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30 False Facts That Are So Ingrained In People’s Minds They Can’t See The Truth, As Shared Online
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It’s very human to get hooked on exciting and shocking things and share that information with others. However, not all that we hear or read is true, no matter how exciting it may seem.
Misinformation can spread like wildfire, even long after being disproven. Luckily, the internet is full of curious people who, seeking to dispel those fake truths, band together in online threads like this and share their knowledge for the world to see. Check out what they wrote down below, and if you feel like you want to keep going, check out this other article of ours, too!
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#1
Money can’t buy happiness. Complete b******t! Money buys tons of happiness and anyone who says it doesn’t is a liar or doesn’t know how to have a good time!
Robert Martens 2 years ago
Even if money doesn't buy happiness, I would rather be rich and unhappy than poor and unhappy.
Donald 2 years ago
“I would rather cry in my Rolls-Royce than laugh on a bicycle” - Patrizia Reggiani
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WindySwede 2 years ago
But doesn't make you immune from depression etc, though it helps with bills!!
Justin Smith 2 years ago
It makes it easier to get the medicaions to deal with depression and the like.
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Nano Iders 2 years ago
It may not buy happiness, but it makes the road to it a lot smoother in many cases.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 2 years ago
Money does not buy happiness. But it buys stability, security, living expenses, liesure time and the ocassional luxury. A person is more able to fulfill his or her dreams and goals if those are covered. You can explore a passtime, dwell on a hobby, travel or simply stop to enjoy life...
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
Yeah I laugh when people say this lol I'd be a whole lot happier not living paycheck to paycheck, being able to visit pandas on the other side of the pond!
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
happiness =/= fulfillment though. you can be happy, but rarely are people with money ever actually satisfied. rich folk still kill themselves all the time. I think some make it to the top and realize that what they spent their whole life chasing after wasn't actually worth it.
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#2
The lady who sued McDonalds for coffee being too hot was exaggerating and an opportunist. McDonald’s smeared her name. The poor woman needed skin grafts (!!!!) due to that coffee burn.
WindySwede 2 years ago
and she only asked for her medical bill to be covered at first? Some panda hopefully have some good links about this?
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
I can't hear it anymore...🙄...and the coffee has evaporated by now...stop this sneaky-subliminal surreptitious advertising! 🤭
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
Yeah their coffee is way too damn hot. As a veteran coffee drinker, I about burned my lips and tongue off..
Renee Prete 2 years ago
She had 3rd degree burns so bad that they didn't know if she'd survive. She needed skin grafts. Imagine taking something out of the oven and putting it on your legs. McDonald's had over 700 complaints/ injuries up to that point about the coffee being too hot. McDonald's had their coffee at 160°-180°. She wasn't drinking. She was the passenger and her grandson was parked so she could add cream and sugar to her coffee. The people that were making fun of this case changed their minds when they saw pictures of her injuries
BrownTabby 2 years ago
Sigh. Read about what McDonalds was doing with the coffee. Your willingness to side with the corporation at all costs will not make them treat you better than other consumers.
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Some false facts start as a joke, some are made to deceive, and some are first really thought to be correct, only to be proven otherwise later. But regardless of its origin, if not stopped, this fake or outdated information is, at best, annoying and, at worst, harmful.
As we found out by reaching out to u/Clear-Type5753, that is precisely why they started this thread. “There’s so much misinformation out there, and people often guess or don’t research properly,” says the author, emphasizing just how much misinformation there is around us nowadays.
#3
People love to talk about how pandas are incapable of surviving, and so evolutionarily incompetent that they need to be goaded into even reproducing.
In fact, pandas are very highly specialized and adapted to an ecological niche that was never under threat until human intervention. They're grazers in bamboo forests, which used to be an enormous biome, and their behavioral issues in captivity are just a result of not having access to even a reasonable approximation of that biome.
They evolved to be picky about food because they evolved surrounded on all sides by food and adapted to extract the best food efficiently, instead of clear-cutting their environment to get worse food. They evolved to patrol enormous territories because they evolved surrounded by endless usable habitat in all directions. It's not their fault that animals act weird when transplanted from their homes.
Justin Smith 2 years ago
Shouldn't have the /s. Cause its true in this instance and many others.
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#4
As a dietitian, it drives me nuts when people say that iceberg lettuce is devoid of nutrition. A typical serving of 100 grams provides 17% of your daily Vitamin A and 20% of your Vitamin K requirements, all for just 14 calories. Plus, it's a good source of potassium, manganese, and fiber. So, it’s far from being “just water.” There's definitely nutritional value there.
Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
I'll still do my spinach salads as I'm quite sure there are more nutrients in it (though slathering it in Blue cheese dressing and croutons my negate some of that)
Minty Busby 2 years ago
My problem with lettuce is that the various dishes I like with it include unhealthy ingredients full of calories.
BrownTabby 2 years ago
Great news! You need carbs, protein and fats to live and if you try to live off just the lettuce you’ll get sick.
Load More Replies... Charles McChristy 2 years ago
The marine biologists in Florida refuse to feed it to the manatees. They describe it as crunchy water. Gee, I wonder who I should listen to, the scientists or some dude on BP?
BrownTabby 2 years ago
Cool. How much of your daily MACROnutrients does it provide? That’s what people are talking about.
Helping this cause, the OP also added their own contribution to this actively disproven “facts” list. They said that this so-called “truth” would be the belief many people have that a dog’s mouth is cleaner than a human’s. In reality, both humans’ and dogs’ mouths are full of many different species of microbes (at least 600 each), and comparing them is akin to apples and oranges.
The post received around 10,000 upvotes in no more than 2 days, to which the poster said, “I was excited and surprised by the overwhelming response.” In addition to that, being contacted by Bored Panda caught the author unexpectedly. According to them, this surprise was welcomed nonetheless, and they’re happy and honored to have the data of their post used to pursue the further extermination of this misinformation.
#5
Trickle down economics.
Jilly 2 years ago
Or huge tax breaks to "job creators". We are all job creators. We all shop, get haircuts, eat out etc.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
And without us, there are no jobs and no businesses.
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Gabby Ghoul 2 years ago
I like to say that trickle down economics is giving more food to the overfed and telling the hungry more crumbs will fall off the table.
Vidas Zlioba 2 years ago
Take an opinion (any one will do), and post it as a true fact on a "false fact" thread . . . no need to prove it. Work complete.
JNo3277 2 years ago
There are just a lot of trolls on this site that go through and downvote everyone.
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Nathan 2 years ago
Trickle down economics basic idea is that if Jeff bozos orders a yacht, he pays a company to build it, that company has employees who then buy groceries at the store which is how the groceries store pays its employees. Back to the yacht building company they need materials so they purchase wood from a lumber mill they have employees, they get raw wood from lumberjacks that get paid with the money from the yacht company. I hope this makes some since, the problem with this is the chokepoints at the CEOs, they stop alot of the money from trickling down.
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
trickle down works to a point, but greed stops it from working how it should. just like greed stops socialism from working how it should or democracy from working how it should.
Load More Replies... Lavern Defazio 2 years ago (edited)
Didn't work under ronnie. Didn't work under the 2 georges and certainly didn't work under trump.
Vidas Zlioba 2 years ago
How much did those three cut your taxes? Not enough?
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Downvoted for stating facts on a "false fact" thread. I feel sooo subversive! Here's something from Britannica: "supply-side economics, also called trickle-down economics, [is a] theory that focuses on influencing the supply of labour and goods, using tax cuts and benefit cuts as incentives to work and produce goods. It was expounded by the U.S. economist Arthur Laffer (b. 1940) and implemented by Pres. Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. Supporters point to the economic growth of the 1980s as proof of its efficacy; detractors point to the massive federal deficits and speculation that accompanied that growth.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Detractors also point to the recession that followed these tax cuts.
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April Morris 2 years ago
Reaganomics philosophy of trickle down economics just meant the people at the top are p*ssing on everyone else below 👇 them. It's a big, fat lie and always has been.
#6
That you can catch a cold from being outside in the cold. You become more susceptible, but the actual cold is a virus you can only catch from other people.
Marnie 2 years ago
Has anybody in the past 75 years EVER actually thought that a cold was literally caused by being in the cold? When they say they caught a cold from being outside, wasn't that always just a shorthand for "I caught a cold that I otherwise might not have, because being in the cold made me more susceptible"? I've heard people say it, and every single one understands about viruses and knows being in the cold doesn't directly cause a cold.
Poison Ivy/Boo 2 years ago
Yes, my mother. Not only can you catch a cold by not being properly dressed but apparently you can also catch it by not covering your kidneys with warm clothes. Yeah.....so much misinformation over the years. As I look back at my childhood, I realised I wasn't raised right.
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It’s not like fake news is something fresh and unfamiliar to us. So why do people keep falling for it despite that? This question led us to do more research, coming across an article by the Center for Information Technology & Society.
Surprisingly, gullibility is not to blame here. According to the article, falling prey to misinformation most often happens due to cognitive biases, also known as mental shortcuts and automatic processes meant to make our lives easier, which we all have.
#7
The whole alpha wolf thing
Doctor Strange 2 years ago
This study was done on captive wolves, so it was essentially like thinking you are an expert on human behavior because you studied prisoners. In reality, wolf packs are families, and the 'alphas' are the parents. It is their job to keep the other members of the pack protected and well fed and happy. So that guy at the amusement park with the waist pack full of snacks, making sure his kids are safely having fun and everyone is well fed and hydrated? That is the truest alpha male you will ever find.
WindySwede 2 years ago
I like the alfa from the computer programmer view when this is brought up! alpha = unstable release.
#8
Way too many Confederate States of America apologists still out there. The war was over slavery. Not taxes, tariffs, exports, states rights or any of the other tired excuses.
DB 2 years ago (edited)
So, this basically reduces the whole conflict to being the answer to a Trivial Pursuit question. Slavery was indeed a primary reason but for the south it was one more of economics than morality. If slavery had been the sole reason, then the North would have been wise to jet let the South go. Pressure to be recognized as a legitimate sovereign nation, especially by European countries would have eventually led the Confederacy to free the slaves themselves. With that issue no longer standing in the way both sides would have come to the conclusion that they should reunite. The problem with this scenario is that it doesn't take into account other factors such as the North's economic domination of the South and States' rights. Please don't trivialize this terrible chapter in American history by saying it was about one thing and one thing only. That's just an insult to the memories of those that fought and died on both sides of the conflict.
sofacushionfort 2 years ago
It feels good to be a rebel. It feels good to be an oppressor. Confederate nostalgists enjoy the best of both worlds
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
From someone living in the south with a lot of these people hanging around, the biggest excuse is "it was over states' rights!" My answer: states' rights to do what, exactly? Because slavery is the answer. Sure, states rights was a factor, but it was a factor because they wanted to use every angle, including taxes, tariffs, exports, and states' rights to keep slavery.
Johnnynatfan 2 years ago
It was about states rights. Specifically southern states right to keep slaves and a good portion of the soldiers who fought for the confederacy were traitors to the United States. Traitors should not get statues celebrating them.
Nathan 2 years ago
Slavery was a state right, it wasn't addressed in the constitution so it goes to the states, like what happened with abortion, the federal government said no more slavery (hooray), but it still overstepped its rights as the government. So that's the reason for the Civil War it was for state rights, slavery was just the main reason for that conversation.
walkabout 2 years ago
From Georgia's Declaration of Succession:" “For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery." The ownership of human beings as chattle was absolutely the reason for succession. It was dressed up a state's rights.
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Irene Bucior 2 years ago
Cotton. The south had cotton and slavery. It made cotton a profitable business. If the slaves were freed (or paid), the industry would make much less money selling it. The English didn’t want to pay more for cotton, so they were helping the Confederacy to keep cotton cheaper. Money, money, money, it’s always about money.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 2 years ago (edited)
Same with the apologists of Nazi or Japanese war crimes or several dictatorships in Latin America...
CaptainSlapNTickle 2 years ago
100% completely oversimplified, to say the absolute least. There were slaves in northern states, also...
Michael Largey 2 years ago (edited)
Some Southern slave states - Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and Deleware - did not join the Confederacy, and so slavery remained legat there until the ratification of the 13th Amendment in late 1865. But they were still Southern states. By 1804, slavery had been outlawed in every Northern state, and most long before that.
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Yes it was but it wasn't single dimensional. There was friction between the north and the south that had nothing to do with slavery. Saying this is not being an "apologist". Many in the North didn't care one bit about slavery.
One of the main culprits here is confirmation bias. It causes people to seek, favor, and remember information in a way that would confirm their preexisting beliefs.
However, the list of cognitive biases significantly affecting our information use doesn’t stop here. For instance, we tend to act without fully understanding the information in front of us, reacting to and forming opinions based on the attention-grabbing titles and not reading the article they’re connected to.
#9
Cracking your knuckles causes arthritis
Jill Bussey 2 years ago
If it did cause arthritis, I would suffer in almost every joint in my body.
#10
That people used to only live to age 30 in the past. I can't believe how often people still mention this misconception. Average mortality rate ≠ individual life expectancy
Marnie 2 years ago
This myth drives me nuts. Mainly it was childhood diseases killing a lot before age 5. Once you made it to that age, life expectancy was probably in the 70s nearly everywhere that wasn't extremely over-populated or suffering a famine.
Jackie Lulu 2 years ago
Infections, accidents, and childbirth regularly killed people of all ages. If you managed to avoid those things, yes, you could live to your 70's and beyond.
AnkleByter 2 years ago (edited)
Yes less people lived to what many consider old age by today's standards. But the reason they did is because there was a lot more you could die from years and years ago that we can now treat. People also fail to describe what "in the past" means too. Average mortality rate does fluctuate and is certainly higher now than it has been at times in the past, but a lot of that has to to with more modern medicine and the whole "when we know better, we do better". People by and large, today, have a greater potential to live longer than their great great great + ancestors did, because they have access to things those ancestors didn't, including knowledge.(whether or not we all properly utilize, or can, that access and knowledge). It's not a "false fact", just a poorly explained one, and the "age 30" is exaggerated. Provided one didn't run into medical issues, or people with heinous motives, even great great great + ancestors could get "old". But less of them did, and there were less people overall.
WindySwede 2 years ago
🤦♂️ lots and lots just died really early due du s****y conditions. It's not they where sent to Ättestupa when they turned 30. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%84ttestupa
Popularity is another strong factor that causes something known as the “bandwagon effect.” In other words, when people see that a lot of fellow users like and support something, they’re more likely to do it, too.
When we see something shared and reacted to very many times, we might assume that someone else must’ve verified it before for it to get so popular, and thus, we focus way less on assessing this information.
#11
The misconception that humans only use 10% of their brains, which has been debunked by neuroscience. In reality, various parts of the brain have specific functions, and most of the brain is active at different times.
Luke Branwen 2 years ago
Sometimes it's not that hard to believe. Trump rally, Andrew Tate and Elon Musk fanboys, NFT investors...
Adrian Dobrinescu 2 years ago
I'm tired to read over and over again how this false fact was debunked when in reality the fact was very different in the first place: most of us use only between 10-20% of our brains true potential on a daily basis!
UncleJon_TheMadScientist 2 years ago
In a way certain people (like politicians, hoa board members etc...) utilize 10% of their potential intelligence and common sense....
#12
It’s illegal to talk about how much you’re paid
Some guy 2 years ago
It's been against company policy every place I've ever worked, but I've never heard of a law.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
If you live anywhere in the US, it is quite illegal.
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martymcmatrix 2 years ago
In my case, IT IS ILLEGAL so no more pandas accidentally laugh themselves to death...🙋🏽🐼🕵🏽♀️
As many could guess, falling for fake news can just as well be accredited to political views and alignments. People are prone to more readily accept information that positively correlates with their political ideology and reject news opposing it.
And lastly, misinformation is notoriously sticky, and it’s difficult to undo the effect that false news leaves. According to the article, our memory is not very good at differentiating between a truth and a lie. When it comes to remembering something, we sometimes tend to assume that information was correct, regardless of whether it was false and whether it was later corrected.
#13
Myers-Briggs personality test has no indepently verified evidence behind it. It has no more scientific evidence behind it than a Cosmo quiz.
BrownTabby 2 years ago
It makes a lot more sense when you distinguish between the way corporations are using it and the rather more salient lesson from the Myers Briggs fad that other people have different personalities, needs and preferences than you and you can’t always make assumptions about others based on what YOU prefer.
James Doe 2 years ago
The tests you currently find online usually go a bit beyond the original Myers Briggs. Does anyone know how much these advancements tackle the criticism of the test? I found it a great exercise and very eye opening. My result fit very well, those of team colleagues couldn't have been further from my personality. Hence the astrology analogy doesn't really fit (where you just read into it what you want) Any such exercise can be really healthy, if used to trigger self reflection. But of course is utterly useless to judge others.
Load More Replies... sofacushionfort 2 years ago
Employers hiring based on “Which Gilligan’s Island Castaway are You?”
AnkleByter 2 years ago
I test as a coconut. So, I'm doing pretty good on that scale.
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April Morris 2 years ago
And yet so many employers use that or other similar personality type tests. 🙄😒 What a waste of time.
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
...in contrast to the »Briggs boson« aka. the not-particle...🤔 🤸🏽🏃🏽🚶🏽🧎🏽🧑🏽🦽
Lavern Defazio 2 years ago
A corporation i worked for had employees do this. It was almost an exact description of my astrological sign. I made mention of this and the silence was deafening
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
Neither are horoscopes, yet people live their entire lives around "signs".
Jared Robinson 2 years ago
And the people who are raised on it are typically kids that have been exploited. Just look at brett cooper.
#14
Carrots improve your night vision.
It was a “fact” promoted by the Allies during WW2 to hide their invention of radar. All those British pilots are downing German bombers at night because they eat so many carrots! Totally not because we have a device that lets us see them day or night from dozens of miles away.
Noltha 2 years ago
Still, nyctalopia (night-blindness) may be caused by the deficiency of vitamin A. And carrots are rich in carotene, which is converted to vitamin A in the body. So carrots do not improve night vision, but help to prevent night-blindness.
Lloyd Hansen 2 years ago
As an added bonus to the British for their clever use of misinformation, the German pilots were force fed so many carrots that they couldn't fly due to having the squirts.
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
...and your s🔞x life if they are used respectfully and sustainably. 🥕🥒
To summarize, in this day and age, information can spread faster than ever before, and disproven “truths” that keep circulating can be more dangerous than they ever were.
Not all of the false information is dangerous - some is simply annoying. But knowing how to differentiate between what’s real and what’s not online is crucial. And updating your mental libraries with corrected facts like the ones we see in this Reddit thread is definitely beneficial.
#15
"the triptofan in turkey makes you sleepy!"
1: you'd have to eat an entire 20 pound turkey by yourself in one sitting to get enough triptofan to get sleepy from it
2: chicken actually has higher concentrations of it, and nobody is running around saying chicken made them sleepy.
Overeating makes you sleepy. Not the turkey.
Firstname Lastname 2 years ago
Dealing with keeping on a "big happy family" face is always what made me sleepy on Thanksgiving from exhausting my social battery, but blaming the turkey just sounds better.
Nae Nae BB 2 years ago
For me it was waking up at 4 am to start all my prep work and start cooking lol
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TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
Maybe it's just my mind then. I eat as much as I always do but yet after eating turkey, I'm struggling to stay awake and I don't take naps lol
April Morris 2 years ago
Especially when you add the sugar from all the desserts that follow a huge meal.
#16
That your ancestors ate anything resembling the Paleo diet.
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
Yep. Some communities on the coast ate vast quantities of oysters. Others may have foraged for fruits, nuts and berries. Some ate a lot of meat. Some ate a lot of seeds and grains. It really was just a case of "whatever keeps you alive".
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#17
24 hours for a missing persons report—can’t tell you how many people call 911 after their child/partner has been missing for that long.
#18
Referring to a post from a few minutes ago. You must drink 3 litres of water every day to maintain your health.
There is no scientific basis for this “fact” and overindulgence can be dangerous
WindySwede 2 years ago
Drink when thirsty, if you are to thirsty go see medic it could be some issue. Food also contains water, that also needs to be counted in! Pee have no reason to be as translucent as the water from a natural spring.
BrownTabby 2 years ago
The exact number may be wrong, but if y’all think drinking TOO MUCH water is a more pressing issue in society than not drinking enough, then I throw up my hands in despair.
Mr. Nurse Man 2 years ago
Water toxicity is hard to do normally, but getting dehydrated is very easy. Drink when you’re thirsty and try to get maybe 1 liter a day at minimum just to maintain your fluid levels. It’s honestly not that difficult to keep yourself watered like a slightly more sentient houseplant. 😎
Firefly1617 2 years ago
I drink almost that much if not more in summer. Winter I drink less because it's cold and less sweaty
James Doe 2 years ago
It's a benchmark and it's valuable to have one! Because 1 liter is just not enough (for normal activity). And 5-6 liters should probably come with heat and exercise. Drinking too little is the much bigger issue. Especially because a lot of folks mistake thirst for hunger (or craving for sweets)
#19
That Napolean was short. He was actually average height. The power of propaganda is immense.
Sky Render 2 years ago
Seems some modern politicians are having issues with this too. Apparently a notorious far-right politician was recently spotted wearing high heeled boots to make himself look taller, even though he's a perfectly normal height at 5'8" without them.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
DeSanctimonious wears them too, as well as wearing boots that are much too big for his feet to make it appear he has big feet. (You can tell when you watch him walking, and his feet bend where feet do not bend.)
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Annik Perrot 2 years ago
The French, at that time, were already using meters and centimeters. So, lost in translation, maybe...
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
Napoleon was often seen and painted standing with his Imperial Guard. The minimum height requirement for the Guard was six feet, so he looked short in comparison.
Fat Harry 2 years ago
The myth comes from the fact that his height is often quoted as 5' 2" - which is was - but that was in old French inches. Using modern units he's 5' 6" - 5' 7". Not tall, but not short either.
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Homeopathy
Biytemii 2 years ago
This isn't necessarily true. I'm not into the stuff but different plants and herbs and things have compounds that do actually help certain things. Turmeric for example is a great anti-inflammatory and if u have a toothache and can handle chewing on a clove it will absolutely numb it. Alot of supplements and medicines are derived from these compounds found in nature and they just use the simplest form to produce medicines from. It shouldn't be the only option for medical treatments for sure but it can be used for simple everyday aches pains and such if you actually know what works
#21
That on average you swallow 8 spiders a year.
Liz Siemens 2 years ago
Maybe it was taking an average of all people including those who eat spiders as part of their regular diet? Or is it total bs lol
Ross “Sarcastic Dad” 2 years ago
The best reply I ever hear to this was, "That's ridiculous. You can swallow as many spiders as you want."
#22
After eating wait 30 minutes before swimming
JL 2 years ago
I always wait 24 hours to swim after eating, and I report people missing after 30 minutes. I think I may be doing it wrong.
April Morris 2 years ago
This is so stupid. I proved to my Mom how much of a lie 🤥 that was when I literally ate my lunch in the 🌊 water and kept swimming when I was about 15. She never said another word about it.
#23
That if you touch a baby animal for any reason, their parents will abandon them because they now smell like you.
J J 2 years ago
Herd of bison wouldn't let a calf back in after a tourist helped it out of a ditch this year in Yellowstone. Tourist could be charged a fined. Calf was euthanized. There is truth to this one. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/24/1177857710/bison-calf-yellowstone-man
Katrina Nixon 2 years ago
This makes me soo angry. Tourist should get a lot more than a fine !!
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Nae Nae BB 2 years ago
This actually does happen. Source, I co-founded a rabbit rescue and had to bottle feed too many newborns after the mom rejected them once they were touched by human hands....not all, but a lot. I also worked for an animal shelter and yes it happens there with kittens and puppies as well.
James Doe 2 years ago
It's a very valuable and correct rule. Because there are much much more idiots touching wildlife for no good reason whatsoever than folks who are educated enough to correctly identify if wildlife is in need for help and then able to give proper help. don't touch wildlife! don't feed wildlife! (unless you educated yourself (facts not opinion!) and know what you are doing)
April Morris 2 years ago
Especially birds! Most songbirds don't have that great a sense of smell (if any at all). If you find a baby bird, put it back in the nest if you possibly can.
Biytemii 2 years ago
It's not true if u see a fallen baby bird u should always try and out it back in the nest. I've seen baby deer dropped from mothers in a panic run and they just get picked up and moved to a safer spot where mama can come back to get them. It's more u don't want to spend a lot of time with a baby animal because they can attach themselves to u instead of their mother and that can be a problem but simply moving one out of harms way will not make the parents reject it.
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#24
That one anecdote that every paranoid snake-hater doles out about that pet python who stopped eating and would sleep in the bed with its owner. Supposedly "sizing her up" and "making room" to eat her.
Snakes aren't that smart. They're opportunistic predators, they don't really plan ahead. Could you imagine a python sliding up next to an antelope and calmly trying to compare measurements? Besides, the most common pet snakes are too small to eat a full grown human anyway. (They can definitely squeeze one to death on accident, so you should never handle a large snake alone, but they won't try to eat you afterwards.)
Donald 2 years ago
Rule of thumb I learned was any constrictor over 10 feet and you need 2 people in the room. My largest before I had to re-home them was Wilma (16 foot reticulated python-het albino) she was a total sweetheart with me but not my GF at the time. I couldn't imagine her going after me but I was always safe rather than sorry.
#25
That our blood is blue before it reaches oxygen
Diolla 2 years ago
Well crabs and octopuses are not the ones reading this :-D
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liz MacClain 1 year ago
It's actually varying shades of red depending on if it's arterial or veinous
#26
That you will make less by getting a raise due to getting into the next tax bracket (US specific). This is true only in very rare scenarios like receiving disability, but by and large, you won't make less per paycheck with a raise.
CaptainSlapNTickle 2 years ago
I pay absolutely zero taxes on my VA disability 💪🫡🪖, and it's glorious.
Denise Griffin 2 years ago
Hmmm, apparently my paycheck did't get that memo. Got a raise. Bring home less.
Jared Robinson 2 years ago
I have literally experienced it happen to me. Sure you get the money back at the end of the year, but that didn't help me pay for my living space that month.
J J 2 years ago
Or right at the edge of that tax bracket and forced overtime barely nudges you over
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Apatheist Account2 2 years ago
One only pays the higher tax rate on the additional income. Unless you're getting some means-tested benefits, the amount you pay in income tax will not bring your take-home down. You do not lose more of the income in the lower tax bracket, just a higher proportion of the additional income.
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Scientists don’t know how bees fly.
Sky Render 2 years ago
It was a misunderstanding of a statement concerning fixed wing flight. Specifically that there's no way a bee could fly if it had wings like an airplane at that size. Which, yeah, no kidding.
#28
If you shave facial hair it grows back thicker
Donut Overload 2 years ago
It just feels thicker because you are shaving it down so it is flat
#29
That men have one less rib than women. I have no idea how people still spread this, but I heard it all throughout childhood
Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
Dang...now "I want my rib back" argument with my wife is null and void.
Richienotsorich 2 years ago
Reminds me of the joke - God told Adam he'd create woman who would do all his cooking and cleaning and carry out all his desires. Adam asked what it would cost and God said "an arm and a leg". So Adam asked what he could get for a rib!
CaptainSlapNTickle 2 years ago
Because of atotal b******t thing in print called the Bible. Completely factless, made up stories about imaginary friends, yet somehow dictate public policies. 😱🙄😢😡🤕🤮😳
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Unneeded. We already know the difference between less and fewer, thank you.
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#30
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day
Captain McSmoot 2 years ago
Maybe not the most important, but it has the best food options by far of any other meal. You can eat breakfast in the morning, for lunch, and for dinner/supper. What other meal can boast such range?! Who has ever heard anyone say, "I'm tired of breakfast food."? Breakfast food can turn anyone into a hobbit. Fight me. I will die on this delicious hill! :)
Firefly1617 2 years ago
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day for me, because if I don't eat it my adhd prescription makes me nauseous
WindySwede 2 years ago
The "first meal" of the day is important. No matter when you eat it, what ever works best for you to function the best you.
UncleJon_TheMadScientist 2 years ago
For me "lunch" is the biggie, breakfast is second and dinner is best as a snack... If I try to eat a big breakfast before being awake and active for 2 to 3 hours otherwise I get nauseated.
Lavern Defazio 2 years ago (edited)
Sacrilege!!! Get those dang grapefruit/ oranges off that plate and add some toast and more bacon! Where is the coffee at fer gosh sakes!!?
#31
Peeing on a Jellyfish sting alleviates the pain.
#32
That there are "left brain" and "right brain" people, at least the way people mean it.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
I'm a left brain person. Because that's what my brain did.
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That dinosaurs all went extinct. Birds are dinosaurs.
Stan16 2 years ago
the same way as humans are primitive four-legged rat-size Cynodont creatures
Max Fox 2 years ago (edited)
No, you need to update your knowledge of taxonomy and phylogeny. Birds are actual dinosaurs, the same way that mammals that lived in the Cretaceous were mammals. Birds are considered theropod dinosaurs.
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No they aren't. No more then humans are monkeys. Its that they are related too them.
#34
Germans are completely hung up on the concept of only eating ONE hot meal a day. Other "facts": You do NOT stop being able to learn in old age, you do NOT benefit from drinking red wine (zero alcohol is the healthiest), you do NOT automatically gain weight after 30
Anthony Czuczman 2 years ago
As someone who went to college at 18 and then went back at 46 - brain elasticity changes over time and it is more difficult to retain new concepts and information
WindySwede 2 years ago
well, the last one is plain wrong. there are now air born calories! 😅🤷♂️🥓🎂
What do you think ?
Ace 2 years ago
Oh come on BP Please! The last time this was done was only two days ago. Two Days!
Anony Mouse 2 years ago
At least they stopped the "Household Cleaning Supplies as Disney Princesses" or "Characters from The Office as Disney Princesses". And they haven't put up a terrible AI "art" thing in awhile. If they'd just stop with the tiktoks and the recycled c**p-on-America posts...
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Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
This stuff keeps on being regurgitated all the time. It seems to be the BP equivalent of a Christmas stocking filler
Eric Sandoval 2 years ago
I don't even need to read these anymore, they've been reposted so many times I have them seared in my memory. At this point just put it on the main page of BP permanently and save yourselves some time.
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
Came here to say, look, it's this one again, and again, and again...ad nauseam.
gambolloch 2 years ago
The myth that brains don't fully develop until 25 should be on here. https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/brain-development-25-year-old-mature-myth.html
Ace 2 years ago
Oh come on BP Please! The last time this was done was only two days ago. Two Days!
Anony Mouse 2 years ago
At least they stopped the "Household Cleaning Supplies as Disney Princesses" or "Characters from The Office as Disney Princesses". And they haven't put up a terrible AI "art" thing in awhile. If they'd just stop with the tiktoks and the recycled c**p-on-America posts...
Load More Replies... Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
This stuff keeps on being regurgitated all the time. It seems to be the BP equivalent of a Christmas stocking filler
Eric Sandoval 2 years ago
I don't even need to read these anymore, they've been reposted so many times I have them seared in my memory. At this point just put it on the main page of BP permanently and save yourselves some time.
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
Came here to say, look, it's this one again, and again, and again...ad nauseam.
gambolloch 2 years ago
The myth that brains don't fully develop until 25 should be on here. https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/brain-development-25-year-old-mature-myth.html
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