Common Misconceptions Everyone Believes That Totally Aren’t True

Here are all the things you’ve been told are true, but absolutely aren’t.

1. Contrary to the phrase “blind as a bat,” bats are actually not blind, it’s just that their eyes aren’t as functional as their amazing hearing and smell.

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2. Most meteorites are actually very cold when they hit the Earth.

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3. The amount of tryptophan in turkey doesn’t make you sleepy. Huge meals of meats and starches (with way too much wine) make you sleepy.

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4. Cracking your knuckles doesn’t cause arthritis. It does however make you look like a total badass.

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5. The red juice that comes out of raw meat isn’t blood, it’s a mixture of a protein called myoglobin and water.

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6. The Great Chicago Fire was not caused by a cow kicking over a lantern, which was actually made up by a newspaper because it was a better story.

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You still shouldn’t trust cows though.

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7. Humans actually have 5 kinds of tastebuds, the 5th is used for detecting savory flavors, like soy sauce or mushrooms.

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8. The sun isn’t yellow, it’s actually white, but the light gets scattered in our atmosphere and becomes yellow.

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9. You don’t lose more body heat through your head than anywhere else on your body, it works out to about 10% leaving through your head.

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10. Lemmings don’t walk off cliffs on purpose. They are adorable though.

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11. Men don’t think about sex every 7 seconds, because that varies greatly from person to person and is almost impossible to measure.

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12. The phrase “I could care less” is grammatically incorrect, if you could care less, it means you care about it. Duh.

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13. Sugar doesn’t make you hyperactive.

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14. Alcohol doesn’t make you warmer.

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15. The idea of being left or right brained making you artistic or good at math is a total myth.

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16. The Bible actually never specifies what kind of fruit Adam and Eve eat from the tree.

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17. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle never had Sherlock Holmes say “Elementary, my dear Watson.” The catchphrase comes from a 1929 film adaptation.

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18. Einstein did drop out of school, but he also had amazing grades.

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19. Your hair and fingernails don’t keep growing after you die.

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20. According to the Red Cross, it’s not that big of a deal if you eat right before swimming.

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21. Waking a sleepwalker doesn’t cause them to harm themselves.

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22. Watching too much TV doesn’t affect your eyesight. It does however make you fat, depressed, and aggressive.

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23. There are more than 3 primary colors because scientifically primary colors don’t exist.

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24. You can’t see the Great Wall Of China from space. No Astronaut, according to NASA, has ever seen it.

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25. Touching someone who has poison ivy can’t give you poison ivy. It has to come from the leaves.

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26. Johannes Gutenberg didn’t invent the world’s first printing press. Printing presses in China have existed since around 593 AD.

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27. “Dog years” aren’t a set thing and actually vary by breed.

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28. You have way more than 5 senses. Scientists put the total somewhere between 14-20, depending on your definition of “sense.”

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So there you have it, your entire life has been a lie. Go out and spread the word!

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