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I teach history to 18 spotty-faced 9th graders…not always a rewarding task if I may say so. One of the subjects we’ve worked with are The Vietnam War…:

Me: “So then…who took part in The Vietnam War? Who were the participants?”
Spotty-faced Ignorantus Morronicus Gigantus: “Ehhhh…Forrest Gump?!”

Bonus link: 20% of All Americans: “The Sun Revolves Around The Earth”

American adults in general do not understand what molecules are (other than that they are really small). Fewer than a third can identify DNA as a key to heredity. Only about 10 percent know what radiation is. One adult American in five thinks the Sun revolves around the Earth, an idea science had abandoned by the 17th century.