A fun fact about taste for you - there is actually no such thing as a 'taste map,' or the idea that different areas of the tongue result in you tasting different things. At most, there's just different regions of sensitivity to taste!

Always thought this was weird and didn’t make sense to my tongue.

You might've been taught that lemmings are known to commit suicide because they're just that unintelligent. Turns out, this isn't true - they're smart enough to stay alive!

I blame the video game.

[–] Justchilling@feddit.nl 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The theory of a taste map had no scientific basis, i remember funnily enough writing in a school paper that the taste map didn't exist and got a lower grade for getting my answer wrong even though in hindsight i was the one who was right and i got forced to believe in a medical myth.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Have to wonder how many more of us thought it didn’t make any sense, but didn’t push back because adults said it was so and it was in the textbooks.

[–] Justchilling@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was just far too skeptical for my age and it caused me to have worse exam performance usually having me go from an A to a B- just for defying the teacher. School is more about following authority than anything else I believe.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 1 points 11 months ago

True. I didn’t openly question things in that class too much for some reason, but I definitely got in trouble for being argumentative in other classes.

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