• lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I swear a social studies teacher told us that most rivers tend to flow north to south. Young impressionable child I was, I of course filed it away as a long-term core memory – right there next to PEMDAS, FOIL, and so on.

    Then I mentioned it in college and got fucking embarrassed.

    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I was taught the same. I got extra credit for memorizing that the Nile River was a “notable exception”.

      While I didn’t go to school in Texas, our school district used material developed there. It figures.