27 Myths We All Grew Up Believing But Are False

eating before swimming doesn't cause cramps everyone knows that you have to wait at least 30 minutes after eating to go swimming if you don't you might cramp up or even worse sink this is actually not true our bodies are perfectly adapted to swim while full if you do happen to get a cramp while in the pool for any reason just relax and float you'll be feeling fine soon enough handling a toad or frog won't give you warts warts are caused by a certain virus which is only carried by humans the myth came about because of the bumpy wart-like skin texture of toads and tree frogs frogs might not give you warts but they could still be poisonous so you shouldn't handle them you don't accidentally eat eight spiders a year while sleeping this old myth doesn't have a leg or eight legs to stand on most people sleep with their mouths closed so in the unlikely event that a spider actually made it to your face it wouldn't even have the opportunity to go into your mouth if you sleep with your mouth open though you're most likely snoring which creates vibrations strong enough to scare any spiders away bananas don't grow on trees we call the plant that bananas grow on banana trees but guess what they're actually an herb weirdly they're most closely related to the ginger family these trees are really just big stem-like succulents like aloe vera jade plants or cacti just don't try peeling cacti like a banana the banana itself is also technically a berry like a pumpkin a cucumber and an avocado [Music] sitting too close to a tv won't ruin your eyes we've all been told not to sit too close to the tv and pc monitor or you'll damage your eyes ophthalmologists have said that it can cause temporary strain to the eyes but long-term problems are rare if you're nearsighted chances are you're always going to be whether you sit too close or not you don't lose most of your body heat through your head while it may feel that way during the winter our body loses heat all over you need to wear a hat because it's more exposed unlike the rest of the body which is kept toasty with jackets and thick pants swallowed gum won't stay in you for seven years you should definitely avoid swallowing gum that's not something that's good for you but just in case you do by accident you'll be happy to learn that it won't stay inside your body for seven years you can't fully digest the gum but all that happens is that gum leaves your body naturally in a matter of days our tongues don't have different sections for tasting there's no bitter sweet sour umami or salty sections of our tongue whatsoever this giant mussel can taste everything all over so you don't have to worry about keeping specific foods in specific parts of your mouth fingerprints might not be unique sounds terrifying doesn't it well the reasoning is actually very simple we can't check every fingerprint on earth so it's difficult to know if they really are unique to each individual related people can have somewhat similar fingerprints and there are over 7 billion people on the planet so it's almost impossible to check sushi doesn't mean raw fish while many people will think it means raw fish sushi actually comes from a japanese word meaning sour rice and it's the rice that's at the heart and soul of every piece of sushi that's why you can buy sushi with cooked fish in it in supermarkets sharks do have tongues it's a common debate but it turns out that sharks do have tongues just not the types of ones that you can find on people most can't even move them around so it barely counts for example the cookie cutter shark's tongue doesn't help much with eating instead it supports some of the bones around its gills and no it doesn't make delicious cookies you can swallow watermelon seeds watermelon is the perfect summertime treat but worrying about a plant growing inside you can completely ruin it not to worry seeds can't survive and grow inside stomach acid watermelon seeds are actually good for you flies live longer than 24 hours some flies can live for a few days to even years that's right those pesky house flies live a lot longer than you think sometimes even up to a month so trapping one in a room won't make it go away faster it just means that you won't have access to that room for a long time fresh fruits and veggies aren't superior to frozen having fresh instead of frozen produce might seem like a no-brainer but the choice isn't actually so simple by the time that juicy mango or crisp carrot gets to your local store it's actually been through a lot most fresh produce travels on trucks or ships or planes and gets processed once it arrives it's often covered in pesticides in order to keep it fresh now on the other hand frozen fruits and vegetables are immediately frozen keeping all their nutrients and minerals preserved if you can grow your own produce though you can guarantee freshness the great wall of china can't be seen from the moon the only thing that you can see from the moon is earth which is mostly white with blue and patches of yellow and green vegetation no man-made object is easily visible from this far away in low earth orbit though cities can be seen during the night and day these include major roadways airports dams and reservoirs hey i can even see my house from there lightning can strike the same spot more than once this myth has been around for a very long time and it's just simply not true lightning will strike whatever is attracting it however many times it can this means that in many cases it's more likely to strike twice just watch the empire state building during a lightning storm it gets hit more than 100 times every year saturn's rings aren't solid when you see a photo of saturn it'd be easy to assume that the rings are solid but they're not the rings are made up of tiny particles of rock and ice that vary in size from as small as a grain of sand to as large as a house good luck trying to spacewalk on these rings cracking your knuckles won't cause arthritis a lot of people are scared to crack their knuckle joints because of advice from friends and family the most common myth is that it causes arthritis well this just isn't true at all one scientist even cracked the knuckles in his left hand for over 60 years and was left with no discomfort whatsoever waking a sleepwalker won't hurt them in fact the most dangerous thing for a sleepwalker is allowing them to carry on wandering around getting them back to bed so they don't hurt themselves is the best way to make sure that they're okay we use most of our brain percentage we use far more than the myth of 10 percent that's right especially you bright side viewer although some parts of the brain have yet to be figured out by scientists we know enough to debunk this idea we actually turn parts of our brain on and off and tap into different parts when they're needed now we haven't unlocked any secret powers yet but hopefully we can find something one day bears don't really sleep during hibernation bears don't sleep for months on end while hibernating they actually go into something called torpor this means that they slow things down in their bodies but are still able to react to any stimuli around them if you see one sleeping during winter just make sure to keep your distance chameleons change color to show their mood and to communicate chameleons are known as masters of camouflage but they often don't even use their abilities to camouflage they actually change color to show when they're feeling a strong emotion when they're agitated and upset they'll turn black when they're happy they'll stay a bright green or blue [Music] the sun isn't a fireball the sun doesn't burn as we think of it like logs on a fire or a gas stove it glows because it's a giant ball of gas with nuclear fusion taking place in its core our sun isn't yellow or white either it glows green blue the human eye sees all the rainbow colors around it and mixes them together to make the sun's famous golden yellow dogs see more than black and white asking dogs to read an eye chart or to pick out colors would be impractical but scientists have been able to figure out the vision of dogs they see the world through a basic color scheme of yellow blue and gray not black and white it seems that they also lack the ability to see the range of colors from green to red chasing a tennis ball has to do with movement and smell more than color salt doesn't make water boil faster that tiny pinch you put in before your pasta doesn't make any difference to the amount of time it takes to come up to a boil the same goes for putting oil into the water to stop your pasta from sticking it doesn't work but it might still be worth adding some if you want to make sure that the water doesn't boil over vikings probably never wore horned helmets as awesome as they looked vikings didn't have a practical use for horned helmets this look was created for an opera costume in the 19th century and it stuck ever since get the point looking sharp some vikings might have used them but archaeological finds have suggested that if they did use them it wasn't very common

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Length: 10min 48sec (648 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 04 2021