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What is something you learned in school that was later disproven?
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Growing up in school we were taught that whatever we learned was fact, gospel handed down by the giant graduation cap in the sky. However, I feel growing up a lot of what I learned as "fact" became much more..oppinon or was just plain wrong.

So I ask:

What is something you learned in school that was later disproven?

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Oooh I love this question actually.

"Brain cells don't get replenished".

Also

"The antikythera mechanism is almost certainly a hoax".

In both cases we're looking at 50-100 year old dogma that just went poof within a very short time.

I honestly suspect that the Younger Dryas Impact theory and an RNA basis for memory are going to move from fringe hypothesis to mainline accepted theories before I die.

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