• Most outrageous / unbelievable lies
  • Most offensive / dangerous lies
  • Most “adult meant it as genuine advice but it’s laughably out of touch” lies
  • Lies you wish you still believed
  • Lies you took as truth and didn’t question it until you were way too old
  • threeonefour@piefed.caEnglish
    53·
    9 days ago

    My health class was taught by our gym teacher and she was terrible at it. Some points I remembered being taught:

    • Hypertension is when the hamstrings of your legs shrink because you don’t stretch every morning. Hypertension can kill you, so make sure you stretch.
    • All drugs make you hallucinate. Every single one of them. Usually dragons. People die on drugs because they’re trying to get away from the dragons and jump off buildings or run into traffic.
    • Babies have super suction power which they use to breastfeed. An adult cannot get milk from a breast because they can’t suck hard enough.

    I learned these were wrong after starting secondary school where biology was taught by someone who studied biology. Except for the breastfeeding thing. That one was through personal research.

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
      301·
      9 days ago

      Except for the breastfeeding thing. That one was through personal research.

      ಠ_ಠ

    • Lilac@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      19·
      9 days ago

      I still remembered how very surprised I was when I learned that breast can produce milk without the woman beeing/having been pregnant or taking Hormones. Legit it’s my anatomy, how did I learn that basic stuff in some kink context instead of anywhere else. I mean I don’t know a practical use of that knowledge outside of that either, but it did fundamentally change how I understand breast/hormones/the body.

      • Godric@lemmy.world
        4·
        8 days ago

        That’s what happens when you do drugs, you end up chasing a dragon, which ends up much worse than running from one.

        • Gym teacher, probably