I like it, though there wasn't a single one of the false facts that I was taught in schools.

"Dinosaurs shed their skin all at once like snakes"

"Girls are naturally not as good at math as boys"

I don't mean to be rude, but If this was taught in your school, everyone around you is probably a moron.

Cool but flawed website.

Earlier times dont include myths that are on later years.

There is no overlap in myths between 1990 and 1970-80 but there is with the myths of the 60s, so we stopped teaching it for 20 years and then went back to it?

"Sugar causes hyperactivity in children" is mentioned to have been corrected around 1995 but stops making the list from 1980 onward. I have heard it after 95 but not from school.

I wanna recommend it to others but i cant in this state.

Just put in 2010 and most of everything it said is incredibly obvious. Plus some of the dates of updated sources seem really incorrect. For example, one of them is it is a myth that most oxygen comes from trees, but I very distinctly remember my math teacher of all people saying in 2006 or 2007 that when he was in school he corrected people that it's mostly from plankton. And even if I'm misremembering this, he definitely said something about it being from plankton in those years, but it says the updated sources are from 2020.

It says that it is a myth that the big bang theory explains where the universe came from but in 2020 we found out it doesn't explain what came before. Like... No? That's always been what it is. Sure, it's always been a Christian talking point to sort of say that, but then why say 2020?

But I guess it's hard to really gauge what should and shouldn't be included. I remember my 5th grade teacher telling me that Robert E. Lee was an honorable man. I don't really remember exactly what all she said and if she got deeper into Lost Cause rhetoric than that, but she definitely said Lee was a "good man."

Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet due to not clearing its orbital path.

Why would they just lie about Pluto like that?

Pluto4Lyf

IMO, that site needs more cold war propaganda myths.

For example:

Myth: The US won WWII

Truth: The biggest battles of the last few years of WWII were between Germany and the USSR, and the USSR won, pushing the German army back to Berlin.

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Myth: Unions are communism, and therefore bad.

Truth: It is thanks to Unions that we work 8 hour days instead of 12 hour days, and that we have a 2 day weekend. They're an essential part of balancing the power of the rich against the power of the workers.

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Myth: Unions hold back the most skilled, so if you're skilled or smart you shouldn't be in a union.

Truth: The best actors in the world are members of SAG-AFTRA. They negotiate deals where they make tens of millions per movie. The union doesn't hold them back. It just means that when the film studios try to screw over the less powerful actors and the union votes to strike, the rich and powerful actors need to do their part to help the less powerful actors out.

Both 1960 and 2020 are showing the same 6 facts, and the facts shown were debunked years before 2020

Years since graduation:

Oh fuck this site!

Goddamn I'm old

Cool site but sadly the link for "Learning styles (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) determine how you best learn" being debunked is both dead and missing from archive.org

I'd really like to know more since I've very recently been learning about very similar processing modalities for ADHD brains

Still, cool site and resource!

Obligatory "there’s a xkcd for anything, isn’t it?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

The history list was most interesting in my opinion.

It took them a long time to get there. As corporate ISPs took over from the government and universities, the Internet got built around a few large pipes rather than several smaller ones. It's cheaper to build and maintain, but more prone to failure.

Some of the redundancy from the old ARPANET is still around in the US. Everywhere else, it mostly got built as above. One ship laying an anchor somewhere they shouldn't has brought entire countries offline.

It still routes around damage, but if all the roads are closed you can't get in or out of somewhere.

[...] the Internet (it was a written with a capital I back then)

Back then, an internet (lower case "i") was a small internal network of computers that communicated with each other.

The World Wide Web, being a massive collection of computers across the globe that are interconnected, quickly earned the title of "THE Internet" (upper-case "i"), to differentiate it from smaller isolated networks.

"World Wide Web" turned out to be a mouthful to say, so we replaced it with "the Internet" instead. Although most websites still start with "www" to represent their global reach.

Nowadays, we've stopped using the word "internet" to describe smaller networks, so the word mostly just refers to the global network. And as such, if doesn't really matter if you capitalize it or not.

However, I was there when the web became accessible to the public and the nomenclature has stuck, so I always capitalize the Internet when referring to it.

Cut cables mostly just slow the internet. Probably very few remaining places without plenty of redundancy.

I actually learned the lemmings thing from the windows 95 era PC game "Lemmings". This is also how I learned that lemmings have green hair!

I thought everyone knew the lemmings thing was made up. But it's become a bit of a meme nonetheless.

TIL Lemmings are an actual creature and not just from the PC game Lemmings! I'm guessing that's why it's named "Lemmy" and then has a logo of a rodent. I just thought it was a random name and a drawing of a mouse this whole time.

The War of the Worlds broadcast didn't cause mass hysteria, but it did cause some people to go outside and shoot at the nearest water tower.

What about the BBc documentary with the spaghetti trees?

On the lemmings one, have you never seen hexbear?

See, I was told that too, but no one bothered to explain what that means. I still have no idea what that actually means. What is a powerhouse?

No one tell them.

T H R I L L H O

“The atomic bombings were necessary” was something we were expected to internalize as an indisputable hard fact, like gravity and oxbow lakes.

I was taught it was about states rights, too. In Kentucky, they were less forceful about calling it the "war of northern aggression.

Did you get taught that some slaves liked being slaves because it meant all their needs were met and they didn't have to worry about anything?

Similarly, in the US Northeast, I learned about the civil rights movement as a solved problem, and that slavery was basically the only (and long gone) system of oppression we'd had. "Black and brown people have their equal rights now, carry on!"

I had a college professor, Honors US History, teach us that the Civil War was about trade, an agrarian society against an industrial society. Which makes sense and is true in part, but I wish I had known to bring up the various state letters of secession naming slavery as the #1 concern. LOL, Mississippi's is a doozy.

Wait, that’s not a thing?

My whole life is a lie.

I remember being like 7 and trying that out for myself by touching a lemon slice to different parts of my tongue. I think when I realised that it tasted sour regardless of where on my tongue I touched it to was when I first started questioning authority.

We did test it in school with different substances

I was like "I can mostly still taste it everywhere" and the teacher basically told me I was wrong

The idea, to me at least, wasn't that the regions were completely distinct, merely dominant.

Feathered dinosaurs are a thing.

Well, in fairness, kind of.

It's also on the wrong side of mostly if not all left leaning democracies. It prefers dictators over center democracies, and will send CIA dogs after any country that starts drifting left.

A bit curious here. How they did prove at first that T-Rex' vision was based in movement and then how they did prove that doesn't?

If I'm remembering correctly vision is movement based, but animals have lots of ways to deal with it. Humans and other species that can move their eyeballs just like vibrate their eyes. But birds like chickens rely more on head bob I think. Couldn't tell you what kind of muscles a tyranasaur has in its eyes.

Also being wrong on the Internet is the best way to find the right answer. So tell me how I'm wrong.

We had the Food Pyramid here in Canada, which is very similarly a lie pushed by the dairy and grain industries and not linked to any real health benefits.

And interestingly: no sense for wetness.

Acceleration, temperature, body configuration (positioning), pain, balance and hunger are all related to touch in one way or another.

Time, however, is legit. Along with emotion. Maybe you could call the 6th sense cognition?

Isn't acceleration just a sense of balance? Like you feel acceleration because the whatever fluid moves in your ears due to acceleration which is the same as balance.

You are missing CO² chemoception. Our lungs tell us if there is a lot stale air, but not if we are in a pure nitrogen environment.

They taught you that in school?

I still want whoever decided that "I before E except after C" should be taught to children locked up. Im almost 50, and I still spell "their" wrong if I dont concentrate.

Believe it or not, this rumor actually stretches all the way back to dianunzio from Italy in the 1940s.

He responded to this rumor in his autobiography saying "If I really got my ribs removed, I would have been busy sucking my own dick on The Wonder Years instead of chasing Winnie Cooper. Plus, who really has time to be killing puppies when you can be sucking your own dick? I think I'm gonna call the surgeon in the morning"

Oh so we graduated almost at the same time it seems.

Also "the 5 senses". It depends on how you define "sense" there's at least a dozen to over 20.

In the era, "spare the rod, spoil the child" was considered good advice. If that's how even loved ones were treated … slaves treated well? Press X to doubt.

I was fed the line that NORTHERNERS treated their slaves well.

I have been reading through this book on the matter: The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14894629-the-half-has-never-been-told

The descriptions of violence toward slaves is heavily discussed and is quite eye-opening to me, since this is not the version I was taught in school!

Yeah, but that doesn't stop baby toy markers from including that shit in every product

Mobile web design is my passion

There needs to be something about so-called "junk DNA" added to this.

I can't say I've ever heard the one about classical music making people "smarter", but it would not surprise me if some music is simply more distracting than others. Most classical music is inoffensive enough to the ears that it's ok to use as background noise, and the lack of lyrics avoids distracting language processing.

What I'd be more curious about though is if there is any significant impact to quality of work during tests/study time/reading time with background noise like classical music versus just having dead silence.

I mean it technically still is. de jure at least

It's like this:

We need the "under an fascist hybrid regime with a judicial junta (aka: "supreme court") and a mostly rubber-stamp legislature filled with cultists" to the label in the USA page.

Edit: Worth reading the discussion page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:United_States

Also the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

I agree. A much better test is whether you wear a red MAGA cap.

Racial supremacist preferred narratives favour suppressing evidence that Polynesians could navigate larger Pacific before Europeans could navigate Atlantic. But simply artifacts predate the "land bridge theory timing"

Always a planet, fuck scienctists! (Seriously, nerdy chicks are hot, fuck them.")

Average cluttered orbital neighborhood fan

Vs

Binary dwarf planet Pluto - Charon system enjoyer

Part of the reason Pluto's classification hit so hard in the US is that it's the only 'planet' ever discovered by an USian astronomer. That national pride made the 2006 decision sting more than elsewhere. Some of the top figures from the AAS even challenged the legitimacy of the decision afterwards.

(I copy-pasted this comment for the third time even though I don't like to do that, but it's important to know where does such reaction come from : partly from pure national pride)