A website I created devoted to all the “facts” that have been changed or proven false since you graduated high school. User submissions welcome.

  • LCP
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    14 days ago

    Ohhhhh you turned this into reality!

  • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    14 days ago

    I’ve seen a site like this before. It’s really difficult to put stuff in that feels right. Take the “people use 10% of their brain” think. I didn’t learn that. If anything, I learned we use all of our brain. In different classes I learned about the different parts of the brain. There was never anything like “and this is the part we don’t use.” Even in those old anti drug scare campaigns they’d show alcoholics’ brain scans about how messed up it was, and it was never “but it’s okay because we only use 10% of it.”

    That was just sort of a popular inaccurate fact that the movie trailer for Lucy got stuck in everyone’s mind. Based on the context of the trailer, it seems like they imply they make some sort of super soldier drug that makes people use 100% of their brain.

    So it becomes hard to really define because if schools are teaching it right but it’s still a common misconception, which side do you put it in? And I definitely still think people think people use 10% of the brain. Either way, Lucy was a 2014 movie.

  • moopet@sh.itjust.works
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    14 days ago

    One of those is wrong. The rest are things I’m fairly sure nobody really believed even as a child.

  • stom@sh.itjust.works
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    16 days ago

    Zero links to resources or sources backing up their claims. What a fucking joke.

    “Trust me bro”

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        15 days ago

        Oh good, more unverified slop.

        You could do better and make something credible.

        • Lka1988@sh.itjust.works
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          14 days ago

          OP: “Hey, check out my website idea! It’s still a work in progress, but let me know what you think!”

          You: “If it’s not 100% perfect with verifiable sources for every single fact ever then you suck and should feel bad until I’m happy”

          • stom@sh.itjust.works
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            13 days ago

            I’m not expecting perfection - citing your sources should be a basic element of the initial dataset.

            Currently the site is on par with “some guy at the pub said”

    • PunnyName
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      14 days ago

      You have the Internet at your fingertips. And most had at least a source you could fucking Google.