The Biggest Lies They Ever Taught You In Science Class

By this point, you've probably discovered that not everything you learned in history class was true. Christopher Columbus didn't discover America, and George Washington didn't chop down a cherry tree. But surely everything you learned in science class was accurate, right? Unfortunately, no. A lot of what you were taught in science class, particularly in elementary school, was an oversimplification of the truth, while other things were just flat-out misconceptions. From the truth about how many senses we really have (even the non-Haley Joel Osments among us) to the thing about taste buds we all had wrong, let's take a look at the biggest lies they ever taught you in science class.