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Which scientific 'fact' from school do you secretly think might be rubbish?
From the food pyramid to the tongue taste map, plenty of classroom 'science' has aged like milk left out in a heatwave. Which one do you reckon deserves a proper kicking?
Put the items in your preferred order.
A
We only use 10% of our brains
Peddled by self-help gurus and Hollywood for decades, despite neuroscientists rolling their eyes into the back of their (fully used) skulls. Still, it makes us feel like untapped geniuses.
B
Humans evolved in a neat line from apes
That iconic image of a hunched chimp gradually standing into a businessman? Wildly misleading. Evolution is more a tangled bush than a tidy queue at Greggs.
C
The tongue has separate taste zones
Drawn in every Year 7 textbook, debunked roughly five minutes after you left school. Your whole tongue tastes everything, thanks very much.
D
Goldfish have a 3-second memory
Used to justify keeping them in tiny bowls for decades. Turns out goldfish remember things for months, which is more than can be said for most of us after a night out.
E
Eating before swimming will kill you
Generations of British kids forced to sit miserably beside the pool clutching a soggy ham sarnie. The science was always shaky, but the trauma was real.
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