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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..

Kisses4Katie
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There were people in maga hats yelling at the native protesters to "go back where they came from". I don't even know what to say to that.

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

No freaking way! That's crazy. There is a level of stupid that is impossible to work with.

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

Which explains why Trump chose to make his July 4 speech there.

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

Can't believe the amount of Americans who don't know this and/or get aggressive when told.

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

I didn’t know either... but I’m not defensive or aggressive about it now that I do. It’s one of yet another of the thousands of horrible things I know about my country. I highly recommend “A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn.

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

And, minor quibble, they never cleaned up the big rubble pile underneath it like they were supposed to.

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

This is true, but if taught, needs to be age appropriate. Many artists were terrible people who did terrible things, but that does not necessarily negate their work. People are a product of how they were brought up, as well as the time and society in which they lived.

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

This is true; people are products of their culture. That doesn’t mean we should ignore the people behind the art. Who someone was, and more importantly HOW they were, does matter when considering whose art we should continue to value and promote.

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

Disgusting how the Native people of America are treated I say give it back and carve faces of the great native chiefs like Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse oh how I wonder how the American police would act if they were among the protesters nothing has changed

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

Crazy Horse's legacy is celebrated in the Crazy Horse Memorial, an uncompleted monumental sculpture located in the Black Hills, not far from Mount Rushmore. Started in 1948 by sculptor Korczak Ziółkowski (who also worked on Mount Rushmore), the Crazy Horse Memorial would be the largest sculpture in the world when completed.

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

Just because something appears to have patriotic antiquity doesn’t mean we should feel good about it.

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

It is a sacred mountain that belongs to them. Taking off the faces of people who helped murder them is the least anyone can do.

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

Why does nobody ask the question who lost the land to the native Indians? Who came before them? They were NOT the very first humans to occupy that land or for that matter all the land now called the United States. I would stop acting like the Lakota people were the very first. They were NOT.

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

No wonder trump picked it as the backdrop for his fascist 4th propaganda show.

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

"In 1915 the Daughters of Confederacy approached him to do a statue of Robert E. Lee at Stone Mountain, Georgia. Work began on the monument in 1923, the major financial backing coming from the KKK. This monument was never completed, as Gutzon couldn’t overcome disagreements with the organization sponsoring the sculpture. Construction on Rushmore began in 1927, and ended in 1941. Borglums son Lincoln, oversaw much of the work in later years, as his father was often travelling to raise money for the project." History isn't pretty, but it often isn't simple either.

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

I'm just wondering why Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama thought it was so great?

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

I say we glue the mountain back together, apologise, pack up our garish tat, and leave.

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

The Chief Carver of the mountain was Luigi del Bianco, artisan and headstone carver in Port Chester, New York. Del Bianco emigrated to the U.S. from Friuli in Italy, and was chosen to work on this project because of his understanding of sculptural language and ability to imbue emotion in the carved portraits.[2][3]

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

The abomination was carved into a sacred mountain known as the Six Grandfathers.

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

Yep, people suck, kinda well established fact for last 4000 years...

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

I found this out after doing research, from discovery of #1 (The, "Vietnam War", is called the, "American War", in Vietnam)

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

He was also a crazy person. Wanted to create a secret chamber for the national archives within the monument, or something

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

It was indeed started, but never finished (https://www.nps.gov/moru/learn/historyculture/hall-of-records.htm)

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

Tear it down, put a museum inside and the revenue goes to the Natives :D

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

Or, better: Give it back to the natives (Cheyenne, preferrably), and let them do whatever they want with it.

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Mimi M
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4 years ago

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

Is the KKK like traditional land or something cause I'm not American

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

The KKK is not land. The KKK or Ku Klux Klan, is the oldest and most infamous of American hate groups.

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

And yet Obama embraces it and the mainstream media called it glorious

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

This is passed around alot and while he was involved in klan politics and attended meetings theres been no proof he was an actual member

Wouldn't You Like to Know
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And when the supreme court gave them the land back they decided against taking it.

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

The Supreme Court didn't give the land back to them. The Sioux nations have maintained they are the rightful owners of the Black Hills. They took the federal government to court and in 1980 the U.S. Supreme Court agreed the land was taken from them wrongfully. As a result, a trust account was set up with $102 million for compensation. The Sioux said they did not want the money, they want the Black Hills back. The fund is reportedly now worth more than $1 billion.

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

Who cares, Hickel?? Did you raise this issue 10, 20 years ago? or are you just jumping on the issue du jour bandwagon? Get a life.

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

And the Lakota people stole it from the Ojibwa, who massacred and stole it from the Nakota, etc. Get off your high horse a*****e. Borglum was a Klansman, MLK was a womanizer and serial adulterer, you can shove your virtue up your a*s.

Tor Rolf Strøm
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4 years ago (edited)

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Democrats founded the KKK, and voted against abolishing slavery. EDIT: why are you people downvoting? google it if you don't believe me.

Jody Doakes
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so what you are saying is Borglum was a Democrat.

glowworm2
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Does that mean we need to take it down now? XD!

Toast Of Saint Louis
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No but this little tidbit should be know by all. This is something that was not and is not being taught in schools.

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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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yourpappalardo Report

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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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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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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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