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Educational => You need to know => Topic started by: Shamim Ansary on October 18, 2010, 06:21:35 PM

Title: Biggest Misconceptions We Learn in School
Post by: Shamim Ansary on October 18, 2010, 06:21:35 PM: Einstein got bad grades in school.

Generations of children have been heartened by the thought that this Nobel Prize winner did badly at school, but theyâ€™re sadly mistaken. In fact, he did very well at school, especially in science and maths (unsurprisingly).

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Post by: Shamim Ansary on October 18, 2010, 06:21:55 PM: Mice like cheese

Mice enjoy food rich in sugar as well as peanut butter and breakfast cereals. So a Snickers bar would go down much better than a lump of cheddar.

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Post by: Shamim Ansary on October 18, 2010, 06:22:14 PM: Napoleon was short.

He was actually around 5ft 7, completely average for the 18th/19th century.

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Post by: Shamim Ansary on October 18, 2010, 06:22:33 PM: Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.

Edison invented a lot of things â€“ in fact heâ€™s one of the most famous inventors of all time â€“ but the light bulb wasnâ€™t one of them. What he did was develop a light bulb at the same time as the British man, Joseph Swan, who came up with it originally.

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Post by: Shamim Ansary on October 18, 2010, 06:22:53 PM: Lemmings throw themselves over cliffs to commit suicide

The poor old things are sometimes so desperate for food that they do, according to the BBC â€œjump over high ground into waterâ€, but they arenâ€™t committing group suicide.

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Post by: Shamim Ansary on October 18, 2010, 06:23:45 PM: Water flushes differently in different hemispheres

No it doesnâ€™t. Sorry!

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Post by: Shamim Ansary on October 18, 2010, 06:24:01 PM: Humans evolved from apes

Darwin didnâ€™t actually say this, but heâ€™s been misreported ever since. What he did say was that we, and apes, and chimpanzees for that matter, had a common ancestor, once, a long, long time ago.

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Post by: Shamim Ansary on October 18, 2010, 06:24:19 PM: Vikings had horns/helmets with horns.

Vikings may have been buried with their helmets and with drinking horns. When they were dug up by the Victorians, they assumed that the helmets had horns.

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Post by: Shamim Ansary on October 18, 2010, 06:24:36 PM: Columbus believed the earth was flat

He may not have known how big the world was, but he wasnâ€™t worrying about falling off the edge of it.

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Post by: Shamim Ansary on October 18, 2010, 06:24:53 PM: Different parts of the tongue detect different tastes

You do have different taste buds on your tongue and some are more sensitive than others. But they arenâ€™t divided into perfect, easy-to-teach sections.

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