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applegrove

(118,018 posts)
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 12:12 AM Jul 2020

Weird things you were taught in public school:

I was taught more than once that you can't eat the liver of a polar bear because it has too much vitamin A. And i don't know why. I am several thousand miles from polar bears here in ottawa.

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Weird things you were taught in public school: (Original Post) applegrove Jul 2020 OP
Well now I have learned something. Marie Marie Jul 2020 #1
I was taught my kitty would NOT be with me in heaven. angstlessk Jul 2020 #2
LOL! applegrove Jul 2020 #4
Actually meat eating predatory animals I_UndergroundPanther Jul 2020 #3
I was taught hiding under my desk would save me from a nuclear bomb Bayard Jul 2020 #5
Classic. applegrove Jul 2020 #6
My fourth grade teacher told us about Jack the Ripper with this one change: no_hypocrisy Jul 2020 #7

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
2. I was taught my kitty would NOT be with me in heaven.
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 12:20 AM
Jul 2020

The day I became an atheist at age 9

P.S. Went to Catholic school...found out latter they had blessings for pets!

Bayard

(21,805 posts)
5. I was taught hiding under my desk would save me from a nuclear bomb
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 12:48 AM
Jul 2020

It must have worked, because I'm still here.

no_hypocrisy

(45,772 posts)
7. My fourth grade teacher told us about Jack the Ripper with this one change:
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 05:23 AM
Jul 2020

She told us he ripped up "dancehall girls". Not prostitutes.

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