NOTIONS PEOPLE WANT TO BELIEVE
Added on: 13th Feb 2016
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.
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