"The belief that people in the Middle Ages thought the Earth was flat. The Greeks had already calculated the radius of the sphere with great precision centuries before."
"That life expectancy several hundred years ago was only 35 or so.
The average age was lower due to incredibly high infant mortality rates. However, if you could survive infancy/childhood, you’d likely live well into your late 50s or 60s."
"There is no “24 hour waiting period” on a missing persons report. If someone is missing, even if its for just an hour, you can most certainly file a report."
"Most people think CPR is used to restart hearts and is quite successful. CPR is hugely unsuccessful and isn’t used to restart hearts, it’s used to keep circulation going until medication to restart the heart can be administered.
A defibrillator is used to restart hearts. Nope again. It’s used to stop hearts that are beating incorrectly in the hope that when they restart they’ll be beating all nice and proper."
"Many people believe that eating carbs makes you fat. Carbs don’t make you fat, overeating food does."
"It’s a misconception that the best way to escape a bear is to run down hill. You may get faster running down hill, guess who else does too?"
"It’s a misconception that sugar makes kids hyper. It does not. Kids are just hyper."
"That searing meat seals the moisture in the meat. Searing meat may cause it to lose more moisture in comparison to an equivalent amount of cooking without searing. Generally, the value in searing meat is that it creates a brown crust with a rich flavor."
"The food pyramid. It was lobbied into what we grew up on by the food industry, having plenty of grain. I mean, come on, grain is not more necessary than vegetables and fruit. We also don’t need 2-3 servings of dairy a day, in fact most people get slightly lactose intolerant as they age."
"The structure of a wolf pack. Contrary to what most people think, there is no alpha, beta, ect. in the pack. Rather, the pack is made up of a family with the mother and father leading, followed by their cubs and later the families of their cubs. After a while the cubs break off from the pack to find their mates and will remain on their own."
"Einstein didn’t fail math."
"While dining, the ancient Romans did not ritualistically eat so much that they had to interrupt eating to go vomit. An entranceway to a stadium of that time was called a *vomitorium* and had nothing to do with dining. I have seen this “fact” in at least two children’s history books and I have no idea how or why some historian came up with this weird claim.
Speaking of eating, those fat “Buddha” statues and depictions you see in some Asian restaurants are not the historical Buddha (who founded Buddhism and was not obese). They are *Budai*, a 10th-century Chinese folk hero, who eventually became a buddha himself."
"Eating carrots doesn’t actually improve your night vision. This was a disinformation campaign carried out by the British in WWII to keep the Germans from discovering that they invented radar. Pretty funny/obvious once you stop and think about it."
"Sharks aren’t actually as dangerous as people make them out to be. I mean, I wouldn’t recommend you hug one, nor would I recommend you suddenly act casual around them like they are buds, but it won’t come and eat you just because you are there.
They have a pretty fine diet, and only really eat anything outside of their diet if they are starving (which is rare).The only time they will attack outside of feeding, is when they feel you are a threat, or when provoked, and are usually fended off pretty easily by hitting them on the snout/eyes."
"Microwaves and cell phones cause cancer from “radio waves”.
The visible light spectrum has more energy than any of the waves coming from your microwave or cell phone. Both microwaves and cell phones do not emit ionizing radiation. However, humans do!"
"Blood isn’t blue in your veins. It’s blue in medical diagrams to differentiate between the deoxygenated blood and oxygenated blood circulating through your body."
"That Pearl Harbor was the only attack on US soil during WWII.
In fact, the Japanese bombed Dutch Harbor and invaded the Aleutian Islands. There were also U-boat attacks on the West Coast and German spies who landed via U-boat on the East Coast. None of these were particularly consequential in the grand scheme of things though, so they were forgotten."
"Urine is not sterile."
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#17 Yeah, there is a LOT of misconceptions about the world wars because news media is not an accurate source of info, and we tend to glorify our own side and demonize the other. Without that demonization it's harder to convince soldiers to die. That's the issue with modern warfare... communication technologies, so you can actually call someone and find out truths. That's why guns and drone technology is great, it's makes it a removed game so you don't have to face the consequencesof your actions.
#18 Urine contains all the waste of the body, including dead/alive microorganisms and garbage minerals. But generally sterile means no living organic material, and for the most part a healthy person doesn't have living organic material in their urine.
i mean it makes sense. jews are still crying about that holocaust to this day. even though there were plenty of equally devastating events.
The fact that everyone knows about the holocaust (because there are countless movies and documentaries made every. single. year.) but know next to nothing about the man other instances of genocide that have happened in history (many of which were far worse) is roof that jews run the media industry.
Everyone wants to get mad when you say that, but it's as true as things get.
okay, so only the ones with the biggest devastating events are allowed to cry about that? Is that what you're saying?
"Brains" being the thing that flat-Earthers clearly lack.
I love that one flat earther story. "If the earth rotates once in 24h, you'd observe a gyroscope drift 15 degrees an hour." So they got an aircraft gyroscope, powered it up and it drifted 15 degrees an hour. "It can't be right, the gyroscope must be broken".
That's how they work. Don't accept facts unless they fit your theory. If not, the fact must be wrong.
technically, only the sugar molecules, not "food". And yes, that's what makes it so tasty. Yum :)
yes, Mr. English teacher.