25 Things That People Quite Often Get Wrong

hi I'm one and I'm Tristan list 25 and here are 25 things that people quite often get wrong 25 type in your PIN number into an ATM backwards notifies to the police no it doesn't it it just doesn't 24 people swallow an average of 4 spiders per year there was it six or eight it just depends who you heard the myth from but since we're talking about averages it's most likely more than zero why even if only one person on earth swallowed a spider this year that would make the average small but positive 0.000001 spider per year or something like that 23 carats give you good eyesight soda Tomatoes exercise and not smoking during World War 2 the British didn't want the Germans to know they had radar so they spread propaganda saying the good eyesight of their pilots was due to carrots and everyone believed it 22 the Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from space nope even from low-earth orbit like a Space Shuttle you can see many highways and dams better than the Great Wall because the color of its construction materials blends into the earth 21 people in the Middle Ages believed the earth was flat not really people had already known the earth was a sphere since nearly 300 BC when the Greeks calculated its circumference and besides there are people even today who still believe it's flat as unbelievable as that may sound 20 pencils used to be made of lead this is only partially true the part you used to write with on the inside was always graphite the reason pencils caused lead poisoning was because up until the mid 1900s the outer coating consisted heavily of lead which kids tend to suck on 19 undercover police officers have to tell you whether or not they are a police officer no no no they don't just because it happens in Hollywood doesn't mean it happens in real life there are no laws requiring this 18 you get a rush of energy after ingesting sugar this has actually been proven wrong it's just a placebo but that doesn't mean people have stopped believing it 17 the color red gets Bulls riled up no bulls are colorblind the reason they get angry when the matador waves a red cloth is because of the waving motion and also because they are usually starved and abused beforehand sixteen glass is a liquid no people began to believe this because of the fact that antique windows tend to be thicker at the bottom this makes it look as though the glass flowed down it didn't the windows were built this way for various reasons including waterproofing glasses actually an amorphous solid 15 Emma's G is bad for you in the same way that vaccines are bad for you how is that because people believe both of these are bad for you based on disproved and anecdotal studies 14 Macintosh computers are immune to viruses you're definitely not immune it's just that since less people have Mac's there's less of a market for Mac viruses as more people get Mac's there will be more Mac viruses thirteen chameleons camouflage themselves to mesh their environment they actually change color because of communication temperature and light not for camouflage twelve people with Tourette's syndrome yell swear words vocal tics are only experienced by about ten percent of people with threats and even then the tick is not necessarily a swear word 11 goldfish have an eight second memory span their memory is actually quite good you can even train a goldfish to perform tricks goldfish have an eight second memory span ten your left brain controls creativity your right brain controls logic wrong the biggest difference between your hemispheres is that they control muscles on opposite sides of the body when it comes to more abstract concepts such as creativity and language though they are both responsible and relatively equal measure nine different parts of your tongue sends different tastes nope all parts of your tongue sense every taste eight rabbits love carrots carrots are actually dangerous for rabbits thanks a lot bugs bunny that's not a Braddock rude not a rabbit seven you were the fastest sperm cell you were actually one of the slower cells really why because it takes several sperm to wear down the eggs protective outer layer before it can be fertilized six cracking joints will give you our threat Asst for those of you who like cracking it won't but it may lose you some friends five reading in dim light ruins your eyes while it can cause short-term eye fatigue because your muscles are working harder to focus there is no scientific evidence that it affects your eyes in the long run for daddy longlegs are the most venomous spiders in the world but their jobs just aren't big enough to bite humans first of all daddy longlegs can refer to several species only one of which is a spider second of all none of them are that venomous three you only use 10% of your brain yeah in the same way that you only use 33% of a traffic light you definitely use your whole brain just not at the same time unless you're having a seizure then you're using a lot more of it to cold weather gives you colds no it doesn't the only reason colds propagate during the winter is because of less humidity in fact you are more likely to catch a cold indoors and outdoors your internal body temperature and immune system are unaffected by outdoor temperatures and if they are even by a couple degrees then you are flirting with hypothermia which means colds are the least of your worries I actually am sick and this just coincidence cell phones give you cancer if cellphones give you cancer then so do other people because people are more radioactive than cellphones enjoying our lists be sure to click that subscribe button in the top right corner so you don't miss out on new ones every Monday through Friday show them with your friends and help us consistently conciliate curiosity and if you want even more lists check out these two videos here or just head to our website at lists pond5.com

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Length: 7min 26sec (446 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 15 2016