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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
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    4 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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    Whitehart
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    4 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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    Gareth Graham
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    4 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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    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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    chi-wei shen
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    4 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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    Shelp
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    4 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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    Sergio Bicerra Descalzi
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    4 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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    Tiny Dynamine
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    4 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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    4 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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    Saurin Apriliawan
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    4 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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    4 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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    giovanna
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well I guess it would be useless to know anyway 😬

    Spring Fisk
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i wonder if we would instantly die at this point or if it would take a few min

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    Miss Cris
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But its voice runs slower than the light. We'd hear it after seen it. Oh, you meant the sun calledus with a smartphone.

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    Kevin Donegan
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was in a full eclipse a few years ago. When the sun was blocked, it immediately got cool enough to feel like I needed to put on a coat.

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

    If the Sun were to explode, the flat earthers would simply throw the Earth like a frisbee to another star system and live there as if nothing ever happened..

    Stephen Smith
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well if it did explode, we would only have to wait a day for the next one to come up.

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

    Only if we knew at the exact moment, we would have saved the earth in 8 minutes 20 seconds.

    chi-wei shen
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If the sun were to explode we might not live long enough to understand what has happened.

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

    I learned this in school. Well, that it takes light 8min20sec to reach us.

    Nothanks L. Walk
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The sun *IS* exploding. It's a fusion bomb with so much fuel the explosion takes eons

    Aimee P.
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That’s enough time to make some popcorn before I watch it unfold.

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

    great, just enough time for me to panic and/or get super depressed

    Vicki Perizzolo
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    nothing like 8 minutes to consider your immediate demise...probably about the same time as falling in an aircraft from 30,000 ft....not a good situation I'm sure. I would much prefer no time to think about it

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

    If the explosion was a natural event (not some stupid marketing stunt by mankind) the sun would expand several times its current size before exploding. We will all have been cooked alive eons before the explosion.

    El Dee
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's not QUITE correct. That's how long light takes to get to us BUT explosion aren't just made of light and don't happen 'in place' So, if the sun DID explode we'd know about it much more quickly than that..

    sorlag110
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No you are wrong. Shockwaves are pressure waves and propegate through a medium at the speed of sound. On Earth any explosion is slower than the speed of light. In space, there is no medium dense enough for shockwaves to propegate through. The explosion would instead consist of heat, plasma and gas. In an explosion powerful enough, the plasma could be flung near the speed of light but never quite at it. The light would definitely come first, but it would be so intense it would probably fry us anyway. There is a more fundamental reason you're wrong. The speed of light isn't just the speed of light but the cosmic speed limit. It is to the best of our knowledge the limit for the speed of information itself. You can look up penrose diagram, basically anything beyond the speed of light would go back in time, even the information of explosions.

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    Jo Johannsen
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And 8 minutes and 20.00000000000000000000000001 seconds to go "Oh s**t!"

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

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

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

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

    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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