Last updated: June 14
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- • Even before modern times, people have been able to see the same colors as we do now, but they haven't always had language to describe them.
- • Fortune cookies are not found in Chinese cuisine. They originated in Japan and were introduced to the US by the Japanese. In China, they are considered American, and are rare.
- • Contrary to the allegorical story about the boiling frog, frogs die immediately when cast into boiling water, rather than leaping out; furthermore, frogs will attempt to escape cold water that is slowly heated.
- • Sugar does not cause hyperactivity in children.
- • Spartan women were literate. Furthermore, as a result of their education and the fact that they moved freely in society they were notorious for speaking their minds even in public.
- • Extensive investigation into vaccines and autism spectrum disorder has shown that there is no relationship between the two. The belief that vaccines cause autism stems from a fraudulent paper from 1998.
- • A human touching or handling eggs or baby birds will not cause the adult birds to abandon them. The same is generally true for other animals having their young touched by humans as well, with the possible exception of rabbits.
- • Old elephants near death do not leave their herd to go to an "elephants' graveyard" to die.
- • Bulls are not enraged by the color red, used in capes by professional bullfighters. Cattle are dichromats, so red does not stand out as a bright color. It is not the color of the cape, but the perceived threat by the bullfighter that makes it charge.
- • There is no such thing as an "alpha" in a wolf pack. An early study that coined the term "alpha wolf" had only observed unrelated adult wolves living in captivity.
- • Humans have more than the commonly cited five senses. In addition to sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing, humans can sense balance and acceleration, pain, body and limb position, and many more.
- • The memory span of goldfish is much longer than just a few seconds. It is up to a few months long.
- • The common cold and the common flu are caused by viruses, not exposure to cold temperatures. However, low temperatures may somewhat weaken the immune system and cause you to get sick if you already carried the virus.
- • Alcoholic beverages do not make the entire body warmer. Alcoholic drinks create the sensation of warmth because they cause blood vessels to dilate and stimulate nerve endings near the surface of the skin with an influx of warm blood.
- • The taste map is a common misconception that different sections of the tongue are exclusively responsible for different basic tastes.
- • A concrete measure of intelligence cannot be achieved given the abstract nature of the concept of "intelligence". Historically, many proponents of IQ testing have been eugenicists who used pseudoscience to push now-debunked views of racial hierarchy.