10 Things That Were Taught In School Which Were Actually A Myth

• 8:05 am May 24, 2018
• Hazel

When we were kids, we used to blindly believe whatever was thought to us, especially in the school. We loved talking about the facts that we used to learn and which we thought were the truth! But not everything you have learned in your school is the truth. There are things that we were taught that were actually just myths. Yes, you read right! Myths were taught to you because school is mostly dependent on the textbooks. And we probably believed most of the facts that were thought to us.

We only Use 10% Of Brain

Our teachers taught us that we use only 10% of our brain our entire life.

The humans use only 10 percent of the brain, myth is a widely maintained urban legend.

It is a misconception that many people have, including Albert Einstein. Which is probably not true!

Trojan Horse

The Trojan Horse is a tale from the Trojan War about the bluff that the Greeks used to enter the independent city of Troy and win the war.

Among other Greek myths, this one is a myth that was taught to us in school that we believed blindly!

5 Sense Organs

Since childhood, we have read that there are 5 sense organs.

But there are more than 5 sense or organs. And they include about 20 senses including a sense of space, vibration, time, direction, and temperature.

Edison Invented Light

Who invented the electric light? No, it wasn’t Thomas Edison. Humphrey Davy and Joseph Swan, two lesser-known inventors, who won a patent lawsuit against Edison, both developed working electric lights well before Edison.

But the whole sole credit of invention of light is given to Thomas Edison.

Blue viens

When your veins appear blue the myth that we had learned was that they’re blue because the blood in veins is deoxygenated.

While it’s true that venous blood vessels carry a lower concentration of oxygen than their arterial counterparts, this isn’t the reason for their blue appearance on your skin.

Columbus Discovered America

Columbus landed on various Caribbean islands that are now the Bahamas as well as the island later called Hispaniola.

He also explored the Central and South American coasts. But he didn’t reach North America, which, was already inhabited by Native Americans, and he never thought he had found a new continent.

Norse explorer Leif Erikson reached Canada perhaps 500 years before Columbus was born, and there are some who believe that Phoenician sailors crossed the Atlantic much earlier than that.

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The Great Wall Of China

The Great Wall of China is one of the few man-made structures visible from orbit. And it's the only human artifact on Earth visible from the moon.

This is what we had taught but it is false, say, astronauts and remote-sensing specialists.

It has become a space-based myth!

The Great Wall of China, which is said to be the only man-made object visible from space, generally isn't, at least to the unaided eye in low Earth orbit.

It certainly isn't visible from the Moon.

Pyramid Builder

The ancient Greek historian Herodotus once portrayed the pyramid builders as slaves, creating what Egyptologists say is a myth propagated by Hollywood films. Well, is it?

Graves of the builders were first found nearby in 1990 by a tourist. Egypt's chief archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, said the discovery reveals the workers were paid laborers and not slaves.

Einstein Didn’t Know Maths

He did okay in math, but he did miss the entrance exam to the Zurich Polytechnic when he first took it.

When he was about 1 1/2 years away from graduating high school, at age 16, and hadn’t had a lot of French, the language in which the exam was given.

Evolution From Apes

Humans did not evolve from apes, gorillas or chimps. We are all modern species that have followed various evolutionary paths, though humans share a common ancestor with some primates, such as the African ape.