Facts That Were Taught in Schools But Later Proven Wrong
The concept of having right and left brains has been taught despite being repeatedly disproven. ‘Sorry, but your brain isn’t one side creative and one side analytical. They work together as a whole.’
It was said that our veins appear blue before coming into contact with oxygen, which I thought was the coolest thing as a middle schooler.” ‘Turns out, that’s also a lie…’

The food pyramid taught in schools seemed pretty absurd even as a child. ‘Now that I’m grown up, I know for sure that the food pyramid is nonsense. How did it even make it into our textbooks?’

Do you remember being taught that different areas of the tongue perceive different tastes? ‘Well, that’s also not true…’

They said all fats were bad for us, leading to the popularity of ‘fat-free’ products in stores.” ‘It was all a game…’

In the 80s, my elementary school teacher told us that we were born with a single batch of blood in our bodies and couldn’t produce more. ‘Was it just my school or…?’
Do you remember being told that in real life, nobody expects us to look up information online and that we should know everything? ‘How times have changed…’

There was a time when they said we only use 10% of our brains. ‘What a huge fallacy…’

The idea that carrots improve night vision was an invention by the British during World War II to conceal radar technologies. ‘But it managed to make its way into our textbooks and lives anyway…’

They used to say we should wait half an hour after eating before swimming. ‘That turned out to be a big lie too…’

Christopher Columbus was taught to have discovered America while trying to prove the Earth was round. ‘Everyone already knew the Earth was round…’
Cracking your knuckles doesn’t cause arthritis, and it has no health implications. ‘I used to feel so guilty about this as a child…’

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