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There are two things I remember, Eli Whitney invented to cotton gin and that Roy G. Biv helps you remember the colors of the rainbow.
My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas, except Pluto isn’t a planet anymore.
Indeed she did. Yummy. And yes, she was eager.
You my friend are badass
and gross. and in a burger…
My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets.
Oh, the irony.
My Very Easy Memory Jingle Seems Useful Naming Planets.
Again though, poor Pluto was demoted. Fail.
My Very Educated Mother Just Said “Uh-oh! No Pluto”
There are two that I remember. Eli Whitney and his cotton gin, and Robert Fulton invented the steamboat!
Don’t forget that ferns have spores, not seeds
They do?
He also invented Flesh Eating Robots.
Hey, hey there! That’s CLASSIFIED INFORMATION!
Hey now, I resent this remar-
I suddenly can’t remember anything else I learned in elementary school.
Um, the sun is a star?
The big yellow one is the sun!
wow, you’re breaking new ground there, copernicus.
brian regan WIN
Thanks! I call it “Cup of Dirt”.
It’s a CUP with dirt IN it.
Eli Whitney improved the Cotton Gin. He did not invent it.
He did work with interchangeable parts that made gun manufacturing (and all other types as well) far easier.
Graph Phail
Gah. I know.
Should have Columbus discovered America too.
Yeah, the title of the graph made me immediately think “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” At least that part’s true…
Too bad Columbus did not discover it… there were Native Americans living here already for thousands of years… even the Vikings beat him here by hundreds of years. And there are even some who think that Egyptians and Romans had known about these people and traded… maybe. But there needs to be more research done to prove such a connection.
i’m pretty sure laura knows that. hence her comment.
Leif Ericson!
Rawr, year I immediately thought of 1492 and Columbus, too. Although we did seem to spend a lot of time on the Civil War in elementary school.
Nay, good sir. This is elementary education fail.
Ya know, I was about to say that. I actually know a descendent of the dude who sold the cotton gin to good ol’ Eli.
Another one of her ancestors somehow got in charge of an eighth of the Confederate Army, and basically lost the Civil War.
My friend has a very interesting family tree.
heehee i am a decendant of eli whitney
NERDING.
I remember (only) the exact same fact. How weird is hat?
Hat is pretty weird. And so is how you spell your name.
Indeed. Though, this is less Elementary School and more that one comic from Calvin and Hobbes.
Calvin and Hobbes is teh r0x0rz!!
Yeah, that was my first thought too. Go Stupendous Man!
I remember that if the sun was the size of a large beach ball and located in the classroom then the earth would be the size of a ping pong ball and would be located in the parking lot… haha
Yawn
i remember that if you paid Jim a nickel, he would eat a bug.
I’m from the same bite-sized town in MA as Eli Whitney. I thought we were the only ones who had that one (flawed) fact drilled into us. Apparently not…
me too! I went to the elementary school named after him.
THAT IS SO TRUE!!!! that’s bizarre that i’m not the only one who pulls that fact out of my ass on random occasions to prove my intelligence!
haha, i remember that, too.
i also remember that George Washington was *so honest* that he couldn’t lie about chopping down the cherry tree …
too bad THAT was just propaganda.
And George Washington Carver invented the peanut.
Not totally correct, wimple, but points for bringing George Washinton Carver into the discussion.
p.s. I don’t think I’ve lol this hard at a comments section in a while! They’re all wins!
If everybody remembers Eli Whitney, then how come everybody pronounces my name “Ellie”?
There’s an Israeli instructor at my university who pronounces “Eli” as “ellie”.
HAHAHA this is sooo true for me as well… i thought i was the only one. I wonder why this seems to be the case….
Oh my gosh, I totally remember this — I thought it was just a Georgia History thing. In fourth grade, we literally chorused this over and over several times a week for a number of weeks. Also, the only black man in 50-year-old Georgia history textbook was Uncle Remus.
My history prof-father had a field day explaining to me that a) there are other important black people and b) Eli Whitney is really famous for interchangeable parts (as has been previously mentioned). [also c) I'm sorry we have to live in a backwater Georgia town]
OMG! Uncle Remus! Love it!
LOL-now I won’t forget it either
Hah, I laughed.
I can’t believe no one’s mentioned that a peninsula is a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.
::Digs moat around 3 sides of house and fills it:: Peninsula!
This is literally the only thing I remember from US History.
and that I should eventually get around to reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
You must have grown up in the Cheshire/Hamden Connecticut area.
Eli Whitney is God here, I think 75% of elementary school is about him.
“We need to talk about your TPS Reports… that’d be great.”
My mom always made us do Anti-Pilgrim things for class when I was in Elementary School because we’re Mohawks and she hated the “white men.” I also learned that Columbus was a d-bag. I had an odd childhood, but I loved it.
I remember, from school though, that trick on your hands for the Multiplication Table for 9… this doesn’t work for all numbers… which is why I ended up failing at math for life.
I never learned the hand trick for multiplication. Or about Eli Whitney.
The first thing I thought of with this graph was “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue”. ANd of course “I before E, except after C”.
don’t forget the pilgrims, columbus, there more too, but i forget xD
I can’t believe how nobody’s bothered to mention that this graph doesn’t make any sense… That Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin is one fact, and in “Other” there are presumably multiple facts, so how is it that that one fact takes up 99% of the chart? It would have been better as a bar graph with a vertical axis representing “Percentage of students who remember this fact from grade school” or something…
Did you know? I’m a decendant of eli whitney
and don’t foget “colmbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492″