this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago (3 children)

While the idea is great, this web page is pretty low effort. Check the facts for 1950 - they are the same as for the 90's.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's also weak on the sources. Like, a Vox article, really?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Vox is kind of like Wikipedia in the sense that you need to follow-up on their sources.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Yeah, you pick the 1940's and gives the human genome one. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure they weren't teaching that in high school considering wasn't even a word until 1920

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Only if you went to school in the USA.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Several of the items hit the nail for me (German), too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

May depend on the decade. Form mine it was little but pop science stuff.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Good lord that's a short list I would have thought there would be way more stuff on it...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

It is never too* late to learn and correct what we hold for true. I like the idea behind this website. Thanks for sharing.

*EDIT: learned & corrected to to too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Looks like the difference between to, too, and two is something we need to add to the list for whenever you went to high school!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I guess I was well-read as a teenager, because my era was the 1990s and I didn't buy into any of those myths.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’m similar apparently, or at least liked learning. 2000s.

I was pretty unimpressed with the list, I never believed some of them (like the genome) and learned most of them were wrong by high school.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I kind of feel like I wasn't even all that well-informed to be honest. I wasn't some super-genius teen. I just didn't buy any of that shit, especially about Columbus.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

food pyramid was created in 1992??? Am I having a mendela effect because I remember it way earlier than that?