re: Two random factoids that were seered into your brain in elementary school

My fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Peterson (no pics) told us that, because there is no snow in most of Africa, the biblical phrase "as white as snow" is written as "white as the egret".
One of my teachers pronounced Venezuela as "Ven zweela".
That's when I learned teachers didn't know everything.

I had to do a project over the summer for a club that required us to cut articles from the newspaper about gun violence.

Essentially it was mapping gun violence in Baton Rouge over the summer of 1998. I was in 8th grade.

While looking researching, I found an article that claimed somebody died from eating steak
Person choked, was found unresponsive and had died.

Since then, I always cut my steak into small bites and I'm teaching my kids to take small bites.

1) If you talk real quietly Ms. Redmond would lean down to your level to hear you better

2) Ms Redmond didn’t always wear a bra.

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We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America.

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Yep, had to recite this in front of the class. Its never left my pea brain.

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Breaking colors and later pencils using the three finger method.

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Paul from “The Wonder Years” grew up to become Marilyn Manson and he had two of his ribs removed to suck himself.

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It’s amazing how prevalent this was. And we didn’t even have internet.

Field trips to the Audobon Zoo were awesome

A text book will protect you from a tornado

1177 men died on board the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor

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I have not caught on fire as an adult as often as I was led to believe either

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I have a friend who's still scared of Spontaneous Human Combustion!

Thats Incredible!!!