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If it wasn't in an encyclopedia, you just trusted word of mouth. (startrek.website)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I had a teacher in high school tell us that glass is an incredibly slow moving liquid, and that's why on really old buildings the glass is thicker at the bottom, because it has flowed and "pooled" like that.

I believed that for a good number of years and even repeated it a few times before finding out that no, it's not, and the reason some old glass is like that is simply because of the manufacturing process at the time, and that it was simply installed thick side down for aesthetic reasons, and that you can actually find old glass that is thicker at the side or top because it was installed differently.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I remember that one! What about how people thought we could only taste certain flavors with specific parts of our tongues.

That one really confused me as a kid

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The taste bud thing is even worse. There are zones of buds which specialize in certain tastes, but they are scattered around the whole tongue. The brain know their pattern and recognize them as you are tasting something.

Thought Emporium made a video about faking taste and between 5-11 he explains in depth.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't get me started on the 5% of our brains thing. Utter bullshit. There's no way I'm reaching even close to that number.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the giggle :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I used to touch things like salty stuff to different parts of my tongue and get confused about why I could taste them everywhere and wondered if there was something wrong with my tongue.