49 Things You Learned In School That Are Now Completely Useless

1. How to write in cursive

2. How to drop an egg from a five-story building without breaking it

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3. How to climb a rope

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4. How to play Hot Cross Buns on the recorder

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5. How to make the most badass erupting volcano

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6. How to find a book using the card catalogue system

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7. How to use long division

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8. Memorizing the periodic table of elements

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9. How to forge a river on the Oregon Trail

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10. Memorizing the preamble to the U.S. Constitution

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11. How to spell boobs on a calculator

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12. How to do the limbo

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13. Reciting the state capitals

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14. How to make a potato battery

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15. Learning to sing in a round

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16. How to make a Cat's Cradle

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17. How to make paper snowflakes

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18. How to make a cootie catcher

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19. How to play foursquare

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20. How to do the Macarena

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21. How to keep a Tamagotchi alive

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22. How to make papier mache anything

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23. How to make a shoebox diorama

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24. How to care for a fake infant egg

Real children are slightly more complex.

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25. How to grow a plant in a wet paper towel

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26. How to line up by height

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27. How to color in the lines

DAMMIT, MAX. GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER.

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28. Latin

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29. Memorizing all of the presidents in order

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30. How to navigate the Encyclopaedia Brittanica

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31. How to find arrowheads

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32. How to dissect a frog

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33. How to say 'no' to drugs

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34. How to put a condom on a phallic fruit

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35. How to differentiate between different types of dinosaurs

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36. How to cite a source using MLA

UPDATED: Apparently our previous picture was not in MLA. English teachers everywhere collectively cringed.

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37. How to build a styrofoam solar system

Pluto's not even a planet anymore. WHY EVEN BOTHER?!

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38. How to extract liquid from a pouch

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39. How to use WordArt for fancy fonts

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40. How to write poetry

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41. How to make an acrostic

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42. How to write a book report

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43. How to jump out of the back of a bus

Let's face it: If your bus is on fire, you get the fuck out however you can.

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44. How to decorate for a dance

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45. How to sell worthless coupon books

46. How to scratch and sniff

Have you ever tried scratching and sniffing someone in real life? Yeah, they don't like when you do that.

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47. How to care for your Pokemon cards

Dude, your prized holographic Charizard card is worth like 15 cents.

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48. How to make a tornado in a soda bottle

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49. How to spell

Just spell check it, duh!

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