Weird things you were taught in public school:

[applegrove]

I was taught more than once that you can't eat the liver of a polar bear because it has too much vitamin A. And i don't know why. I am several thousand miles from polar bears here in ottawa.

[Marie Marie]

1. Well now I have learned something.

[angstlessk]

2. I was taught my kitty would NOT be with me in heaven.

The day I became an atheist at age 9

P.S. Went to Catholic school...found out latter they had blessings for pets!

[applegrove]

4. LOL!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. Actually meat eating predatory animals

Have inedible livers due to concentrations of vitamin A.

[Bayard]

5. I was taught hiding under my desk would save me from a nuclear bomb

It must have worked, because I'm still here.

[applegrove]

6. Classic.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. My fourth grade teacher told us about Jack the Ripper with this one change:

She told us he ripped up "dancehall girls". Not prostitutes.