ్రూ 4 years ago (edited)

Let's just ignore the human rights abuses suffered by the Nepali minority group...

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hispanic! at the disco 4 years ago

Well aren't we all special.

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Indra Servo 4 years ago

Well...there is no internet in 1600s, guys must be bored

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Shelp 4 years ago

One more reason not to display babyb skulls in your house

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chi-wei shen 4 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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Martti Laurson 4 years ago

I'm in Estonia, so I'm good

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Tom Hardeveld 4 years ago

I used to know this...

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Lil Bare 4 years ago

The earth is secretly ruled by mushrooms and cats

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Mishte Tine 4 years ago

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

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Shelp 4 years ago

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

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ADHORTATOR 4 years ago

It is hard to imagine millions of years----

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Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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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B 4 years ago

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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giovanna 4 years ago

Well I guess it would be useless to know anyway 😬

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Gareth Graham 4 years ago

Amy Schumer time travelling again?

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Clare Bond 4 years ago

And some people never develop beyond that point !!!

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Blackheart 4 years ago

They should stop smoking.

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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

Eat your heart out Jeff Bezos with your meager $178.1Billion...

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Martti Laurson 4 years ago

Just wondering where would a flamingo get boiling water?

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CrunChewy McSandybutt 4 years ago

5th cousins is a really large gap as far as genetics is concerned.

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Stacy Beare 4 years ago

So do kangaroos, wombats and Tasmanian tigers!

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Steve Barnett 4 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.

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Anne 4 years ago

We have some schools now that do (Netherlands) including growing food, but yeah, those are important survival skills

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Lea S. 4 years ago

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.

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Cathy Jo Baker 4 years ago

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.

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Lara Mig 4 years ago

That's the parents' job.

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Littoface 4 years ago

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.

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Jace 4 years ago

Doing dishes, vacuuming, cooking, and the most important of all missing schooling in America: Critical Thinking Skills!!

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Tom Hardeveld 4 years ago

fun fact, if you would put all the bloodveins in your body in one straight line... you would die

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Jennifer .S 4 years ago

Wow you attracted a lot of bots

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Vic 4 years ago

No you won't! You'll soon as you pull out a few..

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Irina Rachow 4 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.

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Vernice Aure 4 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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Aileen 4 years ago

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.

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Daria B 4 years ago

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.

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Lara Mig 4 years ago

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. :)

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Lea S. 4 years ago

That would be life skills, health, shop, and home-ec.

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Jane Alexander 4 years ago

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.

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Jace 4 years ago

And critical thinking skills!!

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Steve Barnett 4 years ago

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Anne 4 years ago

We have some schools now that do (Netherlands) including growing food, but yeah, those are important survival skills

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Lea S. 4 years ago

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.

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Cathy Jo Baker 4 years ago

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Lara Mig 4 years ago

That's the parents' job.

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Littoface 4 years ago

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Jace 4 years ago

Doing dishes, vacuuming, cooking, and the most important of all missing schooling in America: Critical Thinking Skills!!

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Tom Hardeveld 4 years ago

fun fact, if you would put all the bloodveins in your body in one straight line... you would die

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Jennifer .S 4 years ago

Wow you attracted a lot of bots

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Vic 4 years ago

No you won't! You'll soon as you pull out a few..

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Irina Rachow 4 years ago

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Vernice Aure 4 years ago

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