What were you taught in school that has been disproven in your lifetime? – 17 debunked factoids
13.
‘I remember that time when we were listening to a tape recording about the Solar System and filling out a worksheet at the same time, and the nice lady on the tape said something like “The planet Saturn has four beautiful rings.” This was literally one week after the photos from Voyager (2, I think) reached Earth and showed that Saturn in fact has many more rings, themselves made up of hundreds of ringlets. Or something like that.’
-robaato72
14.
‘In 1975, in a science class for business majors, we were taught to fear the coming Ice Age, and the Population Bomb.’
-slbkmb
15.
‘The food pyramid of the 1990s.
It has since become a more widely known fact that meat and dairy corporations heavily influenced their place in it. This was also in the Got Milk? marketing era that was plastered all over schools at the time.’
-clickbaitscammer
16.
‘Hide underneath a desk if you want to survive a nuclear explosion. Or sit against the wall in the hallways. It changed while I was in elementary school.’
-markmakesfun
17.
‘I am not blind yet and I have been putting in the work.’
-lunaticskies