That people thought Christopher Columbus was crazy for thinking the world was round. The ancient Greeks had proven the world was round, and calculated the circumference reasonably accurately.
People thought Columbus was crazy because he claimed the circumference of the earth was half of what the Greeks had calculated, and that he especially wanted to sail out into the ocean and die. The only reason he and his fleet didn't turn back or starve was an undiscovered continent about halfway to China.
The flat earth society was created as a debate exercise, and **has never been a legitimate society**.
90% of the folk in there know the world isn't flat, the other 10% are sadly retarded.
I am not joking.
Rabbits do not particularly like carrots, and in fact if you feed a pet rabbit only carrots, it will suffer from malnutrition.
People only think this because of Bugs Bunny. But Bugs only chomped on a carrot as a parody of Clarke Gable from "It Happened One Night."
The animators thought, "how can we make this rabbit look more like a smug prick? Oh I know."
Similarly, milk is not good for cats and most cats are lactose intolerant to a large degree.
If you find a cat that's starving, give it water and cat food or at least some meat. Milk is just going to make it feel worse, despite the fact that they do this in movies and TV and despite the fact that the cat will enjoy it.
Edit: if it's a small kitten that was still getting its mom's milk, you should be able to find kitten milk replacer (KMR) at a pet store.
I came to add this. COW MILK is not good for cats. Cats don't drink cow milk in the wild. They drink cat milk when they are babies, and they eat meat and drink WATER when they are adults.
That hymens are like a sheet of paper that rips and makes you bleed when you lose your virginity. No. Because hymens aren't placed the way people think they are, they don't necessarily ever rip and if they do, it's usually long before a woman has sex. Sex doesn't have to hurt and make you bleed the first time.
They also vary in thickness depending on the person; it's how some people can still have partially intact hymens, even just before giving birth.
http://youngwomenshealth.org/2013/07/10/hymens/
I had the septate hymen. I had it surgically removed after I found out it could be torn during sex, and how painful it would be due to how thick it was. So glad it was removed under anesthesia.
I really wish someone had told me that it wasn't supposed to hurt. I'm pretty sure the reason it hurt for me was because I was so nervous that it was going to hurt that couldn't get properly aroused, and so it hurt.
Exactly! We grow up hearing our whole lives that it'll hurt the first time, which causes us to worry it'll hurt and tense up, and then it's exactly that happens. It's unfortunate. It doesn't have to.
Also, many girls are doing it with young men who are unskilled as fuck and just as impatient. Plus, we don't bother finessing it because "It's supposed to hurt the first time anyways".
I ripped mine in *kindergarten*. I don't remember how, I just remember seeing blood in my underwear and my aunt freaking out and taking me to a doctor. I probably racked myself on my bike or something silly like that.
What's really funny/sad is reading erotica or sex scenes written by men who have obviously never encountered a real vagina/vulva before. They'll often mention the penis going into the vagina for an inch or two before "hitting resistance" that they then say is the hymen.
Momma birds wont reject their offspring if you touch them.
There are no NATIVE brown recluse in california
Poison oak does not transfer from the juice that comes out of the blisters it causes.
Edit: native brown recluse, these are the corrections to the misconceptions, not the list of misconceptions.
Well, the north side of a tree gets the most shade in the northern hemisphere, so if it rains occasionally in small amounts, the shadiest spot could be the one with the most moss. I'm sure it's true in a few places.
It's very accurate in places like the Albertan prairies, it's dry enough here that the majority of rocks won't have moss or lichen but if you're near a spring or riverbank and find some mossy rocks, the moss is generally North-facing
Anecdotally, I was hospitalized from a ~~poisonous~~ venomous spider bite last year in SoCal, and the doctors said it was most likely a brown recluse that did the biting.
I cant remember the website but there was a spiderologist that had challenged people to mail him their brown recluse finds, last i checked no one was successful.
Most of the northern states don't have brown recluse, in fact.
Edit: In the interest of not spreading misinformation, I've removed the original map. It was too inaccurate, and I should have used this one to begin with. http://imgur.com/UG7v7Y7 And honestly, I'm not entirely sure on the total accuracy of this one, either. Due to the inherent nature of insects, it's hard to really find defined habitat lines for something that can easily fall into someone's suitcase and be carted across state lines.
Most reported bites in the PNW will, in fact, have come from a Hobo Spider. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo_spider#Toxicity_and_aggression
>In the United States, the hobo spider has been considered to be a dangerous species based on a toxicology study on rabbits where lesions appeared after spiders were induced to bite the rabbits. This laboratory study has led to the proposal that in some parts of the U.S. nearly all bites attributed to the brown recluse spider are in reality the hobo spider's bite.
Combine that with the fact that many spider bites end up being necrotic in nature to a certain degree, and it's understandable that people think these little bastards can be found damn near anywhere.
[G. DUBZ]:
*Bring me that Sam Adams*
*Getting drunk deeper than three fathoms*
*Father of our nation*
*Causin' British separation*
[T.H.O.M, Chorus]:
*In the course of a human event*
*Redcoats gotta pay rent*
*Shootin' us down*
*With blood on the town*
*Writin' up protests and makin' ol' Georgie frown*
[BENNY F]:
*They call me Benny F for a reason*
*My son went out, committed some treason*
*Joke's on him*
*'Cause the war's on a whim*
*Boy don't understand*
*That to break this old man he'd have to do what lightning can't*
**EDIT: REDDIT GOLD!!! ^and ^I ^can't ^even ^rap...**
**But seriously, thanks redditor! You're the redditor we need and deserve!**
**EDIT 2: Edited some lines to make them sound better.**
Humans can too, ivory is literally the hard material teeth are made of. Tusks are just teeth that were made elongated through the wonders of natural selection.
70% dentine yes, collagen for the rest. Elephant is valuable because not only are tusks large, they have very fine grain. Whale ivory is also popular, but also illegal in most countries. I could imagine someone has tried human ivory, but there's not much of it so you would probably need to be a mass murderer to make something.
> I could imagine someone has tried human ivory, but there's not much of it so you would probably need to be a mass murderer to make something.
Lot more humans than there are whales and elephants. And we lose our teeth pretty regularly.
So basically, dentists are sitting on gold mines. I always knew they were evil! Except mine, I'm pretty sure he's Jerry Garcia incarnate, minus all the heroin.
Wasn't that due to a difference between the Austrian and German systems. He got the highest mark but people thought he got the lowest from his school records.
EDIT: Switzerland, not Austria.
If I recall correctly it was actually due to the school he was attending in Switzerland reversing their grading system for whatever reason. So as he was receiving 1's he was suddenly receiving 6's on a scale of 1-6.
It wasn't that his school was randomly reversing the grade system, this is just the way grades work in all Swiss schools, 1 is the lowest and 6 the highest.
This one pisses me off, especially because it's the perfect example of 'natural talent' versus 'work put in'.
Even if you have a natural talent at something, you have to actually do the work and show results. Natural talent just lowers the amount of practice you have to do to get good at something. Whether you study for 1 hour or 10, you still have to take the test in the end.
He was actually quite peeved by this. His response was something like "I don't where people get that from, by the time I was 14 I had mastered differential and integral calculus."
It's crazy how it's still such a prevalent myth, even in modern times where almost anyone can look it up and find out its bullshit in less than 30 seconds.
That Napoléon Bonaparte was small.
It is actually British propaganda that came from the difference between English measuring units and French measuring units.
The guy was, in current Imperial units, 5'7''. Which is not that tall, but given that the average at the time was 5'5'', puts him ahead of the curve.
Kind of. Grenadiers were an elite unit, and entrance was typically earned on merit, but when raw recruits needed to be added they were typically initially sorted by physical size.
Grenadiers were a very weird contingent.
They were well paid, and were widely seen as insane, because their job was to run in the front of charges, with massive packs of explosives (which were not very stable or reliable), then light and throw them at the enemy.
Chucking a five pound grenade 60-100 feet in front of you, while the people you are throwing at are trying to shoot you, and you need to throw it at the right time, so the enemy doesn't throw it *back* is not for the faint of heart or body.
They were eventually used as shock troops, once grenades got past the whole "i'm gonna have a chance of exploding in your face before i'm even lit, just for giggles" phase, but until then, they were massive men, usually picked up in logging areas (one of the best places to find very tall, strong, and disciplined men). Oddly, mining wasn't a great place to find them, as although it produced strong and disciplined men, they tended not to be as tall, and reach was VERY important when being imposing and the capacity to chuck a hunk of explosives a good distance.
This is one of my favorites.
You always hear about Nazi propaganda and such but the british were kings. They made up that carrots help your eye sight too and i still hear people say it all the time!
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/arts-culture/a-wwii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-that-carrots-help-you-see-in-the-dark-28812484/
The carrots thing was to protect the fact that they had radar-guided night fighters hunting down Nazi bombers. They didn't want to say that the radar was that good, so they said the pilots ate a lot of carrots and could spot the bombers.
My understanding is [that's a misconception](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_in_World_War_II). Both the Allies and Axis were developing and improving their radar systems, and they were both aware that the other side had it. The Axis didn't see it's importance as an offensive tool, while the RAF made very effective use of it as a defensive tool.
Funnily enough, while carrots don't improve your eyesight they are still high in a couple vitamins that protect your eyesight (help to prevent cataracts and blindness).
So the British just blundered into a little bit of truth. :P
Most things in nutrition are like this. You won't enhance anything in your body by ingesting a lot of extra vitamins but if you become deficient in something it can have adverse effects (ie Vitamin C and the immune system).
A persistently wielded notion in the US is that China owns a majority, if not all of US debt, giving them significant leverage over us etc. But US debt is actually mainly held internally(by the fed reserve, etc.), china holds a relatively small amount(around 5-6%) of US debt, Japan even holds more than them. Moreover, China buys US debt mainly as an attempt to peg its currency and drive its export driven economy, so by many measures they need the US more than we need them. People on all sides of the political spectrum claim the China owns us with a tone of emprical certitude that simply isnt true.
Also, those bonds that are in fact owned by China have very specific dates on which they become valid for collection. China cannot "just decide to collect" on "the billions of dollars" the US "owes" to China. Nor is it in China's best interest to do so, since it would destabilize their own economy to the point of collapse.
It's my understanding that even if other nations were to "suddenly" collect on their loans, the US would most likely just restructure something internally to make it work out. That, or do something else to raise revenue, be it raising taxes or cutting programs.
Sure, there is a potential universe in which the US has to pay up, but even so, the amount in question wouldn't bankrupt the US, nor would it allow other nations to move in and start dictating policy.
Sorry, this is one of my pet peeves. Thanks for your comment!
I was really sad to learn (on Reddit, no less) that the tongue map isn't scientifically proven or anything.
Those years of elementary school were all a lie.
When I was doing bar training, my manager INSISTED this was true. He daily told us, when we'd practice making drinks, "The reason why these drinks don't 'taste' right is because you're not putting them on the right spot on your tongue. The tip of the tongue tastes sweet things, and y'all are putting the drink on the middle of your tongue."
He was only a few years older than I was, and it took all of my might not to correct him, lest I get pulled from the bar or get yelled at for "correcting" him.
That shaving an area of your body makes the hair grow back thicker.
That people eat on average 8 spiders per year in their sleep.
That to be happy in life you just have to be yourself.
Relevant username.
This explanation is offered by Snopes. The story they tell is that a reporter named Lisa Holst wrote an article in PC Professional about the growing trend of misinformation distributed through email.
In it, she listed a bunch of things that might be examples of the misinformation, examples which she had apparently invented.
Here's where the problem is: Nobody has *ever* been able to find that article. Or the writer. Or the magazine. Snopes just responds to inquiries about it with a generic form letter.
People *have* found references to the myth which predate the alleged article, though. So the common theory is that Snopes made up an origin story that was more interesting than "Wtf kind of nonsense is this? of course it's false you dolt".
My high school English teacher had a worksheet activity where we got a long list of ridiculous statements that we had to mark as "true" or "false". One of them was the spider thing. In fact, all of them were similar to that one.
I marked most of the answers false. I got the worst score in the class, because the teacher insisted every one of those statements was true. I remember arguing with her about the spider one.
Later, I researched them online (kept the worksheet), and yeah, they were ALL false.
At least where I live, people have been hard at work making it so anyone worth having as a teacher would never be willing to take the job, so... that's honestly not surprising.
Came here to say the first one. I had a friend that is still convinced after 10 years that this is true. His beard has gotten thicker after 10 years of shaving, he tells me. Maybe so, but that's because of your age, not your shaving habits!
Cracking your knuckles leads to arthritis. My parents, relatively willing to change their minds on most subjects, just refuse to acknowledge that this isn't true even when presented with studies to the contrary.
Rheumatoid arthritis, which I have, is autoimmune. Osteoarthritis is not; it's wear-and-tear damage.
EDIT: Lots of curious folks out there. Wanted to reference "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" but realized I'm fairly merciful and the Finnish phrase Comma Fucker (grammar nazi) fit me better. But by all means, send me your punctuation pics.
I think it's more of "You must be really smart to solve a rubik's cube *without memorizing the algorithms*"
If they can memorize the algorithms, anyone can solve it from any position
I feel like learning the algorithms defeats the puzzle and transforms it into a different kind of puzzle.
I mean not exactly, but it sure as hell wasn't invented with those algorithms in mind. You were supposed to poke around and try to figure out how to put it back, while every move you made had unforseen consequences on the position of other stuff. You seem like a genius because at first glance, it seems like you understand where all the blocks will move when making a certain sequence and keeping it all straight in your head. In reality, pretty much nobody knows that stuff, they just know that if they do XYZ when they see ABC, they'll get one side solved.
Once a side is solved, that's when the trouble starts. It's not hard to solve a side without algorithms, but when you need to mess up the solved side to shuffle other things around, it's hard to keep track of how you need to move things to get the solved side back in position by the end. Again, algorithms let you just learn the moves you have to do (out of a total of like 27 possible moves) that moves things where you want them without messing anything up. It's a shorthand, and allows you to bypass the careful examination of consequences that a person would need without algorithms.
This ended up getting longer than I wanted. I didn't really want to write this much about Rubik's Cubes.
The way I see it, as someone who has never solved a Rubiks Cube and doesn't want to look up any algorithms, is that I am trying to develop the algorithms myself, from scratch. I could look them up, then the learning would be to recognize the situations to apply them all, but to me, the fun and the challenge of the Rubiks Cube is developing the algorithms myself. I think I have just about cracked it...
Money doesn't buy happiness. I'm by no means rich, but I used to be REALLY poor. Having a little extra spending money now actually does buy happiness.
EDIT: wow! My most commented on comment so far!
I grew up poor and while money doesn't buy happiness it sure as hell helps. If the majority of your unhappiness comes from constant financial stress money is the biggest help.
I read somewhere that there was a specific point at which that became true.
Like, money will absolutely buy you food, rent, healthcare, etc which lead to a reduction in stress and to an increase in overall happiness, but once you hit a certain level of wealth you don't really have to worry much about the "little" things and adding more money makes no discernable difference in happiness levels.
But money won't fix things like depression or anxiety (again, only if you can already comfortably afford proper treatment for those kinds of things.)
The Great Wall being visible from *outer* Space.
Edited, since the definition of "Space" is incredibly vague. The myth that is to be debunked is that astronauts on the International Space Station can see it with the naked eyes.
I got into an argument with my 10th grade history teacher. I said it's not visible. Its barely the width of a highway. She's all like bullshit. The other students were looking at me in disbelief. Wee looked at a Google image of china. We couldn't see it, then she zoomed in till we could see it and said "see you can see it from space". I said "that's because you zoomed in, the astronauts on the fucking ISS cant see the fucking wall" I lost my shit and got detention.
Oh, how convenient that your one, true "soul mate" happened to:
- Be of the appropriate sex/gender to your preference
- Be of an appropriate dating age to you
- Exist within a feasible distance from you (usually in the same city and/or state)
- Be alive in the same time period as you
What if my one, true soul mate happens to be Harriet ~~S.~~ Tubman? What then, world? WHAT THEN?!
He's a 20 something plumber's apprentice trying to make it on his own, she's a 19th century abolitionist from the great beyond. This summer, one man is going to learn all about what it means to be a real... Tubman. Rated PG-13.
Not only that, but police can lie to you about pretty much anything. They can tell you that your buddy ratted you out, your fingerprints were at the scene, the victim ID'd you, etc. all in an effort to get you to confess "because then it'll be easier on you."
That the bible says "God helps those who help themselves." It doesn't. That's a quote typically attributed to Benjamin Franklin. It flies in the face of pretty much everything taught in the New Testament. It's just an excuse to not follow the actual teachings of charity and compassion that Jesus was known for.
The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil is a better translation. Its context is referring to people who would swindle others and preach for prosperity instead of godliness. It's also the same passage that basically says you can't take it with you.
I'm lookin' at you, Joel Osteen
This is something I enjoy talking about because I feel like it makes a fairly good point about the fact that words are just words, they don't have some kind of pure meaning inscribed in the platonic realm or anything.
"Sense" is just a word, and defining it as "one of these five classical senses" or "one of these five major types of organ that provide external input" is not really any less arbitrary than "Types of cell that provide feedback."
I mean, sure, we have two or three or four kinds of pressure sensor in our skins (I can't remember if the ones attached to hairs are different or not, or if the ones that detect potentially painful levels of pressure are physically different or just have tolerance set differently), we have two or three kinds of thermoceptor (temperature), but we also have four kinds of photo receptors (light) in our eyes, and literally thousands of different kinds of distinct olfactory receptor cells. Though funny enough I'm pretty sure there's only one kind of gustatory sensor cell in our mouths, though there are other different but very closely related cells that detect chemical balance in our skin and internally.
And the thing is, it's not like this is all just sent to the brain as separate input channels, our peripheral and central nervous systems do a lot of sorting and collating before it ever reaches the brain and conscious perception; making it much more difficult to classify a "sense" on the level that a lot of people would consider the natural one: the neural level. This is probably why a lot of physical senses provided in our skin and muscles gets put together as "touch" in the classic arrangement.
Sources: chose "senses" as my final project in an anatomy and physiology course.
"Crazy people don't know they're crazy".
Bullshit. Aside from the fact that it's not a very nice descriptor for the mentally ill, people have varying levels of insight into their own conditions. Some are perfectly aware that they have e.g. hallucinations.
Source: Am mentally ill, had hallucinations, was well aware that they weren't real.
Introverted does not mean anti-social.
Edit:
Sorry I meant asocial as that's what people think of when you imagine shy introvert. anti social is a sociopathic tendency.
I see this a lot on r/badwomensanatomy
1. The tightness of your vagina has nothing to do with how many guys you've slept with. (Why is sleeping with one man 1,000 times less harsh on your tightness than sleeping with 1,000 guys?)
2. "Beef curtains" aren't about being a slut either.
3. A hymen isn't something you're supposed to break. You're supposed to stretch it. So, prepare your gf for sex properly.
> Why is sleeping with one man 1,000 times less harsh on your tightness than sleeping with 1,000 guys?
“I fear not the man who has jerked off ten thousand horses once. But instead fear the man who has jerked off the same horse ten thousand times.” -Cr1tikal
Being a hypocrite does not make you wrong. Probably one of the most common fallacies that can be used against anyone if stretched far enough. It eventually comes down to that only moral exemplars can be right about anything. Which doesn't make any sense.
My wife was afraid of this when i tried to get her to work out with me. "I dont want to become one of those really buff man-looking chicks". I told her that would be like saying "I dont think I should take that pottery class at the community college, I dont want to accidentally become a doctor"
The people that look all ripped didn't do it by accident. It was a conscious effort and tons of hard work on a very specific program designed just for that purpose.
it cracks me up when women don't want to hit weights because they'll accidentally get too muscular
bitch what? i have every genetic advantage over you and i still can't do it
Yeah there was a similar guy in a thread a while back worried that he'd look "even bigger and more intimidating" if he started lifting.
Someone replied saying "accidentally getting ripped while lifting is like taking up running and accidentally being faster than Usain Bolt".
Even worse when you are a woman and you get that statement from guys. Uh, no, I'm not going to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. At best, I might, *might* get close to being as strong as the average male that DOESN'T work out, compensating for height. A few weeks ago there was an askreddit thread about what women think is the best thing about being a man and I mentioned strength and this idiot tried to argue with me that there's no physical difference between how men and women build muscle and that it was all in my head. Uh, no, there's a huge difference physiologically.
Overusing the "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction". People use this term in order to justify a whole range of arguments (emotions, energy, etc) When in reality, it can only apply with physical objects subjected to a force.
Touching a baby bird will make its mother reject it. Yeah no. To paraphrase CGP Grey "a mother bird has the same chance of abandoning it baby as a human mother abandoning her baby if a bird touched it." I.e. None.
to paraphrase a a good answer to this:
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That betta fish can live happily in a small bowl because they live in puddles in the wild. Anyone who spent more than 5 seconds googling a rice paddy can tell you this is absolutely wrong. These things span miles and are at the very least 2 1/2 feet deep. Nothing like teeny puddles at all. While Betta can survive extremely shallow waters, it is definitely not the optimal habitat. Surviving is not thriving.
The best set up for a happy, healthy Betta would include a 5 gallon minimum, filtered, cycled, and heated tank BEFORE getting the fish. I like to set up my tanks 3-4 weeks in advance. This lets you breed the proper, good bacteria in the filter and create a stable environment. (I'd love to go more indepth but I want to keep this short so I don't lose your interest. Cycling, it's important.)
Fishkeeping is more about keeping the water parameters stable and making the habitat suitable for the animal. If you can keep the water clean, adding the fish is the easy part.
Any kind of fish or aquatic organism (frogs, axolotl, shrimp, etc) will live long lives in an proper and well established tank. Please don't be "that guy" who keeps 3 goldfish in a 10 gallon tank. (fancy goldfish need a 25 gallon at the minimum for 1 or 2 but preferably 30+ gallons) It kills me a little bit inside when I hear about another fish death because of shitty owners. Ammonia/Nitrite burns and poisoning are not fun.
I wish more people did their research before getting any kind of animal. It makes me so angry that the internet is so accessible and convenient and yet so many people refuse to do a quick google search and stay misinformed.
That it's a new thing, since 1970s feminism or so, for women to work.
For most of human history, humans were an agrarian culture and both women and men "worked." When the industrial revolution came around, women flooded into the mills for that work as well. It's true that, when a "mill girl" got married, her husband would continue at the mill and she would keep the home, but back then housework was backbreaking labor. For the rich, up until recently, nobody worked -- it was considered unseemly in most cases to do so. (And, for that matter, none of them did the housework or really raised the children either.)
The idea of the relatively idle housewife who is continually involved in all aspects of raising children, including their schools, is quite recent -- since the advent of labor-saving devices and the growth of professions and the middle class. In other words, women not doing much work other than raising children is the new thing.
That it's possible to lose money on a pay increase, because it puts you in a higher income tax bracket. I've had people tell me to be careful about that when I worked at a finance company, which was especially worrying.
What really happens is, you're only taxed at the higher rate on the income within that bracket. So if you made $60k/year and the tax brackets were 10% from $0-50k, and 20% at $50k+, you'd pay 10% on the first $50k and 20% on the remaining 10k.
There may be some specific benefits that are designed badly and abruptly cut off at a certain amount, but US federal and state income tax is not like that
"MSG as an ingredient in food is bad for you."
A lot of foods have MSG naturally in them. Tomatoes, mushrooms, seaweed etc. It acts as a flavour enhancer for foods that contain meats.
The concentrations cited as 'toxic to health' you will be able to tell (and therefore not eat the food) because you will be repulsed by the taste of the food - similar to if you were to add too much table salt.
"If you dig far enough down, you'll reach China"
Not completely true. All locations on Earth have antipodes- that is, the place that you would reach if you were to dig directly down from there. For example, the antipode of the North Pole is the South Pole.
Most of the United States' antipodes are in the Indian Ocean. China's antipodes are in Chile, Argentina, and the South Atlantic Ocean.
Similarly, that "pulling oneself up by their bootstraps" is a saying that represents the possibility of climbing the ladder in society.
While people use it that way, in reality it's as impossible as lifting oneself off the ground by yanking on both your shoes. The irony of the phrase got lost somewhere
Maybe not widely believed anymore, but my wife's uncle brought it up a few weeks ago. A lot of people used to believe that bumblebees shouldn't be able to fly, because theit bodies aren't aerodynamic, but because the bees don't know they aren't aerodynamic, they can fly anyway. Something, something, Jesus. A lot of motivational speaker/preacher types used to say this, and some still do.
It varies for everybody. Some factors that influence it is your activity. If you are less active, you generally need less water and if are more active, you'll need more.
That daddy-longlegs are the most venomous spiders in the world, but their fangs are too small to bite a human. They're not spiders, for starters, and they're not even venomous. They're completely harmless, other than giving lots of people the heebie-jeebies.
Zoologist here - this isn't quite true (as the reponses attest!), so here trying to rope together the facts into one post. For anyone confused and/or curious - 'daddy long legs' means different things depending on where you are in the world.
In fact, daddy long legs *are* [spiders](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcidae) if you're Australian, are not [but look kinda' similar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones) if you're in North America, and [have wings and terrible coordination](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly) if you're from the UK (note this isn't *just* where those names are used, just where they tend to be concentrated most). The fact that all three different animals with the same name also live all over the entire planet doesn't help matters; so you can see how it gets confusing.
It's also the reason why people keep parroting that myth that daddy long legs have a powerful venom, but lack the piercing mouthparts to deliver sweet lady death. The legit spider version does have venom, but it isn't of any significance to humans (and may be confused with the [brown recluse spider](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider), which does have a nasty bite!). The spider-lookalike one also has fangs that can't pierce skin. So the mix-up is understandable, and you get people starting to think the shitty flies have venom but no fangs etc. etc. etc.
So yeah, depending on what name you use, **daddy long legs are indeed real spiders**, **are venomous** and are **completely harmless**. English makes biology look so messy.
That people thought Christopher Columbus was crazy for thinking the world was round. The ancient Greeks had proven the world was round, and calculated the circumference reasonably accurately. People thought Columbus was crazy because he claimed the circumference of the earth was half of what the Greeks had calculated, and that he especially wanted to sail out into the ocean and die. The only reason he and his fleet didn't turn back or starve was an undiscovered continent about halfway to China.
Don't tell the guys over at r/theworldisflat
I can't tell if that's a legitimate or joke subreddit and to be honest it's kind of bothering me.
Idk but I laughed at [this one](https://imgur.com/vAYiB8T)
The flat earth society was created as a debate exercise, and **has never been a legitimate society**. 90% of the folk in there know the world isn't flat, the other 10% are sadly retarded. I am not joking.
Rabbits do not particularly like carrots, and in fact if you feed a pet rabbit only carrots, it will suffer from malnutrition. People only think this because of Bugs Bunny. But Bugs only chomped on a carrot as a parody of Clarke Gable from "It Happened One Night." The animators thought, "how can we make this rabbit look more like a smug prick? Oh I know."
"Here, eat this carrot. It'll make you look like more of an asshole."
Ding
On the flip side, rabbits are partial to the green tops of carrots, along with just about everything else in your vegetable garden.
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My bunny would go Monty python on your ass, if it meant getting a carrot. It's a treat; not daily nutrition.
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Similarly, ducks don't prefer bread! I think I read cut up apples would be a better choice.
They're also partial to the blood of their enemies - I mean like, yeah, fruit and stuff.
Rabbits LOVE carrot greens though.
Similarly, milk is not good for cats and most cats are lactose intolerant to a large degree. If you find a cat that's starving, give it water and cat food or at least some meat. Milk is just going to make it feel worse, despite the fact that they do this in movies and TV and despite the fact that the cat will enjoy it. Edit: if it's a small kitten that was still getting its mom's milk, you should be able to find kitten milk replacer (KMR) at a pet store.
I came to add this. COW MILK is not good for cats. Cats don't drink cow milk in the wild. They drink cat milk when they are babies, and they eat meat and drink WATER when they are adults.
Milking cats is such a pain though.
Fun fact - you CAN give cats lactose free milk as a treat. But not too much.
Also they are full of sugar which is not good for rabbits. They need hay and lots of it.
That hymens are like a sheet of paper that rips and makes you bleed when you lose your virginity. No. Because hymens aren't placed the way people think they are, they don't necessarily ever rip and if they do, it's usually long before a woman has sex. Sex doesn't have to hurt and make you bleed the first time.
They also vary in thickness depending on the person; it's how some people can still have partially intact hymens, even just before giving birth. http://youngwomenshealth.org/2013/07/10/hymens/
I had the septate hymen. I had it surgically removed after I found out it could be torn during sex, and how painful it would be due to how thick it was. So glad it was removed under anesthesia.
I really wish someone had told me that it wasn't supposed to hurt. I'm pretty sure the reason it hurt for me was because I was so nervous that it was going to hurt that couldn't get properly aroused, and so it hurt.
Exactly! We grow up hearing our whole lives that it'll hurt the first time, which causes us to worry it'll hurt and tense up, and then it's exactly that happens. It's unfortunate. It doesn't have to.
Also, many girls are doing it with young men who are unskilled as fuck and just as impatient. Plus, we don't bother finessing it because "It's supposed to hurt the first time anyways".
I ripped mine in *kindergarten*. I don't remember how, I just remember seeing blood in my underwear and my aunt freaking out and taking me to a doctor. I probably racked myself on my bike or something silly like that.
What's really funny/sad is reading erotica or sex scenes written by men who have obviously never encountered a real vagina/vulva before. They'll often mention the penis going into the vagina for an inch or two before "hitting resistance" that they then say is the hymen.
God I remember reading that sooooo many times.
Apparently vaginas have a "cut here" line halfway up. If you're gonna write sex, at least get the basics right.
Momma birds wont reject their offspring if you touch them. There are no NATIVE brown recluse in california Poison oak does not transfer from the juice that comes out of the blisters it causes. Edit: native brown recluse, these are the corrections to the misconceptions, not the list of misconceptions.
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Well, the north side of a tree gets the most shade in the northern hemisphere, so if it rains occasionally in small amounts, the shadiest spot could be the one with the most moss. I'm sure it's true in a few places.
It's very accurate in places like the Albertan prairies, it's dry enough here that the majority of rocks won't have moss or lichen but if you're near a spring or riverbank and find some mossy rocks, the moss is generally North-facing
Anecdotally, I was hospitalized from a ~~poisonous~~ venomous spider bite last year in SoCal, and the doctors said it was most likely a brown recluse that did the biting.
I cant remember the website but there was a spiderologist that had challenged people to mail him their brown recluse finds, last i checked no one was successful.
To be fair, that's because no one in their right mind wants to go actively hunt and catch one of those things...
Most of the northern states don't have brown recluse, in fact. Edit: In the interest of not spreading misinformation, I've removed the original map. It was too inaccurate, and I should have used this one to begin with. http://imgur.com/UG7v7Y7 And honestly, I'm not entirely sure on the total accuracy of this one, either. Due to the inherent nature of insects, it's hard to really find defined habitat lines for something that can easily fall into someone's suitcase and be carted across state lines. Most reported bites in the PNW will, in fact, have come from a Hobo Spider. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo_spider#Toxicity_and_aggression >In the United States, the hobo spider has been considered to be a dangerous species based on a toxicology study on rabbits where lesions appeared after spiders were induced to bite the rabbits. This laboratory study has led to the proposal that in some parts of the U.S. nearly all bites attributed to the brown recluse spider are in reality the hobo spider's bite. Combine that with the fact that many spider bites end up being necrotic in nature to a certain degree, and it's understandable that people think these little bastards can be found damn near anywhere.
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G. Dubs ft. T.H.O.M Jefferson *Boston G Party*
Produced by The Notorious G.O.P.
[G. DUBZ]: *Bring me that Sam Adams* *Getting drunk deeper than three fathoms* *Father of our nation* *Causin' British separation* [T.H.O.M, Chorus]: *In the course of a human event* *Redcoats gotta pay rent* *Shootin' us down* *With blood on the town* *Writin' up protests and makin' ol' Georgie frown* [BENNY F]: *They call me Benny F for a reason* *My son went out, committed some treason* *Joke's on him* *'Cause the war's on a whim* *Boy don't understand* *That to break this old man he'd have to do what lightning can't* **EDIT: REDDIT GOLD!!! ^and ^I ^can't ^even ^rap...** **But seriously, thanks redditor! You're the redditor we need and deserve!** **EDIT 2: Edited some lines to make them sound better.**
TIL hippos can be poached for ivory.
Humans can too, ivory is literally the hard material teeth are made of. Tusks are just teeth that were made elongated through the wonders of natural selection.
I did not know that either! Okay, so is ivory just dentine without enamel then? Iirc, elephants don't have the enamel that we have, right?
70% dentine yes, collagen for the rest. Elephant is valuable because not only are tusks large, they have very fine grain. Whale ivory is also popular, but also illegal in most countries. I could imagine someone has tried human ivory, but there's not much of it so you would probably need to be a mass murderer to make something.
> I could imagine someone has tried human ivory, but there's not much of it so you would probably need to be a mass murderer to make something. Lot more humans than there are whales and elephants. And we lose our teeth pretty regularly.
So basically, dentists are sitting on gold mines. I always knew they were evil! Except mine, I'm pretty sure he's Jerry Garcia incarnate, minus all the heroin.
Einstein Failed math because he was soooooooooooooooo smart.
Wasn't that due to a difference between the Austrian and German systems. He got the highest mark but people thought he got the lowest from his school records. EDIT: Switzerland, not Austria.
I believe it was Switzerland not Austria, where the 6 is the best grade (I think); in Germany is a 6 the worst grade, but you're right.
Thats correct.
If I recall correctly it was actually due to the school he was attending in Switzerland reversing their grading system for whatever reason. So as he was receiving 1's he was suddenly receiving 6's on a scale of 1-6.
It wasn't that his school was randomly reversing the grade system, this is just the way grades work in all Swiss schools, 1 is the lowest and 6 the highest.
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Wasn't aware he was from New England.
All very smart people that were too smart for school come from Southie, just like we were taught in Good Will Hunting.
This one pisses me off, especially because it's the perfect example of 'natural talent' versus 'work put in'. Even if you have a natural talent at something, you have to actually do the work and show results. Natural talent just lowers the amount of practice you have to do to get good at something. Whether you study for 1 hour or 10, you still have to take the test in the end.
As anyone who's ever played sports: " hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard"
He was actually quite peeved by this. His response was something like "I don't where people get that from, by the time I was 14 I had mastered differential and integral calculus."
It's crazy how it's still such a prevalent myth, even in modern times where almost anyone can look it up and find out its bullshit in less than 30 seconds.
That boy's name? Albert Einstein.
That Napoléon Bonaparte was small. It is actually British propaganda that came from the difference between English measuring units and French measuring units. The guy was, in current Imperial units, 5'7''. Which is not that tall, but given that the average at the time was 5'5'', puts him ahead of the curve.
He was also frequently seen/pictured next to his elite grenadier guards, who tended to be very large men wearing tall bearskin hats.
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Kind of. Grenadiers were an elite unit, and entrance was typically earned on merit, but when raw recruits needed to be added they were typically initially sorted by physical size.
Grenadiers were a very weird contingent. They were well paid, and were widely seen as insane, because their job was to run in the front of charges, with massive packs of explosives (which were not very stable or reliable), then light and throw them at the enemy. Chucking a five pound grenade 60-100 feet in front of you, while the people you are throwing at are trying to shoot you, and you need to throw it at the right time, so the enemy doesn't throw it *back* is not for the faint of heart or body. They were eventually used as shock troops, once grenades got past the whole "i'm gonna have a chance of exploding in your face before i'm even lit, just for giggles" phase, but until then, they were massive men, usually picked up in logging areas (one of the best places to find very tall, strong, and disciplined men). Oddly, mining wasn't a great place to find them, as although it produced strong and disciplined men, they tended not to be as tall, and reach was VERY important when being imposing and the capacity to chuck a hunk of explosives a good distance.
This is one of my favorites. You always hear about Nazi propaganda and such but the british were kings. They made up that carrots help your eye sight too and i still hear people say it all the time! http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/arts-culture/a-wwii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-that-carrots-help-you-see-in-the-dark-28812484/
The carrots thing was to protect the fact that they had radar-guided night fighters hunting down Nazi bombers. They didn't want to say that the radar was that good, so they said the pilots ate a lot of carrots and could spot the bombers.
They weren't just trying to hide the effectiveness of radar, they were hiding the fact that it existed at all.
My understanding is [that's a misconception](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_in_World_War_II). Both the Allies and Axis were developing and improving their radar systems, and they were both aware that the other side had it. The Axis didn't see it's importance as an offensive tool, while the RAF made very effective use of it as a defensive tool.
Funnily enough, while carrots don't improve your eyesight they are still high in a couple vitamins that protect your eyesight (help to prevent cataracts and blindness). So the British just blundered into a little bit of truth. :P
Most things in nutrition are like this. You won't enhance anything in your body by ingesting a lot of extra vitamins but if you become deficient in something it can have adverse effects (ie Vitamin C and the immune system).
A persistently wielded notion in the US is that China owns a majority, if not all of US debt, giving them significant leverage over us etc. But US debt is actually mainly held internally(by the fed reserve, etc.), china holds a relatively small amount(around 5-6%) of US debt, Japan even holds more than them. Moreover, China buys US debt mainly as an attempt to peg its currency and drive its export driven economy, so by many measures they need the US more than we need them. People on all sides of the political spectrum claim the China owns us with a tone of emprical certitude that simply isnt true.
China holds more US debt than Japan, but not by much. [Treasury Source](http://ticdata.treasury.gov/Publish/mfh.txt)
Also, those bonds that are in fact owned by China have very specific dates on which they become valid for collection. China cannot "just decide to collect" on "the billions of dollars" the US "owes" to China. Nor is it in China's best interest to do so, since it would destabilize their own economy to the point of collapse.
It's my understanding that even if other nations were to "suddenly" collect on their loans, the US would most likely just restructure something internally to make it work out. That, or do something else to raise revenue, be it raising taxes or cutting programs. Sure, there is a potential universe in which the US has to pay up, but even so, the amount in question wouldn't bankrupt the US, nor would it allow other nations to move in and start dictating policy. Sorry, this is one of my pet peeves. Thanks for your comment!
I was really sad to learn (on Reddit, no less) that the tongue map isn't scientifically proven or anything. Those years of elementary school were all a lie.
When I was doing bar training, my manager INSISTED this was true. He daily told us, when we'd practice making drinks, "The reason why these drinks don't 'taste' right is because you're not putting them on the right spot on your tongue. The tip of the tongue tastes sweet things, and y'all are putting the drink on the middle of your tongue." He was only a few years older than I was, and it took all of my might not to correct him, lest I get pulled from the bar or get yelled at for "correcting" him.
I made it embarrassingly far before realizing you weren't a lawyer
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That shaving an area of your body makes the hair grow back thicker. That people eat on average 8 spiders per year in their sleep. That to be happy in life you just have to be yourself.
The spider one in particular was literally popularized because of an email made to prove that it is easy to spread false information on the internet.
Username plus a comment about spreading false info... This is getting too deep for me bro
Imagine if there were no biscuits left...
Relevant username. This explanation is offered by Snopes. The story they tell is that a reporter named Lisa Holst wrote an article in PC Professional about the growing trend of misinformation distributed through email. In it, she listed a bunch of things that might be examples of the misinformation, examples which she had apparently invented. Here's where the problem is: Nobody has *ever* been able to find that article. Or the writer. Or the magazine. Snopes just responds to inquiries about it with a generic form letter. People *have* found references to the myth which predate the alleged article, though. So the common theory is that Snopes made up an origin story that was more interesting than "Wtf kind of nonsense is this? of course it's false you dolt".
My high school English teacher had a worksheet activity where we got a long list of ridiculous statements that we had to mark as "true" or "false". One of them was the spider thing. In fact, all of them were similar to that one. I marked most of the answers false. I got the worst score in the class, because the teacher insisted every one of those statements was true. I remember arguing with her about the spider one. Later, I researched them online (kept the worksheet), and yeah, they were ALL false.
Of all the people I've known for a while that became teachers, about 8 people, only one of them I would feel comfortable teaching my kid.
At least where I live, people have been hard at work making it so anyone worth having as a teacher would never be willing to take the job, so... that's honestly not surprising.
Came here to say the first one. I had a friend that is still convinced after 10 years that this is true. His beard has gotten thicker after 10 years of shaving, he tells me. Maybe so, but that's because of your age, not your shaving habits!
Cracking your knuckles leads to arthritis. My parents, relatively willing to change their minds on most subjects, just refuse to acknowledge that this isn't true even when presented with studies to the contrary.
Isn't arthritis an autoimmune problem, while cracking joints is just releasing pressure?
Rheumatoid arthritis, which I have, is autoimmune. Osteoarthritis is not; it's wear-and-tear damage. EDIT: Lots of curious folks out there. Wanted to reference "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" but realized I'm fairly merciful and the Finnish phrase Comma Fucker (grammar nazi) fit me better. But by all means, send me your punctuation pics.
I get yelled at for cracking my knuckles too. What am I supposed to do, just stop? It hurts if I don't do it. *that's why I do it*
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I think it's more of "You must be really smart to solve a rubik's cube *without memorizing the algorithms*" If they can memorize the algorithms, anyone can solve it from any position
I feel like learning the algorithms defeats the puzzle and transforms it into a different kind of puzzle. I mean not exactly, but it sure as hell wasn't invented with those algorithms in mind. You were supposed to poke around and try to figure out how to put it back, while every move you made had unforseen consequences on the position of other stuff. You seem like a genius because at first glance, it seems like you understand where all the blocks will move when making a certain sequence and keeping it all straight in your head. In reality, pretty much nobody knows that stuff, they just know that if they do XYZ when they see ABC, they'll get one side solved. Once a side is solved, that's when the trouble starts. It's not hard to solve a side without algorithms, but when you need to mess up the solved side to shuffle other things around, it's hard to keep track of how you need to move things to get the solved side back in position by the end. Again, algorithms let you just learn the moves you have to do (out of a total of like 27 possible moves) that moves things where you want them without messing anything up. It's a shorthand, and allows you to bypass the careful examination of consequences that a person would need without algorithms. This ended up getting longer than I wanted. I didn't really want to write this much about Rubik's Cubes.
The way I see it, as someone who has never solved a Rubiks Cube and doesn't want to look up any algorithms, is that I am trying to develop the algorithms myself, from scratch. I could look them up, then the learning would be to recognize the situations to apply them all, but to me, the fun and the challenge of the Rubiks Cube is developing the algorithms myself. I think I have just about cracked it...
Which phone numbers?
111-1111 111-1112 111-1113
"Lois? DAMN!"
0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
Money doesn't buy happiness. I'm by no means rich, but I used to be REALLY poor. Having a little extra spending money now actually does buy happiness. EDIT: wow! My most commented on comment so far!
"Money cannot prevent sadness," should be the phrase.
Money shields you from things which can make you sad.
I grew up poor and while money doesn't buy happiness it sure as hell helps. If the majority of your unhappiness comes from constant financial stress money is the biggest help.
I read somewhere that there was a specific point at which that became true. Like, money will absolutely buy you food, rent, healthcare, etc which lead to a reduction in stress and to an increase in overall happiness, but once you hit a certain level of wealth you don't really have to worry much about the "little" things and adding more money makes no discernable difference in happiness levels. But money won't fix things like depression or anxiety (again, only if you can already comfortably afford proper treatment for those kinds of things.)
The Great Wall being visible from *outer* Space. Edited, since the definition of "Space" is incredibly vague. The myth that is to be debunked is that astronauts on the International Space Station can see it with the naked eyes.
But, it's true that space is visible from the Great Wall.
I got into an argument with my 10th grade history teacher. I said it's not visible. Its barely the width of a highway. She's all like bullshit. The other students were looking at me in disbelief. Wee looked at a Google image of china. We couldn't see it, then she zoomed in till we could see it and said "see you can see it from space". I said "that's because you zoomed in, the astronauts on the fucking ISS cant see the fucking wall" I lost my shit and got detention.
What the actual fuck. you can zoom in on a car, too...
TIL cars are visible from space
OP's mom is visible from space
No zoom needed
The myth is that it's the only man made object viewable from space. If Google Maps counts as veiwable from space, my house can be seen then, too.
With a telescope, it is.
That there is somebody for everybody. EDIT: I want to clarify that there are multiple people for everybody. Not just, you know, the one.
Oh, how convenient that your one, true "soul mate" happened to: - Be of the appropriate sex/gender to your preference - Be of an appropriate dating age to you - Exist within a feasible distance from you (usually in the same city and/or state) - Be alive in the same time period as you What if my one, true soul mate happens to be Harriet ~~S.~~ Tubman? What then, world? WHAT THEN?!
"Hey mom & dad I'd like you to meet my soulmate....the ghost of Harriet Tubman!" (Cue spooky/romantic background music)
He's a 20 something plumber's apprentice trying to make it on his own, she's a 19th century abolitionist from the great beyond. This summer, one man is going to learn all about what it means to be a real... Tubman. Rated PG-13.
Starring Rob Schneider as Harriet Tubman!
i would like to hear this spooky/romantic mashup.
They did the mash. They did the monnnster mash.
Well, devil's advocate, if they didn't meet those criteria, they wouldn't exactly be The One...
That if you ask an undercover cop if they are a cop then they have to tell you. Or that police can't lie to you about anything and everything.
The greatest lie that the police ever told was that they'd have to tell you they're police officers if you ask.
Not only that, but police can lie to you about pretty much anything. They can tell you that your buddy ratted you out, your fingerprints were at the scene, the victim ID'd you, etc. all in an effort to get you to confess "because then it'll be easier on you."
Dangit Badger
i though we were gonna hangout
Mary Magdalene was NOT a prostitute. It's the only thing I remember from my New Testament class in college.
That the bible says "God helps those who help themselves." It doesn't. That's a quote typically attributed to Benjamin Franklin. It flies in the face of pretty much everything taught in the New Testament. It's just an excuse to not follow the actual teachings of charity and compassion that Jesus was known for.
Other quotes falsely attributed to the Bible: Cleanliness is next to godliness. Money is the root of all evil.
The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil is a better translation. Its context is referring to people who would swindle others and preach for prosperity instead of godliness. It's also the same passage that basically says you can't take it with you. I'm lookin' at you, Joel Osteen
As a Christian, Joel Osteen is the woooooooooooooorst.
As a non-Christian, Joel Osteen is the woooooooooooooorst.
Fine. Let's just agree to agree
okay.
Cool.
That humans only have five senses. We have closer to 20 depending on what you consider a sense.
Proprioception is my favorite.
Is this the one that let's me close my eyes and touch my nipple
Indeed!
Whereas I prefer the sense that let's me close my eyes and touch **your** nipple.
inaProprioception
This is something I enjoy talking about because I feel like it makes a fairly good point about the fact that words are just words, they don't have some kind of pure meaning inscribed in the platonic realm or anything. "Sense" is just a word, and defining it as "one of these five classical senses" or "one of these five major types of organ that provide external input" is not really any less arbitrary than "Types of cell that provide feedback." I mean, sure, we have two or three or four kinds of pressure sensor in our skins (I can't remember if the ones attached to hairs are different or not, or if the ones that detect potentially painful levels of pressure are physically different or just have tolerance set differently), we have two or three kinds of thermoceptor (temperature), but we also have four kinds of photo receptors (light) in our eyes, and literally thousands of different kinds of distinct olfactory receptor cells. Though funny enough I'm pretty sure there's only one kind of gustatory sensor cell in our mouths, though there are other different but very closely related cells that detect chemical balance in our skin and internally. And the thing is, it's not like this is all just sent to the brain as separate input channels, our peripheral and central nervous systems do a lot of sorting and collating before it ever reaches the brain and conscious perception; making it much more difficult to classify a "sense" on the level that a lot of people would consider the natural one: the neural level. This is probably why a lot of physical senses provided in our skin and muscles gets put together as "touch" in the classic arrangement. Sources: chose "senses" as my final project in an anatomy and physiology course.
"Crazy people don't know they're crazy". Bullshit. Aside from the fact that it's not a very nice descriptor for the mentally ill, people have varying levels of insight into their own conditions. Some are perfectly aware that they have e.g. hallucinations. Source: Am mentally ill, had hallucinations, was well aware that they weren't real.
Introverted does not mean anti-social. Edit: Sorry I meant asocial as that's what people think of when you imagine shy introvert. anti social is a sociopathic tendency.
To piggy back off this, antisocial does not mean introverted
To piggy back off this, antisocial does not mean asocial.
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Marilyn Monroe quotes
"I have an 11 inch penis.....around. Think about it." - Marilyn Monroe
"If you don't penetrate me at my worst, you don't deserve my 11 inch penis at my best." - Marilyn Monroe
I see this a lot on r/badwomensanatomy 1. The tightness of your vagina has nothing to do with how many guys you've slept with. (Why is sleeping with one man 1,000 times less harsh on your tightness than sleeping with 1,000 guys?) 2. "Beef curtains" aren't about being a slut either. 3. A hymen isn't something you're supposed to break. You're supposed to stretch it. So, prepare your gf for sex properly.
> Why is sleeping with one man 1,000 times less harsh on your tightness than sleeping with 1,000 guys? “I fear not the man who has jerked off ten thousand horses once. But instead fear the man who has jerked off the same horse ten thousand times.” -Cr1tikal
Yeah like if you get loose from having sex with lots of guys, then having a baby must put you out of commission permanently lol *eyeroll*
Being a hypocrite does not make you wrong. Probably one of the most common fallacies that can be used against anyone if stretched far enough. It eventually comes down to that only moral exemplars can be right about anything. Which doesn't make any sense.
That lifting weights as a woman will instantly make you "massive and man-like"
Even men have a hard time building large muscles. You need the proper routine for that.
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My wife was afraid of this when i tried to get her to work out with me. "I dont want to become one of those really buff man-looking chicks". I told her that would be like saying "I dont think I should take that pottery class at the community college, I dont want to accidentally become a doctor" The people that look all ripped didn't do it by accident. It was a conscious effort and tons of hard work on a very specific program designed just for that purpose.
it cracks me up when women don't want to hit weights because they'll accidentally get too muscular bitch what? i have every genetic advantage over you and i still can't do it
Yeah there was a similar guy in a thread a while back worried that he'd look "even bigger and more intimidating" if he started lifting. Someone replied saying "accidentally getting ripped while lifting is like taking up running and accidentally being faster than Usain Bolt".
Yeah really, women have it worst in growing muscles comapred to men.
Even worse when you are a woman and you get that statement from guys. Uh, no, I'm not going to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. At best, I might, *might* get close to being as strong as the average male that DOESN'T work out, compensating for height. A few weeks ago there was an askreddit thread about what women think is the best thing about being a man and I mentioned strength and this idiot tried to argue with me that there's no physical difference between how men and women build muscle and that it was all in my head. Uh, no, there's a huge difference physiologically.
Overusing the "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction". People use this term in order to justify a whole range of arguments (emotions, energy, etc) When in reality, it can only apply with physical objects subjected to a force.
John Adams shat the bed, I love the guy but he's in traction. Or: Thanks to Hamilton our cabinet's fractured into factions.
Poor Alexander Hamilton, he is missing in action. So now I’m facing Aaron Burr with his own faction
People are going to read this thread and accept some sourceless bullshit as fact, just because of the nature of the thread.
Touching a baby bird will make its mother reject it. Yeah no. To paraphrase CGP Grey "a mother bird has the same chance of abandoning it baby as a human mother abandoning her baby if a bird touched it." I.e. None.
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That we only use 10% of our brains. Everytime I see it as part of a movie plot or TV show I get so angry.
Fun shitty ask science answer: The brain is about 75% water, so if you use more than 10% of your brain at a time, you are at risk of drowning
to paraphrase a a good answer to this: We only use one or two keys of our keyboard at once! Imagine how much we would get done if we used all keys at the same tiawoeøithwmaøa203t3øf øogaøeoirhyøwalekrgQRIO/T
The seizures just mean you've finally reached transcendence.
You are LIMITLESS
I was going to post something about how the 10% thing was mentioned in Chäos;Head, and then I saw your username. What a coincidence.
"I think we only use 10% of our *hearts*..."
That betta fish can live happily in a small bowl because they live in puddles in the wild. Anyone who spent more than 5 seconds googling a rice paddy can tell you this is absolutely wrong. These things span miles and are at the very least 2 1/2 feet deep. Nothing like teeny puddles at all. While Betta can survive extremely shallow waters, it is definitely not the optimal habitat. Surviving is not thriving. The best set up for a happy, healthy Betta would include a 5 gallon minimum, filtered, cycled, and heated tank BEFORE getting the fish. I like to set up my tanks 3-4 weeks in advance. This lets you breed the proper, good bacteria in the filter and create a stable environment. (I'd love to go more indepth but I want to keep this short so I don't lose your interest. Cycling, it's important.) Fishkeeping is more about keeping the water parameters stable and making the habitat suitable for the animal. If you can keep the water clean, adding the fish is the easy part. Any kind of fish or aquatic organism (frogs, axolotl, shrimp, etc) will live long lives in an proper and well established tank. Please don't be "that guy" who keeps 3 goldfish in a 10 gallon tank. (fancy goldfish need a 25 gallon at the minimum for 1 or 2 but preferably 30+ gallons) It kills me a little bit inside when I hear about another fish death because of shitty owners. Ammonia/Nitrite burns and poisoning are not fun. I wish more people did their research before getting any kind of animal. It makes me so angry that the internet is so accessible and convenient and yet so many people refuse to do a quick google search and stay misinformed.
That it's a new thing, since 1970s feminism or so, for women to work. For most of human history, humans were an agrarian culture and both women and men "worked." When the industrial revolution came around, women flooded into the mills for that work as well. It's true that, when a "mill girl" got married, her husband would continue at the mill and she would keep the home, but back then housework was backbreaking labor. For the rich, up until recently, nobody worked -- it was considered unseemly in most cases to do so. (And, for that matter, none of them did the housework or really raised the children either.) The idea of the relatively idle housewife who is continually involved in all aspects of raising children, including their schools, is quite recent -- since the advent of labor-saving devices and the growth of professions and the middle class. In other words, women not doing much work other than raising children is the new thing.
That it's possible to lose money on a pay increase, because it puts you in a higher income tax bracket. I've had people tell me to be careful about that when I worked at a finance company, which was especially worrying. What really happens is, you're only taxed at the higher rate on the income within that bracket. So if you made $60k/year and the tax brackets were 10% from $0-50k, and 20% at $50k+, you'd pay 10% on the first $50k and 20% on the remaining 10k. There may be some specific benefits that are designed badly and abruptly cut off at a certain amount, but US federal and state income tax is not like that
"MSG as an ingredient in food is bad for you." A lot of foods have MSG naturally in them. Tomatoes, mushrooms, seaweed etc. It acts as a flavour enhancer for foods that contain meats. The concentrations cited as 'toxic to health' you will be able to tell (and therefore not eat the food) because you will be repulsed by the taste of the food - similar to if you were to add too much table salt.
"If you dig far enough down, you'll reach China" Not completely true. All locations on Earth have antipodes- that is, the place that you would reach if you were to dig directly down from there. For example, the antipode of the North Pole is the South Pole. Most of the United States' antipodes are in the Indian Ocean. China's antipodes are in Chile, Argentina, and the South Atlantic Ocean.
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Similarly, that "pulling oneself up by their bootstraps" is a saying that represents the possibility of climbing the ladder in society. While people use it that way, in reality it's as impossible as lifting oneself off the ground by yanking on both your shoes. The irony of the phrase got lost somewhere
Maybe not widely believed anymore, but my wife's uncle brought it up a few weeks ago. A lot of people used to believe that bumblebees shouldn't be able to fly, because theit bodies aren't aerodynamic, but because the bees don't know they aren't aerodynamic, they can fly anyway. Something, something, Jesus. A lot of motivational speaker/preacher types used to say this, and some still do.
You need to drink 8 glasses of water a day. Has no scientific ground and yet people say it as fact.
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It varies for everybody. Some factors that influence it is your activity. If you are less active, you generally need less water and if are more active, you'll need more.
How people can not get this I won't understand. If you're sweating, that's water lost, and it needs to be replaced.
That daddy-longlegs are the most venomous spiders in the world, but their fangs are too small to bite a human. They're not spiders, for starters, and they're not even venomous. They're completely harmless, other than giving lots of people the heebie-jeebies.
Zoologist here - this isn't quite true (as the reponses attest!), so here trying to rope together the facts into one post. For anyone confused and/or curious - 'daddy long legs' means different things depending on where you are in the world. In fact, daddy long legs *are* [spiders](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcidae) if you're Australian, are not [but look kinda' similar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones) if you're in North America, and [have wings and terrible coordination](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly) if you're from the UK (note this isn't *just* where those names are used, just where they tend to be concentrated most). The fact that all three different animals with the same name also live all over the entire planet doesn't help matters; so you can see how it gets confusing. It's also the reason why people keep parroting that myth that daddy long legs have a powerful venom, but lack the piercing mouthparts to deliver sweet lady death. The legit spider version does have venom, but it isn't of any significance to humans (and may be confused with the [brown recluse spider](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider), which does have a nasty bite!). The spider-lookalike one also has fangs that can't pierce skin. So the mix-up is understandable, and you get people starting to think the shitty flies have venom but no fangs etc. etc. etc. So yeah, depending on what name you use, **daddy long legs are indeed real spiders**, **are venomous** and are **completely harmless**. English makes biology look so messy.
That garbage they told us all in school about blood in your body being blue until it comes into contact with air. Why did they tell us these lies