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โ€œFactsโ€ We Learned As Kids That Arenโ€™t Really True

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. Itโ€™s 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, โ€œWhat 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:

  • โ€œThat cracking your fingers gives you arthritis.โ€
  • โ€œThat people would be offering me free drugs all the time.โ€
  • โ€œThat blood is blue before it touches air.โ€
  • โ€œThat you canโ€™t use your notes in โ€˜real life.โ€™ WTF does that even mean? Iโ€™m always looking at my notes when I do my job.โ€
  • โ€œIf someone is picking on you, that means they like you.โ€
  • โ€œThat all my high school teachers and my college professors would require me to write in cursive.โ€
  • โ€œThis will go down on your permanent record.โ€
  • โ€œIf you touch a baby duck, itโ€™s 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€
  • โ€œThat I wouldnโ€™t have a calculator in my pocket.โ€
  • โ€œThat my middle school grades matter and would follow me through high school.โ€
  • โ€œThat tastebud zones are real.โ€
  • โ€œThat if I went to college I would get a good job and be able to buy a big house with a pool.โ€
  • โ€œThat my face was gonna get stuck like this ๐Ÿคช.โ€
  • โ€œWe 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€
  • โ€œThat being an astronaut was a plausible career option. It's way harder than they sell it.โ€
  • โ€œThat 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


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