People Are Sharing The Things They Were Taught In School That Are Actually Lies, And Truth Bombs Are Being Dropped

    "That your blood is blue until it touches oxygen."

    Krista Torres
    by Krista Torres

    BuzzFeed Staff

    TikTok user @officialtiktoknurse recently asked people to share the things they were taught in school that they later found out were lies:

    She was told that she won't always have a calculator or GPS on her...and she now carries both around in her pocket every day.

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    Which, OK, OK, what she was taught was a generational thing. How were teachers back then supposed to know Steve Jobs would change our lives forever?! Anyway, other people started sharing legit things that we were all probably taught that are, in fact, lies.

    TV Land

    Here's what people said:

    "That you can't use 'because' to start a sentence."

    NBC

    You actually can start a sentence with a conjunction and it'll still be grammatically correct.

    "That we would use cursive."

    Nickelodeon

    Many schools do not even teach cursive anymore. There are only 21 states that require cursive handwriting to be taught.

    —@mitchellxover

    "That Christopher Columbus discovered America."

    Sky TV

    Leif Eriksson was a Viking explorer who is believed to have led the first European expedition to North America.

    —@kayleesanders52

    "That hibernation is just animals sleeping the whole winter."

    Bravo

    Hibernation is technically not sleeping. It is an extended form of torpor, a state where metabolism is depressed to less than 5% of normal.

    —@nicole.uguzzoni

    "Go to college, they said. Get a degree, they said. If not, you'll end up a garbage man or an electrician, they said. However, here's what they failed to say: You can make up to $50 an hour just being a garbage man or an electrician or entering a trade like that. You don't actually need extra learning for that because they train you on the job."

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    "Why is getting a degree better? Why have we all held college and degrees on this pedastal?"

    —@ethanzacharymusic

    "Teacher: 'Excuse me, Mr. Wilson, you're not going to make anything out of yourself if you keep staring out that window looking at the landscape company — you're never going to make it staring out a window.' I make double your annual salary looking out of a little 4 x 2 window...I'm a welder. Oh, and another thing, they kept telling me I wasn't going to make it anywhere if I kept playing on my phone and not paying attention in class. You don't even know what my stock portfolio looks like. I get paid a lot of money just to 'play' on a stock app."

    —@hunterwilson025

    "That you have to wait an hour after you eat to go swimming."

    NBC

    This is a myth that was started because after you eat, blood flow to your stomach and intestines increases to absorb the nutrients from the food. So, it was thought that if you were swimming, there would be less blood to deliver oxygen and remove waste products from your exercising muscles. But you really have more than enough oxygen to supply your stomach and muscles.

    —@saruh182

    "If you swallow gum, it doesn't digest for seven years."

    Disney

    Your stomach can't break down gum the same way it breaks down food, but your digestive system can move it along through normal intestinal activity.

    —@lvmjinni

    "Math will never change. Once you learn it, you're done."

    NBC

    Prime example that math changes: Common Core math.

    —@lvmjinni

    "That your blood is blue until it touches oxygen. That is a lie."

    ABC

    If you didn't know, your blood is red. The blue hue of your veins has more to do with how your eyes absorb and see color than the color of the blood itself.

    —@mackenziesanchez74

    "That I was going to have to use algebra and geometry when I became an adult. That's all some bullshit. I never had to solve for 'x' once I became an adult."

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    —@hotmessexpresspinkystyle

    "They told me that the more degrees you get in your field, the more you're going to be desirable for a position and you're actually going to get more money for it. That is a complete lie — it's actually gotten me less positions and some positions I've been over-qualified for and I didn't receive any more pay."

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    —@dreadbehemoth

    "We only use 10% of our brains."

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    The majority of our brain is always active.

    —@lvmjinni

    "In high school, they tell you that your college professors are going to be so strict, they're not going to let anything fly. And then you get to your first college class and you find out that your professor is actually just some guy named Steve that walks around in pajamas, carries a pet rat in his pocket, and says he doesn't mind if you're late to class — as long as you bring him a coffee."

    NBC

    —@roxiqt

    What's something you were taught that you now know is a complete lie? Tell us in the comments!