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

If I got under my desk, I could survive a nuclear blast.

Being left-handed means I was somehow possessed by the devil. Man, how I hated that wooden ruler being swatted across my left hand.

The streets in Salt Lake City were made wide enough for a team of horses and a wagon to turn around.

I remember reading that at least two years in a row in our history books.

I can recite every president in history, in consecutive order, using Three Little Indians as the rhyme structure.

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Niger is not pronounced how a 2nd grader thinks it would Eta: got my first detention for that one

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The Octopus’s “helping hands” are NOT called testicles. Found that out the hard way in 4th grade. It was an innocent slip of the tongue, but my teacher didn’t believe that. Sent me out in the hall with my friend who laughed.

Uhm please don’t throw us in the briar patch.

The “fact” that it takes seven years for swallowed gum to digest still haunts me.

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Quicksand was something to watch out for, yet I have never come across it

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Yeah,, I always thought that it was going to be a bigger problem than it was...

However, I never did get my radio active ticking time bomb from the Acme corporation... I think that I was gypped.

But I am not sure, but I think that I used algebra just the other day.

In 7th grade we had to do this absurd year long science project where we caught 30 insects, preserve them, mounted them into a display box and catalog them all.

I can still tell you the name of pretty much every single type of butterfly that flies in south Louisiana

Only have one. During a spelling bee, my word was flow. I spelled it and the teacher said I was out. I said that's how you spelled flow. She pointed at the floor and said, flow, flow. I said, oh you mean floor. Got sent straight to the principal office for a paddling.

The next year, my mom pulled me out of that school and sent me to a magnet school. True story.

It hides its victims

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In 7th grade we had to do this absurd year long science project where we caught 30 insects, preserve them, mounted them into a display box and catalog them all.

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We had to do different types of tree leaves.

I still get excited when I see a Ginkgo tree. It took me forever to find that damn tree around my town. Even had my parents helping me look for it. Found one outside of the local Pizza Hut one evening when we went for the buffet. I was pumped.

I before E except after C (and except for words like their foreign, height, eight, weird, science, caffeine, heir, neighbor, and probably host of others).

Don’t swim for 30-60 minutes after eating.