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I went to a Christian private school.That list would take down the website for days!

https://yourschoolgotwrong.com/

Antibiotics aren't for viruses. Cold air doesn't make you sick. Tongues don't have "taste zones." Muscles don't have memory.

And because you threw up for one day, you didn't have "the 24hr flu." You ate something bad or someone didn't wash their hands. The flu is short for influenza, which is a respiratory virus, which typically does not make you throw up and shit. More likely it was the dodgy gas station sushi.

Let's keep going...

https://yourschoolgotwrong.com/

Better still there were a bunch of facts that were false when they were taught to you but for some reason were still taught to you.

Like the obvious one, the tongue doesn't actually have different regions on it for tasting different things, a fact that you probably didn't believe even back then because anyone with a sugar cube and 5 minutes can disprove that.

Actually, this is a really really amazing idea.

Set country as an option, and private/public school (different lies...)

It'd be great to let us all face our biases ^_^

Even just the map of the world is outdated pretty much by the time it's taught.

In 2023 Micronesia made a fairly minor change from the former name, "Federated States of Micronesia". But, in 2022 Turkey now wants you to use its metal name: Türkiye.

Then there's the new country of South Sudan, Bougainville on its way to splitting from Papua New Guinea. And Kosovo shows another problem -- whether its an independent country or not depends on who you ask. That includes regions like South Ossetia, Transnistria, Catalonia and Taiwan.

Then there are things that students are taught that we've known are wrong for over a century, but the fully correct version is too complex for anything below a university course. Like, Newton's laws are appropriate for high school, but they're known to be incorrect and are simplifications of Einstein's refinements. But, they're close enough for most purposes, and understanding Einstein's stuff is pretty hard. Same with models of the atom.

And, history is another subject where the deeper you dig, the more the generalizations you're taught are shown to be wrong. The names and dates might be the same, but the reason X happened is often a whole lot more complex than the simple reasons given in high school.

"When and where did you graduate"

Texas: 2024

"... How can you even read this?"

Just read the wikipedia list of common misconceptions

I went to religious school. Graduated thirty four years ago. That list would be mighty long.

Might work for some countries, but the problem is that schools in the USA completely lack centralization: each school district is its own separate governing body. Jason was taught that Pilgrims to America were persecuted Christians seeking adventure and made treaties with Natives, while Derek was taught about socioeconomic nuances of 17th-19th Europe leading to incentivized settlements particularly attractive to hardcore religious extremists who then waged relentless war on the Native Americans.

There are no Universal Lies that everybody was taught, except for Dark Matter.

Back in my day the only planets we knew of were the ones in our solar system.

ITT: People misinterpreting the idea as "facts that your school taught wrong", when it's really saying, "things that have changed since you went to school" (either through a change in definition or by new research).

E.g. If you went to school before the early 2000's, you were taught that Pluto is a planet, while that is no longer true since it was recategorized in 2006.

We could call it thefactsbook

I could throw a site together if the community is willing to help curate the data.

From what I read here are some keys to follow:

Year Taught: Year of irrelevance: Country: Fact:

I could throw a form together for submissions to feed this site. Thoughts?

There are 9 planets…

I've actually seen a website that is exactly this.

Can't remember the URL, but can confirm it exists (existed?) and it was an interesting website to read.