Asklemmy

There is no such thing called umami.

Stomach ulcers are caused by stress. Nope.

Alcoholism runs in families. Nope.

Heart disease runs in families. Nope.

"You need to learn this because you won't always have a calculator on you!"

That I was a republican. The teacher gave out this political alignment quiz that was incredibly biased asking things like "do you like lower taxes or higher taxes?" and "do you like more freedom or less freedom?" All the questions basically lead you to the same answers. So the entire class basically had the same result.

This was in middle school so I wasn't even politically engaged yet. I didn't realize how crazy this was until years later.

That tastes have specific regions on the tongue. We actually had to protest when that shit was taught at our son's elementary school. Don't know if it came up for our younger daughter.

Poor kids at school had old atlases where Germany was still separated. But I guess that's just obsolete and not false knowledge.

Trickle down economics (well, it's not like there was a time when it was true)

That humans came out of Africa once and then settled the rest of the world. In reality there was a constant migration of humans in and out of Africa for millennia while the rest of the world was being populated (and of course it hasn’t ever stopped since).

I love how much DNA analysis has completely upended so much “known” archaeology and anthropology from even just a couple decades ago.

Taste buds are arranged by flavor in four sections of the tongue. Complete load of horseshit.

Multiplication tables (I still know them mostly). I have a calculator on damn near every device now.

Things will always get better <-- this one is the biggest lie of them all

That America is the best and most free country in the world.

Study and work hard will make you successful.

I would say "cursive is how adults write, you'll need to know it", but that wasn't true then either.

• that Pluto is a planet

"Those bullies will be working at a gas station while you'll be the boss!"

I was taught the Philippines was a US territory. I just learned last night that hasn’t been true since 1946. I went to school in the 90s.

Not only in School, even at university I was taught the DNA structure was solved by Watson und Crick. But they stole data from Rosalind franklin and even openly admitted it years later.

-Coequal branches of government

-Separation of Church and State

-Life terms for SCOTUS ensures political impartiality

-The second amendment was so that we could defend ourselves (see: redcoats)

-Bohr system

Going to college was guaranteed success in life.

We don't know what the appendix does, the whole pluto thing, I think the Oxford comma is going out of style, and cursive in general.

But I love cursive, mine was "very nice" according to my teachers.

That CO2 makes up 0.03% of the atmosphere. But it was true then.

My favourite one was that the earth is 6000 years old

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.)

How planes generate lift.

"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.