NOTIONS PEOPLE WANT TO BELIEVE

DADDY LONG LEGS, ARE THE MOST VENOMOUS

SPIDER BUT THE SHAPE OF THEIR MANDIBLES

RENDERS THEM INCAPABLE OF BITING HUMANS.

Daddy long legs are in fact capable of piercing human skin but they

are not very venomous at all. The venom will cause a slight

burning sensation at worst.

GUM TAKES 7 YEARS TO DIGEST

You can’t digest gum. It just passes through your body.

FORTUNE COOKIES WERE INVENTED BY

THE CHINESE…OR MAYBE THE AMERICANS

It was neither. Fortune cookies were brought us by the Japanese.

HENRY FORD INVENTED THE AUTOMOBILE AND

THE ASSEMBLY LINE

He invented neither. Karl Benz is typically considered the inventor

of the modern car and the assembly line had been around for

a while already. Henry Ford just pulled a Thomas Edison and

improved everything enough that people wanted to buy it.

PEOPLE WITH PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORIES REMEMBER

THINGS AS THOUGH THEY ARE A PICTURE

If you’re friend ever tells you that he or she has a photographic

memory then chances are that they are either lying or

exaggerating. There is no evidence to prove the existence of

photographic or eidetic memories. They’re just really

good at using mnemonic devices.

PLANES EJECT THEIR TOILET WASTE

INTO THE AIR

They don’t. At least not intentionally. Older passenger trains on

the other hand have typically flushed directly onto the tracks.

SUNFLOWERS ALWAYS FACE THE SUN

In a way this is true…but only before the flower heads are

open! After that they face east all day long.

EATING SUGAR GIVES YOU A BLAST OF

ENERGY…SUGAR RUSH!

While eating any food will cause you to have a spike in energy,

according to scientists the mythical “sugar rush” is just a

placebo effect. It’s like the high school kid who feels a little

buzz from drinking and acts as if they’re totally wasted.