John Oliver Gives Students Crash Course in What They Won’t Learn This Year

It’s a Monday morning, so you know what time it is: John Oliver clip time!

Since tomorrow marks the start of the school year for many Americans, Last Week Tonight filmed a pre-taped segment guiding this year’s incoming students through the many lessons they will not receive this year, including: President Warren Harding‘s smutty penis jokes, the “genocidal lunatics” that were European colonists, and that Asia and Africa are places that actually exist.

Oliver also made a handy guide to who dies at the end of every major high school-level novel. Enjoy:

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