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A man built the world’s largest treehouse after claiming God told him to do so. It was 97 feet tall. It took 12 years to build and burned down in 15 minutes in 2019.
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In Malcolm in the Middle, Bryan Cranston used to hum improvised tunes. He then joined a songwriters guild so that everything he improvised earned him a royalty check of a few hundred dollars. He used this money to throw parties for the cast and crew. The crew even encouraged his humming.
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Did you know that the surface of Neptune was once all water?
I didn’t either, because it’s not true. I just made it up. But if I slapped that on a meme it might just spread around enough that a handful of people carried it around with them as though it were fact.
That’s why it’s important to check up on things before you spread ’em. Otherwise you end up with these:
What is a common myth that has been debunked but too many people still believe? from AskReddit
Debunkers of Reddit, do your thing.
There’s no law governing how long you have to wait before notifying the police of a missing person. It’s nonsense. File a report as soon as you suspect the person is missing or in danger.
Do you know how many wellness checks officers go on in a day? Call it in man…
– grammar_oligarch
You actually use 100% of your brain.
Each section is responsible for controlling different functions of your body. For example, the Prefrontal Cortex controls, thoughts, memory and behavior.
The Parietal Lobe controls language and touch.
The Occipital Lobe controls, visual processing and the brain stem controls basic functions such as breathing and maintaining your heart rate.
– CrotchWolf
When I was learning how to shave, I remember this one being debunked in a teen magazine.
What they said made sense. A new hair grows with a kind of pointed tip. When you shave, you cut off that part. So what is now growing is middle of the hair which is thicker.
I would also add, I started shaving before my hair was fully grown in (moving from per-adolescence to adulthood) and hair continues to come in thicker over time. So it has more to do with when females often start shaving compared to having reached full maturity.
– OctobersAutumn
It’s mainly an optical illusion.
Your skin decays and shrinks, causing hair and fingernails to look like they’ve grown.
– CasinoKitten
We all know the story: Orson Welles broadcast War of The Worlds over the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). But people only tuned in part way through, and heard the radio announcing that machines were landing in the country and were advancing and attacking. People panicked in the streets and thought aliens really were invading. There was hysteria on the streets, people were looting and traffic jams banked up as people tried to escape.
But it turns out, that isn’t really true. It turns out barely anyone actually listened to the broadcast, and the few that were listening knew it was Orson Welles and knew it was just a broadcasting of War of the Worlds. If there was anyone that did tune in and mishear it and panicked, it was nowhere near the hundreds and thousands that have been reported in this myth.
– LittlestSlipper55
Yeah, that would basically invalidate lightning rods.
And I think that park ranger who’s been struck by lightning 6+ times would tend to disagree with that notion.
– MrLuxarina
Before the Space Pen was developed, NASA used pencils in space (expensive custom-made mechanical pencils starting with the Gemini missions) and the Soviet space program used a mix of regular pencils and grease pencils […].
Both programs were aware of the potential problems with graphite dust, and both were dissatisfied with the writing quality (pencil smears a lot more easily than ballpoint ink, and grease pencil smears if you look at it funny), but they took their chances with the least-bad available options.
And once the space pen was developed by a private company, both space programs bought a bunch of them.
– Gyrgir
It was made up to prove how misinformation can spread so quickly over the internet.
– Dr_McKay
Debunked decades ago. The sole proponent lost his medical license over it.
Yet every anti-vaxx mom apparently knows someone whose friend’s cousin has a child who turned autistic after the measles vaccine and somehow not a single one has met this alleged autistic child but the story is of course 100 percent true and vaccines are terrible.
– whereismyporcupine
The study that influenced the idea determined literacy by the prevalence of books written in Latin, which only the upper class knew.
Most peasants could actually read and write in their own language.
– luke56slasher
By around 500 B.C., most ancient Greeks believed that Earth was round, not flat. But they had no idea how big the planet is until about 240 B.C. when Eratosthenes devised a clever method of estimating its circumference.
He realized that if he knew the distance from Alexandria to Syene, he could easily calculate the circumference of Earth. But in those days it was extremely difficult to determine distance with any accuracy. Some distances between cities were measured by the time it took a camel caravan to travel from one city to the other. But camels have a tendency to wander and to walk at varying speeds. So Eratosthenes hired bematists, professional surveyors trained to walk with equal length steps. They found that Syene lies about 5000 stadia from Alexandria.
Eratosthenes then used this to calculate the circumference of the Earth to be about 250,000 stadia. Modern scholars disagree about the length of the stadium used by Eratosthenes. Values between 500 and about 600 feet have been suggested, putting Eratosthenes’ calculated circumference between about 24,000 miles and about 29,000 miles. The Earth is now known to measure about 24,900 miles around the equator, slightly less around the poles.
– JohnDax
It depends how you define ‘explored’.
People throw this figure around like 95% of the Earth’s ocean surface is just a huge blank spot on the map, or like there’s plenty of space for a surviving population of plesiosaurs to live where we just haven’t checked.
Neither of those things is remotely accurate.
– green_meklar
No, calorie deficit is the one responsible for weight loss no matter the diet.
– vox_verae
The more you know!
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It was Mark Twain who once said “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.”
A point that’s all the more poignant when you consider that actually it was probably not Mark Twain who said that.
Just goes to go how confusing following the truth can be, like in these cases:
What is a common myth that has been debunked but too many people still believe? from AskReddit
What does Reddit have for us to debunk today? Let’s find out.
This myth originated due to a misunderstanding of grading scales.
Einstein’s primary education took place in Germany, where the grading scale went from 1 (best) to 5 (worst).
His secondary education was in Switzerland, where the grading scale went from 1 (worst) to 6 (best).
His scores in math and science were excellent at all stages of his education.
– sillybear25
Most placental mammals are dichromats with two types of cone cells in their eyes. They’re descended from tetrachromats with four retinal pigments, but we believe that two were lost during an era when mammals were primarily nocturnal and color vision was less useful at night.
A branch of primates including apes and, specifically, us mutated up a new pigment, different from either of the ones that were lost, getting us back to trichromatic vision. (Our L and M, or red and green, cones are very similar, with one being a mutation from the other that proved useful to have exist in parallel.)
It’s why hunters wear orange vests and tigers are bright orange despite living in jungles.
To prey species, they both look green like vegetation.
– ThePowerOfStories
they were filming a disney nature documentary where the producers herded them off cliffs and the misconception stuck
It’s been debunked but you ask someone about lemmings and see what they say.
– graeuk
Not only was this one a myth, they TAUGHT us this in school.
I remember coloring in the different sections of the tongue various colors.
– MattieMcNasty
Most birds don’t have a significant sense of smell. So put the nakey baby back in the nest!
Now, sometimes mother birds will push a sick or otherwise terminal chick out of the nest, so when people try to put it back she goes “Hey, thought I got rid of you” and does it again.
But that’s not because of you, she just knows something you don’t, so take that babe to a rehab rescue and hope for the best.
But a lot of the time the little squishy beans just wiggle out of the nest, so feel free to put them back in. No harm done.
– AlwaysWantsIceCream
Except they obviously can.
I think bumble bees perfectly exemplify the fundamental misunderstanding that laypeople have of the scientific process and the difference between a law and a theory.
A scientific law is a physical description of what we observe under specific circumstances. A theory, on the other hand, explains why we observe different phenomena when at least one variable isn’t controlled for.
So it isn’t that “bumble bees shouldn’t be able to fly”. It’s that they fly as a result of a different set of variables within the mechanisms of flight.
– Dynasuarez-Wrecks
The design of toilets direct water in a specific way, the Coriolis effect would never change that, but even in more passive drainage systems, the internal flow of water and geometry of the basin will be much more significant than that of the Coriolis effect. This is true even if water sits still for long periods of time.
Under very specific scientific conditions, with a flat, perfectly circular pan and a centralized drainage hole, many days after filling the water the Coriolis effect can begin to govern the direction of the water as it’s emptied, but this is not exactly practical. We do see the effect in weather patterns of course though, so that’s something.
– CanFjord
Seriously tho, I was told that everyone’s blood was blue on the inside when I was younger, and I honestly don’t know why my Mom thought that.
Maybe it’s just one of those things that you only believe because your family has been saying it since your Grandma’s Grandpa’s Grandma’s Grandma’s Grandpa or something like that.
– Rand0mWe1rdGuy
The reason you always feel tired after a Thanksgiving meal is because your body is spending all its energy digesting your big meal.
– LiquidMetalStarman
There’s no reason that should be dangerous.
However swimming after drinking alcohol puts you at a substantially higher risk of drowning.
– Scrappy_Larue
The researcher who wrote it himself not only said that this cannot be used to interpret human behaviour in any way, but he even proved his own findings wrong in a later study, because this behaviour only applied to wolves in captivity (so, a constantly stressful situation)
– JuFo2707
Lady melted her vagina and only wanted to get enough for bills.
They wouldn’t even do that.
– Tenebrousoul
A lot of people in Sweden believe this despite research attributing it to the nocebo effect.
– hampan97
That goes into a bigger myth that people with psychopathy or antisocial personality disorder are these cunning manipulative geniuses.
Ted bundy abducted girls in a busy af park going by the nickname ted and only got so many girls because cops didn’t communicate across state lines at all and there was virtually no video surveillance.
By definition these people have god awful impulse control, delusions that they can control people, and terrible control of their behaviours. They have awful control of how they act when they get emotional, and people like Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Wayne Gacy, ect. All got caught because they were genuinely suffering from arrogant , very dumb, and poorly planned behaviors.
– Antispam1432
It’s always nice to find out you were wrong!
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In 2019, Brazilian pоlіce seized a parrot who had been taught to alert criminals to pоlіce operations by shouting: “Mum, the pоlіce!” After being seized, the parrot didn’t cooperate with the pоlіce, staying completely silent and not saying anything.
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Flashes of lights reported before earthquakes throughout history, only relatively recently photographed and seriously investigated. Here’s a video of such lights during the 2017 major earthquake in Mexico. Here’s the same in New Zealand with much clearer video.
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Chocolate was classified as “candy” under the Revenue Acts of 1918 and 1921, and so it was taxed as such. Hershey’s sued to recover about $8,000,000 in taxes by arguing it was “food”, and so had been wrongly taxed. The Supreme Court ruled it was “candy”.
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In 1997 Albanian Pyramid Schemes which made up half of the nation’s economy ran out of money causing protests and sparking the Albanian Civil War.
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Author H.P. Lovecraft was never able to support himself from his earnings as an author. His book “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”, written one year before his death, sold a meagre 200 copies. He died in poverty at age 46.
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Japanese doctor Tetsu Nakamura devoted his life revitalising deserts in Afghanistan, making forests and wheat farmland and contributing to peace. Nakamura was decorated with the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun and Afghan National Medal.
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