• Almost everything I learned in school has changed/been found incorrect, outside of English and Math (and even a little bit of English as language evolves over time). From history finding new lore, to scientific discoveries being made/nullified that change our understanding of things.

    It’s actually kind of amazing how far we’ve been able to go while working on incorrect assessments of things.

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      It used to be common knowledge to rub lemons on your nipples to stop leprechauns from stealing your dingaling but now I search for it and not a single result.

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    19 hours ago

    The more you learn about memory the more you realise that doing this is totally justified.

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    18 hours ago

    I remember when we used to eat 4 spiders a year. I just checked. Now the number has gone up to 8 before getting debunked again.

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      Welcome to the parallel universe where the blobfish doesn’t actually look like that when it’s alive, it just gets swollen after it’s killed and taken to the surface because of the pressure difference

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    18 hours ago

    Wait is it Willim Penn or Sean Penn who founded Pennsylvania? I’m pretty sure, but not 100%

    You don’t have to search but no one will ever know if you do.

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    Honestly, that’s a super green flag. I appreciate it a lot when people don’t blast some bs they think they have heard from whomever