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What is the one most astonishingly dumb things that, as a child, you believed was absolute truth? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I dont remember the age, but it was before Kindergarten, thought men came into the house at night to load the next days shows into the TV.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tbf, schools did a terrible job of that by giving us all those diagrams with the different sections of taste buds highlighted on the tongue.

It makes sense that a child would see that and understand it as there being different taste sections, especially because they usually (IIRC) had bitter on both sides.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

It wasn't just children understanding it that way the teachers also believed it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wait... it's not?? Then why do I taste bitter only on the back of my tongue?