12 Things you learned in school that have since been proven wrong

Humans are at the top of the food chain

A group of French researchers managed to precisely calculate where humans rank in the prototypical food web. Based on the eating behavior of humans, they don’t rank higher than anchovies or pigs. To be at the top, an animal should only consume the meat of other predators, which is definitely not the case for humans, who consume a mixture of plants and meat.