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30 Facts That People Found Out Were False Way Too Late In Life, As Shared In This Online Community
When children are little and misbehave, parents often come up with little lies to make children do as they say. Or some parents have a twisted sense of humor and think that it’s funny their kids believe every ridiculous thing they say because their little ones haven’t developed critical thinking yet.
Most often kids are good at figuring out that something their parents told them was not necessarily true, but the problem is that this knowledge doesn’t come from the parents themselves, so it could be that their children still believe the nonsense they fed them.
It happens more often than you think, plus as children we have our own understanding of things that are not true but, in the eyes of a kid, seem logical. People shared what were some of the ridiculous beliefs they had for way too long, answering Johnnyboi1322's question.
Do you relate to any of them? What are some of the facts that you believed for embarrassingly too long? Let us know in the comments!
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That politicians had our best interests at heart because we elected them to do so.
That quicksand and the Bermuda Triangle would be huge threats in your day to day adult life.
Work hard and employers will look out for you.
Yes, I still work hard and do my job. And yes, there are good employers. Broad stroke statements don't truly work.
When I was a kid, my mom always told me that all the nutrition in bread is in the crust, so she wouldn't have to keep cutting it off. Found out that wasn't true when I was 20, after bringing it up to some friends. I still get s**t for that.
My grandad loved dark chocolates. He always told my dad that dark chocolate is poisonous to children so he wouldn't take any. Trouble is, he never corrected him.
So, when my dad was 23 and at a friend's house, their toddler got hold of an after eight.
Cue my dad leaping from the couch, shouting "NO" and slapping the chocolate out of the toddler's hand.
I remember being about 4 and finding baker's chocolate in a kitchen cabinet. What a cruel trick.
I used to think that eating cold turkey somehow helped people quit smoking.
I had no clue that pickles and cucumbers were the same thing. I went to grow my first garden and commented that you can't find pickle seeds anywhere. /Facepalm
That spiders have big territories, so if your father eliminated the ENORMOUS spider in your room it was safe to go to bed, because there would be no other spiders in the WHOLE house.
Being cold gives you a cold
You do need germs for that, but I think your body wasting extra energy to keep you warm doesn't exactly help your immune system fight them off. And hypothermia and frostbite can still mess you up without giving you a "cold".
That your blood is blue inside your body and it only turns red when it’s oxygenated. I only learnt last year that it’s a myth. God, how stupid I feel ever thinking that was real.
I don't understand why people ever believed this. Im baffled by the comments here.
My only guess is they were originally told by someone they trusted so they didn't question it. I believed it myself for a few years.
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textbooks in grade school (and even some college books!) constantly depict blood acting this way so I can't blame most people for not knowing this one
I remember a primary school teacher telling us this. I went home and told my parents and they were like "That doesn't sound right" hahaha.
I was told by my GYM teacher, so of course I believed him
Load More Replies... To be fair I was taught this in grade school and high school biology. That there was no oxygen in the blood as it returned to the heart (where it would get fresh oxygen and turn red again). This was in the 80’s. BTW It wasn’t until 1959 that they figured out that sperm carried the chromosomes that determine babies sex, not the egg. So cut us old-timers some slack! 😂
Yeah I always heard that, never made sense to me though knowing there's oxygen in your blood lol
I thought the blood heading back towards your heart turned blue because your veins are blue.
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It's not as clear cut as that. There is a visible difference between arterial and venous blood, but it's not red/blue.
Yes, venous (deoxygenated blood) has a darker colour. This is also how first aids can roughly tell what blood vessels the patient injured based on the look of blood and bleeding pattern.
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So I have pale skin. Why do my veins look blue? I'm so confused. I do agree there is already oxygen in my blood.
The deoxygenated blood is called blue, but really, its more of a dark red, mixed with purple, and the oxygenated blood is redder, so this is actually semi-true.
I was taught that blood got oxygenated when it left your body, like having it drawn for lab work. Thankfully I kept paying attention in school and it didn't take long to learn the truth.
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In England in olden days, like 1,500 year ago, the warriors were tattooed blue from head to foot. They were the tribes leaders. That is where the term 'blue bloods' came from.
Maybe you can explain to me how my vein was definitely blue when a severe scrape peeled back my skin and I could see my blue vein with a grayish coating. Looking for a response.
Blue spectrum of light gets reflected and you see blue. However, veins, without blood and whitish/see through.
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My mother still insists it's true. Then again she also insists that if you're following someone in a car, the car in front has to be traveling faster.
in my biology class, when we were learning abt the heart, some girl asked if the blue blood vessels in the diagram of the heart contain blue blood. we are 16 and do a-level biology 💀
I had kids tell me they have blue coloured blood and would try to prove it showing me their veins lol.
My father believed this and argued with me about it when I was a little kid. I asked my science teacher and she explained how veins look blue but blood is red. I knew that I couldn't convince my father otherwise, so I never told him.
I still believe it because your veins look bluish green! Hmm, time for some research ...
They look bluish green, but they're actually mostly colourless. The look blue to us because our skin reflects more blue light back to us, whereas red light gets absorbed much better. De-oxygenated blood is dark red, whereas oxygenated blood is bright red. It's quite a fun little information rabbithole to go down.
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That the black market was an actual market you could go to. I thought it was in Egypt or something. And would have black coloured stalls and sell crazy stuff.
Swallowing a bubble gum would remain forever in your stomach
That women have 1 more rib than men.
I spent 10 years being fed that this was true by the church because 'Adam gave his rib to Eve so she could bear children'.
I looked really stupid in anatomy class.
The rib thing is the result of bad translation. Eve was actually made from Adam's "side". It can be read to mean that the original human was genderless, and was split into two parts to make male and female.
When I was younger I believed that in different countries a version of myself was there.
Ex* in France there would be a French version of myself living a regular life
That camels store water in their humps
They don't fill up like jugs, but I'm pretty sure the extra moisture stored in all that tissue might have something to do with them being able to go extended lengths of time without water.
When I was a kid I thought zig zag rolling papers were little bibles, cause the dude on the front looked like Jesus to me.
I thought the paper was the same material cos it kinda looked similar as a kid 😂 smoking my first joint was an experience and a half 😂
A blanket was a viable parachute when jumping off a porch...
I learned this wasn't true when I jumped off the roof of the shed, around 5yo.
Eating a seed will cause that tree to grow inside the stomach
Eating my vegetables would help me grow big and tall like my dad who’s 6’0
I’m a whopping 5’0 tall
My dad told me as a young child that the Great Wall of China was actually built to keep rabbits out of all their crops. I told people that for years…
I’m late to the party but my parents told me that the ice cream truck only played music when it was out of ice cream.
That artichoke hearts were toxic. All because my dad wanted me and my brother to leave them for him.
Just thinking of the artichoke heart has me salivating. (That is probably the oddest thing I have ever posted, but fresh artichoke hearts are so incredibly delicious)
Not me, but my sister is born on the 31 of december, so until her 5th birthday (I think), our father and I told her that all the fireworks were to celebrate her birthday.
This is sweet in a way but I can imagine you felt a bit pissed off and upset that the same didn't happen on your special day
That horseshoe crabs had poisonous tails like stingrays and could sting you with them.
I literally thought this until yesterday
Actually, they are quite amazing creatures! More related to spiders and scorpions, the horseshoe crab is valued for its blood, but why? Because it is a key part to vaccines by providing it's bright blue blood to help test them for contamination, in a test called "Limulus Amebocyte." If you want to know more, you should read this fascinating article: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/horseshoe-crab-blood-miracle-vaccine-ingredient.html#:~:text=What%20is%20horseshoe%20crab%20blood,horseshoe%20crab's%20body%20from%20toxins.
I didn’t use a microwave until I was 13 because my parents thought it caused cancer.
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I used to think people working at toll booths got to keep the money commuters paid the toll with.
Where I live, they certainly do their best to keep as much as possible :)
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Um, let me think, well, until a month or two ago I used to think the vagina and the hole you pee out of were the same thing.
That's actually a very common one, biology and sex ed classes did a lot of people dirty.
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I thought my country had 29 states and 7 union territories even after the whole Pakistan and Kashmir thing
I used to think Disneyland was just outside my city in the middle of the prairies, and that cut flowers can continue to grow and flourish in just water but if they died I was just a failure at keeping flowers. Someone told me if I shaved anywhere but my legs and armpits the hair will grow back as pube-like.
When I was younger, I overheard my grandpa tell my little brother not to chew on ice because he'll freeze his stomach. I immediately turned around, laughed, and said "No he won't! Why would that happen??" I realized then that my grandpa still believed this to be true and wasn't just messing around...
Last year my 45 year old normally very intelligent husband and I had an argument. He was positive owls had holes in their throats that owl pellets came out of. I had to prove they did not with google, he still swears his HS bio teacher said it.
When I was two or three I didn't know there were people in other cars that were driving around on the road. You can't really see people in another car that's far away from you, so I thought the cars were just driving themselves around. I was also CONVINCED that Mowgli from The Jungle Book was a girl because he had long hair and my mother could not tell me otherwise. Cut to me at 27 being married for nearly 7 years to a man with longer hair than me.
That water towers were really mayonnaise towers and that the color of the tower depicts if it's gone bad or not... "oh man that mayo tower is green they need to fix that if they want to save all that mayo" thankfully I was only 12-13 when I said that to a group of friends... I still cringe and I'm 40.
i used to believe after the kettle boils, you need to depress the on button for a few more seconds with your finger to truly kill all the germs.
Up until I was 4 I imagined, well presumed that bees also created the packaging for their honey and transported it to the stores!
i used to think there were little green aliens in traffic lights controlling them 💀
I used to think people working at toll booths got to keep the money commuters paid the toll with.
Where I live, they certainly do their best to keep as much as possible :)
Load More Replies... Um, let me think, well, until a month or two ago I used to think the vagina and the hole you pee out of were the same thing.
That's actually a very common one, biology and sex ed classes did a lot of people dirty.
Load More Replies... I thought my country had 29 states and 7 union territories even after the whole Pakistan and Kashmir thing
I used to think Disneyland was just outside my city in the middle of the prairies, and that cut flowers can continue to grow and flourish in just water but if they died I was just a failure at keeping flowers. Someone told me if I shaved anywhere but my legs and armpits the hair will grow back as pube-like.
When I was younger, I overheard my grandpa tell my little brother not to chew on ice because he'll freeze his stomach. I immediately turned around, laughed, and said "No he won't! Why would that happen??" I realized then that my grandpa still believed this to be true and wasn't just messing around...
Last year my 45 year old normally very intelligent husband and I had an argument. He was positive owls had holes in their throats that owl pellets came out of. I had to prove they did not with google, he still swears his HS bio teacher said it.
When I was two or three I didn't know there were people in other cars that were driving around on the road. You can't really see people in another car that's far away from you, so I thought the cars were just driving themselves around. I was also CONVINCED that Mowgli from The Jungle Book was a girl because he had long hair and my mother could not tell me otherwise. Cut to me at 27 being married for nearly 7 years to a man with longer hair than me.
That water towers were really mayonnaise towers and that the color of the tower depicts if it's gone bad or not... "oh man that mayo tower is green they need to fix that if they want to save all that mayo" thankfully I was only 12-13 when I said that to a group of friends... I still cringe and I'm 40.
i used to believe after the kettle boils, you need to depress the on button for a few more seconds with your finger to truly kill all the germs.
Up until I was 4 I imagined, well presumed that bees also created the packaging for their honey and transported it to the stores!
i used to think there were little green aliens in traffic lights controlling them 💀
