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[โ€“] echodot@feddit.uk 62 points 5 months ago (21 children)

Better still there were a bunch of facts that were false when they were taught to you but for some reason were still taught to you.

Like the obvious one, the tongue doesn't actually have different regions on it for tasting different things, a fact that you probably didn't believe even back then because anyone with a sugar cube and 5 minutes can disprove that.

[โ€“] Hobbes@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago

It was a mistranslation of a German paper. Somehow it stuck

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