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A huge number of aspects of the US's geopolitical enemies, and its own mythologization of the Founding Fathers and early settlers.
There was also a really bad political test with liberalism on the left and conservativism on the right, and we had to take a test and put what we got in front of everyone, which was very strange.
Making grimaces and being told that your face may remain that way if you donβt stop making themβ¦ π€‘
I was taught that Jupiter had 17 moons, Saturn has 12 and Pluto has 1. Many more have been discovered since.
Then there's the whole "different areas on your tongue taste different flavors." Like you only taste sweet with the tip of your tongue, the middle tastes salty, etc. I remember being given various substances by my fifth grade teacher like sugar, coffee, lemon juice, table salt etc. and we tried putting them on different areas of our tongues and we were like "...no, we taste everything everywhere."
Supersize me was fake and tonsils are not a useless byproduct of evolution.
The myth that glass is a very thick liquid. It's actually much weirder than that. https://gizmodo.com/the-glass-is-a-liquid-myth-has-finally-been-destroyed-496190894
I have one that was proven false, and then later re-proven true: the existence of the brontosaurus.
When I was in elementary school, we were taught that they existed, they were big, etc. Then, at some point while I was in college, I discovered that actually what we thought was a brontosaur was a brachiosaur or an apatosaur. And then, when my kids went to school and learned about the brontosaur, I discovered that actually, they did exist!
Some children are taught in school that God created the earth. Some of us were allowed to learn that humans cannot effect climate change, allowed to discuss it openly, and allowed to graduate with that idea without ever being corrected. Children are being taught today that slavery and colonialism were good things for some people.
"This is the best time of your life, it will never be as easy." I wasted more time at school than at work and I didn't have Fridays off, so that was a lie.
Racism used to be a problem until Lincoln and MLK fixed it.
Gravity Waves didn't exist according to my highschool science teacher
In my college Econ 101 class I was taught that "economic liberalism" would lead to political liberalism. I knew that was a myth back then, but my professors insisted. Twenty years later we've got economic nationalism and political fascism taking over everywhere.
There are 10 Commandments.
No - there's 14.
And most of them also have sub-commandments, just to confuse it further.
That fluoride and vaccines are bad for youβ¦ tbh, I only believed it for 2-3 weeks until I did my own research, but it was a frightening clarification. Didnβt believe that teacher a single word after that.
Fluoride can be bad for you, just at much higher doses than they put in water supply. It can cause issues with bones and neurological development. Again, only in very high doses over a long time. It happens a lot in poorer countries where they can't treat well water.
I learned that itβs not ok to be intelligent but completely incapable of remembering to do things or remembering the things that the teachers thought it was important for me to remember.
Allergies are entirely genetic. Apparently they ain't or so I hear but it's a bit above my paygrade biology wise