Elite Facts Presents
7 RIDICULOUS LIES We Were Taught In School
7.
We only use 10 percent of our brains Lies.
Lies and slander!
There is a common myth saying we can only use about 10 per cent of our brain, therefore
implying that we are only tapping at the surface of our vast potentials.
Now, It seems reasonable.
I mean we as a human race are only getting smarter and smarter….Well most of us but
In reality, neurologist Barry Gordon has destroyed that myth.
Although the origins of that myth are still a mystery, what Barry has found out is that
we use 10 per cent of our brains when we are at rest or thinking.Barry goes on to explain
that we use almost every part of our brain, and that the brain is active almost all of
the time.
He states that the brain weighs only about three per cent of the body's weight but
uses up 20 per cent of the body's energy.Even during sleep where most people assume the
brain is least active, the brain is still hyper sensitive.
Through imaging and mapping, neuroscientists have concluded that we use virtually all of
our brains throughout the day.
6.
Coal is used to make diamonds This one is a fairly common misconception
that i'm sure that almost everyone has fell for.
Everyone in school believes that diamonds are made from coal when it is highly compressed,
but this is yet another lie of many that we are told throughout our tenure at school.
In actuality, diamonds are formed in vertical shafts filled with rocks that are formed by
volcanoes.
In fact, coal and diamonds are very rarely found in the same area.
Coal is most often found near the surface of the Earth, while diamonds can be found
in the Earth's mantle, and are carried up by volcanic eruptions.
One thing that is true about this lie, is that diamonds are formed by intense heat and
pressure, but from carbon rather than coal.
5.
Blood is blue The myth that deoxygenated blood is blue arises
from the fact that our veins appear to be blue.
I mean it's a common theory that i'm sure all of us have fell for.
The myth goes that blood turns red when it is exposed to oxygen, which is why we bleed
red instead of blue.
However, this idea is completely false.
The reason our veins appear to be blue isn't because of oxygen or any sort of exposure
and reaction our blood gets outside of our wounds.
It's instead because of the way our eyes perceive colors.
When light is refracted through the layers of the skin, mostly blue light reflects back
to our eyes, making our veins look blue.
4.
Lincoln was Opposed to Slavery When we learn about Abraham Lincoln in school,
he is celebrated for being one of the greatest proponents for freeing the slaves.
However, the truth about Lincoln is a lot less heroic.
Lincoln didn't necessarily want to emancipate the slaves, he just wanted to make the Union
stronger and emancipating the slaves was a part of that.
Lincoln said, "If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves I would do it,
and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save
it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."
Lincoln's loyalty was with the Union, not the slaves.
3.
Einstein used to suck at maths Okay so i could totally be wrong about this
but has no one ever thought that maybe this was a little white lie told by a teacher to
make a student who's bad at math feel better after getting a bad grade during an exam?
No?
Okay moving on.
It has been touted that the great scientist, Albert Einstein was a horrible math student
who even failed some math tests!
This is a complete myth.
Not only was Einstein a fantastic maths student, he regularly ranked at the top of his class.
Einstein himself stated that he had 'never failed in mathematics.
Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.'
This myth may have been born out of the fact that while in University, Einstein began to
become more involved with physics than math.Over time, Einstein would begin to attend fewer
and fewer math courses and received a 4 out of 6 (the point scale back then) in mathematics
when he usually got a perfect score in his other courses.
He wrongly believed that physicists only needed an elementary understanding of mathematics
thus he decided to forego (or pay less attention) to the math courses.
This led to one of his professors infamously calling the soon to be "rockstar of science"
as we'd like to put ,"a lazy dog.'
Sorry kids struggling with math.
I recommend hitting the books harder.
Sorry but that's just the reality of the situation.
Hard work and studying pays off!
2.
Columbus Discovered that the earth is round In 1492, an Italian traveller by the name
of Christopher Columbus won his long-standing feud with the monarchy and the Catholic church
to get funding for a voyage to East Asia.
They were afraid that he would fail spectacularly, because back then, it was common knowledge
that the world as we know it was a flat disc, and the direction Columbus was sailing in
would cause him to fall off the edge and into the abyss.
Columbus, as we were told, did fail to reach his destination, but not because the world
was flat--it was because he crashed into the future land of the free.
Thus, Columbus proved the world was round, discovered America, and a national holiday
was born.
Roll out the barbecues and fireworks!
The truth however is that back In the 1400s, the flat-earth theory was taken about as seriously
as the Time Cube theory is today, if not less so.
The shape of the world has been pretty much settled since the orb theory was first proposed
by the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras, around 2,000 years before the existence of
Spain.
In fact, the navigational techniques of Columbus' time were actually based on the fact that
the Earth was a sphere.
Trying to navigate the globe as if it was a flat plane would have fucked up the trip
even more than it was.
The Spanish government's reluctance to pay for Columbus' expeditions didn't have anything
to do with their misconceptions about the shape of the world.
Ironically, it was because Columbus himself severely underestimated the size of the Earth
and everybody knew it.
So the question now is where did the myth come from?
It began with author and historical charlatan Washington Irving, who wrote a novel about
Columbus in 1838.
The novel was fiction, but some elements managed to creep into our history textbooks anyway,
probably by some editors who wanted to make it more interesting to readers.
1.
Ben Franklin Invented Lightning Did you know that Ben Franklin is the god
of lightning?
Yeah we totally made that up but the way school textbooks explain it, he might as well be!
He had quite the interest with electricity, and faced with intense skepticism from his
colleagues about his theory that lightning is in fact electricity, legend has it that
he conducted an experiment to prove them wrong.
Franklin, with a knowing wink, went out during an extremely dangerous thunderstorm and released
a kite with a lightning rod affixed to the top and a metal key attached to the string.
Eventually Thor got pissed that Franklin was waving his fancy kite in his face and eventually
struck the kite's rod.
The charge of energy passed down the string and into the key, and when Franklin touched
the key, it let off a spark of static, which somehow allowed him to discover electricity.
And then he was then introduced into the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Bald Thor.
Okay that last part didn't happen, However, The actual truth behind this is that although
it is true that Franklin at least proposed a kite experiment, but he never got around
to performing the experiment himself.
It should also be said that the experiment had nothing to do with lightning.
If someone flew a kite into a storm, and it was struck by lightning, there's a good chance
that person would be utterly destroyed.
In fact, everyone in the vicinity would at the least suffer from hairless-scalp syndrome.
While few people still believe that all of Franklin's innovations are actually attributable
to his pet mouse, the kite story is still widely accepted despite the unfortunate testimonies
of anyone who's ever been stupid enough to replicate it.
The reality of Franklin's experiment is that it simply involved flying a kite into some
clouds to collect a few harmless ions, in order to prove that the atmosphere carries
a charge.
It is through Franklin's discoveries that science was able to infer, later on, that
lightning probably has something to do with electricity.
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