My favourite one was that the earth is 6000 years old
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My sysadmin professor told me to not learn about tape backups because they are going away soon
Like 3 years later ransomware was invented
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Supersize me was fake and tonsils are not a useless byproduct of evolution.
Going to college was guaranteed success in life.
The appendix is a vestigial organ that doesn't actually do anything in humans. (It might still fit the definition of vestigial, but it's far from useless and we keep learning more about how valuable gut health is.)
My appendix came damn close to killing me. I vote βnot valuableβ. :)
By the time I was in school the Bohr model was already proven inaccurate, but was taught anyway because the orbital model is too esoteric for teenagers π.
Hear about pluto? Pretty messed up huh?
You know that's right!
I had a substitute teacher who saw the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth ads against John Kerry and repeated it to the class like it was 100% fact.
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How planes generate lift.
Did they finally find that out? Last time I checked even PhDs in aerospace engineering still added "we think" at the end of their explanations.
NASA has a webpage on aeronautics that says lift is the mechanical force created by a solid object turning a flow of liquid or gas. They also have an equation for calculating lift for any solid object/fluid combo.
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I was taught that Pluto is a planet. How could they have been so wrong???
The moon was spun out of the same stuff as the earth. That was fact in the early years of my education. A few years later there were multiple theories: co development, captured a wandering planetoid, the Thea impact, and a fourth one I canβt remember but I think it was something dumb like planetary mitosis. By the time I graduated the Thea impact was considered the only viable theory.
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.
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"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.
Gravity Waves didn't exist according to my highschool science teacher
There are 10 Commandments.
No - there's 14.
And most of them also have sub-commandments, just to confuse it further.
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