• Kushan@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Yeah I didn’t get taught any of the stuff mentioned for me either.

    One thing I did notice that wasn’t mentioned was the tongue map, that I was taught about in the 90’s - you know the one that said that your tongue has different areas for detecting different kinds of tastes - sweet at the front tip, sour at the back, that kind of thing. All bullshit.

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      3 months ago

      I remember even testing that one out as a kid, observing that it obviously wasn’t true, and bringing up my experience to my teacher. “No” was basically the only response I got. How did a myth like that catch on when it was so easily testable by literally anybody?

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      3 months ago

      the landing page mentions “your tongue has taste zones”. though on the other hand brontosauruses are real again