{"id":642536,"date":"2026-03-09T05:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/642536\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T05:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:48:14","slug":"15-facts-you-learned-in-school-that-have-since-been-disproven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/642536\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Facts You Learned In School That Have Since Been Disproven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The funny thing is, we still can&#8217;t fully explain it. We just got much better at finding planets, so now we see them everywhere we look.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskReddit\/comments\/1plnqh8\/comment\/ntur5mm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">u\/Andromeda321<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>TRUTH:\u00a0<\/b>Before 1995, astronomers had strong theories but no direct proof of <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/exoplanets\/facts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">exoplanets<\/a>. That changed with the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, the first confirmed planet orbiting a sun-like star. As of February 2026, NASA has <a href=\"https:\/\/exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">confirmed<\/a> over 6,000 exoplanets, largely thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/kepler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kepler mission<\/a>, which alone identified 2,700-plus planets. Current estimates suggest planets may actually outnumber stars in the Milky Way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The funny thing is, we still can&#8217;t fully explain it. We just got much better at finding planets,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":642537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[42329,2095,159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-642536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-bestofinternet-reddit","9":"tag-evergreen","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116197648240058840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}