Mildly Interesting

Just FYI. Thanksgiving is the original blatant Cultural Appropriation. Thanksgiving was one of 13 harvest feast that the Native Americans in the area would hold each year. That's one of the reasons that Canada and The US celebrate it on different days.

We also stole most of their constitution, except the bit about "no law shall be passed that doesn't directly benefit all the children of the next 7 generations."

They had existed relatively stabley for 25,000 years, and we fucked it up, stole what we wanted, and trashed the rest.

Huh the Thanksgiving one I was taught that the Indians were nice to the new arrivals, but within a few short years that niceness was exploited and betrayed.

I guess maybe the welcome feast never occurred? But we certainly were taught the pilgrims drove the Indians out

I'm glad to see that none of that was new to me.

This is neat! Thanks for sharing :)

@MiraLazine love this!! any chance you can add a submission box? (With a section for source cited ofc :p). I'm sure there's a bunch out there that people might think of and want to add.

my 5th grade teacher said kurt cobain died of heroin overdose and not a shotgun to the head

Class of '89 here, that was pretty spot on.

We no longer say "committed suicide" because it's no longer a crime.

Otherwise it's great!

Pretty accurate. My mom was very much invested in our education and contradicted a lot of this info when I was growing up so I learned the true facts.

I’m very grateful that everything in there got debunked by my high school teachers

Very cool