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What weird false belief did you have as a kid? (lemmy.ca)

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[-] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 month ago

I swear a social studies teacher told us that most rivers tend to flow north to south. Young impressionable child I was, I of course filed it away as a long-term core memory -- right there next to PEMDAS, FOIL, and so on.

Then I mentioned it in college and got fucking embarrassed.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 month ago

I was taught the same. I got extra credit for memorizing that the Nile River was a "notable exception".

While I didn't go to school in Texas, our school district used material developed there. It figures.

[-] Vanth@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

Similar, I had one declare rivers flow towards the equator. Which is slightly better than claiming they all flow N to S, but still inaccurate.

Rivers flow downhill. That's it. In case anyone else needs to check their mental model of the world.

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