25 False Truths and Misconceptions People Need to Unlearn
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“Birds will reject a hatchling if it smells a human has touched it. Turns out birds don’t rely on their sense of smell that much, and they’re generally happy to get their babies back.” - Nwsamurai
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“You have to wait 24+ hours to report someone missing. Not true and dangerous. The first hours are the most important of finding a missing person. If you suspect someone as missing, REPORT IT ASAP. I'd rather have the "damn there you are, you scared the hell out of everyone" talk than hear a eulogy of someone.” - ZXsaurus
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“Rice will cause birds to blow up so you shouldn’t throw it at weddings. Allegedly invented by people who clean after weddings so they didn’t have to deal with crushed rice” - hughgrang
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“If you ask an undercover police officer "are you a cop" they have to tell you. A lot of wishful thinking goes into this one.” - zugabdu
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“Goldfish having a three second memory or whatever. They are actually fairly intelligent for fish and can be target trained for food. They'll remember their keeper's face and studies suggest without continual reinforcement their memories last about 3 months. They're also not 'easy' pets, do not belong in bowls and really need at least a 40 gallon tank for two fancies and around a 100 gallon for two commons. They're pond animals, related to the Prussian carp. They get about a foot long.” - Kai-ni
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“That rabbits eat carrots. It's better for rabbits to eat hay and grass, you can feed them carrots but it is best to not feed them that often.” - mincraftpro27
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“"According to all known laws of physics, bumblebees shouldn't be able to fly, and yet they do, because they don't know that they can't." Not true at all, but self-help gurus and facebook moms use this to inspire people to "Do the impossible!"” - barriekansai
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“While bananas are tasty, the idea that they are like the best source of potassium for your diet is wildly overblown. In fact I think it's probably one of the most overly promulgated "fruit facts" out there. In fact, oranges, prunes, and watermelon rival it or outright beat the potassium content. And what's more? A literal potato has more potassium.” - ItsTtreasonThen
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“US highways are required to have one straight mile out of every five miles to serve as emergency airplane runways. No, they didn't.” - LeonardGhostal
11.
“Dog see only in black and white they see colour but just a more limited range, they have blue and yellow colour receptors just not red.” - Mewtual
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“Have you heard that cactus have drinkable water If your like stranded in the desert. Something about what is in the water could make you throw up or give you diarrhea making you more dehydrated” - rather_wholesome
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“That bats have terrible eyesight. Their eyes are actually almost as good as humans. Some breeds have even better eyesight than humans.” - OutEliManning7
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“Might not be common but my biology teacher in highschool along with the chemistry teacher once held a big project about a non-existent bird and how evolution had made it wonky. They went all in on the prank, made made up pages about it etc only to forget to actually tell the classes that while they learnt a lot about evolution it was a big prank. I can't help but wonder what those 30-60 people are today, do they still think about the bird? Do they brag about knowing facts about the bird at partys?” - cccantyousee
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“Violence never solved anything. Nonsense. Violence has solved LOTS of things.” - DiogenesCantPlay
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“Tetanus comes from rust. It’s just from deep puncture wounds that get infected, but we’ve all heard “stepping on a rusty nail” and assumed it was the rust, not the dirty nail.” - ThinkIGotHacked
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“If you have any problems, you can talk to HR without fear of reprisal. No, you absolutely cannot. Never talk to HR about anything. HR exists to protect the company’s ass, not your’s. They couldn’t give any less fucks about you.” - Ponyboy451
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“If you turn on the overhead light in the car while you're driving, you'll get a ticket.... This is false.” - ganon6d
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“Fish don’t feel pain. Fish have the receptors for pain… considering physical pain isn’t an emotion, it’s a physical sensation meant to alert an animal to whatever is causing pain, the argument that their brains are too small to process pain because they don’t have emotion is garbage.” - Resident_Mae
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“Menstruation has no connection to the moon, and women don't sync up due to cohabitation or detecting each other's hormones. These are just events that roughly follow a monthly cycle. Over time they might appear to converge, but they will then diverge without people thinking about it. Our brains are always looking for patterns, and this is a false positive like with pareidolia.” - GhostFish
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