I've been to the creationism museum, and they had animatronic dinosaurs with Adam & Eve in the garden of Eden room.
Their official stance was that the dinosaurs survived the great flood but died out soon after for unknown reasons.
Humans and dinosaurs co-exist today. Birds are dinosaurs.
Update: Birds are dinosaurs, folks. No shit. They really are. They aren't evolved from them. Dinos had feathers, bird feet, beaks, the whole nine. They are dinos. We live with them now.
An old friend came to visit one day, and just freaked - my lovely, friendly, companionable chicken suddenly ran down and fricking housed a mouse. I wasn't surprised, but I appreciated how stunned and frankly impressed my friend was. They're dumb, but at the same time, they're really not. They have incredible personalities while also being capable of straight-up bloodbaths.
You are completely correct.
This is why sometime in the last 30'ish years scientist when from saying "the extinction of the dinosaurs" to "the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs."
They are, but at the same time you clearly know that is not what people talk about when they talk about dinosaurs. If someone told me they had a real dinosaur at home, and showed me a canary, I would think they were a bit of a twat.
I’m pretty sure he was considered short bc his personal guard were required to be 6’+ (~180cm), so he was short, just in comparison to his personal guard.
Edit: Napoleon's Old Guards 👍
Actually, he was considered short because the Duke of Wellington was taller, and the British printed a huge amount of propaganda regarding short napoleon because of it during the war.
Also, the perception of Napoleon as being short is partly due to a misunderstanding related to different measurement systems used by the French and the British during his time.
Napoleon’s height was 5 feet 2 inches in French feet, which is equivalent to about 5 feet 6 inches in modern measurements (or approximately 1.68 meters). This height was relatively average for a Frenchman of that era.
The myth could also be derived from his nickname, ‘The Little Corporal’ which was actually a term of endearment from the veteran artillery men in the battle of Lodi when Napoleon helped out with some clutch cannon reloading. ~~So they promoted this 20 year old to corporal and that’s how the name stuck.~~
“But he had just single-handedly knocked Austria out of the war. And by the way, he was only 28. So maybe it’s about time you moved out of your dad’s attic.”
His own men affectionately called him “the little corporal.” The famous painting of him crowning Josephine was painted by a good friend and actually does depict him on the shorter side.
This “myth” is actually more up for debate than people realize. It could be propaganda, but then again it might not be. Much of the aristocracy/nobility at this time was likely larger than your average person, so it’s possible that Napoleon was just short for an officer.
While there are many myths surrounding the aspects and differences of the left and right hemispheres of the brain, there are absolutely huge differences. That one is misleading.
Yeah the oil and pasta one acts like you put the oil in the boilong water.
No... you toss the noodles in a little oil after boiling. Works like a charm.
Where do you think the oil goes? It still helps the pasta not stick. Maybe not the most efficient use of oil, but some of it will be on the pasta, as you would imagine.
The dog one is stupid. Nobody thinks they literally sweat through their tongues. The myth is that they pant instead of sweating to regulate temperature, which isn't entirely a myth as the next sentence mentions.
I imagine they do get some evaporative cooling from their tongue being large and their breath moving air around it. While their tongue may not have sweat glands, having salival glands in their mouths serve the same purpose to wet their whole mouth.
Especially with how much vasculature is in the tongue, it wouldn't surprise me if this effect contributed to their body temperature.
A large number of these are misleading Redditor “ackshually” bullshit, and some of these aren’t even “myths” - like I’ve never heard of anyone believing that black holes are literal holes? And the 72 virgins one even says it’s a matter of debate.
I want to punch the person that made this shitty Infograph.
The caffeine one is completely untrue as any surplus amount of fluids will make you urinate but at the same time the Caffeine is a factual diuretic because it forces the kidneys and liver to increase function for a short time
Yeah it’s literally twisting the facts for a cheap “gotcha!”
In a similar vein the sugar one is complete bullshit too - no one claims sugar causes literal adhd, so it’s “refuting” a complete strawman.
Not to forget the fact that the water to caffeine ratio in any given coffee varies greatly. An espresso is not going to help you much with staying hydrated.
It has also fully removed the context of the last 40 years on Jihad and Fatwah. Yes, that is what those words translate to, but have been corrupted by extremists, much like every Nazi symbol in existence.
Exactly, Same Type of Redditor created this that would go "Akschually the swastika is not a hate symbol, but a sign of spirituality and peace in Asia, and the N word actually just describes a type of person, not a racist term." and somehow feel like they are enlightent compared to others.
Did you know that "Crusade" does not mean holy war? It actually translates from the word French word "croisade," meaning, "being marked with the cross." This mark simply denoted pilgrims!
*Disclaimer: Please ignore that these pilgrimages were armed, and that the word crusade has been used to describe a series of levantine wars waged by said pilgrims. Please only pay attention to my etymology based wordplay.
also salty water boils SLOWER, that’s actually why it’s better, because the more of a splits you put in solution, the higher the boiling point goes bc there’s more mass to heat.
I think this person went down the list of Wikipedia myths and just simplified their favorites for an infographic. But they simplified some to the point of being misleading or incorrect.
I'd say the alcohol one is also misleading. It might not flat out destroy braincells (even though it then states it does if drunk sufficiently), but it certainly stifles growth in pubescent brains.
"You have probably heard the term left brain versus right brain. You may have heard that this underscores creative versus analytical people. That's a folk tale, the equivalent of saying the left side of a luxury liner is responsible for keeping the ship afloat, and the right is responsible for making it move through the water. Both sides are involved in the process. That doesn't mean the hemispheres are equal, however. The right side of the brain tends to remember the gist of an experience, and the left brain tends to remember the details."
- John Medina, Brain Rules
I think this is more what the guide is alluding to, but it's hard to fit nuance in a blurb.
Isn't there a treatment for seizures that severs the corpus callosum and results in behavioral changes due to the lack of communication between hemispheres?
The swimming and eating one is misleading as well, the number of kids that I’ve taught to swim who have been sick or complained of sickness because they have eaten right before getting in the pool is possibly in the 100’s. I would recommend at least 20 minutes between eating a meal and doing any sport.
Yeah, anyone can get sick from moderate to intense physical exertion immediately after eating.
I think the old rumors (at least from what I remember when I was younger) was that you would get cramps swimming after eating, and thus wouldn’t be able to swim at all because your muscles stopped working. This could lead to drowning.
Both your case and the one I mentioned are similar, but slightly different.
Speech is on the left side of the brain. Have a stroke there and you could lose your ability to speak. Also have a stroke on the left side of your brain and experience paralysis on the right side of your body (and vice versa).
Neuroplasticity is a real thing where you can “rewire” the controls of the damaged portion of your brain, but that just furthers the point that specific parts of a healthy brain have specific tasks in which they perform.
Alton Brown did an experiment on Good Eats about this. Olive oil does stop sticking when you add it after you drain the pasta, but if added during the boiling, most of it will completely drain off leaving a negligible amount. He did also observe that there was less boiling over with added oil
Ok, so the ‘Bulls are colorblind’ one is a half-truth and definitely misleading. Bulls have dichromatic (two color) vision with photoreceptors that have peak excitation in the cyan (444 nm) and orange/red (555 nm) ranges. This is only ‘colorblind’ insofar as most humans have trichromatic (three color) vision (RGB), and people with less than three are considered ‘colorblind’. (Most ‘colorblind’ people have dichromatic vision, e.g., RB). Bulls are absolutely able to distinguish red…
[Source](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9685209/)
Which is exactly why matadors traditionally use bright red capes, not because it aggravates the bull but because it’s easier for them to see. They charge at the cape instead of the matador because it’s a more obvious target to their limited vision
the "black belt doesn't mean mastery" one is especially fascinating to me considering it goes on to reference one, very specific martial art that doesn't even use the belt like that anymore globally
makes me wonder how many of the ones i know less about are also bullshit
> very specific martial art that doesn't even use the belt like that anymore globally
Karate absolutely uses black belts for mastery (white/orange for very beginners).
> makes me wonder how many of the ones i know less about are also bullshit
The Korean fan myth is categorized under "nature". This post doesn't deserve the upvotes it got.
Fun way to prove to your annoying friends that they aren't 'sensitive to msg:' ask if tomato sauce or salsa give them headaches. Tomatoes, especially processed. are chocked full of msg.
Yeah I had a dinner guest say she was allergic to onions and garlic after I invited her for chili. I asked her if she had a preferred brand of chili seasoning as a test, and she was like "Oh any are ok."
Another time, I had a guy say he couldn't eat mushrooms or cheese because he was allergic to penicillin. This was news to my friend who will literally die if he is given penicillin -- but regularly eats cheese and mushrooms (because penicillin allergy does not mean an allergy to EVERY fungi or bacteria obviously).
A third said she cannot have any gluten, soy, dairy, or nuts, but could have all of these things in processed and fast foods that she suggested as alternatives.
I've just stopped inviting people over for dinner. I have actual food allergies and I'm sick of catering to people who don't know what a food allergy or intolerance actually looks like.
Typical conversation working in healthcare:
“I’m allergic to codeine”
“What happens when you take it?”
“I get bunged up”
“Right so you’re not allergic you just have a common side effect”
I think this is what my surgeon thought would happen when I said I was allergic to zofran @_@ because he gave it to me anyway and I was puking and shitting out of every orifice immediately lmfaooo.
God, not the way to be post-op when you cannot leave the bed. 0/10 don't recommend.
People confuse allergies and sensitivities quite a lot. I’m sensitive to onions and garlic (I get cluster headaches if I eat onions) but chili seasoning just makes me feel mildly nauseous and headache-y. That’s probably what your guest meant. I’ve grown accustomed to just keeping advil and ginger candy on me all the time since onion powder is in *everything*
The science thing should be:
In science, a 'theory' is ~~anything~~ far more than a conjecture. ~~Usually~~ It is an extensively tested idea uniting data from many observations.
No it's not. String theory is a theory, but it's not proven. The caloric theory of heat and the miasma theory of disease have both been disproven by better theories.
The left and right brain thing isn't totally correct. For about 99% of the population, language lateralizes to the left hemisphere. But the overall "logical vs artsy" point is still correct.
Yes they can learn to do basic tasks. But if an object shown in the persons left visual field, they cannot name that object because the information is only available in the largely nonverbal right hemisphere.
If the corpus callosum is severed (used to be a treatment for epilepsy), people can largely function normally. This is because they are getting stimuli from both sides of their body, so information is still being processed by both sides of the brain. However if a word flashes and it is only picked up by the right side of the brain, then the person won't be able to process that information as effectively as the left.
These functions are localized but our brains are plastic enough to pick up the slack so to speak.
I came here to say this! Although under some circumstances, such as early brain injury occurring on the left, the right side can 'learn' to pick up some of the slack for language based tasks. The brain is an amazing thing.
>Iron maidens
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>Never a medieval torture device
I‘d like to add one. Medieval torture is a myth in itself. Of course, people have always been hurting each other, but torture was *not* part of the medieval criminal justice system for the most part. In the first half of the medieval period (500-1000) A.D., both worldly and religious leaders actually very vehemently argued against the use of torture.
Torture played no role in the criminal justice system until 1252, when Pope Innocence IV. officially permitted torture under very strict requirements. This was in the middle of the church‘s struggle against what they considered heretics, but only as the ultima ratio and „without breaking their limbs or putting their life in danger“. In other words, quite mild compared to what came later.
In the Holy Roman Empire, the first time torture was officially sanctioned was in the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina of 1532, so already well in the early modern period. On that note, it is important to discuss what even constituted the transition from the late medieval to the modern period.
Contrary to common belief, it is not a single event, like the discovery of America in 1492 or the fall of Constantinople in 1453. While these were important events that contributed to the transition, they weren’t sufficient by themselves. Rather, we consider the early modern period to have started around 1500 due to sweeping changes across all parts of European society. Fashion changed drastically, the Renaissance as a new style of art finally replaced the gothic as the dominant art style, humanism replaced scholasticism in philosophy, warfare changed, feudalism began to make way for absolutism and our understanding of justice changed.
The transition towards us viewing torture as a legitimate part of our justice systems was part of the transformation of our societies. This process didn’t begin in 1500, but by the 16th century it was more or less complete. In short, instead of being a medieval staple practice, the advent of torture actually indicated the end of the medieval period.
This is fascinating.
This is only somewhat related, and It's been a while since I read it, but I think Foucault argued in *Surveiller et punir* that the French consciously moved away from public execution/torture and towards incarceration due to an understanding that crude displays of violence in public were counter-productive for public order aspirations.
It was deemed much more effective to discipline people with monotony and routine. One of the first places we see people lining up and routinely singing the national anthem is in French prisons, first thing in the morning upon being released from cells.
Do you have any insight on this? How were those deemed criminal routinely punished in the medieval period?
Some of these are just wrong. “Caffeine doesn’t dehydrate you. Yes it’s a diuretic but the liquid from caffeinated drinks offset the dehydration”. First of all, that’s not how diuretics work. Second, what happens if you take a caffeine pill hm?
Thanks I scrolled down for this. I was hoping someone would point this out. They don’t seem to understand that diuretics signal the release of electrolytes from the kidneys. The water in coffee wouldn’t counteract that.. they totally got that one wrong.
Doctor here:
There are various strengths of diuretics, and caffeine is relatively mild. If you took a caffeine pill and did not drink fluids, sure, that would cause some fluid loss.
The water in coffee and tea does give you a net positive as far as hydration goes, due to the weak effects of caffeine overall.
I have also seen people out-drink even stronger diuretics, like furosemide. All the furosemide in the world isn't going to diurese you if you are chugging high sodium fluids, like chicken noodle soup.
Both Fatwah and Jihad have a long history in geopolitics. I would go as far as to say that both words mean extremely different things in different context, and the real misconception is that nobody really grasps the difference between the extremist version of the word and the standard version of the word.
Crazy, autocratic and murderous sects of Islam genuinely will call a fatwah against someone calling for them to be killed, or claim that warfighting is jihad. Notably, 98 percent of the Muslims on the planet to not respond to these fatwahs or calls to Jihad.
The majority of Muslims probably see Fatwah as something more like a Catholic Papal Edict, and Jihad as more of a personal fight against temptation and trying to get closer to God.
What I find fascinating about the word "Jihad" is that (not to Godwin's Law) "Mein Kampf" also means "my struggle" and it has pretty much the same connotations. People have used it for horrible, inhumane attacks on humanity, but it's also just a regular phrase and way to describe your philosophy on life. I'm not going to look sideeye at a German who uses the phrase "Mein Kamf" while complaining about doing the laundry, unless that laundry is a big ol swastika. Same way as Muslims the world over often use the word "Jihad" to describe their personal walk with their religion and I'm not gonna look sideeye at them unless they're flying a flag that says "Death to America, a curse upon the Jews" like the Houthis do.
> . I'm not going to look sideeye at a German who uses the phrase "Mein Kamf" while complaining about doing the laundry
As a german I think you probably should. I never have heard anyone use it that way, especially since Kampf usually has military or... lets call it pseudo-violent connotations. "Mein Kampf gegen Krebs." "My battle/struggle against cancer." would be a more common usage. Though as a verb it can occasionally be used for smaller things.
Yeah, German is one of my first languages and I live in a german speaking country: I've never heard anyone say "mein Kampf" when they mean things like laundry. Then it's usually "das ist so ein Krampf" ("That's such a cramp"). Meaning it's an annoying/infuriating/hard situation to deal with. But that may just be a regional thing.
Until now, I've never associated sentences like "Mein Kampf gegen Krebs" with the book tho.
Stupid chart is wrong anyway
Black*holes* are holes that empty excess space dust into the turtles' mouths so they get something to eat because holding up universes is calorie intensive
Whoever made this chart should go to school at my Mama's house, she learned me good
This guide is like a Redditor distilled into a chart.
Please, if you hear people repeat something on this chart, you don’t need to be smug and correct them.
“Actually, Salmon Rushdies fatwa was not necessarily a death sentence because technically….”
And not only in "basic techniques", where I come from, you have to know the whole gokyo. But also saying "competence" is an understatement. You have to be very good. At least for judo and where I live, showing competence in basic techniques is not at all worthy of a black belt. Maybe other martial art, but not judo.
I don’t believe anyone can be perfect at judo, but saying black belt are masters is not very far from the truth.
That's something I appreciated about Tae Kwon Do when I was doing it - my Dojang had a level jus before black belt, where you had to practice everything again, and start to teach as well.
On its own, the black belt should not represent simple competency. A black belt should indicate that you are competent with your skills, able to teach others, and provide leadership and mentorship to those who come after you. It should also be noted that earning your black belt is merely the first step in the journey of a martial artist. Competency and mastery are two VERY different concepts, and both take significant amounts of time (for various reasons)
For context, salt isn't used to make water boil quicker, but to have a higher boiling point (100°C -> 102°C), as such, it is used for flavor and maybe a quicker pasta cooking once the water is boiling
Correct. In order to achieve an increase of 2C you would need a salt concentration of 10%. So in a pot with 3 liters of water, you would need 300g of salt - this is equivalent to slightly more than 1 cup of salt for any US measurement minded folks. You’d get your temperature increase, but your pasta would be inedible.
I was confused on this one as well. If anything, salt makes the water boil slower if the same rate of heat is used. Granted, a pinch of salt won’t do much for 8 quarts of water, which is why I usually use a heavier dose.
I refuse to believe the one about milk. I can consistently, demonstrably, show it promotes mucous production to anyone who wants to watch me get snotty.
This one is arguing that milk doesn't produce excess mucus in general in your body. In truth, it does promote a viscous coating of your throat when mixed with saliva, so your experiences are still valid. This infographic just takes the opportunity to twist it into something that would be, indeed, wrong.
Came here to comment on Milk as well. Dairy has triggered my asthma since childhood, and specifically Milk triggered mucus and chest congestion for me. Stopped drinking it in 2011, but still ate (some) cheeses, sour cream, and butter up until 2019. I developed a type of pulmonary fibrosis that causes months long flare-ups a couple of times a year and during a few of my early flare-ups, I would get GERD after eating dairy - after completely cutting out dairy the flare-ups got more manageable.
I'll also note that within about 2 years of going totally dairy free, I discovered after accidentally eating a few different things that I never realized had dairy in them, that I had also become Lactose Intolerant ☹️
If it does it to you, and not to nearly everyone else, then it's the case that your body is responding poorly to milk, rather than mucus production being an inherent quality of milk.
It's like lactose intolerance. Milk doesn't inherently cause the intestinal issues. Your body just can't break it down.
Okay, but if it's a "commonly believed myth" surely that means I'm not an outlier. At what point does it go from, "No, that's just a you thing" to "Yeah, that's totally a thing"?
TIL that a coolguide like this is a great way to slip in something untrue or a half-truth and spread misinformation. A good chunk of these are oversimplified to the point of not being factual. Random example, old glass isn’t thicker at the bottom b/c of flowing like a liquid, but it’s also not poorly made. It’s actually great engineering, because the bottom portion of a giant pane of glass meeds to support more of its own weight. If ot was poorly made glass, you’d equally find panels that ate thicker on top, or in middle.
I actually want to know more about "More than 5 senses" and the thing is, they're usually referred as 5 senses but are normally called main 5 senses.
Edit: I checked and read about in wiki, there's external and internal senses
I kinda disagree with that being a "myth" -- yes, we have more than 5 things we can sense, but when people say we have 5 senses, they mean senses we use to describe / interact with things. If I hand you an object and ask you to describe it, you describe how it looks or feels or smells, not thirst and hunger. But that's just my opinion
look up interception and proprioception. Also-- do hunger and thirst not describe sensations which arise from our interactions with physiological states and external stimuli?
In the Quran it is actually mention that they will be female. Even going so far as to say the virgins will be big breasted:
https://quranx.com/78.31-33
Only the number 72 isn’t mentioned in the Quran, but it’s made clear that it will be multiple.
https://quranx.com/78.33?context=3
Commentary on the verse by the respected Ibn Kathir: https://archive.org/details/TafsirIbnKathirVolume0110English_201702
This Hadith also speak of how the virgins will be women (and scary transparent apparently): https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3254
Ok, so the ‘Bulls are colorblind’ one is a half-truth and definitely misleading. Bulls have dichromatic (two color) vision with photoreceptors that have peak excitation in the cyan (444 nm) and orange/red (555 nm) ranges. This is only ‘colorblind’ insofar as most humans have trichromatic (three color) vision (RGB), and people with less than three are considered ‘colorblind’. (Most ‘colorblind’ people have dichromatic vision, e.g., RB). Bulls are absolutely able to distinguish red… [Source](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9685209/)
“Evolution is a theory” is absolutely a true statement. It’s just that “theory” in science has a much different meaning than its use in everyday English. “Gravity” is a theory for why objects fall to the ground when you let go of them. Theories can absolutely be disprove. Newtonian mechanics is a theory that was superseded by relativity and quantum mechanics. The explainer attempts to point out this nomenclature issue, but doesn’t do a great job. [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory?wprov=sfti1)
Edit to add another: having “salt water boils quicker” on here as a myth is correct, but the explainer doesn’t make any sense. If anything, it suggests that sea water *does* boil more quickly. This isn’t true. Adding salt to water does not make it boil faster. In fact, it increases the boiling point of the water, which means it takes slightly longer to reach boiling temperature. This is true at pretty much any salt concentration. The issue is that low concentrations will have a negligible effect (e.g., a pinch of salt in a gallon of water won’t elicit a noticeable change). Sea water boils at about 102*C. [source](https://thermtest.com/does-adding-salt-to-water-help-it-boil-faster)
That second part is literally what the thing is saying though. The myth is that evolution is "just a theory" and it points out the issue with the colloquial use of the word "theory" and what it actually means in science.
It's kind of both, right? Like they made the glass thicker on the bottom *because* the glass was lower quality than we have today. That one annoyed me too though, because it implies that the thicker bottom was the flaw
The vaccine causes autism makes me laugh every time I see it, my mother even started to believe it!
I didn’t get any vaccinations until I was 13, I was being tested for autism at 7 and diagnosed at 12
If anything it’s probably genetics, my father might have ASD and so might my grandmother (but she’s dead so we’ll never know)
Just putting it out there:
Not only was "vaccines cause autism" debunked, there was only one study that ever claimed that and the doctor that conducted it lost his medical license and went to prison. It wasn't just "oh they made a mistake that got peer reviewed and proven wrong," it was outright fraud and he got caught and prosecuted.
Autism often first presents itself around the year mark, coincidentally when babies get their mmr vaccines. It's totally genetic but parents are desperate to 'fix' their children and they love a good victim complex.
"or if the head is the only uncovered part of the body" is not debunking a myth... the whole point of that is that the head often is the only uncovered part, and to put on a hat to prevent it... they literally agreed with the saying while claiming to debunk it.
the fact that the water only offsets the diuretic effect of caffeine in coffee is the problem... you are getting zero net water gain from it, and thus it causes dehydration because most people count it as a drink and don't get water or something to go with it.
Salt water boils slower not quicker, and its not a myth... they literally got the myth wrong. salt water has a higher boiling temp and thus takes longer to boil. anyone at high elevations can tell you this, as adding salt to water is necessary to cook many boiled foods
jihd does mean holy war, even if the literal translation is struggle. turns out, lots of things don't transfer literally.
having sex has no effect on t levels. however extended periods of abstinence CAN raise t levels, up to 146%. flat out wrong, abstaining for one night won't change anything, abstaining for a week or more absolutely can increase t levels, and thus performance.
the 7 years to digest is a misunderstanding... it would indeed take around 7 years to digest, but our body doesn't keep it around long enough to do that, and just expels it undigested.
was this written by my sister? she likes to argue by telling you that you are correct too!
Alcohol can lead to brain atrophy, even light-to-moderate consumption. Here is a source, if you want to read up on it: [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28735-5](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28735-5)
"Debunking" that "myth" is pretty dangerous.
The falling penny and different tongue parts are actually not complete myths.
You can die from a falling penny, it's just not very likely. And the tongue does have different taste parts, it's just that you still taste everything else too on this parts. There are just more or less receptors for certain tastes on the these parts.
Left and right hemispheres actually DO have significantly different capabilities for specific functions such as language, mental math, spacio orientation, and even reading body language. Split brain studies were wiiiild!
slightly oiled pasta (added after cooking) doesnt stick together, thats a fact everybody can check themselves. oil in pasta water is the true bs.
place a wooden cooking spoon or utensil on top of the pot to prevent overflowing water. or use a right sized pot in the first place.
Napoleon was not short, but this was not a randomly contrived slur. The French inch was longer than the imperial standard. By the pre-metric system of revolutionary France, he stood at 5'2".
Is it not prudent to also question the facts presented in this graph? I don’t doubt that a lot of it is true, but I’m always wary of mythbusting facts because it’s easy for people to replace one wrong fact with another because it’s “mythbusting”, especially with how editorialized this is.
Mmmmm. I disagree with milk not causing mucus. I am a dairy detector. My nose starts running and clear mucous starts running like crazy. Post nasal drip for a bit after drinking milk.
food before swimming actually does increase the risk of cramping due to the blood circulation focusing in the digestive system and it does increase the risk of vomiting, along other things. Sex before any athletic exercise is not recommended as it increases fatigue in males, while it does increase the stamina for females, just because of how our bodies and hormones work.
There are a lot of issues with the “debunked” myths here, but not going to go over all of them.
When there is a misconception in the list of misconceptions.
It's not called Mutli-Personality Disorder or Multiple Personality Disorder. It's been called Dissociative Identity Disorder since 1994.
The banana one is bunk. Sure _technically_ a banana tree isn't a tree just like a palm tree isn't technically a tree. But that's not a myth, it's still a tree in common terms.
41% of American believe humans and dinosaurs coexisted?
This staggered me. *The Flintstones* episodes are apparently considered quality documentary films by a surprisingly large number of people.
# GRAND DAD
#FLEEN STONES?!
Also the Docuseries Jurassic Park.
I've been to the creationism museum, and they had animatronic dinosaurs with Adam & Eve in the garden of Eden room. Their official stance was that the dinosaurs survived the great flood but died out soon after for unknown reasons.
They built a Creationist museum?
Yeah, Ken Hamm. A creationist loon. He debated Bill Nye like 10 years ago
I watch that debate and their other debate at the ark encounter once every few years. Centers me
Me too. Secures me in the knowledge that I really was raised in an ass-backwards (Ken Hamm - adoring) community. No, I didn’t imagine it.
Horrible you were raised in it, awesome you got out!
Yep, in Kentucky. Complete with a giant "Noah's Ark" nearby. https://arkencounter.com/
I mean I prefer this to the "the bones were out there by satan" crap if I'm honest.
Wait so they still believe in adam and eve? not just “the big bang and everything is just the plans of god”
I’ve seen Jordan Pickford’s T-Rex arms. Close enough for me.
A mention of Everton in r/coolguides?! I’ll be damned. UTFT
A sign that it’s coming home for real this time
I mean dinosaurs are running the country.
It's better to laugh than cry
Bam! Take my upvote, wilof.
Might need to fact check the fact checkers.
That's probably one of those things with a small sample pool of who-knows-what demographic.
Have you ever seen a cassowary?
Humans and dinosaurs co-exist today. Birds are dinosaurs. Update: Birds are dinosaurs, folks. No shit. They really are. They aren't evolved from them. Dinos had feathers, bird feet, beaks, the whole nine. They are dinos. We live with them now.
An old friend came to visit one day, and just freaked - my lovely, friendly, companionable chicken suddenly ran down and fricking housed a mouse. I wasn't surprised, but I appreciated how stunned and frankly impressed my friend was. They're dumb, but at the same time, they're really not. They have incredible personalities while also being capable of straight-up bloodbaths.
I tossed a recently deceased snake at ours. They had tug of war and the big hen swallowed it like a strand of spaghetti.
Just watch them try to mate… so violent! When my cousin tried he got clawed up really bad…
When your cousin tried to what?
And it's not a way of talking, they are scientifically classified as dinosaurs, and the only surviving clade.
So a myth should be that dinosaurs are extinct?
If someone needs a proof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary
You are completely correct. This is why sometime in the last 30'ish years scientist when from saying "the extinction of the dinosaurs" to "the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs."
They are, but at the same time you clearly know that is not what people talk about when they talk about dinosaurs. If someone told me they had a real dinosaur at home, and showed me a canary, I would think they were a bit of a twat.
“HEY! I’M AVERAGE HEIGHT FOR THE TIME, YA JERK!” *-Napoleon, probably*
I’m pretty sure he was considered short bc his personal guard were required to be 6’+ (~180cm), so he was short, just in comparison to his personal guard. Edit: Napoleon's Old Guards 👍
Actually, he was considered short because the Duke of Wellington was taller, and the British printed a huge amount of propaganda regarding short napoleon because of it during the war.
There was also a difference between French and English measurements - French feet were larger so his height sounded shorter
Also, the perception of Napoleon as being short is partly due to a misunderstanding related to different measurement systems used by the French and the British during his time. Napoleon’s height was 5 feet 2 inches in French feet, which is equivalent to about 5 feet 6 inches in modern measurements (or approximately 1.68 meters). This height was relatively average for a Frenchman of that era.
The myth could also be derived from his nickname, ‘The Little Corporal’ which was actually a term of endearment from the veteran artillery men in the battle of Lodi when Napoleon helped out with some clutch cannon reloading. ~~So they promoted this 20 year old to corporal and that’s how the name stuck.~~
Man Josephine sure is a good kisser
Is there anyone here who *hasn't* kissed my wife!?
Yeah. You!
I also choose Napoleon's dead wife.
“But he had just single-handedly knocked Austria out of the war. And by the way, he was only 28. So maybe it’s about time you moved out of your dad’s attic.”
I read this in an Oversimplified voice
His own men affectionately called him “the little corporal.” The famous painting of him crowning Josephine was painted by a good friend and actually does depict him on the shorter side. This “myth” is actually more up for debate than people realize. It could be propaganda, but then again it might not be. Much of the aristocracy/nobility at this time was likely larger than your average person, so it’s possible that Napoleon was just short for an officer.
While there are many myths surrounding the aspects and differences of the left and right hemispheres of the brain, there are absolutely huge differences. That one is misleading.
A ton of these are extremely misleading.
Yeah the oil and pasta one acts like you put the oil in the boilong water. No... you toss the noodles in a little oil after boiling. Works like a charm.
Well that one i think is not that misleading. I have seen many people toss oil in the boiling water...
Where do you think the oil goes? It still helps the pasta not stick. Maybe not the most efficient use of oil, but some of it will be on the pasta, as you would imagine.
The dog one is stupid. Nobody thinks they literally sweat through their tongues. The myth is that they pant instead of sweating to regulate temperature, which isn't entirely a myth as the next sentence mentions.
I imagine they do get some evaporative cooling from their tongue being large and their breath moving air around it. While their tongue may not have sweat glands, having salival glands in their mouths serve the same purpose to wet their whole mouth. Especially with how much vasculature is in the tongue, it wouldn't surprise me if this effect contributed to their body temperature.
That's exactly why they do it. It regulates temperature through evaporation and breathing out hot air.
A large number of these are misleading Redditor “ackshually” bullshit, and some of these aren’t even “myths” - like I’ve never heard of anyone believing that black holes are literal holes? And the 72 virgins one even says it’s a matter of debate. I want to punch the person that made this shitty Infograph.
The caffeine one is completely untrue as any surplus amount of fluids will make you urinate but at the same time the Caffeine is a factual diuretic because it forces the kidneys and liver to increase function for a short time
Yes. I was hospitalized due to dehydration and the docs literally told me the fact that I drank 8 cups of coffee that day was a big contributor.
Yeah it’s literally twisting the facts for a cheap “gotcha!” In a similar vein the sugar one is complete bullshit too - no one claims sugar causes literal adhd, so it’s “refuting” a complete strawman.
Depends on your social circle. My family absolutely believed many of these "strawmen" including your example.
Not to forget the fact that the water to caffeine ratio in any given coffee varies greatly. An espresso is not going to help you much with staying hydrated.
It has also fully removed the context of the last 40 years on Jihad and Fatwah. Yes, that is what those words translate to, but have been corrupted by extremists, much like every Nazi symbol in existence.
Exactly, Same Type of Redditor created this that would go "Akschually the swastika is not a hate symbol, but a sign of spirituality and peace in Asia, and the N word actually just describes a type of person, not a racist term." and somehow feel like they are enlightent compared to others.
Try telling Salman Rushdie that the fatwah against him is just the non-binding opinion of Ayatollah Khomeini.
Did you know that "Crusade" does not mean holy war? It actually translates from the word French word "croisade," meaning, "being marked with the cross." This mark simply denoted pilgrims! *Disclaimer: Please ignore that these pilgrimages were armed, and that the word crusade has been used to describe a series of levantine wars waged by said pilgrims. Please only pay attention to my etymology based wordplay.
Nailed it haha “Redditor ackshually bullshit”
also salty water boils SLOWER, that’s actually why it’s better, because the more of a splits you put in solution, the higher the boiling point goes bc there’s more mass to heat.
I think this person went down the list of Wikipedia myths and just simplified their favorites for an infographic. But they simplified some to the point of being misleading or incorrect.
I'd say the alcohol one is also misleading. It might not flat out destroy braincells (even though it then states it does if drunk sufficiently), but it certainly stifles growth in pubescent brains.
It has a strong association with developing Dementia too. So maybe in a round about way it does kill brain cells
"You have probably heard the term left brain versus right brain. You may have heard that this underscores creative versus analytical people. That's a folk tale, the equivalent of saying the left side of a luxury liner is responsible for keeping the ship afloat, and the right is responsible for making it move through the water. Both sides are involved in the process. That doesn't mean the hemispheres are equal, however. The right side of the brain tends to remember the gist of an experience, and the left brain tends to remember the details." - John Medina, Brain Rules I think this is more what the guide is alluding to, but it's hard to fit nuance in a blurb.
Isn't there a treatment for seizures that severs the corpus callosum and results in behavioral changes due to the lack of communication between hemispheres?
The swimming and eating one is misleading as well, the number of kids that I’ve taught to swim who have been sick or complained of sickness because they have eaten right before getting in the pool is possibly in the 100’s. I would recommend at least 20 minutes between eating a meal and doing any sport.
Yeah, anyone can get sick from moderate to intense physical exertion immediately after eating. I think the old rumors (at least from what I remember when I was younger) was that you would get cramps swimming after eating, and thus wouldn’t be able to swim at all because your muscles stopped working. This could lead to drowning. Both your case and the one I mentioned are similar, but slightly different.
Speech is on the left side of the brain. Have a stroke there and you could lose your ability to speak. Also have a stroke on the left side of your brain and experience paralysis on the right side of your body (and vice versa). Neuroplasticity is a real thing where you can “rewire” the controls of the damaged portion of your brain, but that just furthers the point that specific parts of a healthy brain have specific tasks in which they perform.
I mean, when I add a little olive oil to noodles, they stop sticking together
I think they mean in the water whilst boiling
Adding salt and olive oil to boiling water is intended to add flavor as you cook the noodles, as I understand
But the olive oil doesn’t do anything, it just floats at the top
Alton Brown did an experiment on Good Eats about this. Olive oil does stop sticking when you add it after you drain the pasta, but if added during the boiling, most of it will completely drain off leaving a negligible amount. He did also observe that there was less boiling over with added oil
I just scoop some sauce in the bottom of the pan before returning it from the strainer. Just a little.
Italians put the sauce in the pan before they add the noodles, too!
It also makes sure the sauce doesn’t stick to the pasta
100%
Ok, so the ‘Bulls are colorblind’ one is a half-truth and definitely misleading. Bulls have dichromatic (two color) vision with photoreceptors that have peak excitation in the cyan (444 nm) and orange/red (555 nm) ranges. This is only ‘colorblind’ insofar as most humans have trichromatic (three color) vision (RGB), and people with less than three are considered ‘colorblind’. (Most ‘colorblind’ people have dichromatic vision, e.g., RB). Bulls are absolutely able to distinguish red… [Source](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9685209/)
Bingo. I think a lot of these are just plain wrong. I would not trust this guide at all.
Which is exactly why matadors traditionally use bright red capes, not because it aggravates the bull but because it’s easier for them to see. They charge at the cape instead of the matador because it’s a more obvious target to their limited vision
A lot of these are written with the tone of someone who has no idea what they’re talking about
the "black belt doesn't mean mastery" one is especially fascinating to me considering it goes on to reference one, very specific martial art that doesn't even use the belt like that anymore globally makes me wonder how many of the ones i know less about are also bullshit
> very specific martial art that doesn't even use the belt like that anymore globally Karate absolutely uses black belts for mastery (white/orange for very beginners). > makes me wonder how many of the ones i know less about are also bullshit The Korean fan myth is categorized under "nature". This post doesn't deserve the upvotes it got.
“It just straight doesn’t” lol
Typical r/coolguides content lol
Fun way to prove to your annoying friends that they aren't 'sensitive to msg:' ask if tomato sauce or salsa give them headaches. Tomatoes, especially processed. are chocked full of msg.
So is Parmesan cheese
And seaweed, which is a primary source MSG can be purified from. Also present in red meat and some common mushrooms.
Let's be real, people who pretend to have an MSG sensitivity are not touching anything as mysterious as seaweed if they're avoiding Asian food LOL.
And Doritos!
Yeah I had a dinner guest say she was allergic to onions and garlic after I invited her for chili. I asked her if she had a preferred brand of chili seasoning as a test, and she was like "Oh any are ok." Another time, I had a guy say he couldn't eat mushrooms or cheese because he was allergic to penicillin. This was news to my friend who will literally die if he is given penicillin -- but regularly eats cheese and mushrooms (because penicillin allergy does not mean an allergy to EVERY fungi or bacteria obviously). A third said she cannot have any gluten, soy, dairy, or nuts, but could have all of these things in processed and fast foods that she suggested as alternatives. I've just stopped inviting people over for dinner. I have actual food allergies and I'm sick of catering to people who don't know what a food allergy or intolerance actually looks like.
Typical conversation working in healthcare: “I’m allergic to codeine” “What happens when you take it?” “I get bunged up” “Right so you’re not allergic you just have a common side effect”
I think this is what my surgeon thought would happen when I said I was allergic to zofran @_@ because he gave it to me anyway and I was puking and shitting out of every orifice immediately lmfaooo. God, not the way to be post-op when you cannot leave the bed. 0/10 don't recommend.
People confuse allergies and sensitivities quite a lot. I’m sensitive to onions and garlic (I get cluster headaches if I eat onions) but chili seasoning just makes me feel mildly nauseous and headache-y. That’s probably what your guest meant. I’ve grown accustomed to just keeping advil and ginger candy on me all the time since onion powder is in *everything*
If you think Sodium Glutamate is bad then there is whole rabbit hole for you to learn about Sodium Chloride! I'ts everywhere!
Yes. I read somewhere that even the sea is full of it.
So the theory of evolution is not a myth, it's just that people misunderstand the definition of the word theory. Not sure it belongs on the list.
The science thing should be: In science, a 'theory' is ~~anything~~ far more than a conjecture. ~~Usually~~ It is an extensively tested idea uniting data from many observations.
Yeah "anything more than a conjecture" is a ridiculous definition lol
No it's not. String theory is a theory, but it's not proven. The caloric theory of heat and the miasma theory of disease have both been disproven by better theories.
More than half of the stuff on here doesn’t belong on the list. Smug, pedantic, “ackshually” tier list. Garbage.
The left and right brain thing isn't totally correct. For about 99% of the population, language lateralizes to the left hemisphere. But the overall "logical vs artsy" point is still correct.
Great RSA Animate about this subject, by Dr. Iain McGilchrist https://youtu.be/dFs9WO2B8uI?si=ws_6eL3sywm7wPgb
also some case studies where the corpus callosum ("connection" between the two hemispheres) is severed, and one side can do everything basically.
Yes they can learn to do basic tasks. But if an object shown in the persons left visual field, they cannot name that object because the information is only available in the largely nonverbal right hemisphere.
that's bizarre
If the corpus callosum is severed (used to be a treatment for epilepsy), people can largely function normally. This is because they are getting stimuli from both sides of their body, so information is still being processed by both sides of the brain. However if a word flashes and it is only picked up by the right side of the brain, then the person won't be able to process that information as effectively as the left. These functions are localized but our brains are plastic enough to pick up the slack so to speak.
Just a tad bit of anomalies on top to be fair quite negligible
I came here to say this! Although under some circumstances, such as early brain injury occurring on the left, the right side can 'learn' to pick up some of the slack for language based tasks. The brain is an amazing thing.
>black holes are not holes They sort of are. The laws of physics breaks down there, and the inside is sure not accessible.
Maybe you just aren’t trying hard enough to get in?
>Iron maidens > >Never a medieval torture device I‘d like to add one. Medieval torture is a myth in itself. Of course, people have always been hurting each other, but torture was *not* part of the medieval criminal justice system for the most part. In the first half of the medieval period (500-1000) A.D., both worldly and religious leaders actually very vehemently argued against the use of torture. Torture played no role in the criminal justice system until 1252, when Pope Innocence IV. officially permitted torture under very strict requirements. This was in the middle of the church‘s struggle against what they considered heretics, but only as the ultima ratio and „without breaking their limbs or putting their life in danger“. In other words, quite mild compared to what came later. In the Holy Roman Empire, the first time torture was officially sanctioned was in the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina of 1532, so already well in the early modern period. On that note, it is important to discuss what even constituted the transition from the late medieval to the modern period. Contrary to common belief, it is not a single event, like the discovery of America in 1492 or the fall of Constantinople in 1453. While these were important events that contributed to the transition, they weren’t sufficient by themselves. Rather, we consider the early modern period to have started around 1500 due to sweeping changes across all parts of European society. Fashion changed drastically, the Renaissance as a new style of art finally replaced the gothic as the dominant art style, humanism replaced scholasticism in philosophy, warfare changed, feudalism began to make way for absolutism and our understanding of justice changed. The transition towards us viewing torture as a legitimate part of our justice systems was part of the transformation of our societies. This process didn’t begin in 1500, but by the 16th century it was more or less complete. In short, instead of being a medieval staple practice, the advent of torture actually indicated the end of the medieval period.
that's really interesting!
This guy medievals!
This is fascinating. This is only somewhat related, and It's been a while since I read it, but I think Foucault argued in *Surveiller et punir* that the French consciously moved away from public execution/torture and towards incarceration due to an understanding that crude displays of violence in public were counter-productive for public order aspirations. It was deemed much more effective to discipline people with monotony and routine. One of the first places we see people lining up and routinely singing the national anthem is in French prisons, first thing in the morning upon being released from cells. Do you have any insight on this? How were those deemed criminal routinely punished in the medieval period?
Some of these are just wrong. “Caffeine doesn’t dehydrate you. Yes it’s a diuretic but the liquid from caffeinated drinks offset the dehydration”. First of all, that’s not how diuretics work. Second, what happens if you take a caffeine pill hm?
Thanks I scrolled down for this. I was hoping someone would point this out. They don’t seem to understand that diuretics signal the release of electrolytes from the kidneys. The water in coffee wouldn’t counteract that.. they totally got that one wrong.
Doctor here: There are various strengths of diuretics, and caffeine is relatively mild. If you took a caffeine pill and did not drink fluids, sure, that would cause some fluid loss. The water in coffee and tea does give you a net positive as far as hydration goes, due to the weak effects of caffeine overall. I have also seen people out-drink even stronger diuretics, like furosemide. All the furosemide in the world isn't going to diurese you if you are chugging high sodium fluids, like chicken noodle soup.
Many studies have shown that drinking coffee as a substitute for water has negligible water retention differences.
So much wrong with this 'guide'. I spreads more disinformation than anything.
Two of these are just: “American English translates this Arabic word wrong” Still pretty cool.
Both Fatwah and Jihad have a long history in geopolitics. I would go as far as to say that both words mean extremely different things in different context, and the real misconception is that nobody really grasps the difference between the extremist version of the word and the standard version of the word. Crazy, autocratic and murderous sects of Islam genuinely will call a fatwah against someone calling for them to be killed, or claim that warfighting is jihad. Notably, 98 percent of the Muslims on the planet to not respond to these fatwahs or calls to Jihad. The majority of Muslims probably see Fatwah as something more like a Catholic Papal Edict, and Jihad as more of a personal fight against temptation and trying to get closer to God. What I find fascinating about the word "Jihad" is that (not to Godwin's Law) "Mein Kampf" also means "my struggle" and it has pretty much the same connotations. People have used it for horrible, inhumane attacks on humanity, but it's also just a regular phrase and way to describe your philosophy on life. I'm not going to look sideeye at a German who uses the phrase "Mein Kamf" while complaining about doing the laundry, unless that laundry is a big ol swastika. Same way as Muslims the world over often use the word "Jihad" to describe their personal walk with their religion and I'm not gonna look sideeye at them unless they're flying a flag that says "Death to America, a curse upon the Jews" like the Houthis do.
> . I'm not going to look sideeye at a German who uses the phrase "Mein Kamf" while complaining about doing the laundry As a german I think you probably should. I never have heard anyone use it that way, especially since Kampf usually has military or... lets call it pseudo-violent connotations. "Mein Kampf gegen Krebs." "My battle/struggle against cancer." would be a more common usage. Though as a verb it can occasionally be used for smaller things.
Yeah, German is one of my first languages and I live in a german speaking country: I've never heard anyone say "mein Kampf" when they mean things like laundry. Then it's usually "das ist so ein Krampf" ("That's such a cramp"). Meaning it's an annoying/infuriating/hard situation to deal with. But that may just be a regional thing. Until now, I've never associated sentences like "Mein Kampf gegen Krebs" with the book tho.
lol saying anything about black hole is pretty bold here
Stupid chart is wrong anyway Black*holes* are holes that empty excess space dust into the turtles' mouths so they get something to eat because holding up universes is calorie intensive Whoever made this chart should go to school at my Mama's house, she learned me good
Whoa, it’s just turtles all the way down, man…
Some clarifications are misleading or wrong.
This guide is like a Redditor distilled into a chart. Please, if you hear people repeat something on this chart, you don’t need to be smug and correct them. “Actually, Salmon Rushdies fatwa was not necessarily a death sentence because technically….”
‘Only introduced in 1880’, but it shows high competency now, so it’s not especially wrong
And not only in "basic techniques", where I come from, you have to know the whole gokyo. But also saying "competence" is an understatement. You have to be very good. At least for judo and where I live, showing competence in basic techniques is not at all worthy of a black belt. Maybe other martial art, but not judo. I don’t believe anyone can be perfect at judo, but saying black belt are masters is not very far from the truth.
Same with BJJ. You gotta be really fucking good to be a black belt.
That's something I appreciated about Tae Kwon Do when I was doing it - my Dojang had a level jus before black belt, where you had to practice everything again, and start to teach as well. On its own, the black belt should not represent simple competency. A black belt should indicate that you are competent with your skills, able to teach others, and provide leadership and mentorship to those who come after you. It should also be noted that earning your black belt is merely the first step in the journey of a martial artist. Competency and mastery are two VERY different concepts, and both take significant amounts of time (for various reasons)
For context, salt isn't used to make water boil quicker, but to have a higher boiling point (100°C -> 102°C), as such, it is used for flavor and maybe a quicker pasta cooking once the water is boiling
You can do the math on this. It takes a *lot* of salt to increase the boiling point by 2C, salt is added purely for flavour and texture.
Correct. In order to achieve an increase of 2C you would need a salt concentration of 10%. So in a pot with 3 liters of water, you would need 300g of salt - this is equivalent to slightly more than 1 cup of salt for any US measurement minded folks. You’d get your temperature increase, but your pasta would be inedible.
I was confused on this one as well. If anything, salt makes the water boil slower if the same rate of heat is used. Granted, a pinch of salt won’t do much for 8 quarts of water, which is why I usually use a heavier dose.
I refuse to believe the one about milk. I can consistently, demonstrably, show it promotes mucous production to anyone who wants to watch me get snotty.
This one is arguing that milk doesn't produce excess mucus in general in your body. In truth, it does promote a viscous coating of your throat when mixed with saliva, so your experiences are still valid. This infographic just takes the opportunity to twist it into something that would be, indeed, wrong.
Came here to comment on Milk as well. Dairy has triggered my asthma since childhood, and specifically Milk triggered mucus and chest congestion for me. Stopped drinking it in 2011, but still ate (some) cheeses, sour cream, and butter up until 2019. I developed a type of pulmonary fibrosis that causes months long flare-ups a couple of times a year and during a few of my early flare-ups, I would get GERD after eating dairy - after completely cutting out dairy the flare-ups got more manageable. I'll also note that within about 2 years of going totally dairy free, I discovered after accidentally eating a few different things that I never realized had dairy in them, that I had also become Lactose Intolerant ☹️
If it does it to you, and not to nearly everyone else, then it's the case that your body is responding poorly to milk, rather than mucus production being an inherent quality of milk. It's like lactose intolerance. Milk doesn't inherently cause the intestinal issues. Your body just can't break it down.
Okay, but if it's a "commonly believed myth" surely that means I'm not an outlier. At what point does it go from, "No, that's just a you thing" to "Yeah, that's totally a thing"?
Agreed. Anytime I have a cold/sinus issues, milk or dairy makes it exponentially worse.
the ultimate 'well akshually'
This graphic inspired me to mute this subreddit.
Seems a little snarky toned and know it all-ee. Meh.
TIL that a coolguide like this is a great way to slip in something untrue or a half-truth and spread misinformation. A good chunk of these are oversimplified to the point of not being factual. Random example, old glass isn’t thicker at the bottom b/c of flowing like a liquid, but it’s also not poorly made. It’s actually great engineering, because the bottom portion of a giant pane of glass meeds to support more of its own weight. If ot was poorly made glass, you’d equally find panels that ate thicker on top, or in middle.
I actually want to know more about "More than 5 senses" and the thing is, they're usually referred as 5 senses but are normally called main 5 senses. Edit: I checked and read about in wiki, there's external and internal senses
I kinda disagree with that being a "myth" -- yes, we have more than 5 things we can sense, but when people say we have 5 senses, they mean senses we use to describe / interact with things. If I hand you an object and ask you to describe it, you describe how it looks or feels or smells, not thirst and hunger. But that's just my opinion
I guess the myth is that there's only five. Describe this object using just your sense of pain...
"ouchy"
look up interception and proprioception. Also-- do hunger and thirst not describe sensations which arise from our interactions with physiological states and external stimuli?
Also, no one promised the 72 virgins would be female.
Or human
*stares in goat*
In the Quran it is actually mention that they will be female. Even going so far as to say the virgins will be big breasted: https://quranx.com/78.31-33 Only the number 72 isn’t mentioned in the Quran, but it’s made clear that it will be multiple. https://quranx.com/78.33?context=3 Commentary on the verse by the respected Ibn Kathir: https://archive.org/details/TafsirIbnKathirVolume0110English_201702 This Hadith also speak of how the virgins will be women (and scary transparent apparently): https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3254
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Iron Maiden is real. I saw them on tour
Some of these are, quite simply, untrue.
Like which ones?
Ok, so the ‘Bulls are colorblind’ one is a half-truth and definitely misleading. Bulls have dichromatic (two color) vision with photoreceptors that have peak excitation in the cyan (444 nm) and orange/red (555 nm) ranges. This is only ‘colorblind’ insofar as most humans have trichromatic (three color) vision (RGB), and people with less than three are considered ‘colorblind’. (Most ‘colorblind’ people have dichromatic vision, e.g., RB). Bulls are absolutely able to distinguish red… [Source](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9685209/) “Evolution is a theory” is absolutely a true statement. It’s just that “theory” in science has a much different meaning than its use in everyday English. “Gravity” is a theory for why objects fall to the ground when you let go of them. Theories can absolutely be disprove. Newtonian mechanics is a theory that was superseded by relativity and quantum mechanics. The explainer attempts to point out this nomenclature issue, but doesn’t do a great job. [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory?wprov=sfti1) Edit to add another: having “salt water boils quicker” on here as a myth is correct, but the explainer doesn’t make any sense. If anything, it suggests that sea water *does* boil more quickly. This isn’t true. Adding salt to water does not make it boil faster. In fact, it increases the boiling point of the water, which means it takes slightly longer to reach boiling temperature. This is true at pretty much any salt concentration. The issue is that low concentrations will have a negligible effect (e.g., a pinch of salt in a gallon of water won’t elicit a noticeable change). Sea water boils at about 102*C. [source](https://thermtest.com/does-adding-salt-to-water-help-it-boil-faster)
That second part is literally what the thing is saying though. The myth is that evolution is "just a theory" and it points out the issue with the colloquial use of the word "theory" and what it actually means in science.
Stained glass being thicker on the bottom isn’t because it was poorly made rather it was done on purpose for structural stability.
It's kind of both, right? Like they made the glass thicker on the bottom *because* the glass was lower quality than we have today. That one annoyed me too though, because it implies that the thicker bottom was the flaw
You did indeed find the troll (username of OP)
The vaccine causes autism makes me laugh every time I see it, my mother even started to believe it! I didn’t get any vaccinations until I was 13, I was being tested for autism at 7 and diagnosed at 12 If anything it’s probably genetics, my father might have ASD and so might my grandmother (but she’s dead so we’ll never know)
Just putting it out there: Not only was "vaccines cause autism" debunked, there was only one study that ever claimed that and the doctor that conducted it lost his medical license and went to prison. It wasn't just "oh they made a mistake that got peer reviewed and proven wrong," it was outright fraud and he got caught and prosecuted.
Autism often first presents itself around the year mark, coincidentally when babies get their mmr vaccines. It's totally genetic but parents are desperate to 'fix' their children and they love a good victim complex.
"or if the head is the only uncovered part of the body" is not debunking a myth... the whole point of that is that the head often is the only uncovered part, and to put on a hat to prevent it... they literally agreed with the saying while claiming to debunk it. the fact that the water only offsets the diuretic effect of caffeine in coffee is the problem... you are getting zero net water gain from it, and thus it causes dehydration because most people count it as a drink and don't get water or something to go with it. Salt water boils slower not quicker, and its not a myth... they literally got the myth wrong. salt water has a higher boiling temp and thus takes longer to boil. anyone at high elevations can tell you this, as adding salt to water is necessary to cook many boiled foods jihd does mean holy war, even if the literal translation is struggle. turns out, lots of things don't transfer literally. having sex has no effect on t levels. however extended periods of abstinence CAN raise t levels, up to 146%. flat out wrong, abstaining for one night won't change anything, abstaining for a week or more absolutely can increase t levels, and thus performance. the 7 years to digest is a misunderstanding... it would indeed take around 7 years to digest, but our body doesn't keep it around long enough to do that, and just expels it undigested. was this written by my sister? she likes to argue by telling you that you are correct too!
Alcohol can lead to brain atrophy, even light-to-moderate consumption. Here is a source, if you want to read up on it: [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28735-5](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28735-5) "Debunking" that "myth" is pretty dangerous.
This is what the nerd emoji would be if it was a shitty post in this sub.
The falling penny and different tongue parts are actually not complete myths. You can die from a falling penny, it's just not very likely. And the tongue does have different taste parts, it's just that you still taste everything else too on this parts. There are just more or less receptors for certain tastes on the these parts.
Left and right hemispheres actually DO have significantly different capabilities for specific functions such as language, mental math, spacio orientation, and even reading body language. Split brain studies were wiiiild!
While a lot of these are good points, there’s a lot of misinformation/misinterpretation in this guide too.
Worked in an Italian kitchen for 5yrs... Bullshit that oil doesn't keep pasta from sticking. It most definitely does.
slightly oiled pasta (added after cooking) doesnt stick together, thats a fact everybody can check themselves. oil in pasta water is the true bs. place a wooden cooking spoon or utensil on top of the pot to prevent overflowing water. or use a right sized pot in the first place.
Napoleon was not short, but this was not a randomly contrived slur. The French inch was longer than the imperial standard. By the pre-metric system of revolutionary France, he stood at 5'2".
That "fact" was also circulated as propaganda against Napoleon.
I think Salman Rushdie will have a problem with the fatwa one.
Is it not prudent to also question the facts presented in this graph? I don’t doubt that a lot of it is true, but I’m always wary of mythbusting facts because it’s easy for people to replace one wrong fact with another because it’s “mythbusting”, especially with how editorialized this is.
Goldfish...LOL
Mmmmm. I disagree with milk not causing mucus. I am a dairy detector. My nose starts running and clear mucous starts running like crazy. Post nasal drip for a bit after drinking milk.
You forgot to add the myth that lists are guides
food before swimming actually does increase the risk of cramping due to the blood circulation focusing in the digestive system and it does increase the risk of vomiting, along other things. Sex before any athletic exercise is not recommended as it increases fatigue in males, while it does increase the stamina for females, just because of how our bodies and hormones work. There are a lot of issues with the “debunked” myths here, but not going to go over all of them.
When there is a misconception in the list of misconceptions. It's not called Mutli-Personality Disorder or Multiple Personality Disorder. It's been called Dissociative Identity Disorder since 1994.
The banana one is bunk. Sure _technically_ a banana tree isn't a tree just like a palm tree isn't technically a tree. But that's not a myth, it's still a tree in common terms.
No list like this is complete without that goddamned infuriating "the customer is always right...*in matters of taste*" shit reddit loves so much
Tongue parts one is bullshit, I got nerve damage from an ear surgery and could not taste anything but sweets for months
there are a lot of misleading “facts” in there