15 Classroom Facts That Turned Out to Be Wrong

BuzzFeed's crowd-sourced list highlights 15 widely taught school facts that later research debunked, spanning taste maps on the tongue, Pluto’s planetary status, credibility of .org sites, Rosa Parks’s narrative, the food pyramid, glass as a flowing liquid, left-brain/right-brain myths, fat-focused dietary advice, T. rex lips, the Midnight Ride, pyramids built by slaves, Brontosaurus taxonomy, behavior genetics, exoplanet prevalence, and Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel colors—each item is explained with updated science or archaeology to show how our understanding has evolved.