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3 days agoI got: “We only use 10% of our brains. Modern neuroimaging has shown that we use most of our brain.” In the 90’s I thought this was not in fact, but urban legend, the whole time.
Also: “Christopher Columbus discovered America. Indigenous peoples had been living in the Americas for thousands of years before Columbus arrived.” I didn’t realize that it was implied no one was here when he came.
And yet, in the end, it was Amerigo Vespucci who the entire western lands were named after.