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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWeird 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
My fourth grade teacher told us about Jack the Ripper with this one change:
no_hypocrisy
Jul 2020
#7
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)1. Well now I have learned something.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)2. I was taught my kitty would NOT be with me in heaven.
The day I became an atheist at age 9
P.S. Went to Catholic school...found out latter they had blessings for pets!
applegrove
(118,018 posts)4. LOL!
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,450 posts)3. Actually meat eating predatory animals
Have inedible livers due to concentrations of vitamin A.
Bayard
(21,805 posts)5. I was taught hiding under my desk would save me from a nuclear bomb
It must have worked, because I'm still here.
applegrove
(118,018 posts)6. Classic.
no_hypocrisy
(45,772 posts)7. My fourth grade teacher told us about Jack the Ripper with this one change:
She told us he ripped up "dancehall girls". Not prostitutes.