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I made a website that tells you, based on the year you graduated high school, what your school (probably) got wrong!
(yourschoolgotwrong.com)
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2023
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I went in hoping to learn some cool knew facts and already knew them all. Feels bad man.
Also seemed like more so myths than stuff that was actually taught and then later revised.
Check out Wikipedia's List of Common Misconceptions.
That was a trip
Yeah, that was my big issue with the sites content. I wanted to find a list of obscure things taught wrong by decade, but all I could track down were a few myths that were shared across many different decades, so it led to the current (and imperfect) result.
I want to try and update the site to be more focused on what you mention - things that were taught and later revised, but the only way I can think to do that so far is track down old textbooks and compare them to what's known now, which I'm not sure the best/most efficient way to do that, or even where to find textbooks by year.
All this to say, hopefully I'll be able to improve the site in due time to make it better represent different facts and whatnot