13 Things You Think Are True, But Aren't | Adam Ruins Everything

napoleon wasn't short he was 5'7 which at the time was taller than average the rumor that he was a teeny tiny man was just a piece of british war propaganda napoleon's true waterloo was mean people it's not true that humans only use 10 of our brains no study has ever shown or even claimed that it's just something people say for no reason yeah it turns out the whole brain is important no matter what your drunk cousin dave tells you there's no such thing as cow tipping because cows sleep lying down well then what have i been getting drunk and knocking down them mom oh come on i'm sorry touching baby birds doesn't make their mothers reject them mamas love their babies that's right you could have saved that bird you saw when you were 10 you let it die george washington didn't have wooden teeth his actual dancers were made of gold lead hippopotamus bones and donkey teeth wood how pedestrian there is no medical reason to drink eight glasses of water a day now you tell me sorry stoners undercover cops don't have to tell you their cops just because you ask them cops are allowed to lie that's not a thing whoa wait so are you a cop no come on but like you could be a cop no i'm not vikings didn't wear horns on their helmets and the iron maiden never existed it was a hoax that was made up in the 19th century george washington carver didn't invent peanut butter thomas crapper didn't invent the toilet and al gore never claimed he invented the internet that's correct what i did do is sponsor legislation oh my god albert einstein didn't fail high school math of course i freaking do i am the greatest scientist of all time when you jackasses think i failed math e equals mc screw you nice one yeah the great wall of china is not visible from space yeah every astronaut looks and none of us have ever seen it but hey why listen to us we're only astronauts not to mention if you were ever thrown out of an airlock you wouldn't explode in fact you could survive up to 30 seconds before you ran out of oxygen and lost consciousness so here's a question if none of these things are true then why do we all believe them simple because they all tell good stories it's so comforting and fun to think that albert einstein sucked at math too or that cops have to do what you say if you know the magic words but that doesn't make it true and nothing is more important hey guys i'm adam conover from collegehumor click here to subscribe or here to watch another video might as well right i mean we're all gonna die someday might as well [ __ ] live it up while we can

Channel: CollegeHumor

Views: 18,950,056

Keywords: Collegehumor, CH originals

Id: oA-fc3D09ZY

Length: 3min 59sec (239 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 18 2014

Reddit Comments

[u/McGravin]

13 Things I Already Knew Weren't True, presented in a painfully unfunny way.

[u/maeghi]

MentalFloss is better. Plus they list 50, and John Green is a little less douche-y.

Edit: it was 50, not 30.

Also, link: http://youtu.be/kxIGlMrrhQM

[u/Zachlisted]

Wasn't this an /r/AskReddit thread a few days ago? That doesn't feel like a coincidence.

[u/[deleted]]

This one did it better.

[u/Kevydee]

Jackass presenter

[u/postdarwin]

I always thought Einstein failed his entrance exam for Zurich Polytechnic. Turns out that's true.

[u/Asddsa76]

Did he freeze at the end? Because that is another misconception as well. Even though outer space is really cold (a few Kelvin), the near vacuum is a very good isolater, pretty much negating all heat conduction and convection. The only non-negligible heat transfer is radiation, which is much slower. You'd actually heat up if you were anywhere close to the sun. Ever felt the scorching sunrays on a hot day? Imagine that with no ozone layer, or any atmosphere at all.