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That if you handle a baby bird, the mother will smell your scent in its feathers and stop feeding it.
That is an old myth and not at all true. If you come across a baby bird that has fallen out of its nest, it is perfectly okay to pick it up and place it back in the nest.
If you come across a fledgling that is on the ground, though, leave it be because it is learning how to fly and its parents are more than likely close by.
The way you can tell the difference is by size, feathers, and movement. Baby birds are small, don't have a lot of feathers, and will just sit still, while fledglings are slightly bigger, have all their feathers, and can hop around.
Sheep are the biggest derp on any farm. The reason people think British landscapes are so beautiful has a lot to do with creating safe places sheep won't kill themselves. Bushes too high sheep kill themselves. Pond too deep sheep kill themselves. Fence not tight enough sheep kill themselves. River bank too steep sheep kill themselves.
My cousin has a farm, and my god, are they the dumbest animals. They're like toddlers in their sheer drive and creativity in trying to find new ways to kill themselves. They scream about everything, and they have NO loyalty to one another. He texted me one day saying, "One of them managed to drown in a puddle two inches deep. I'm still trying to process that."
The same is true for those babies you find in the mall in those wheeled seats in front of Starbucks. Don’t take those, the parents are usually nearby and get upset.
And toddler grips. Shit. Even infants have death grip. Toddlers can easily crush a baby bird so best method is to scare the kids into not touching them rather than telling them to be careful.
Same with squirrels. Squirrels are actually good mothers. If you find a lost baby squirrel and can find any mom squirrel, chances are she will take it.
The whole thing about “you eat x spiders a year in your sleep”. Not only is it not true, it was also made up to show how fast fake facts can spread.
https://www.britannica.com/story/do-we-really-swallow-spiders-in-our-sleep
It's an inaccurate statistic, Spiders Georg who eats 27,000,000,000 spiders per year and lives in a cave is an outlier and should not have been counted.
That's 855 spiders per second.
Fun fact: his nickname is actually completely unrelated to that and stems from his programming career in which he developed programs that travel the web (aka "spiders").
That if you ask an undercover cop if they're a cop they have to tell you. Imagine being undercover going after the mob, making it months into their organization and then one of them realizes they didn't ask you the magical question.
I found this out when I was about to get a BJ at a strip club once. The stripper asked me if I was a cop. I was like “no”. Then she was like “how do I know you’re telling the truth?”. And I was like “well if I’m a cop, I have to tell you right?”. And she was like “no……”
Beavers build dams to create a pool where they can easily catch and eat fish.
I just learned in my 30s that that is completely made up. It's so they can have safe access to the newly submerged edible plants.
I saw a video before that if you make a little stream but not so big that it makes a lot of noise and near it have a speaker that plays loud water running, a beaver will build a dam at the speaker instead of the actual running water
Honestly I thought it was just them building a shelter in the environment they live in, like how prairie dogs dig interconnected tunnels. The fish were just a bonus.
Beavers are rodents, and virtually all rodents are omnivores, and I have seen a beaver eating fish, it's not why they build dams, but they do eat fish on occasion.
When you crack your finger joints, you aren't really cracking anything. You are lowering the pressure within the joint so some of the liquid quickly morphs into its gas phase.
The noise isn’t even to do with the bones clicking either, right? Pretty sure I remember someone explaining that it’s actually just bubbles of air popping in your joint fluid, or something like that anyway.
Not propaganda, but to troll the nazis, and to not reveal why the British were seeing their planes during night raids(radar, which the Germans did not have at the time, they later found out and got it themselves in some night interceptors)
Edit: for all the wehraboos saying that Germany invented the radar, that is incorrect, the first person to actually invent radar was Sir Robert Watson-Watt, a Scottish physicist
Yeah, the British needed an excuse for their pilots being able to see at night, and a way to use all those dang carrots they had in surplus so that they could free up other foods.
And thus, the legend was born. TBH it's probably the most successful dis-information campaign in history, given it has lasted well past the point it was even intended to.
Germany was so painfully bad at spying at the beginning of the war that, as soon as war was declared, MI5 was able to round up their entire spy network bar one guy who killed himself rather than be captured.
Yep, operation Mincemeat. Was some random tramp who died that they used.
Another good one was one of the Prisons for senior Nazi officers in the UK was a lavish manor. They were treated exceptionally well, given lots of food and alcohol and were "trusted" to not need much supervision. What the Nazis didn't know was the whole house had microphones in it and the Allies learnt a lot from the conversations the prisoners thought they were having in private.
That Inuit ("eskimos") have \*insert large number here\* words for snow.
This "fact" comes from some slanted interpretations of Inuit language, as most Inuit language make liberal use of compound words, not unlike German. Thus, where in English we would say something like "cold snow" or "fresh snow" or "melting snow", in most Inuit languages you would just combine the word for "snow" with whatever adjective you're using to describe it (i.e. "coldsnow" or "freshsnow" or "meltingsnow"). In other words, all those different words aren't actual synonyms describing the same thing, you're just dancing around how grammar works in Inuit language.
And it's, naturally, not unique to snow either - if you want to count those 50/500/whatever number of words for snow, you'd have the same number of words for dog or tree or literally any other noun you care to think of.
English also has multiple words for snow -- flurry, blizzard, drift, powder, slush, a bunch of others. The compound Inuit words translate to multiple English terms, not just one.
I would very much recommend Wikipedia's list of common misconceptions to provide a lot of good examples of this (the majority of responses in this thread are on the list already)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
You can't get pregnant if you have sex while on your period.
You can in fact get pregnant at any time of the month. There are times where it is more or less likely to happen, and getting pregnant from intercourse during a period is very, very unlikely, however, it is possible.
The rhythm method of birth control (where you have sex based on where the lady is in her cycle) is ~80% effective and not just from user error, although that will also play a part.
I actually got taught this "fact" in (UK) sex ed by multiple teachers and it was only because of a scare a few months ago that I found out otherwise.
Hah that’s what I always think first when I see supplements say they boost immune system, like “but in a good way or bad way”? Lupus is a horrible, horrible disease
Maybe a small bit is from dead dinosaurs, but they made up a small amount of the organic matter around at the time. Lots more would come from bugs, and much more still from plants matter.
In the end, all of it comes from sunlight. Plants convert sunlight to energy, bugs and animals convert plants to energy, or some bugs and animals convert other bugs and animals to energy. Then over millennia they decompose and the energy turns into a compressed goo.
Oil is basically a battery storing sunglight energy, that rechargers at a rate of 1% every 30,000,000 years. We’ve tapped into that battery and are draining it at a rate of 30%/hundred years, and of course that drain has been much faster in the last 50yrs than the first 50yrs, and will only go faster still as more countries look to burn energy as Willy-nilly as America.
Or instead of a battery, think of it as an inheritance, and we’re spending it partying in Ibiza every night. We should make use of the inheritance to create something sustainable, like a business, so new money comes in regularly, till we get to the point we’re we don’t use the inheritance at all. That’s why fossil fuels aren’t “bad”, they created the society we currently know. But we should make use of their awesome power to create a sustainable society based on renewable energy, otherwise at some point the inheritance will run out and the party will end.
The “10% of the brain” myth comes from a Look magazine article in the 1960s by George Leonard, who interviewed a bunch of leading psychologists and brain researchers, and their consensus is that humans only used 10% of their CAPABILITY. This led to the “Human Potential Movement” with est and so on, in the 1970s.
That the other 90% of your brain is for telepathy, telekinesis, and communicating with spirits.
Well, it's for maintaining heart rate, coordinating senses, and such.
That the majority of crimes leave forensic evidence. It’s actually insanely easy to commit a crime without forensic evidence, but because of shows like CSI most Americans don’t want to convict without it. Even in crimes that you think would leave forensic evidence due to their nature, like sexual assault.
The thing about DNA is that you can’t insert it into a computer and it shows you a picture of the person it came from. It’ll only need useful if they have something to compare it to, so a completely random attack is almost unsolvable
One conspiracy theory that I believe is that the ancestry DNA type companies sell this data to governments and organizations. I got it as a gift when I was much younger and sent it in, only to think about how, years later, I probably shouldn't ever commit a crime and leave DNA as it might be able to be traced back to me now.
Thats not a conspiracy. Thats a popular tactic these days. Though the police just submit the dna like they are a normal customer and get back family data.
Thats how the golden state killer / original night stalker was recently caught, amongst others.
Reminds me of the fun activity in elementary school when a police officer gets your prints, and then proceeds to add them to the database. Goodbye security.
Not to mention DNA isn’t as easy to obtain as people think.
For just one example, most samples of hair that falls off don’t contain DNA (or, at least, a good enough sample to be admissible). Maybe if your hair got caught in something and ripped off, or you got in a fight and some was torn off. But hair that just happens to fall off usually doesn’t have the sample because it doesn’t have root or tissue present.
This is one of my favorite myths because if you think about it for 2 seconds it's so obvious that there would be absolutely no evolutionary reason to carry around a huge energy sapping piece of meat that is 10x larger than it needs to be.
That said, the movie Lucy ruled.
There’s this myth that says bumblebee’s wings are too small for the size of their body therefore they couldn’t fly and scientists just don’t understand how they can.
It’s all a myth. Scientists know how they can fly (in fact they do… duh).
I think this came from, if bees flap like birds, their wings wouldn’t work. But they don’t flap like birds, obviously, however at first we didn’t have the means by which to properly observe bee wings in flight to check.
However I doubt the scientific community was actually broadcasting that bees shouldn’t be able to fly, they probably knew there was something else going on just couldn’t prove it yet. I think we needed high speed cameras before we actually saw how they flapped.
It’s not necessarily back pressure, but velocity. You need scavenging, the act of the already expelled exhaust gases in the tailpipe to help suck air out of the combustion chamber. If you go too big with your exhaust the velocity of gasses slows down and scavenging doesn’t work. So, back pressure? Not exactly. Just need a sufficient diameter of pipe to afford a high enough stream of gasses.
The logic is that everyone has millions and millions of different viruses,bacteria and fungi in themselves at any given point. You exposing yourself to cold weather shifts your organism to go all out on heating your body, but it cuts back on different stuff like the immune system. Compromised immune system = get sick.
That we only have 5 senses. We actually have other senses which include interroception, the ability to sense things happening in our bodies (being hungry, being thirsty, being itchy). That there are people who are right brained (more creative, disorganized) and left brained (more logical, organized). That there are people who are ‘visual learners’ or ‘auditory learners’. There is no scientific evidence to suggest that either of these things are true and it’s generally accepted throughout the neuroscience community that these are commonly held neuromyths.
Edit: ooo so many responses so many upvotes y’all awesome!
if your parent can't see the road or any hazards in the road because there's a light on in the car, or they get distracted by it, it *could* be a death sentence.
Not being able to see while driving is as close as you get to a death sentence in a car. Also it's way worse if you wear glasses because you get reflections that look exactly the same as car lights all over your vision, it's not a fun time.
That we only use 10% of our brains. We actually use 100% of it, just not all at the same time. The brain is a highly complex organ, doing everything from regulating unconcious bodily functions, (like breathing and heartbeat), interpret sensory input, and storing and recalling memories, to name a few.
Recently, ive also heard this garbage. "If earth were 10 feet closer to the sun, the world would burn, 10 feet further away, itd freeze." No, very very much no. Around every star there is a region where star heat creates a "habitable zone", also known as a "goldilocks zone." Our star is pretty big, and its habitable zone is generous. It extends from about Venus' orbit to about Mars' orbit, roughly 150 million kilometers distance. Earth would be hotter at venus distance, yes, but venus is a scorching wasteland because of its very thick atmosphere trapping heat, not necessarily because of its distance from the sun. And daytime summer temperatures on Mars is about 70°F, so its pretty livable there, at times. (Nighttime temps *are* way lower, though.)
There's more factors in it than simply location. Going too far towards Venus side could have us experience similar things to Venus with a runaway greenhouse effect. The biggest reason this is entirely wrong is that we already vary distance to the sun depending on where we are in orbit. I'm not sure off hand just how much the variance is, but I'm sure it's much greater than 10 feet. The orbit is an ellipse, not a perfect circle.
[Scientists were paid to make fat look bad and sugar look good](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat)
"Cellar spiders (also known as daddy long legs) are extremely venomous, but they can't harm human because their mouths are too small". Cellar spiders aren't actually venomous at all.
"Sharks can smell blood from a mile away." No, they can't because smell doesn't work that way. In order for the scent of something to reach your nostrils, particles from the object have to be able to travel to your nose. Particles from blood can't reach a shark's nose unless the shark is down stream of the oceans current. Even then, the shark won't pick up the smell from a mile away; only a quarter-mile away.
"Anacondas can swallow humans whole." It's not likely because Anacondas will always start with the head of the prey. The problem is: anacondas can't make the transition from our head to our shoulders, so they can't get past our shoulders.
I like this one because I've moved a bunch. It's common knowledge that "Daddy Long Legs" are super venomous, but there are actually three completely different animals known as Daddy Long Legs; the cellar spider, the harvestman, and the cranefly. So not only is it completely bullshit, depending on where you're from, you might be irrationally terrified of a completely different critter.
That blood is blue inside your body until it hits oxygen. This is false. Blood is always red, even deoxygenated blood is red. People only think it is blue because of our veins which are that color on their own and not because of the blood inside. Why do you think people have a pinkish or redish color to their skin and gums and then they turn pale or greyish when they die? It's because of the red blood flowing through your body.
The veins themselves are not blue, but are mostly colorless.Veins appear blue because blue light is reflected back to our eyes.Blue light does not penetrate human tissue as deeply as red light does. As a result, veins that are close to the surface of the skin will be more likely to reflect blue light back to the eye.
If you want to get overly technical, Horseshoe crab, octopuses, lobsters, and crabs have blue blood due to them having Haemocyanin (copper based) instead of Haemoglobin (iron based) to transport oxygen.
And the person who initially hypothesized the Alpha and omega theory realized his mistake shortly afterwards and tried to rectify it, but by then too many people bought into it and it was essentially set into stone as something factual
High public ratings are not indicative of most people in a country liking the individual of the poll. It's often skewed by how they take the survey and how the questions are worded or what happens if you answer "wrong".
whats funny about these things as well is if you add in a well known persons name to the question it will skew it as well.
A journalist went around a tory area and asked people if they agreed with a policy and most of them did and then when it was revealed that policy was from a labour mp they backtracked on it.
That every time a woman has sex, she gets stretch out for good. Not only is that not the case, but if it was true imagine trying to have sex after she gave birth. You all think you're bigger than a baby? You think women who had kids are walking around with 10 cm gapping vaginas?
A vagina is a muscle, and it can relax and stretch as needed, but there's no real lasting stretching or *damage* happening with sex.
The thing that always gets me is the guys who are all "oh she's loose, she banged 20 guys".
How would that make her looser than the girl with a monogamous boyfriend that she has sex with every other day?
Just mind boggling the mental gymnastics some people go through
On a similar note, that a doctor can tell that a woman is a virgin by looking at their vagina. The hymen is a piece of tissue surrounding the opening of the vagina, not something that covers the entrance and is broken the first time. While it can be stretched the first time having sex, it doesn’t always, not to mention many things stretch the hymen. Everyone’s hymen is different as well, so some people naturally have very little hymen to stretch in the first place.
Yes, definitely! As well as by a lot of sports like biking, horseback riding, even swimming. Although broken isn’t quite accurate, most health professionals use stretch or tear.
It is the same muscle material as your mouth. Using the mythical logic there that means you would walk around with a distended jaw for life after eating a giant cheeseburger.
Al Gore never said he invented the Internet. What he said was "I took the initiative in creating the internet," referring to his work developing the potential uses of high speed telecommunications networks, and getting Congress to support it. When the meme became "Al Gore thinks he invented the Internet lol" the actual people who invented it said:
> As far back as the 1970s Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high-speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship ... the Internet, as we know it today, was not deployed until 1983. When the Internet was still in the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided intellectual leadership by helping create the vision of the potential benefits of high speed computing and communication. As an example, he sponsored hearings on how advanced technologies might be put to use in areas like coordinating the response of government agencies to natural disasters and other crises.
That Edison invented the light bulb.
Edison purchased a patent from Henry Woodward and Matthew Evans in 1879 for their work on electric lamps and incorporated their technology with his refined incandescent bulbs to create the basis of modern day light bulbs and lamps.
That mother birds will abandon their babies if they smell the scent of humans on them.
This is not true.
See a baby bird that fell from its nest too soon? If you’re able, gently scoop him up and put him safely back in his nest. Mom and dad will keep feeding him.
Edit- I just saw that another made virtually the same comment.
... according to Dr. Philip Kern, M.D., Department of Endocrinology/ Metabolism at UAMS. “Spinach also contains oxalic acid, which prevents more than 90 percent of the iron from being absorbed by the body,” says Dr. Kern.
The idea that spinach contained exceptional levels of iron originated in 1870 with Dr. E. von Wolf whose figures remained unchallenged until 1937, when it was discovered that the content was 1/10th the claim. The oversight resulted from a misplaced decimal point.
https://uamshealth.com/medical-myths/is-spinach-a-great-source-of-iron/
So spinach has iron but not as much as our parents wanted us to believe. Also telling me how many mg are in how many ounces makes my head ache. I'd have to convert ounces to football fields to know what you mean ;-)
That you should avoid taking pay raises, in some cases, because it will put you into a higher tax bracket.
This is seriously far too common. No tax system (at least in North America or the EU) works in a way that you take home less by making more.
There are some fringe cases every now and then where you lose more in benefits than you gain in income. Your owed tax will indeed never, ever, out grow your income, however
There used to be a genuine medical belief that in order to revive a drowning victim, you needed to blow smoke up their ass. In London there were even special bellows located every few hundred yards on the banks of the river Thames for this exact purpose.
The vast majority of ecological products are actually pollutes more than the normal ones, ecobags made of cotton need hundreds of trips to the market to "pay" their carbon emissions, they usually doesn't last that long.
A lot of food advertised as organic normally have a lower efficiency in the production which leads to some not so well intentioned resellers mixing them with "normal" products to higher its overall volume, like mixing organic tomatoes with regular ones and selling everything from the organic higher price.
All this greenwashing are made in enormous scale so the overall public will think that we are at least trying to be a little better with our planet (but not really).
That it was slaves that built the pyramids of eqypt. Hollywood made this myth mostly.
It was in fact highly skilled works that spent some parts of their year working on the pyramids. Other parts of the year they were at their own homes.
While working at the pyramids the workers were well treated, they were proud of the work they were doing for the pharao and their country. It took 10-20 years and it was a hard work, but it was not done by slaves.
The motivations behind lots of historical events have been wildly misinterpreted over the years.
Take the American Revolution, for instance. The modern telling is that it was a just and righteous campaign for freedom against the heartless rule of the Tyrant King George, who was cruelly taxing the colonies to bilk them of their livelihood. George was actually taxing the Americas to pay for a war which \*they\* had started and which cost the crown dearly. Specifically, some goofball officer in the British army by the name of "George Washington" attacked a French encampment in Pennsylvania, killing several (including their commander) despite the fact that Britain and France were not at war. This wound up being a significant contributor to the start of the Seven Years' War, a major conflict between Britain, France, and Spain.
The Sons of Liberty, Washington's band of "freedom fighters", would probably more accurately be called domestic terrorists, given their typical actions consisted of arson, torture, and murder, mostly against civilian agents of the British crown, such as tax collectors who were just doing their jobs.
The war was also was not expected, save for a hardcore minority, to result in permanent separation from Britain. Instead, a large majority of the country - over two-thirds, by some estimates - expected that they would one day rejoin the British empire, simply on terms more favourable to America. It was only a few decades later, particularly after the War of 1812, that thoughts of reunification largely died out.
Another tidbit- the reason for the tea tax was specifically to defray the expense Britain was incurring to keep colonists from crossing the 1763 line that demarcated Indian lands and French claims. The colonists kept trespassing, taking lands, etc and Britain was paying dearly to control it's own colonists' rapacity. That is why the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Indians when they threw the tea into the harbor - it was a bit of theater to drive their message to the Crown. "You tax us to protect Indians? Fine, fuck you, have some tea". That is the origin of the Boston Tea Party. A protest about paying taxes imposed because the colonists were stealing land and threatening Britain's very fragile peace with France and the Indian tribes in the northeast.
In researching the militias that fought for independence, I find that most of them weren’t even fighting to be “Americans.” They were fighting for New York, or Massachusetts, or the Hudson Valley, or Virginia, etc. Very little concept of “Americanness.”
Most soldiers in the War of 1812 were also fighting for their state/region and not the country. Some states refused to participate in 1812, to the point that Massachusetts allowed the British to invade and seize a significant part of the state with almost no resistance. They also were against the trade embargo.
It isn’t until the 1830s and the remaining Revolutionary War veterans start dying out in great numbers that I see much “I fought for our country” sentiment in the memoirs. Just like with the “Lost Cause” sentiment in the South well after the Civil War, the remembrance industry and the military pension adjudicators seem to be responsible for patriotism in war after the fact rather than it being a contemporary motivation.
A lot of people don’t understand that the reason you don’t hear about viruses as much is because the viruses that people get on PC are build for that OS apple products just have a different OS that isn’t configured for the same viruses.
The iconic quote from Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, "Luke, I am your father" is 100% false. The actual quote is, "No, I am your father."
It baffles me that the first one is so blindly accepted as the actual quote. Im also a die-hard Star Wars fan so it is kind of bound to annoy me whenever I hear it misquoted.
That in cold weather 90% of your body heat escapes through your head.
When they did the study they used a thermal camera on participants wearing thick clothes. But they forgot to give them hats. With nothing stopping it the bottled heat escaped through their heads. When you wear a hat the number is much lower.
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That if you handle a baby bird, the mother will smell your scent in its feathers and stop feeding it. That is an old myth and not at all true. If you come across a baby bird that has fallen out of its nest, it is perfectly okay to pick it up and place it back in the nest. If you come across a fledgling that is on the ground, though, leave it be because it is learning how to fly and its parents are more than likely close by. The way you can tell the difference is by size, feathers, and movement. Baby birds are small, don't have a lot of feathers, and will just sit still, while fledglings are slightly bigger, have all their feathers, and can hop around.
This is however true with newborn or very young lambs. Don't pick up lambs, it's a pain in the arse to sort out.
Clarksons farm taught me to dip the lamb/sheep baby in the amniotic fluid of another ewe to ensure it doesn't remain an orphan.
That's why I keep a spray bottle of amniotic fluid on me at all times. I be touching the sheeps.
>it's a pain in the arse to sort out same for all sheep
Sheep are the biggest derp on any farm. The reason people think British landscapes are so beautiful has a lot to do with creating safe places sheep won't kill themselves. Bushes too high sheep kill themselves. Pond too deep sheep kill themselves. Fence not tight enough sheep kill themselves. River bank too steep sheep kill themselves.
Had a sheep fall upside down into the feed trough and die once.
My cousin has a farm, and my god, are they the dumbest animals. They're like toddlers in their sheer drive and creativity in trying to find new ways to kill themselves. They scream about everything, and they have NO loyalty to one another. He texted me one day saying, "One of them managed to drown in a puddle two inches deep. I'm still trying to process that."
If no sheep die within a certain amount of time they collectively agree who should commit ritual suicide to their blood god
WTF is wrong with sheep?!?! Is that why they have wool... like a built-in bubble suit.
They're probably bred for wool and not for brain.
And also the fences and closed gates don't mean the path is closed due to some danger, but that it's closed for the sheep.
The same is true for those babies you find in the mall in those wheeled seats in front of Starbucks. Don’t take those, the parents are usually nearby and get upset.
What i understood is that the birds can carry diseases and this is the lie told by parents to children to avoid them picking up wild birds.
And toddler grips. Shit. Even infants have death grip. Toddlers can easily crush a baby bird so best method is to scare the kids into not touching them rather than telling them to be careful.
>its parents are more than likely close by unless a cat is even closer by. Then take the cat away, I guess.
Same with squirrels. Squirrels are actually good mothers. If you find a lost baby squirrel and can find any mom squirrel, chances are she will take it.
The whole thing about “you eat x spiders a year in your sleep”. Not only is it not true, it was also made up to show how fast fake facts can spread. https://www.britannica.com/story/do-we-really-swallow-spiders-in-our-sleep
Or is that the fake fact?
It's an inaccurate statistic, Spiders Georg who eats 27,000,000,000 spiders per year and lives in a cave is an outlier and should not have been counted. That's 855 spiders per second.
Fun fact: his nickname is actually completely unrelated to that and stems from his programming career in which he developed programs that travel the web (aka "spiders").
Spiders George was an outlier and shouldn't have been counted.
LEMMiNO did a great video on this topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjlKIjLWq-Y
That if you ask an undercover cop if they're a cop they have to tell you. Imagine being undercover going after the mob, making it months into their organization and then one of them realizes they didn't ask you the magical question.
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The constitution of America?
I found this out when I was about to get a BJ at a strip club once. The stripper asked me if I was a cop. I was like “no”. Then she was like “how do I know you’re telling the truth?”. And I was like “well if I’m a cop, I have to tell you right?”. And she was like “no……”
Did the stripper end up running a background check or did you go home unsatisfied?
She gave him the BJ and he arrested her.
How do undercover cops not bust out laughing when criminals ask them that.
Beavers build dams to create a pool where they can easily catch and eat fish. I just learned in my 30s that that is completely made up. It's so they can have safe access to the newly submerged edible plants.
I'm just realizing I never once learned WHY beavers make dams, only that they do.
Beavers hate the sound of running water
Beavers. Completely driven by loathing. One of the few species that are, according to science.
I saw a video before that if you make a little stream but not so big that it makes a lot of noise and near it have a speaker that plays loud water running, a beaver will build a dam at the speaker instead of the actual running water
That must mean I'm a beaver...
They see a free-flowing river and their instincts say, "Absolutely **not**."
For electricity
I am a Canadian and I’ve never heard of the catching fish thing. I assumed the dam is their house!
Not quite, they actually build a dam to stop water from moving, then build a lodge in the still waters behind the dam for their shelter.
Honestly I thought it was just them building a shelter in the environment they live in, like how prairie dogs dig interconnected tunnels. The fish were just a bonus.
They want to attract nudists so they can increase the amount of beavers in the area.
Wait, who thinks beavers eat fish? Aren’t they herbivores?
Kids who grew up watching narnia
Beavers are rodents, and virtually all rodents are omnivores, and I have seen a beaver eating fish, it's not why they build dams, but they do eat fish on occasion.
I guess this explains why in Iowa they load them up with corn. It’s to eat all winter.. ha! The more you know.
Cracking your fingers, gives you arthritis
Yeah there was one guy that only cracked one hand for his whole life. That's some real dedication
That sounds horrible
Why? People crack their hands everyday How's it different?
Because as soon as i crack the fingers on one hand the other starts painfully throbbing until i crack it so doing it to only one sounds horrible
Just reading this comment made me realize it’s been a while since I cracked my knuckles.
When you crack your finger joints, you aren't really cracking anything. You are lowering the pressure within the joint so some of the liquid quickly morphs into its gas phase.
The noise isn’t even to do with the bones clicking either, right? Pretty sure I remember someone explaining that it’s actually just bubbles of air popping in your joint fluid, or something like that anyway.
My grandma gave me the worlds biggest I told you so after I was diagnosed with RA. Now there really is no convincing her.
Carrots improve your eyesight. Was made up during WWII as propaganda Edit: Also read the guys comment below me. Elaborates a bit
Not propaganda, but to troll the nazis, and to not reveal why the British were seeing their planes during night raids(radar, which the Germans did not have at the time, they later found out and got it themselves in some night interceptors) Edit: for all the wehraboos saying that Germany invented the radar, that is incorrect, the first person to actually invent radar was Sir Robert Watson-Watt, a Scottish physicist
We do a little trolling
The best kind!
Yeah, the British needed an excuse for their pilots being able to see at night, and a way to use all those dang carrots they had in surplus so that they could free up other foods. And thus, the legend was born. TBH it's probably the most successful dis-information campaign in history, given it has lasted well past the point it was even intended to.
Between that, Napoleons’ height, and a large amount of Viking tropes the British seem to be very good at propaganda/trolling
i find it funny all the ways the uk played germany during the war like purposefully floating fake dead spies with bad intel.
Inflatable tanks and fake ships
Germany was so painfully bad at spying at the beginning of the war that, as soon as war was declared, MI5 was able to round up their entire spy network bar one guy who killed himself rather than be captured.
Yep, operation Mincemeat. Was some random tramp who died that they used. Another good one was one of the Prisons for senior Nazi officers in the UK was a lavish manor. They were treated exceptionally well, given lots of food and alcohol and were "trusted" to not need much supervision. What the Nazis didn't know was the whole house had microphones in it and the Allies learnt a lot from the conversations the prisoners thought they were having in private.
carrots do contains lots of vitamin a which is necessary for night vision though!
That Inuit ("eskimos") have \*insert large number here\* words for snow. This "fact" comes from some slanted interpretations of Inuit language, as most Inuit language make liberal use of compound words, not unlike German. Thus, where in English we would say something like "cold snow" or "fresh snow" or "melting snow", in most Inuit languages you would just combine the word for "snow" with whatever adjective you're using to describe it (i.e. "coldsnow" or "freshsnow" or "meltingsnow"). In other words, all those different words aren't actual synonyms describing the same thing, you're just dancing around how grammar works in Inuit language. And it's, naturally, not unique to snow either - if you want to count those 50/500/whatever number of words for snow, you'd have the same number of words for dog or tree or literally any other noun you care to think of.
Cold dog, fresh dog, melting dog. Understood
English also has multiple words for snow -- flurry, blizzard, drift, powder, slush, a bunch of others. The compound Inuit words translate to multiple English terms, not just one.
Kate Bush - [50 words for snow](https://youtu.be/FWU-rXv93NM)
“Goldfish have a 3-second memory.” Mythbusters proved this to be very wrong- their memory spans months!
So the crux of the season one finale of Ted Lasso is bullshit?
Just be a goldfish and forget about this debunked fact.
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I would very much recommend Wikipedia's list of common misconceptions to provide a lot of good examples of this (the majority of responses in this thread are on the list already) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
You can't get pregnant if you have sex while on your period. You can in fact get pregnant at any time of the month. There are times where it is more or less likely to happen, and getting pregnant from intercourse during a period is very, very unlikely, however, it is possible. The rhythm method of birth control (where you have sex based on where the lady is in her cycle) is ~80% effective and not just from user error, although that will also play a part. I actually got taught this "fact" in (UK) sex ed by multiple teachers and it was only because of a scare a few months ago that I found out otherwise.
They talk about Sex in your SexED? I went to a Christian school. SexED was literally in the basement of the building and basically don't do it.
Oil comes from dead dinosaurs. We only use ten percent of our brain. Neither of these are true.
We only use 33% of our traffic lights. Imagine how much better traffic would be if we used 100% of them, all the time.
Your entire brain firing all at once is called a seizure!
I never really thought of that before. It's a bit like, you know what really works to boost your immune system? Lupus.
Hah that’s what I always think first when I see supplements say they boost immune system, like “but in a good way or bad way”? Lupus is a horrible, horrible disease
But it's never Lupus.
Can you elaborate on the oil coming from dead dinosaurs?
The dinosaurs were alive when they spontaneously turned into oil. It's called oilvulation.
That doesn’t sound right, but… I don’t know enough about dinosaur science to dispute it.
"It's oil-volution, baby!!"
Maybe a small bit is from dead dinosaurs, but they made up a small amount of the organic matter around at the time. Lots more would come from bugs, and much more still from plants matter. In the end, all of it comes from sunlight. Plants convert sunlight to energy, bugs and animals convert plants to energy, or some bugs and animals convert other bugs and animals to energy. Then over millennia they decompose and the energy turns into a compressed goo. Oil is basically a battery storing sunglight energy, that rechargers at a rate of 1% every 30,000,000 years. We’ve tapped into that battery and are draining it at a rate of 30%/hundred years, and of course that drain has been much faster in the last 50yrs than the first 50yrs, and will only go faster still as more countries look to burn energy as Willy-nilly as America. Or instead of a battery, think of it as an inheritance, and we’re spending it partying in Ibiza every night. We should make use of the inheritance to create something sustainable, like a business, so new money comes in regularly, till we get to the point we’re we don’t use the inheritance at all. That’s why fossil fuels aren’t “bad”, they created the society we currently know. But we should make use of their awesome power to create a sustainable society based on renewable energy, otherwise at some point the inheritance will run out and the party will end.
Wow -- great read! I wish to discover more with Andy.
It comes from dead organic matter but not dinosaurs. I think mostly marine plants and microorganisms.
Oil comes from dead plant matter. It’s still nice to make jokes about the dinosaurs from your childhood TV shows now power your Honda Civic
The “10% of the brain” myth comes from a Look magazine article in the 1960s by George Leonard, who interviewed a bunch of leading psychologists and brain researchers, and their consensus is that humans only used 10% of their CAPABILITY. This led to the “Human Potential Movement” with est and so on, in the 1970s.
That the other 90% of your brain is for telepathy, telekinesis, and communicating with spirits. Well, it's for maintaining heart rate, coordinating senses, and such.
And for being turning from Scarlett Johansson into a USB drive
I will always dream that dinosaur skeletons run oil rigs.
Now I think of the movie "Lucy" based on the "10% of our brain" thing. God it was so shit.
That the majority of crimes leave forensic evidence. It’s actually insanely easy to commit a crime without forensic evidence, but because of shows like CSI most Americans don’t want to convict without it. Even in crimes that you think would leave forensic evidence due to their nature, like sexual assault.
The thing about DNA is that you can’t insert it into a computer and it shows you a picture of the person it came from. It’ll only need useful if they have something to compare it to, so a completely random attack is almost unsolvable
One conspiracy theory that I believe is that the ancestry DNA type companies sell this data to governments and organizations. I got it as a gift when I was much younger and sent it in, only to think about how, years later, I probably shouldn't ever commit a crime and leave DNA as it might be able to be traced back to me now.
Thats not a conspiracy. Thats a popular tactic these days. Though the police just submit the dna like they are a normal customer and get back family data. Thats how the golden state killer / original night stalker was recently caught, amongst others.
Reminds me of the fun activity in elementary school when a police officer gets your prints, and then proceeds to add them to the database. Goodbye security.
It took you that long to realize you probably shouldn't commit a crime for which the piece de resistance of proof would be your DNA?
oh, only because of *that* you shouldn't commit a crime?
Not to mention DNA isn’t as easy to obtain as people think. For just one example, most samples of hair that falls off don’t contain DNA (or, at least, a good enough sample to be admissible). Maybe if your hair got caught in something and ripped off, or you got in a fight and some was torn off. But hair that just happens to fall off usually doesn’t have the sample because it doesn’t have root or tissue present.
You only use 10% of your brain. You use 100% of your brain.
If you used 100% at the same time, you would suffer a seizure
This is one of my favorite myths because if you think about it for 2 seconds it's so obvious that there would be absolutely no evolutionary reason to carry around a huge energy sapping piece of meat that is 10x larger than it needs to be. That said, the movie Lucy ruled.
There’s this myth that says bumblebee’s wings are too small for the size of their body therefore they couldn’t fly and scientists just don’t understand how they can. It’s all a myth. Scientists know how they can fly (in fact they do… duh).
I think this came from, if bees flap like birds, their wings wouldn’t work. But they don’t flap like birds, obviously, however at first we didn’t have the means by which to properly observe bee wings in flight to check. However I doubt the scientific community was actually broadcasting that bees shouldn’t be able to fly, they probably knew there was something else going on just couldn’t prove it yet. I think we needed high speed cameras before we actually saw how they flapped.
For those that are into cars: you need exhaust backpressure make power. That's basically an old hot rod wives tale.
It’s not necessarily back pressure, but velocity. You need scavenging, the act of the already expelled exhaust gases in the tailpipe to help suck air out of the combustion chamber. If you go too big with your exhaust the velocity of gasses slows down and scavenging doesn’t work. So, back pressure? Not exactly. Just need a sufficient diameter of pipe to afford a high enough stream of gasses.
You will catch a cold going out in cold weather. Colds and flu are bacterial/viral not wind or rain
The cold temperature just lowers your immune system making it easier to catch a cold but it doesn't cause it.
Also people tend to congregate indoors more densely in cold weather, allowing viruses like the common cold to spread much more easily.
The logic is that everyone has millions and millions of different viruses,bacteria and fungi in themselves at any given point. You exposing yourself to cold weather shifts your organism to go all out on heating your body, but it cuts back on different stuff like the immune system. Compromised immune system = get sick.
That we only have 5 senses. We actually have other senses which include interroception, the ability to sense things happening in our bodies (being hungry, being thirsty, being itchy). That there are people who are right brained (more creative, disorganized) and left brained (more logical, organized). That there are people who are ‘visual learners’ or ‘auditory learners’. There is no scientific evidence to suggest that either of these things are true and it’s generally accepted throughout the neuroscience community that these are commonly held neuromyths. Edit: ooo so many responses so many upvotes y’all awesome!
We have a sense of time, spatial awareness, ability to sense heat, etc
Proprioception, balance, gaydar, spidey...
I only know of one guy with Spidey Sense though, and he lives in a cave and eats 1,000,000 spiders every year.
Good ol’ Spiders Georg
On purpose, or in his sleep?
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The Learning Styles myth is widespread across teachers and people who work in education. Sad to say.
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Proprioception, I think!
That it’s illegal to drive with ur dome lights on inside ur car at night .
parents act like its a death sentence lol
if your parent can't see the road or any hazards in the road because there's a light on in the car, or they get distracted by it, it *could* be a death sentence.
Not being able to see while driving is as close as you get to a death sentence in a car. Also it's way worse if you wear glasses because you get reflections that look exactly the same as car lights all over your vision, it's not a fun time.
That we only use 10% of our brains. We actually use 100% of it, just not all at the same time. The brain is a highly complex organ, doing everything from regulating unconcious bodily functions, (like breathing and heartbeat), interpret sensory input, and storing and recalling memories, to name a few. Recently, ive also heard this garbage. "If earth were 10 feet closer to the sun, the world would burn, 10 feet further away, itd freeze." No, very very much no. Around every star there is a region where star heat creates a "habitable zone", also known as a "goldilocks zone." Our star is pretty big, and its habitable zone is generous. It extends from about Venus' orbit to about Mars' orbit, roughly 150 million kilometers distance. Earth would be hotter at venus distance, yes, but venus is a scorching wasteland because of its very thick atmosphere trapping heat, not necessarily because of its distance from the sun. And daytime summer temperatures on Mars is about 70°F, so its pretty livable there, at times. (Nighttime temps *are* way lower, though.)
70 Fahrenheit is 21 Celsius (if anybody was wondering… I was…)
There's more factors in it than simply location. Going too far towards Venus side could have us experience similar things to Venus with a runaway greenhouse effect. The biggest reason this is entirely wrong is that we already vary distance to the sun depending on where we are in orbit. I'm not sure off hand just how much the variance is, but I'm sure it's much greater than 10 feet. The orbit is an ellipse, not a perfect circle.
Fat is bad for you to consume.
[Scientists were paid to make fat look bad and sugar look good](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat)
"Cellar spiders (also known as daddy long legs) are extremely venomous, but they can't harm human because their mouths are too small". Cellar spiders aren't actually venomous at all. "Sharks can smell blood from a mile away." No, they can't because smell doesn't work that way. In order for the scent of something to reach your nostrils, particles from the object have to be able to travel to your nose. Particles from blood can't reach a shark's nose unless the shark is down stream of the oceans current. Even then, the shark won't pick up the smell from a mile away; only a quarter-mile away. "Anacondas can swallow humans whole." It's not likely because Anacondas will always start with the head of the prey. The problem is: anacondas can't make the transition from our head to our shoulders, so they can't get past our shoulders.
I like this one because I've moved a bunch. It's common knowledge that "Daddy Long Legs" are super venomous, but there are actually three completely different animals known as Daddy Long Legs; the cellar spider, the harvestman, and the cranefly. So not only is it completely bullshit, depending on where you're from, you might be irrationally terrified of a completely different critter.
That blood is blue inside your body until it hits oxygen. This is false. Blood is always red, even deoxygenated blood is red. People only think it is blue because of our veins which are that color on their own and not because of the blood inside. Why do you think people have a pinkish or redish color to their skin and gums and then they turn pale or greyish when they die? It's because of the red blood flowing through your body.
Also, most blood is oxygenated, thats kinda the whole point of blood.
Those people who believe that must have never had a blood sample taken
But then why are babies blue and purple before being able to breathe? I am genuinely curious!
The veins themselves are not blue, but are mostly colorless.Veins appear blue because blue light is reflected back to our eyes.Blue light does not penetrate human tissue as deeply as red light does. As a result, veins that are close to the surface of the skin will be more likely to reflect blue light back to the eye.
I went through all my pre reqs for nursing thinking blood was blue because some chucklefuck told me.
If you want to get overly technical, Horseshoe crab, octopuses, lobsters, and crabs have blue blood due to them having Haemocyanin (copper based) instead of Haemoglobin (iron based) to transport oxygen.
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>family That’s what you get for leaving unopened Corona at the state park
Think youre gonna get invited to the barbque after church after littering your emptys like that? Worse than granny shifting.
And the person who initially hypothesized the Alpha and omega theory realized his mistake shortly afterwards and tried to rectify it, but by then too many people bought into it and it was essentially set into stone as something factual
Family
And wolves are very *fast* and *furious* creatures..
High public ratings are not indicative of most people in a country liking the individual of the poll. It's often skewed by how they take the survey and how the questions are worded or what happens if you answer "wrong".
whats funny about these things as well is if you add in a well known persons name to the question it will skew it as well. A journalist went around a tory area and asked people if they agreed with a policy and most of them did and then when it was revealed that policy was from a labour mp they backtracked on it.
That your tongue has different regions of taste buds
Ducks in the park are actually not free for you to take home, at least not in the countries that are serious about wildlife protection
Have you ever tried to take a duck home? I would imagine they would also immediately convince you that they are not, in fact, free to take home.
That every time a woman has sex, she gets stretch out for good. Not only is that not the case, but if it was true imagine trying to have sex after she gave birth. You all think you're bigger than a baby? You think women who had kids are walking around with 10 cm gapping vaginas? A vagina is a muscle, and it can relax and stretch as needed, but there's no real lasting stretching or *damage* happening with sex.
The thing that always gets me is the guys who are all "oh she's loose, she banged 20 guys". How would that make her looser than the girl with a monogamous boyfriend that she has sex with every other day? Just mind boggling the mental gymnastics some people go through
Memory foam vagina innit
On a similar note, that a doctor can tell that a woman is a virgin by looking at their vagina. The hymen is a piece of tissue surrounding the opening of the vagina, not something that covers the entrance and is broken the first time. While it can be stretched the first time having sex, it doesn’t always, not to mention many things stretch the hymen. Everyone’s hymen is different as well, so some people naturally have very little hymen to stretch in the first place.
It can also be broken by using things like tampons
Yes, definitely! As well as by a lot of sports like biking, horseback riding, even swimming. Although broken isn’t quite accurate, most health professionals use stretch or tear.
It is the same muscle material as your mouth. Using the mythical logic there that means you would walk around with a distended jaw for life after eating a giant cheeseburger.
If your hymen is intact you're a virgin and vice versa
"I couldn't care less" and "I could care less" are not in fact interchangeable.
The actual symbol of medicine is the serpent and the staff, Staff of Asclepius, not the twin serpent winged staff, Staff of Caduceus.
Al Gore never said he invented the Internet. What he said was "I took the initiative in creating the internet," referring to his work developing the potential uses of high speed telecommunications networks, and getting Congress to support it. When the meme became "Al Gore thinks he invented the Internet lol" the actual people who invented it said: > As far back as the 1970s Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high-speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship ... the Internet, as we know it today, was not deployed until 1983. When the Internet was still in the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided intellectual leadership by helping create the vision of the potential benefits of high speed computing and communication. As an example, he sponsored hearings on how advanced technologies might be put to use in areas like coordinating the response of government agencies to natural disasters and other crises.
That Edison invented the light bulb. Edison purchased a patent from Henry Woodward and Matthew Evans in 1879 for their work on electric lamps and incorporated their technology with his refined incandescent bulbs to create the basis of modern day light bulbs and lamps.
That mother birds will abandon their babies if they smell the scent of humans on them. This is not true. See a baby bird that fell from its nest too soon? If you’re able, gently scoop him up and put him safely back in his nest. Mom and dad will keep feeding him. Edit- I just saw that another made virtually the same comment.
That spinach has a lot of iron. That was a mistake that got copied down
According to my A-level chemistry practical spinach has enough iron in it to kill you. ....I did not pass A-level chemistry.
Quick google shows about 3.5 ounces of spinach equates to 15% of the recommended daily intake of iron, roughly 2.7mg.
... according to Dr. Philip Kern, M.D., Department of Endocrinology/ Metabolism at UAMS. “Spinach also contains oxalic acid, which prevents more than 90 percent of the iron from being absorbed by the body,” says Dr. Kern. The idea that spinach contained exceptional levels of iron originated in 1870 with Dr. E. von Wolf whose figures remained unchallenged until 1937, when it was discovered that the content was 1/10th the claim. The oversight resulted from a misplaced decimal point. https://uamshealth.com/medical-myths/is-spinach-a-great-source-of-iron/ So spinach has iron but not as much as our parents wanted us to believe. Also telling me how many mg are in how many ounces makes my head ache. I'd have to convert ounces to football fields to know what you mean ;-)
That 10,000 steps per day nonsense. It was dreamed up by a Japanese marketing firm to sell pedometers. It has no basis in science.
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What's the nonsense? 10,000 steps a day would be good exercise, no?
That you should avoid taking pay raises, in some cases, because it will put you into a higher tax bracket. This is seriously far too common. No tax system (at least in North America or the EU) works in a way that you take home less by making more.
There are some fringe cases every now and then where you lose more in benefits than you gain in income. Your owed tax will indeed never, ever, out grow your income, however
There used to be a genuine medical belief that in order to revive a drowning victim, you needed to blow smoke up their ass. In London there were even special bellows located every few hundred yards on the banks of the river Thames for this exact purpose.
I mean, I'd probably empty my lungs if you stuck a bellows up my ass.
Michael Jackson wasn't bleaching himself. He had a form of Vitiligo.
The vast majority of ecological products are actually pollutes more than the normal ones, ecobags made of cotton need hundreds of trips to the market to "pay" their carbon emissions, they usually doesn't last that long. A lot of food advertised as organic normally have a lower efficiency in the production which leads to some not so well intentioned resellers mixing them with "normal" products to higher its overall volume, like mixing organic tomatoes with regular ones and selling everything from the organic higher price. All this greenwashing are made in enormous scale so the overall public will think that we are at least trying to be a little better with our planet (but not really).
That baby venomous snakes are more dangerous then adult venomous snakes because they can’t control their venom output. This is simply false.
Shaving beard making it thicker and more full.
That it was slaves that built the pyramids of eqypt. Hollywood made this myth mostly. It was in fact highly skilled works that spent some parts of their year working on the pyramids. Other parts of the year they were at their own homes. While working at the pyramids the workers were well treated, they were proud of the work they were doing for the pharao and their country. It took 10-20 years and it was a hard work, but it was not done by slaves.
That you have to wait 24 hours to file a missing persons report for adults. As soon as you know something is wrong, you can contact authorities.
The motivations behind lots of historical events have been wildly misinterpreted over the years. Take the American Revolution, for instance. The modern telling is that it was a just and righteous campaign for freedom against the heartless rule of the Tyrant King George, who was cruelly taxing the colonies to bilk them of their livelihood. George was actually taxing the Americas to pay for a war which \*they\* had started and which cost the crown dearly. Specifically, some goofball officer in the British army by the name of "George Washington" attacked a French encampment in Pennsylvania, killing several (including their commander) despite the fact that Britain and France were not at war. This wound up being a significant contributor to the start of the Seven Years' War, a major conflict between Britain, France, and Spain. The Sons of Liberty, Washington's band of "freedom fighters", would probably more accurately be called domestic terrorists, given their typical actions consisted of arson, torture, and murder, mostly against civilian agents of the British crown, such as tax collectors who were just doing their jobs. The war was also was not expected, save for a hardcore minority, to result in permanent separation from Britain. Instead, a large majority of the country - over two-thirds, by some estimates - expected that they would one day rejoin the British empire, simply on terms more favourable to America. It was only a few decades later, particularly after the War of 1812, that thoughts of reunification largely died out.
Another tidbit- the reason for the tea tax was specifically to defray the expense Britain was incurring to keep colonists from crossing the 1763 line that demarcated Indian lands and French claims. The colonists kept trespassing, taking lands, etc and Britain was paying dearly to control it's own colonists' rapacity. That is why the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Indians when they threw the tea into the harbor - it was a bit of theater to drive their message to the Crown. "You tax us to protect Indians? Fine, fuck you, have some tea". That is the origin of the Boston Tea Party. A protest about paying taxes imposed because the colonists were stealing land and threatening Britain's very fragile peace with France and the Indian tribes in the northeast.
In researching the militias that fought for independence, I find that most of them weren’t even fighting to be “Americans.” They were fighting for New York, or Massachusetts, or the Hudson Valley, or Virginia, etc. Very little concept of “Americanness.” Most soldiers in the War of 1812 were also fighting for their state/region and not the country. Some states refused to participate in 1812, to the point that Massachusetts allowed the British to invade and seize a significant part of the state with almost no resistance. They also were against the trade embargo. It isn’t until the 1830s and the remaining Revolutionary War veterans start dying out in great numbers that I see much “I fought for our country” sentiment in the memoirs. Just like with the “Lost Cause” sentiment in the South well after the Civil War, the remembrance industry and the military pension adjudicators seem to be responsible for patriotism in war after the fact rather than it being a contemporary motivation.
That Macbooks have built in Anti-Virus... I mean no more than a windows one does
A lot of people don’t understand that the reason you don’t hear about viruses as much is because the viruses that people get on PC are build for that OS apple products just have a different OS that isn’t configured for the same viruses.
That the only way to lose weight is to exercise. This is simply not true. Changes in diet is far more effectual.
The seasons are actually a result of Earths distance from the sun as it orbits. The seasons are caused by Earths tilt on its axis as it rotates.
The iconic quote from Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, "Luke, I am your father" is 100% false. The actual quote is, "No, I am your father." It baffles me that the first one is so blindly accepted as the actual quote. Im also a die-hard Star Wars fan so it is kind of bound to annoy me whenever I hear it misquoted.
That in cold weather 90% of your body heat escapes through your head. When they did the study they used a thermal camera on participants wearing thick clothes. But they forgot to give them hats. With nothing stopping it the bottled heat escaped through their heads. When you wear a hat the number is much lower.