When we were growing up we were taught certain things that we knew were true. Now we realize that some, if not most of that was, for lack of a better term, a lie. From Columbus discovering America where people already lived to oxygenated blood is red and deoxygenated blood is blue are total falsehoods. I as well as many of us that were raised 'back in the day' believed that what our teachers told us was 'written in stone' and true to be believed.

There are quite a few incorrect facts that we have taken as truth.

Tilting your head back to stop a nose bleed, camel's hump's store water, to the five-second rule for food that falls on the floor. We were lied to.

Check out some of the other 'truths' we were told were true that are not.

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