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What did you get told as a child that you realised was a lie as you got older? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by CalciumDeficiency@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 49 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Christopher Columbus set out to prove that the Earth was round after eating an orange or something and that's how jesus discovered America

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Wait, what‽

[–] deezbutts@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

Mormon?

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

yea they taught this in school in the us

[–] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You probably had the same damn book I did, with an illustration of him eating an orange and seeing the wings of a butterfly coming up over it and supposedly realizing they look just like the sails of a ship and so, gasp, the world must be round like this orange!

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

yes Christopher Colombus exactly