When we learn something in school we automatically believe it to be true. After all that's kind of the point of it. However overtime things change, new information comes to light and what we once believed was true turns out to be wrong. Sometimes, it isn't even the case of new information, Sometimes myths somehow entered our classrooms and were accepted as fact. So in this list ill be showing you 5 lies you were taught in school. ------------------------------------------------------- Vlog Channel: http://www.youtube.com/more5 Twitter: https://twitter.com/OfficialAll5 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sam_all5 Website: http://www.All5.me ------------------------------------------------------- 5) Chameleons camouflage We've always been taught that chameleons camouflage with their surroundings as a way of not being seen. However the truth is they change colours for a variety of reasons. Changing colours is part of normal mating behavior to find a mate. They also do it as a way to regulate their body temperature. By changing their colour from light to dark they absorb more heat and vice versa. 4) Christopher Columbus discovered America When you hear the name Christopher Columbus you automatically think that he discovered America and also discovered that the world was round. The truth is he wasn't the first to discover neither. About 2,000 years before Columbus lived, Greek Mathematicians created theories that the earth was round. As for discovering America, a viking explorer named Leif Erikson actually discovered it a good 500 years before Columbus was born. 3) Humans evolved from chimpanzees. Evolution is a subject that divides many people. From a strict scientific point of view it's not true that we evolved from monkeys. While yes we share a common ancestor with chimpanzees, we split off to form a different specie a good 6 million years ago. The same example can be found in other animals. Crocodiles share a common ancestor with dinosaurs, but they didn't evolve directly from dinosaurs. Birds on the other hand did, we can safely say they evolved from a group of small meat eating dinosaurs that include Velociraptors. 2) There is no gravity in space. Technically speaking there is gravity in space. If there wasn't there would be absolute chaos and life wouldn't exist. While granted the gravity in space is a hell of a lot weaker than here on earth. It's still there, because if it wasn't the moon for example wouldn't stay in orbit. You see all objects have a gravitational pull, including you. Obviously the bigger the mass the bigger the gravitational pull. When speaking about things as big as stars and planets, the gravity is strong enough to lock in other smaller planets into an orbit. This is why when everyday you wake up and the sun and moon haven't disappeared. 1) Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Thomas Edison was no doubt a great inventor but he may have been given too much credit than he actually deserved. For starters his greatest invention the light bulb wasn't actually his. You see Thomas Edison was more of a savvy businessman than a inventor. He bought the patent for an incandescent bulb from the widow of an inventor named Heinrich Goebel. But that's not all, in fact around 22 other inventors already were playing around with incandescent bulbs before Edison had his breakthrough. The fact of the matter is, Edison was more like Bill Gates. It would be wrong to say Bill Gates invented the computer, but its fair to say he was the first to properly mass market the idea and get it in every household.
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