Things you believed all your life that turned out to be wrong.

[Enigmers]

Elementary schools are full of lies. They teach you things, and then you find out in your adult like that none of it is true! O_O

RELEVANT! [http://www.cracked.com/article_16101_the-5-most-ridiculous-lies-you-were-taught-in-history-class.html]

When I was really young I thought that your tongue was nailed to the back of your throat and if you put your finger in deep enough you could feel the heads of the nails.

No idea why.

Well, there's really big tastebuds (that is what those are, right? right!?) back there, so those could feel like nail heads, eh? (Apparently Opera doesn't feel "tastebuds" is a valid word; well eat it, Opera!)

My reasoning was basically "well, how else does it just stay there!?"

I don't remember finding anything feeling like nail heads, though. (Also, I've always learned "taste buds" as, like that, separate words, maybe your internet browser went to my school?)

 

[maninahat]

That being cynical makes you look any less naive.

 

[Zyst]

That there was no monster under my bed.. Until one day my friend's dog sneaked inside the house and slept under the bead for the night, but the bastard dog snores HARD.. Imagine waking up at 3am with clearly weird breathing sounds that don't sound human in the slightest. I was seriously traumatized for 2 years.

 

[lacktheknack]

Bill Nye is NOT a Science Guy.

I cried myself to sleep for months.

Uh, yes he is. He has a degree in mechanical engineering, was taught by Carl Sagan at one point, and designed parts for modern planes that are still used today. He became very involved in aeronautics before becoming Bill Nye the Science Guy.

Don't take every Facebook group you see as fact without question.

Facebook group? Huh?

No, it was in a magazine... by "Science Guy", we all imagine him to stand around in a lab all day doing cool experiments and occasionally blowing himself up.

But he doesn't.

 

[zelda2fanboy]

That I would have had at least one girlfriend by now. And/or a decent job.

 

[blindthrall]

Bill Nye is NOT a Science Guy.

I cried myself to sleep for months.

Uh, yes he is. He has a degree in mechanical engineering, was taught by Carl Sagan at one point, and designed parts for modern planes that are still used today. He became very involved in aeronautics before becoming Bill Nye the Science Guy.

Don't take every Facebook group you see as fact without question.

Well he's at least an engineer, which makes him more sciencey than most everybody on this board.

OT: That female hyenas didn't have penises.

 

[TJF588]

Parents could admit they can be wrong. It's like "Why can't you accept any other opinion! Do you even f****n respect me!

How could I forget this one?

It seems like I can't bring up a good discussion with my parents without them contradicting an obvious truth,
which makes the whole discussion turn into a political debate

My boss of sorts (volunteer gig that I haven't been to in a while) considers it extremely rude to "contradict" an adult, even if they're wrong, claiming that her daughter (13, 12 at the time) would sooner bite her tongue than contradict a teacher, and that she (boss)'d be embarrassed to find that she (daughter) had. I don't wholly agree with this, since I've caught teachers being wrong, but I do agree that there's a proper way to approach the matter, and that with kids, considering some of the examples in this thread, aren't in the most learned nor tactful positions to pull it off right, leaving it a safer bet just to weather through something (though I'd encourage them to ask or have something clarified, though preferably not in the middle of whatever it's part of).

...oh, right, topic again, um... Maybe the truth that storage media don't last 'forever', though I probably now worry about them not lasting nearly as long as they probably can.

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

No, it was in a magazine... by "Science Guy", we all imagine him to stand around in a lab all day doing cool experiments and occasionally blowing himself up.

But he doesn't.

Great, now I have reason to cry myself to sleep at night.

Here's another one:
I used to think that there was such a thing as the absolute. Something that cannot be debated, questioned, or argued due to the fact that it was so simple that no one could deny it. Now I know that things that could be absolute truth (religion, god/s, science, mathematics) are not and are all simply relative since it is impossible for any two people to think exactly the same way.

 

[KiruTheMant]

Chocolate was good for you.

 

[Bofore13]

I used to believe that humans were worth the trouble, but that was blown to tiny, somewhat metallic shreds when i actually payed attention to the world and realized that almost all of them were worthless, if not less than that.

 

[Avatar Roku]

I used to think that TV would remain at least halfway decent forever.

It still is. I mean, those reruns of Law and Order have to count for something, right?

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Bill Nye is NOT a Science Guy.

I cried myself to sleep for months.

Uh, yes he is. He has a degree in mechanical engineering, was taught by Carl Sagan at one point, and designed parts for modern planes that are still used today. He became very involved in aeronautics before becoming Bill Nye the Science Guy.

Don't take every Facebook group you see as fact without question.

Well he's at least an engineer, which makes him more sciencey than most everybody on this board.

OT: That female hyenas didn't have penises.

Wait..you mean it's true that female hyenas do? ...That is disturbing.

 

[Scumpernickle]

Chocolate was good for you.

DARK chocolate is good for you.

 

[Nalesnik]

1) That science, and the scientific method is boring - Turns out it's one of the most interesting things I've ever known.

2) At a certain arbitrary age (18-21) you have to stop having fun, and become a boring "adult." - So glad this one turned out to be wrong. =D

3) Cartoons are for kids. - (they're not =p )

4) Having sex before marriage is bad.

5) Morality is absolute - It actually differs between the ages, back then is was ok to stone prostitutes, now it's not. Who knows, maybe in 1000 years, pedophilia will be considered ok. *shrug*

 

[USSR]

I used to think Pluto was a planet.

*crying*

WHYY!!!!

 

[lacktheknack]

Chocolate was good for you.

DARK chocolate is good for you.

In small amounts, obviously.

 

[Boxpopper]

For a few years I didn't know that as long as you didn't get shot or something, you would live forever.

 

[Rancid0ffspring]

The Tooth Fairy... Then I watched that episode of South Park. It was a dark time in my life *sob*