Friday, November 20, 2020

Widespread Myths People Still Believe


There are some myths and hearsay that are so compelling, people just go on repeating them for years and years. Maybe it's because people don't expect they've been lied to about something as trivial as an animal fact. It could also be that the myth itself is just so engrained in our culture that trying to upend it is pointless. To fill up your head with something else, here are some not so fun facts to feel weird about.

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Text - Seeking_Infinity 689 points · 3 days ago That the Stanford Prison experiment is a good and legitimate experiment which unequivically proves something about human nature. It does not. It was even replicated with completly opposite results. It's just bogus and lame and I wish people would stop citing it like it's special.

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Text - rawsugar87 13.4k points · 3 days ago people believe in the whole alpha and beta wolves thing It's not true. The "leaders" of the pack are the parents. -in natural wolf packs, the alpha male or female are merely the breeding animals, the parents of the pack, and dominance contests with other wolves are rare, if they exist at all.

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Text - PhalanxYXY 12.8k points · 3 days ago · edited 2 days ago The Myth: You can tell if a snake is venomous or not by the shape of its pupil (slit for venomous, round for nonvenomous). The Truth: Pupil shape has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not a snake has venom, and, if you're close enough to get a good look at a snake's pupils, you're probably close enough to get bit. The Advice: If you cannot, from a safe distance, immediately identify a snake beyond a reasonable doubt, assume i

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Text - SquilliamFancySon95 27.0k points · 3 days ago 3 5@3 3 2 E 3 Knuckle cracking doesn't lead to arthritis, it just an old wives tale people use in place of simply telling you it's annoying them. Crack away!

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Text - Penguator432 11.5k points · 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago 2 S People in general though the world was flat until Columbus sailed the ocean blue. No, the Ancient World figured that out a long time before. People just thought that it wasn't possible to sail across the ocean to Asia because sailors would run out of food by then, while Columbus thought that wasn't case because he thought Asia was bigger than contemporary estimates.

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Text - pumperthruster 23.2k points · 3 days ago Bulls hate red. They are actually colour blind and are reacting to the movement of the cloth and the asshole behind it.

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Text - DesignerPilky 21.6k points · 3 days ago 3 I was adamantly told by some seniors at work not to drink the water that boiled twice because it cooks the oxygen out of it.

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Text - Sir_MoonDoggy 36.5k points · 3 days ago · edited 2 days ago 22 Something about touching baby birds and their parents abandoning them due to the smell of human touch

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Text - PaulfussKrile 20.8k points · 3 days ago O 3 99 e2 & 6 More If an HIV positive person has sex with another HIV positive person, they don't have to worry about protection. They do, because there are 140 different strains of the HIV/AIDS virus, and getting infected with another strain, especially a potentially-deadlier one, could be dangerous. Also, pregnancy is still a very big risk for HIV positive women. If you are considering a sexual relationship, get tested, and talk to your doctor abo

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Text - Teacup_Cannibal 28.1k points · 3 days ago A 2 3 2 Organic crops don't use pesticides or herbicides.

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Text - AAAARRRGGGGHHHH 28.9k points · 3 days ago That you can reduce fat from a particular body part

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Text - honguss 19.7k points · 3 days ago 3 2 e That the tongue has different regions for salty, sweet, bitter and sour.

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Text - Noreferal 16.9k points · 3 days ago 2 22 3 3 4 "daddy long legs are actually the most poisonous spiders in the world but don't have long enough fangs to bite you."

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Text - dankmeme96 16.3k points · 3 days ago That people in the middle ages only lived to 40 or something. There was a lot of child dead, thus lowering the average age. Living till 60,70 years old wasn't strange.

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Text - Code2008 13.7k points · 3 days ago Holding B + Down increases your chances of catching a Pokemon.

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Text - xtra_sleepy 35.2k points · 3 days ago · edited 2 days ago 23 3 2 That we only use 10% of our brain

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Text - RAT_CONDOM 12.2k points - 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago 2 4 3 2 8 2 That historical armour was useless, or just something you wore so you had a slight chance to turn a death blow into merely a serious injury. Shows and movies still perpetuate this. Game of Thrones has "acclaimed" sword fights where guys casually shove swords through dudes in plate armour. Impossible. Metal is not cardboard. Even the most basic iron or bronze chain mail armour will be barely scratched by a slash from the

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Text - antrophia 11.9k points · 3 days ago That shaving makes your beard grow better. ↑ shaodyn 5.5k points · 3 days ago When I was a teenager, a lot of people told me that shaving would make my beard grow faster. Well, I didn't want to shave any more than I absolutely had to, so I often went weeks at a time without shaving. It wasn't the best look for me.

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Text - Youwillbe_Youwillbe 10.6k points · 3 days ago That Mr. Rogers was a sniper and/or had tattoos covering his arms. Both untrue. Fred Rogers lived a pretty mundane live and dedicated considerable time to creating television programming that didn't rot kids brains.

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Text - harvestgobs 10.6k points · 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago That the US spent over a million dollars and two years to develop a pen that could work in space...whereas the Soviets decided to just use a pencil. In the early days, both used pencils, but since pencils are made out of graphite, and graphite is conductive, snapped graphite particles are dangerous in a pressurized space capsule...to put it lightly. Fisher, the owner of the pen company, spent his own money to develop a pressurized

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Text - SilverRabbit1 6.3k points · 3 days ago · edited 2 days ago i 2 2 3 2 That goldfish have a 6 second memory. I mean it's still not great, I think like a couple months. But still.... Get your fish a bigger damn tank

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Text - MedicalWelder 5.6k points · 3 days ago 1. The Bermuda triangle: Turns out ships and planes disappear at the same rate all over the worlds oceans. 2. The mystery of how the pyramids were built: They know how they were built. Ramps, pulleys, ropes and labor.

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Text - P4Y4L 4.3k points · 3 days ago S Carrots being good for your eyes. It was a myth created in WW2 by the allies to explain how their pilots got so good at shooting down enemy planes all of a sudden. (The real reason was radar technology).

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