Redditor Own_Championship7862 wanted everyone to share some off-the-wall facts, so they asked:
"What’s an unusual fact that most people don’t know?"
I have no odd and fabulous facts to share.
So teach me. I am a sponge.
Keep them All!!
Friends Infomercial GIFGiphy"When someone gets a kidney transplant they generally just cram the new one in and don't take out the old ones. So the person ends up with three kidneys."
Optimal_Towel
"They continue this with multiple kidney transplants too. Had a patient recently on her third transplant and yep, there are five kidneys crammed into her abdomen. Too risky to take any of the other ones out."
baconboy73
Body Works
"When going to surgery for a gunshot, we don't typically search for bullets. The body will encapsulate it to protect itself."
New-Inspector-9628
"As I remember Rene Pretre a worldwide famous surgeon talking about this: There's a lot more about the decision to either leave the bullet or do get it out. It depends on a lot of factors. In the old times, as medicine was not that good, it was a thing that they could not get the bullets out when it was in a difficult position inside the bodies. Today, it's different."
"Also, it depends on the bullet itself, not every bullet stays solid - a bullet can be halfway shattered without having the effect of a dumdum bullet, later in the process of healing it could still be that fragments get off and make problems. Today, it's also easier to prevent and treat infections, this was a big killer in the old times."
Diacetyl-Morphin
Growing and Growing
"I have recently learned that Lobsters don't display senescence which is the deterioration of the body as it ages. Their bodies are continuously growing and their exoskeletons get heavier and heavier, hence when they molt into a new exoskeleton it takes more and more energy to take off the old one."
"Eventually they die because one day they just go, 'Yeeeeeaaaah sooo like this exoskeleton is too heavy so imma just go meet Lobster God and head out from the mortal world.'"
"Now a thought... If a group of people helped a lobster shed it's exo- skeleton... And if said lobster kept growing... Technically, a giant lobster could be brought into existence should the lobster not die from old age."
FunnyComedian8290
Get Out
"More eels swim out of the Bermuda Triangle than swim into it."
Optimal_Towel
"Most eel species breed in the Sargasso Sea - aka the Bermuda Triangle. There’s a type of seaweed that lives on the top of the ocean called Sargassum that turtles, eels, and a bunch of animals use as a breeding ground. Eels go there, lay their eggs, little silver eels babies pop out and go back home."
roseygrl98
Revolutions
Venus GIF by The TelegraphGiphy"A day on Venus (one complete rotation around its axis) is longer than a year (a complete revolution around the sun) on Venus."
GRL_1151
The galaxy is too cool.
We'll never know enough.
Head Butt Time
giraffes fighting GIFGiphy"The male giraffe will continuously headbutt the female in the bladder until she urinates. The male then tastes the pee and that helps it determine whether the female is ovulating. If she is, it’s business time."
hornypandey
Go Vanillla
"Wearing white wedding dresses only came into fashion after Queen Victoria started the trend. White isn’t meant to have any other meaning or represent purity as many people think. Before this trend, most brides just wore their best dress of any color as it was expensive to buy a dress just for the occasion."
week7
Active Ingredients
"I love when this question comes up because I get to talk about the thunder clappers."
"When the Lewis and Clark expedition was exploring the west of North America, their diet of dried meat left them constipated. They were all taking these pills called thunder clappers to make themselves sh*t. The active ingredient in thunder clappers is mercury, and historians can track the expedition because they left increased deposits of mercury in the soil."
KerchBridgeSmoker
Color Schemes
"Pink used to be a masculine color."
"During the height of the British Empire, the soldiers in the far reaches of the world donned their red coats in battle and patrol. The newer recruits would look especially sharp with a bold red color. The rugged war heroes though? Their coats were faded and worn into more of a pink color."
"If you saw a guy wearing a pink coat, odds are they have stories to tell with a thousand-yard stare. This became a desirable thing to show off your experience and grit. Hence pink was associated with combat prowess and ruggedness and became a masculine color during that time."
ChristIsLordAlmighty
War Incentives?
Ice Cream Elmo GIF by SésamoGiphy"In WWII, the American navy had barges with ice cream bars on them to visit soldiers in the Pacific after battles as a way of boosting morale."
Not-sure-wtf-I-am
Yuck!
"McDonald's engineered bubblegum flavored broccoli in an attempt to get kids to eat more vegetables.
"They still didn't want to eat it."
cmad182
I love broccoli.
I love gum.
I would not eat them as one.
"What’s the worst Christmas gift you’ve received that you had to pretend to like?"
It's The Thought That Counts... Or Is It?
"A set of miniature butter knives with ceramic fruit and vegetables as the handles."
"From an aunt who said that I was 'So hard to shop for'."
"I was 7."- wewimev411
At Least It Made For A Good Story
"My wife’s grandmother, who has now passed was a wonderful person who had very little money but a heart of gold."
"However, as in life, her mind wasn’t all there the last few years of her life."
"My family and hers have always gotten together for the holidays and we all enjoy exchanging gifts with one another."
"During our Last Christmas with her she gifted me, then 36 M[ale], a pair of, used, toddler sized Lighting McQueen underwear that had come through her church thrift store because she knew that I love the movie 'Cars'."
"This was probably one of the most awkward, memorable moments for opening a present on Christmas Day."
"My wife’s mother still apologizes to me yearly for not checking in on what her grandmother had bought for us that year."
"It’s a great memory to all of us still together at this time."- Thndrdrag
Cheap At Half The Price...
"My brother, who at the time was 30 and had a good decent job, pulled me out of the hat for our family Kris Kringle."
"The spend was supposed to be €40."
"He turned up with a Wii accessory kit, a GameStop branded one."
"I took it with good grace, even though I didn't actually have a Wii."
"I did have an Xbox 360 though, so I figured I'd bring it back to GameStop and swap it for something."
"So when the guy at the counter scanned it, he said it was actually a free gift that they were giving away with new Wii consoles the PREVIOUS Christmas."
"Miserable b*stard."
"The following Christmas he had me again and turned up with nothing, said he'd forgotten the voucher he had bought me for GameStop, didn't even get that one."- Arkslippy
Misleading Packaging
"When I was three I opened a gift from my grandma and it was one of the big cylinders of Quaker Oats."
"I f*cking loved it."
"But then my grandma, chuckling, told me I should look inside the container."
"Inside was a pair of pajamas."
"I started crying because it wasn’t oatmeal."
"After the initial shock, those pajamas were my favorite pajamas for the next year, so it was a good gift but not at first."- origami_alligator
A Date That Will Live In Infamy...
"A Lamborghini calendar."
"My brother got a guitar and amp."
"My two sisters got a bike each."
"I hate Lamborghinis now."- xixac22666
Not Exactly How Re-Gifting Works...
"Getting a shirt from my sister-in-law that was too big, The same shirt my parents gifted to my husband when they came back from a trip to Europe, said shirt we mysteriously weren't able to find in our closet when my husband wanted to wear it for Halloween."
"In honestly would have been perfectly fine with just a card or nothing at all, I'm not materialistic."- Fine-Mushroom3834
Animated GIFGiphyHow Do You Really Feel?...
"When I was in grade school I like to wear my fingernails long, but my mom hated it."
"Every single year for Christmas she would give me nail clippers."
"And every single year my sister would give me a diary because the first year they did it I was stupid enough to use it but then my whole family turned out to be reading it."
"So every year after that I opened my new diary and thanked her but never touched it again."- According-Type-9664
Hidden Meaning?
{A How-to-Make-Balloon animals kit while my wife got $100 Amazon card."- JoeSchmoe314159
By Not Splurging On Christmas Presents?
"Eons ago I worked for a company owned by the richest man in Minnesota."
"One year, all of us peons, and there were a couple thousand of us, got a copy of his book."
"It was all about how he became the richest man in Minnesota."
"Cheap bastard."- yolohat266
Plotting The Simpsons GIFGiphyWhen opening these most unwanted presents, we usually find ourselves at a loss for words.
The best thing to do in situations like this, is simply tell the truth, by saying:
"I really don't know what to say!"
Redditor FaxTimeMachine wanted to hear about what we've all basically given up on.
"What isn’t worth the effort?"
If I start to get frustrated... I'm out. Try it.
Wear Black
"Getting a toddler dressed in a white outfit."
Sapphiretulip32
"Omg yes- I see all these white linen outfits on Instagram and I’m like ain’t nobody got time for that!"
Duckballisrolling
Crazy Ladies
"Making lady fingers for tiramisu. Holy f**k just buy them. Crap takes like 8 freaking eggs and you basically have to make a sorta custard and a sorta meringue then mix the 2 together and both of those things are incredibly easy to mess up. I never messed up a meringue yet but wow lot of steps for friggin' lady fingers I never would have guessed."
Keepcreepcreepin
We Done
"A relationship you put significantly more energy, work, and emotion into than the other person."
Cabbiecar1001
"Just ended my relationship of 13 years because of this."
Nuxx_92
"Same, ended a 15 year marriage because I was tired of being Cinderella: around the house, in the bedroom, breadwinning, parenting... if it was a responsibility, it was mine. Finally got fed up and said fine, forget this. If I'm going to have to take responsibility for everything, I'll just do it myself. I'm much happier now, and the kids are happier too."
FaxCelestis
Copy/Paste
"Online arguments."
AndyBales
"It’s also pretty hilarious when they clearly have no argument, and just start repeating everything they’ve said over and over again, while completely ignoring what you’re saying. I encountered someone who literally started copy-pasting my own argument, changing a few words in a desperate attempt to come up with something."
Communist_flash
"Show me evidence that online arguments aren't worth the effort."
Get Easy
Hip Hop Television GIF by WE tvGiphy"Toxic people in your life - seriously, it gets 100x easier once you drop the people weighing you down."
KitkatDreaming
Get rid of the poison. Save your health.
Career Moves
Work Working GIFGiphy"A job you truly hate. Even if it pays a bit less get a different job. It’s not worth being endlessly unhappy."
cewumu
"Ehhh it’s worth it in the short term. I worked as a waiter last summer and absolutely HATED IT, but I earned enough that summer to pay for an entire year of college, so I took the entire year off and focused on school work."
youburyitidigitup
How Much?
"Spending hundreds/thousands of dollars on a kid's birthday party. My mother is the manager of a catering company and on the food alone, this family spent almost 6k. The kid? Yeah, she was turning 2."
throwawaysteaksalad
"I once saw a birthday party with tons of decorations, treats and a cake from a specialty bakery, costumes for guests, and I heard something about waiting for the videographer. The party was for a dog."
mossadspydolphin
"Well I'm going to play the devil's advocate here and say, if these people didn't spend so much money on such vanity pieces, business such as catering would not make much of a revenue."
SuperHornetFA18
Algorithms...
"Tinder post-Covid. One possibility is that a lot of people stopped using tinder during covid and just never got back to it. I feel though that, as things reopened, people would have gotten right back to it, because you know, instincts. What I think happened is that tinder changed the algorithm."
"I get way less matches than I used to, like maybe 10x or 20x less. It seems to me like they're really trying to push people into paying for gold or premium. I might even be tempted to try if the price wasn't outrageous."
brian_storm_art
Finding Assistance
"Trying to help people who refuses to help themselves."
Hot_Club1969
"Bonus points if they complain to you about something and/or ask for advice and you offer solutions to fix it and they shoot you down instantly without listening, or choose the opposite of what you say immediately toxic relationships at their finest."
Blundering_Dragon
"I feel like a lot of times like these, what people want is just to be heard, they aren't asking for help."
MargoTheArtHo
They were the worst...
"Those survey websites that 'pay out' for every survey you complete."
Tabby_Tibs
"Omg. I got an app to do that on once because I thought I liked taking surveys. No. They were the worst, most boring surveys ever and I probably made a dollar after wasting several hours of time completing them. Never again."
SexySadieMaeGlutz
Interest
"Chasing someone that isn't interested in you."
CapG_13
"For friendships especially. Don’t try to become close to someone who doesn’t show with their actions that they want to be close to you too."
f**kthiss**t____
"Relationships are 100x worse. At least you can fake a friendship for a while things develop - but if someone isn't interested in you on a certain level, you're going nowhere in a relationship."
descendency
But... dude?
"Arguing with strangers online. I get occasional replies to social media comments I post, and they're angry. But... dude? You good? I'm literally no one to you, go live your life."
Eastern_Mark_7479
"About 98% of the time when I start typing an argument, I delete it. It is incredibly difficult to change someone's mind. You aren't going to do it arguing with someone you have no stake in as person."
sane-ish
"I only ever check my messages a day or week after I've commented on something. Keeps me from getting worked up and it's only worth replying if you actually wanted to have a conversation."
metalbassist33
Splits
shell using GIFGiphy"Pistachios without a split."
rurdytoboogie
"Or even those incomplete splits. If it's not open halfway at least, I don't bother and I move on to the next one."
oniwolf382
Terrible People
"Family that are *icks. Even though they’re you’re family if they’re *icks to you, it’s not worth your time to try and put up with it because you feel you should."
rawr_Im_a_duck
"Going through this right now. Sisters getting married. We were never close since she treated me terribly when I was younger & never bothered to build a relationship except when she needs something."
"She asks me to be her maid of honour since she doesn’t have any serious friends. Hasn’t stopped making demands, snapping at me, and anything I do that isn’t perfect she tells me why bother if I’m just going to ruin it. Tried to back out of MOH role since she’s being such an ass and the whole family is flipping out on me about 'my duty to her as a sister.'"
gongzhubing
be true...
"Trying to be someone you aren't. To thine own self be true."
DocHolidayiN
"Took me a long time to figure that out. Now that I know, I’m not stressing about trying to get that job I didn’t actually want all these years I’ve been chasing it. I love the job I have now and the company I work for. I don’t need more than that right now. If I get impatient then I can chase a more challenging and lucrative career later, but not the one I know I don’t want anymore."
danka595
Bad Seeds
GIF by bjornGiphy"Deseeding pomegranates, f**k that s**t."
mcbeetoto
"I thought this too until I figured out the trick. Cut it in half, turn it seed side down on your palm or better yet, a cutting board. Take a wooden spatula and just whack the hell out of it over and over again. The seeds just fall out pretty cleanly."
averyyoungperson
Loved Ones
"Maintaining friendships with people who don’t care about you. When I was going through a rough time I stopped texting first and making plans first. Didn’t hear from any of my 'friends' since. Made a new group of friends later in life who all care about each other deeply."
irishrelate
behind the wheel
"Road rage. Screaming, yelling, brake checking, bird flipping, name calling and acting the fool because someone who accidentally caused you some minor perceived inconvenience is just nuts. I have a couple of friends who are apoplectic behind the wheel all the time... for nothing. Traffic sucks, deal."
OGbeachbum
I hated fitted sheets. They are works of the devil.
What would you add to this list? Let us know in the comments below.
I feel like the list will be longer than we expect. We are still behind in certain ways.
lazy...
Bubble Gum Cartoon GIFGiphy"People sticking gum on random surfaces instead of at least throwing it towards the trash can a few feet away."
iesharael
How is this allowed?
"'Convenience' fees to pay bills online."
Rude_Yam_9962
"Yeah or any 'additional fee' that’s required to buy the product or service. Advertise $100 but then at check out they add in service fee $25, convenience fee $10."
"Always at the last second too, usually right before you enter your credit card info. Wtf? How is this allowed? Just advertise $135 if that’s the price the customer is paying. Should not be allowed to bait a low price and switch with a higher one once the customer is already invested."
Can you hear me now?
"Not being able to get cell service is spots in my own home."
Haunting_Spot_8002
"A friend worked in Africa building homes for the people. He said there were bush men with spears and loin cloths with a cell phone clipped on the side. Middle of nowhere yet reception everywhere."
RedLeader7
"Most of Africa skipped land lines altogether and went straight to mobile. In the west, cell phones and mobile internet are a luxury, in less developed regions it's often the only way to communicate."
pixelbart
System Collapse
"Companies that create problems and sell solutions instead of solving existing problems."
draconic_oxalis
"This was the inevitable outcome of an economic system in which only those doing labor are allowed to have food and shelter, yet technology is constantly reducing the amount of labor that is actually necessary."
"We only get money for food if we are seen to be working on problems. Now we're having a shortage of actual problems so we must make artificial ones to keep surviving. If only we had UBI, all of these pointless industries would disappear overnight as no one wants to keep working these jobs they know are pointless."
snapwillow
Hang Up
Call Me Hello GIF by IDKGiphy"Spam calls."
mstrss9
"I literally had spammers somehow dupe the phone number of my local council, it's scary just how close they can get."
Hazbro29
I HATE these SPAM calls. All hours of the day and night. I hate you!
Speed Up
Internet Mouse GIF by kotutohumGiphy"Slow internet."
Necessary_Rule_8485
"We figured it out. Just that the companies are greedy and keep the money for themselves instead of upgrading infrastructure."
Unlucky_Clover
Paper Trail
"Junk mail."
furryShambler
"I know! Whatever happened with the Paperwork Reduction Act?"
Julie-Andrews
"in the U.S. you can reduce your junk mail a lot by going to.DMAChoice.org and OptOutPrescreen.com and filling out the forms for your address. I have reduced my junk mail by about 90% : FTC source"
FSMFan_2pt0
car-centric
"Having to spend 3 hours in traffic everyday."
CampaignAlternative3
"Because North American cities have over restrictive zoning laws that segregate cities based on type of usage and they build to a very low density and with car-centric development that makes it so everyone has to use a car to get anywhere."
houndog129
"It's not so easy to just 'find a job closer to home' for example I'll search on Indeed and the closest job in my line of work is like 2hrs away."
PhatShadow
It's Round
"Flat Earthers."
da_sylent
"So everything but earth Is round right? (according to flat Earthers) So as some members say it's like a frisbee in space. What if, bear with me... the reason the world will end is because a giant dog will catch us and kill everyone on earth by shaking the frisbee too much and cause floods and crap. Because if so, that's how I wanna die, letting a pupper have some fun with a fisbee."
viber223
Gross
understand john boehner GIFGiphy"Child beauty pageants."
Heliouse66
"If I see a mother make her child do one of those, I WILL judge her."
EarwaxWizard
Can we work on eradicating these things? It's all well past expired.
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Colombus wasn't the first to "discover" America, and none of the little chants mentioned the whole murderous rampagey bits.
But the ocean was BLUE, y'all. And that rhymes with TWO, like 1492. So here we are.
Reddit was asked:
"What's the most useless thing you learned in school?"
... and yeah ... it would be great if the educational system gave us something useful.
Mostly, it's stuff like this, though:
Ginger
Musik Violin GIF by PLAYMOBILGiphy"Probably that apparently Vivaldi's nickname was 'the red priest.' "
"We had to study for exams but our teacher decided to visit 3 separate websites and make us read about him."
- Kirby_ewe
"My music history professor taught us that 'Vivaldi is also known as the red priest. Because he was a COMMUNIST!? No, he just had red hair'."
- nekofastboy
"I fully support the "dive into knowledge about one famous person you want to write about", but not 50, and NOT people who's only accomplishment was to write a couple of poetry books that made my teacher weak in the knees. And of course, there was a 'wrong' way to interpret his works."
-Rubyhamster
Square Dancing Squid
"I haven't really found a use for square dancing."
- ToastAndASideOfToast
"Swing your partner round and round"
- SelectionMission3460
"Same. We learned it in my school cause it's the states dance. But I have never known anyone to square dance besides the TV people."
- USSCofficail
"You haven't found a use for square dancing YET. Just wait for a Squid Games situation."
- HolleighLujah
Disco Ball Demographics
House Music Dancing GIF by JustinGiphy"Kentucky creates 90% of U.S disco balls."
- No_School_4156
"Wow. I live in Kentucky but I never knew that... seems useless!"
- Black_Hole_Neptune
"Actually makes sense if you think about it."
"Disco balls are a niche item that you wouldn't expect to have a ton of different manufacturers, and Kentucky is centrally located so you can easily ship your balls to anywhere in the US quickly."
- fix-ur-acrostics
History Is A Mystery
"In public school we skimmed through the Vietnam war because there was little time left before testing and it wasn't gonna be on there that much."
" 'Long story short, we kinda lost that one...'."
- Senior20172
"It always bothered me when history stopped at WW2 and the rest was covered in a week"
- cheesefondue
"We skimmed over the civil rights and women's rights movements because our white, male, douche of a teacher wanted to spend more time on the civil war."
- MoobooMagoo
"It's been a long time, but I feel like US history is basically always taught as: American Revolution -> Civil War (aka, slavery) -> WW2 (aka, the Nazis), and we're done."
"If your teacher was a Boomer, they might spend more time on the 60s, civil rights, Vietnam. (aka, the glory years when they were a teen) But otherwise, history is basically the wars we WON, why we got in them, and the aftermath."
- TristanaRiggle
Not So Useless Uselessness
Sad Season 4 GIF by The OfficeGiphy"Haven't played the recorder very often."
- deede7
"Really? I play mine nearly every day. How do you make money when abroad if not playing Hot Cross Buns for 9 hours every day?"
- AnAquaticOwl
"No but it was my first significant taste of playing an instrument. This lead to 7 years of band class and lead to a great social past time in my adult life playing bass after that."
- Oclure
"Playing the recorder was probably way more useful than you think. Music theory and playing an instrument trains the ear and has positive effects on the brain and learning in general. Plus, it introduces kids to an activity they may or may not wish to pursue and, for those that do not wish it, they can definitively rule the interest out because they gave it a try already."
- Anianna
"Learning the recorder helped teach me to read music. I studied other instruments, and enjoyed them a LOT. Not that I was any good."
- KidsTheseDaysYknow
Tariff Trauma
"I know that the Hawley-Smoot tariff was the highest in history. No idea what the importance of that is, if it was good, bad, or indifferent."
- GrizzlyLawyer
"The importance is that some people believe it made the Great Depression a lot worse."
- ReadinII
"Actually you're only kinda right."
" 'The tariffs under the act, excluding duty-free imports, were the SECOND HIGHEST in United States history, exceeded by only the Tariff of 1828.[3] ' "
" 'The Act prompted retaliatory tariffs by affected states against the United States.[4] The Act and tariffs imposed by America's trading partners in retaliation were major factors of the reduction of American exports and imports by 67% during the Depression.[5] Economists and economic historians have a consensus view that the passage of the Smoot–Hawley Tariff worsened the effects of the Great Depression.[6]' "
- Soogoodok248
"Second highest? You mean I only learned one thing in school, and it was wrong?"
- GrizzlyLawyer
Opposite Effect
season 2 GIFGiphy"D.A.R.E."
- mrPandabot35
"I remember hearing a story about a 10 year old who called the cops on his parents because they smoked weed regularly. The police arrested both parents and charged them with felony possession."
"They were normal parents as far as we could tell. They just used to relax with a little Marijuana now and then."
"But the kid specifically quoted DARE when asked what led him to get his parents arrested. That's when I realized how awful what we were taught was."
- PhreedomPhighter
"Fun fact, it's been known for decades that D.A.R.E is a failure and leads to more drug usage. The first of these studies was in 1992."
- Pixel871
President Who?
"Being forced to memorize all the presidents in order. First and last names and years in office in chronological order."
"This sh*t can be googled in 2 seconds. We actually had a test on this where we were given a blank piece of paper and told to write them all down in the right order and this was actually a legit graded test."
- pintoftomatoes
"This is the one and only test I ever cheated on."
"5th grade. I’m so sorry Mr. Lee, but even at 10 years old and pre-internet, I thought this was a ridiculous waste of time."
- QuercusAgri
"Animaniacs practically helped me cheat on that one."
- operarose
Calculators And Pockets
Calculating Figure It Out GIFGiphy"That I wouldn't always have a calculator with me. Jokes on you.
- Fickle-Story-4854
"My dad once didn’t let my sister use a calculator on homework even though the teacher told everyone they needed to use a calculator 🤦♀️"
- Shadowweavers
"Yes, also heard that many times in school"
- Jarl_Fenrir
"Funny enough I did carry a tiny solar powered calculator meant to fit inside a check book for several years just to spite my obnoxious math teacher who said that all the time."
"Though I’ll admit it was useful to have before cellphones were ubiquitous."
- flying_fish69
Basic history
"Elementary school history. Most of it is either a lie/omission of key facts or just a completely random and useless fact."
- OkWalk9190
"The amount of Columbus sh*t I learned in elementary school..."
- Arxl
"What do you mean the pilgrims didn’t actually land on Plymouth Rock??"
- himewaridesu
"What pisses me off is that history is being repeated in later classes, higher schools. If you are going to teach me the same thing again, maybe just leave it now, and get back to me with the material when I'm old enough?"
- Jarl_Fenrir
"Yeah. I'm just getting into to high school and I've learned about the civil war like 5 times now. The only problem is that we never are taught anything after it, so all of my info post-civil war is based off of personal research."
- _Sterben-
We'll be honest, most of these answers clearly came from American schools.
Lots of our readers come from other countries, though - can you tell the rest of us some of the more useless things you've been taught?
Help us feel a bit better about ourselves.
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