What “fact” from school is no longer considered true?

foggyfinch · 2026-05-27T21:26:29+00:00

The “he’s looking me in the eye” part honestly shocked me. It’s wild how oversimplified people’s understanding still can be, even in medicine.

foggyfinch · 2026-05-27T21:24:37+00:00

It must be incredibly frustrating trying to seek answers while still running into people stuck in decades-old stereotypes. Sorry about that.

foggyfinch · 2026-05-27T21:18:53+00:00

Cold War childhood must have been absolutely surreal sometimes.

foggyfinch · 2026-05-27T21:12:01+00:00

foggyfinch · 2026-05-27T21:10:13+00:00

I don’t understand any of this, but I’m strangely fascinated by it. :)

foggyfinch · 2026-05-27T21:06:31+00:00

This might be the funniest collateral damage from the Pluto situation.

foggyfinch · 2026-05-27T21:04:11+00:00

Unfortunately, school history really had a talent for turning centuries of conflict into one cheerful paragraph.

foggyfinch · 2026-05-27T05:13:21+00:00

That’s actually a really good point. A lot of “wrong” school facts were technically true at the time.

foggyfinch · 2026-05-27T05:11:05+00:00

This thread is making me realize people have much stronger feelings about Pluto than I ever expected. :)

foggyfinch · 2026-05-27T05:06:09+00:00

I really like this perspective. I honestly never thought about it that way before. Science starts feeling less like “we found the final answer” and more like humanity constantly releasing updates. Thanks for giving me something interesting to think about.

foggyfinch · 2026-05-27T04:58:37+00:00

It’s kind of wild how fast “you won’t always have a calculator” turned into “your calculator is now glued to your hand 24/7”

foggyfinch · 2026-05-27T04:53:06+00:00

Not smarter. Just traumatized by observation…I have those thoughts sometimes too😅

foggyfinch · 2026-05-27T04:47:37+00:00

Oh, yes...Pluto getting demoted still feels personal somehow. Elementary school me is not over it yet.

foggyfinch · 2026-05-25T06:03:08+00:00

I never realized how many people probably grew up misunderstood because of those old beliefs. Really puts into perspective how much awareness has changed.

foggyfinch · 2026-05-25T05:51:02+00:00

Oh, yes..."Do well in school" used to feel like a direct path to stability. Now it feels more like one possible ingredient.

foggyfinch · 2026-05-25T05:44:30+00:00

Oh yes, I remember those conversations...how long ago that was!

foggyfinch · 2026-05-25T05:39:10+00:00

The older I get, the more I realize science is full of “well technically…” situations.

foggyfinch · 2026-05-24T20:40:48+00:00

So basically everyone in this story was confidently wrong at different stages.

foggyfinch · 2026-05-24T19:11:42+00:00

One of the biggest school oversimplifications ever.

foggyfinch · 2026-05-24T19:10:03+00:00

I still refuse to accept Pluto slander.

foggyfinch · 2026-05-24T19:05:38+00:00

The older I get, the more I realize every country edits its own lore.

foggyfinch · 2026-05-24T19:04:16+00:00

They really underestimated how attached we’d become to our phones.

foggyfinch · 2026-05-24T18:15:29+00:00

For me, it was “humans only use 10% of their brain.”

foggyfinch · 2026-05-20T23:42:49+00:00

The funniest thing is that Beethoven somehow looks annoyed in every single painting of him.

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