We hear all kinds of things as kids that we tend to believe, like that swallowing watermelon seeds can make a watermelon grow in your stomach. Itโs not until you grow up that you realize some of what you thought was true is actually a load of B.S. A Redditor got everyone thinking about this when they asked, โWhat did you learn in elementary school that turned out to be false/ a lie when you reached adulthood?โ
More than 14-thousand comments have come in so far and these are some of the best:
- โThat cracking your fingers gives you arthritis.โ
- โThat people would be offering me free drugs all the time.โ
- โThat blood is blue before it touches air.โ
- โThat you canโt use your notes in โreal life.โ WTF does that even mean? Iโm always looking at my notes when I do my job.โ
- โIf someone is picking on you, that means they like you.โ
- โThat all my high school teachers and my college professors would require me to write in cursive.โ
- โThis will go down on your permanent record.โ
- โIf you touch a baby duck, itโs mother will reject it.โ
- "That when bears hibernate, it's one really, really long nap. Apparently bears just nap a lot in the winter, and it's not a three-month mega-nap.โ
- โThat I wouldnโt have a calculator in my pocket.โ
- โThat my middle school grades matter and would follow me through high school.โ
- โThat tastebud zones are real.โ
- โThat if I went to college I would get a good job and be able to buy a big house with a pool.โ
- โThat my face was gonna get stuck like this ๐คช.โ
- โWe had a teacher tell us that we only had so many uses before our vocal cords stopped working, so wasting it small-talking during class would cause us to go mute in our 30s.โ
- โThat being an astronaut was a plausible career option. It's way harder than they sell it.โ
- โThat cheaters never win in the end; only good people succeed.โ
- And finally, "Turning on the light in the car is illegal.โ
Source:ย Reddit