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RULES:
shit I still remember a primary school classmate explaining to me:
one sneeze is from dust
two sneezes in quick succession are from cold
three sneezes in quick succession are from allergies
It's been 30+ years, someone pls remove this nonsense from my brain π©
It's better than what we have now though, which is going "I think elephants are actually seals that got lost on the way to the south pole" and then going on the internet and searching until you find exactly what you already believe, and then forming a social group around that, then voting in politicians who think that until that stupid belief becomes mainstream and there are politicians debating in congress whether to invade Kenya to transport all the elephants to Antarctica.
Your face will not get stuck like that.
It is not illegal to turn on the light in the car while driving.
Bears do not sleep all winter long.
Bats are not blind.
Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day.
Searing a steak does not seal in moisture.
Waking a sleepwalker is not dangerous to their health.
:)
It is not illegal to turn on the light in the car while driving.
Wtf is this idea xDD Are you supposed to stop the car at the side of the road to turn on the lights? π
Washing the literal chicken shit off of mushrooms does not make them absorb water.
Seriously, wash your fucking mushrooms.
You won't get cramps if you jump in the pool soon after eating.
Lol no that's not true! If you did that, the teacher or the school nerd about this subject would challenge you. He will come to your house, ring your doorbell, and you'll go together to your city library. Unlike the internet, you could not just source some shit some-nobody made up and spread online. You had to prove it with hard-text published sourced papers.
We used to pay higher cost in money, time and effort in order to learn any topic. As a result, once you learn it, you hold it for life, and spread it and proudly challenge others about its truth everywhere you go, which pushes you to seek further.
Each room of our house still has a large bookshelf library. I never left any of the books which I personally bought untouched including those large expensive hard-cover multi-series encylopedias about physics, chemistry, mathetics, history, philosophy, language, geology, politics and everything. I had to read them at least once to learn their topics otherwise I would've lost that money.
Btw I'm not talking about school textbooks; no those we used to burn in celebration at the end of each year's graudation outside the parking lots!
Lol we really grew up in different times
We used to pay higher cost in money, time and effort in order to learn any topic.
Coughs in crippling student loan debt that no prior generation has ever known
lmao... not that type of cost! you're right dammit
Now you are permanently overwhelmed by a tsunami of misinformation spewing out of your addictive phone instead. Progress.
Fun fact: You can still order a current print volume of World Book Encyclopedia for the low price of $1,349.00
My parents got me this set of the Childcraft childrenβs encyclopaedias when I was like 6? I inhaled those things for knowledge back in the pre-internet days!
Am considering getting one for my own kiddo when they get old enough, but like most things from my childhood - they look to have been discontinued.
I'm willing to bet it's cheaper than ever, (inflation adjusted)
Honestly surprisingly inexpensive given that about what a set of encyclopedias would cost you 35+ years ago. Not sure about World Book specifically but I know Britannicas were over $1k in 1990 because I remember a door-to-door salesmen trying to sell them to me. Can't imagine anyone other than a library buying these now, and even there they're probably all collecting dust.
We only use 10% of our brains.
Tbf, they might have been right about themselves at the time they thought that.
We only use 10% of our brain at a time. Because using 100% of your brain is called a seizure.
Source: Once used 100% of my brain.
Or a really good orgasm.
Even that is a common misconception. Our brains are working fully, all the time.
Our brains are working fully, all the time.
Hey, speak for yourself
Most people in my life still don't fact check. I'm constantly chasing the truth while the convo runs away full of misinfo
I honestly have no idea how people can live like that. Yet I see it so often that I'm convinced it's the norm.
People like to live within their comfort zones. I remember a study being referenced that claimed to show introducing facts contrary to a personβs existing viewpoint donβt get them to change, it just made them double-down and be more defensive.
I remember looking up "dirty" words in the dictionary as a real young one with a gaggle of friends
People don't imagine what it was like then. It was wild. Wild in a sort of you're all alone all the time, except when you physically is hanging out or at home, and no one knows what's going on. At all. Some people have theories but they are insane. School teaches you things that are compley useless for living right now.