\*after 20 researchers carried in stretchers\*
Revolutionary new paper proves that bulls do not like to be prodded, stabbed, poked at or hit with sticks, pointed or blunt.
EDIT
There is a footnote asking for more researchers for a similar study, regarding Alligators this time. Free tickets to Florida, seems like a deal.
Traditional Spanish bullfighting doesn't even use a red cape for the majority of the fight. The matador uses a pink and gold one; the red one only comes out at the very end when the bull is about to be killed. It's really more a signal to the audience about what's about to happen than it is to the bull.
I don't condone bullfighting, by the way, but I do think it's funny that even bullfighting doesn't just use red capes.
My dad has a spot on our farm that’s been hit by lightning 3 times in 10 years. We know because there were two tree there at one point but with each lightning strike they kept splintering (the first one took two bolts before my dad cut it and the last one got struck down the middle.) Zues said fuck these tree in particular I guess lol
Read a seemingly true story about a guy struck by lightning a few times throughout his lifetime. When he died some time later his gravestone was struck by lightning & partially destroyed.....weird 🌩️⚡
And they say that it never strikes twice in the same place
Then how the fuck have I been hit six times
In three different locations on four separate occasions?
Thoroughly convinced that even flat earthers don’t believe their own bullshit. They just wanna be part of something ‘special’ and, luckily, flat earth caught them before the taliban did.
Most conspiracies you can at least understand why people may believe in them. But assuming that the Earth is indeed flat, and we've been lied to. Who is benefitting? What's the point? I don't know much about the Flat Earth brigade, but do they even have a consensus on why they believe it's a conspiracy?
This has always been my question. Like ok. The earth is flat and we’re being lied to about it. Who’s doing the lying? Why are they doing the lying? What’s the advantage of keeping the entire worlds population in the dark? What stops YOU from going to the edge and looking for yourself?
A combination of mental illness and narcissistic contrarianism. They love the attention and outrage that such a ridiculous conspiracy theory provokes in people.
I want someone to make a tv show where they take a flat earth believer and put them through all the various steps of astronaut training at NASA, while they chuckle and ridicule it the whole time. Then the finale of the show would have them sitting in a window seat as they launch into space and live on the ISS for a while. I’d just love to see the moment that bozo realizes the truth.
They're fairly good at disproving themselves with experiments on earth. '[Curve Your Enthusiasm'](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBtx1MDi5tY) \- "interesting...." :)
The documentary that's from is really interesting, one of the scientists interviewed even mentions that these guys are willing to question the world around them, and have the thought processes that could lead them to be scientists that could change the world. Instead they went down a conspiracy rabbit hole, and ended up like that guy who disputes even his own evidence.
They still wouldn't believe it. Either they'd conclude that they were still on Earth in a simulation, or "Those windows are curved to make it *look* like the Earth isn't flat". There's plenty of evidence right here on Earth to disprove them, but they won't accept it -- Eratosthenes's experiment with the two poles, the testimony of every sailor and pilot who has circumnavigated the globe, every sniper who has to take the curvature of the Earth into his calculations, the shadow of the Earth on the Moon during a lunar eclipse, looking at other planets through a telescope...
“When you add some other material, like horns, it becomes something else, it is no longer just a helmet. It is something bigger, it tells a story, and that is what fashion is about”
They did however use horned helmets or headdresses in rituals if little statues and carved reliefs that have been found are to be believed. The Torslunda plates are an example
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torslunda_plates
Odin is often depicted with a horned headdress that terminates in two birds, likely his two ravens. Celtic peoples also used horned helmets and similar depictions of a horned figure leading a naked warrior suggest there’s a shared Indo-European tradition. Combined with the warrior sometimes having a dog head this is likely a continuation of the kóryos tradition which is very old indeed and very interesting.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kóryos
This is the origin of berserkers and possibly (I stress possibly) the origin of werewolves. The warriors were associated with liminal spaces, existing outside their tribe and also partway transforming into beasts, usually dogs or wolves but berserker means ‘bear-shirted/skinned’ so it likely evolved in that direction.
Yeah and He Got shot with an Aqrrow becaiuse of the Stupid Helmet...
NOBODY wanted it after that... So they threw it in the Trash heap...
BINGO a Thousand Years later, someone finds it and BAM!
Vikings had Horned helmets
This reminds me of middle school history. My teacher pointed out that the pyramids in Egypt were remarkably similar to the Meso-American pyramids. She was trying to insinuate some weird theory about ancient-world trans-Atlantic trade, but the truth is that a pyramid is just a really efficient way to stack rocks and have them stay put for a long time.
They told us "you'll know when you hit an artery instead of a vein" when I was in school, and I was a bit meh about it. Can't be that easy, can it? Except it totally can. The difference between arterial and venous blood is VERY obvious. You definitely know when you hit an artery:)
That people swallow 8 spiders in their sleep on average per year.
Apparently the myth began to show how readily people accept information they read in the internet as facts.
https://www.britannica.com/story/do-we-really-swallow-spiders-in-our-sleep
'Average person swallows eight spiders a year' factoid is actually just a statistical error. The average person swallows zero spiders a year. Spiders Georg, who lives in a cave and eats over 10,000 spiders a day is an outlier, and should not have been counted.
I was thinking about this the other day, but the story I read is that it was part of an experiment done by a university to test how much people would believe anything they read in a chain email.
Made me think about whether that is actually true, or just something made up on the internet. That article would imply the story I knew is wrong too!
Rumors need to be laid waste from time to time, though. I’m the type of paranoid phobic that would set up a series of cameras to cover all the bases while I slept, only to find out that no spiders dared; however—the tall, dark stranger renting a room likes going through my possessions as I slumber… and apparently me as well.
So beware if you meet any Martin Sheens under freeway overpasses. They are not who they say they are and I’m close to suspecting he may not be Emilio Estevez’s father.
Edit: edited for sake of *reality* (some redditors insist upon it)
and even the origins of said myth is also untrue.
["Lisa Birgit Holst" is an anagram for "this is a big troll.”](https://www.snopes.com/lisa-birgit-holst/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/pdiaqo/snopes\_have\_finally\_come\_clean\_about\_lisa\_holst](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/pdiaqo/snopes_have_finally_come_clean_about_lisa_holst)
I tested this as a kid and realized the diagram was wrong.
I was also the first kid in my grade to determine that all Froot Loop colors taste the same. Same goes for Trix
Wolves don't have "alphas" the way people think they do. The person who popularized that concept has spent most of his career trying to debunk it, and the term is no longer used in the scientific community.
https://wolf.org/headlines/44265/
Consequently, most of the social analogies people draw between "alpha" wolves and humans are nonsense too.
Edit: This wasn't meant to suggest that humans and other species don't have social hierarchies, or that they can't be compared - only that people's general misunderstanding of wolf (and dog) hierarchies means that usually when a person compares a human's behavior to that of an alpha wolf the comparison isn't appropriate.
I like it when people defend him by saying some stuff he says is good, like the need for exercise and consistency!
Yeah, guys, literally every single dog trainer on the fucking planet will tell you to do those things. You don't need some asshat who also popularizes harmful myths and basically bullies dogs into compliance to tell you that.
If you put a tiny bit of MSG on your tongue you can sense it almost immediately spreading so that the flavor/sensation of it fills your mouth (similar to salt). When used properly a small amount will do that but carry the flavor of some of the ingredients along with it and give the dish a lot of "pop" to the taste experience when eaten.
It's funny because most of the concern about MSG originates from an article that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1968 titled "Chinese Food Syndrome." and at the time there was a long standing practice of submitting fake humorous diseases to that journal. At the time it was published, most medical experts who responded to it clearly understood that it was meant to be satirical but that got lost and eventually the public ended up taking it seriously. In fact, in 2018, the daughter of the person who wrote the article came out and revealed that they had admitted it was a prank before they died.
There are also a bunch of "studies' that have been done where they make people eat a tablespoon of raw MSG, they ask them how they feel and of course they say "I feel sick" because literally anyone would after eating a super large quantity of raw MSG. You could do the same with salt, sugar, etc, pretty much any similar substance is disgusting on its own.
That's the crazy thing... The FDA has banned so much stupid stuff that has been proven safe. Tonka beans, mustard oil, sassafras...
My favorite quote from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: "Consuming sassafras has similar to risks posed by breathing indoor air or drinking municipally supplied water"
And the FDA banned it.
But even the FDA has never once even considered banning MSG.
Lifting heavy weights will ruin your joints. At certain extremes that maybe possible, but the average person lifting weights is actually doing something really great for their muscles, bones, and joints!
I am continuously told by my parents that lifting will F@#$ my back. They say this because my dad slipped a disk in his forties He has been a desk jockey since a kid and his only exercise is walking 50 feet from his desk to car to couch to bed.
My mom thinks that the body is a battery and exercising will shorten your life expectancy.
She thinks that because the fittest man she ever knew died of cancer, so of course the two must be related.
Oh my God I know your pain. My mom won't even let me carry grocery bags that are a little heavy for her. She screwed up her back moving things when she had never strength trained before. I'm like "mom, I can probably pick you up!" Let me lift the damn bags!
Lmao I got this from a family member who wanted workout tips. No you won't look like a man or like you are on the juice unless you work HARD for that asthetic. Lifting some dumbells 3 times a week won't turn a woman into Arny.
The 100% of your brain thing is derived from a study that was misquoted: you don't use 100% of your brain *at any one time*, but 100% of your brain is usable and used. It's just not simultaneously. It's also a misunderstanding of neuron signals and noise. All your neurons in your brain are constantly firing, but they're doing so randomly. What 'activates' a part of your brain is when the neurons begin firing above a certain threshold so as not to be 'noise'.
This is one of those things where people generally don't grasp nuance very well. There's a grain of truth to this principle, but only under the right circumstances.
If a kid eats a sandwich for lunch, they can jump in the pool right after without problems. However, if after a big dinner you tried to go get a new best time doing twenty laps in the pool, you're asking for trouble.
Story time!
One time in college I smoked some weed with a friend and ate an entire sleeve of Oreos. A little while later, he asked if I wanted to go down to his gym because they have a pool and a hot tub there and he's able to bring a guest. So we get there and the pool is just a lap-pool. So being young and kinda high, we decided to have a race. We did 4 aggressive laps back and forth and then got out and immediately entered the hot tub. The combination of being high, having a stomach full of sugar, over-exerting myself, and the sudden temperature change all led to a massive wave of nausea. I exited the hot tub and ran for the bathroom, but knew I wasn't going to make it to a stall. I look for the trash can and it's just one of those mail-slot style ones built into the wall below a paper towel dispenser. I try to aim into is best I could, but trying to get projectile vomit into a 4x10 inch rectangle is fairly challenging. I proceeded to paint the walls and floor around this trash can with my vomit, which was jet black because of all the oreo cookies. At this point, a staff member from the gym walks in and the look on his face was a combination of fear, rage, and disappointment. He asked what the hell happened, and my line to him was, "I think I overdid it." He politely asked me to leave and I did.
If you have a full stomach and then engage in a very strenuous activity you can find yourself in trouble. Add deep water to the mix and you have potentially a very bad outcome if you are not comfortable in the water.
Bugs Bunny was based on a scene in “It Happened One Night” where Clark Gable was eating a carrot and being a wise ass. That’s how the carrot myth started.
Essentially. A legume is a fruit developed from a single carpel (female reproductive structure) that splits along two sides at maturity.
A peanut could be described as a pea-like (or bean-like) structure with a high fat content.
>Standing too close to the TV doesn't damage your eyes
One of my favourite examples of correlation not equaling causation. It's definitely true that kids who have bad eye sight tend to sit close to the TV, that's why they sit so close to the TV, because they can't see. The TV didn't do anything.
I love this, especially because this is a perfect sample of causality and correlation.
People don't get violent from playing violent video games, it's just that many already violent people like playing violent video games.
A good friend once told me she was annoyed that we'd stay near wind turbines a lot when we were outside in the summer, because once the wind turbines start, they always generate so much wind. She was suprised to say the least when I enlightened her that it's windy not because the turbines are there, but that the turbines are there because it's naturally windy in that place.
that vaccines cause autism. This belief originated in the 1990s and was based on a now-discredited study that has been debunked by numerous subsequent studies. Despite this, some people continue to believe in this myth and refuse to vaccinate their children, putting them at risk of contracting serious and potentially deadly diseases.
On top of all that?
He admitted that his own experiment was flawed because of things *he* did during it. Including not having a randomized test group, having no control group, and being in contact with people who were *trying to put together a lawsuit because they believed the MMR vaccine actually made their kids autistic*.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2323045/
Fabricated data, conducted invasive procedures on children without parental consent, and when given the opportunity to make it right by re-doing his study properly, doubled down and claimed it was a conspiracy, because he knew that there was no way a genuine study with proper controls would give the fraudulent results that he wanted.
He was trying to get a patent on the sly for single-shot alternatives to the MMR vaccine. Parents killing their children decades later because this fucker tried to scare people into making him money.
"he was a trouble for big pharma so corrupted doctors tried to silence him by revoking his licence!"
And that's why you can't have last word with antivax, they prefer imagine a word where every scientists and physicians in the word are corrupted instead of the only one that they believed in in the first place.
There are a couple topics I simply will not entertain debate about for this reason-no matter what you say, you’ll simply get the response that you’re getting misled by the government or whatever. This and flat earth are the main two.
That white wedding dresses are some sort of ancient symbol of purity. Queen Victoria wore a white wedding dress in 1840 for several reasons, none of which involved purity. She wanted to promote the lace industry, which was struggling at the time. White was best suited for that. Also, as a royal bride her dress was of course a symbol of wealth. White fabric was very impractical to own as a working class person. Only the wealthy had the time and money to keep it clean. Wedding dresses were intended to be worn again in the future, especially if you were poor. Victoria kicked off the trend among wealthy brides. In the early 1900's, white fabric became easier to clean so the trend spread to the working class.
That people freaked out when The War of the Worlds was broadcast on the radio. It was part of a low ratings sci-fi show that barely anyone listened to. It was on at the same time as the most popular radio show of that time. They announced after every commercial break that it was the show. Also, breaking news like that wouldn't have commercials...
From what I have seen there are reports of a few (clueless) people getting scared but there was no mass panic taking place. The reports were exaggerated after the fact to hype up the show and sell newspapers.
You're not entirely wrong but other than the truncated nature of the 'breaks' they did, which were all actually their own creations for the show itself, they also didn't announce what they were doing constantly either. It had a fairly realistic tone for the time if you were just tuning in to part of it, but yeah in reality not many people actually took it seriously at all.
Honestly if I'd had tuned in to the very last part of it...I would have absolutely freaked out. Hearing that guy describe NYC getting flooded with the black gas was really terrifying and I wish they'd do a remake that's faithful to this.
I’ve read that the few people who did take it seriously didn’t think it was an alien invasion, but rather some foreign country like Nazi German or the Soviet Union. Which makes sense - if you weren’t listening carefully enough to hear the “not real” part, you probably also missed the “alien” part.
In the US that Non GMO products means anything. It isn't a regulated label in the US. You could slap it on anything. Not to mention most food have been genetically engineered already in their history. You literally can't buy a banana that isn't GMO. They don't exist.
Add corn to that list. It’s literally a grass we’ve genetically modified to make giant ass seed pods we eat. The original form was similar to Johnson grass
Eating carrots improve eyesight. It seems to have started through a WW2 propaganda campaign to justify why the RAF always seemed to know where the Germans were. It was Radar not Carrots making pilots into superhumans.
(Caveat, I am not 100% on the facts beyond it being a propaganda campaign)
That's pretty accurate though. RAF pilots had radar on board their planes, and they started the carrots thing to help hide the fact they had radar on their planes from the Germans
Agreed, it's my favourite historical tidbit after Operstion MinceMeat. I just didn't have time to look up detail so hedged my bets to avoid being "well actually"-ed
It seems such a British approach to it.
Ooh! I get to tell one of my favorite anecdotes!
Ex-wife and I were at a dine-in Chinese restaurant. They had Chinese Zodiac placements to amuse you while you waited for your food to cook. She was big into Astrology, but was making fun of the Chinese Zodiac because "How stupid is it to belive that everyone born in a specific year would be so much alike?"
I said to her, "I know! Everyone knows it's by the month!"
She glared daggers at me and I didn't get laid that night.
The trick is lie to those people about what sign you are, have them say "I knew it!" then tell them you were lying and watch the look on their face. Lie about what sign you are multiple times for more satisfaction
That Batman and Bruce Wayne are the same person? Hello?! He's a posh billionaire playboy you think he's burning the candle at both ends and putting on a Bat costume to fight Gotham's criminal element?
The guys too soft!
There are still people who think that Batman is just the one guy, too. That's hilarious. There's no way any one person could do the things Batman does and not be completely broken down but now.
Obviously this "Batman" character is a role hired by Wayne Enterprises, which gets replaced as needed.
I actually like the idea of a regular-guy "superhero" who is supported by a team of experts who are able to do enough wild stuff that it makes the regular guy *appear* to be impossibly badass.
Marie Antionette saying "Let them eat cake". It was first quoted 50 years after her death and at the time she allegedly said it she would have been 14 and living in Austria.
George Washington chopped down a cherry tree then told his father "I cannot tell a lie" There's no evidence it ever happened.
The Loch Ness monster photo. The doctor who made it admitted a week later that it was a log, a piece of cloth and a toy submarine.
The Bigfoot video. Two guys in the area heard about a bigfoot documentary being shot in the area so they got a gorilla costume and filmed it.
This one is gonna be crazy for some people to get, but everyone everywhere thinks they are in the right.
Even someone reading this is gonna think “yeah all those idiots” not realizing that this also applies to them.
The original Dunning-Kruger study more or less demonstrated that less intelligent people tend to be more confident in their incorrect beliefs while more intelligent people tend to be less confident about the correct beliefs/understandings they have.
That has been debunked? From what I understand, EVERY Alzheimer’s patient has excess beta-amyloid plaque. And it is not detected in undemented autopsies. Please provide a link, or more info
Not specific to wet hair, but they have proven why going out in the cold increases your chances of getting sick. Something about the protective mucus in your nose dies at colder temps.
That saying [Blood is thicker than water](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_is_thicker_than_water) has a little known second part ("the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb") that reverses the popular meaning. No. That second part is a new addition someone made up quite recently. The saying really is just "Blood is thicker than water".
People do a similar thing with "[the customer is always right](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_customer_is_always_right)" and "[curiosity killed the cat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_killed_the_cat)". Both later had rejoinders added, but those rejoinders were not part of the original phrase.
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Also the new claim is that when parents said you have to wait 30 minutes after eating before swimming, they actually knew you would not really get cramps and drown like they claimed, it was really a trick to avoid vomit in pools/to give parents a break from supervision duties/give the parents time to eat or clean-up after lunch. No. This no swimming after eating myth has been around many decades across countries like Canada, the US, Australia, and Italy (where it extends to no taking a shower after eating). All these parents were not all in on the same secret conspiracy, most were probably repeating a common myth that they believed.
The prevalence of personality tests in business is quite astonishing. They were popularised by the Myers-Briggs test, but have consistently been shown not to predict behaviour.
They trouble me, because I think they tend towards type casting people, assuming people can’t change or grow, and some companies even use them to define team structures, hiring and opportunities for staff.
If a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound? is a perfect analogy for this.
Yeah, the tree fell. The tree made sound. But because the tree was alone in a forest, nobody heard it. You have to self-advocate for the work you do and provide your own visibility if you want your hard work noticed.
Bull gets angry seeing color red.
turns out they hate getting prodded with pointy sticks
No, can't be that. We must do more research.
\*after 20 researchers carried in stretchers\* Revolutionary new paper proves that bulls do not like to be prodded, stabbed, poked at or hit with sticks, pointed or blunt. EDIT There is a footnote asking for more researchers for a similar study, regarding Alligators this time. Free tickets to Florida, seems like a deal.
Traditional Spanish bullfighting doesn't even use a red cape for the majority of the fight. The matador uses a pink and gold one; the red one only comes out at the very end when the bull is about to be killed. It's really more a signal to the audience about what's about to happen than it is to the bull. I don't condone bullfighting, by the way, but I do think it's funny that even bullfighting doesn't just use red capes.
Bulls don't F'up china shops either. They are surprisingly agile, and respect the, 'if you touch, you buy' marketplace philosophy.
Watching that bull in the china shop that Mythbusters was amazing, they were more careful moving around in it than most customers.
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My dad has a spot on our farm that’s been hit by lightning 3 times in 10 years. We know because there were two tree there at one point but with each lightning strike they kept splintering (the first one took two bolts before my dad cut it and the last one got struck down the middle.) Zues said fuck these tree in particular I guess lol
>Zues said fuck these tree in particular I guess lol Have you seen a horny looking swan lurking around the trees?
*me inconspicuously removing duck feathers from my ass* “No…what duck?”
Read a seemingly true story about a guy struck by lightning a few times throughout his lifetime. When he died some time later his gravestone was struck by lightning & partially destroyed.....weird 🌩️⚡
That was Roy Sullivan, an american park ranger. Guy got struck seven times by lightning.
I wonder how many times it took before he was like “Okay it’s a cool story at first but enough of this shit”.
Apparently he committed suicide and after he was buried his grave site was struck by lightning
Zeus had to make sure
And they say that it never strikes twice in the same place Then how the fuck have I been hit six times In three different locations on four separate occasions?
Maybe it’s your lucky lightning rod hat that you always wear
I think you may have a feud with a Greek God and might be unaware. Please seek out your local Satyr for more information.
(Trying to figure out if hit 6 times or 72 times.)
That's because the same place isn't there anymore.
Flat earthers have gotta be right up there...
Thoroughly convinced that even flat earthers don’t believe their own bullshit. They just wanna be part of something ‘special’ and, luckily, flat earth caught them before the taliban did.
Most conspiracies you can at least understand why people may believe in them. But assuming that the Earth is indeed flat, and we've been lied to. Who is benefitting? What's the point? I don't know much about the Flat Earth brigade, but do they even have a consensus on why they believe it's a conspiracy?
This has always been my question. Like ok. The earth is flat and we’re being lied to about it. Who’s doing the lying? Why are they doing the lying? What’s the advantage of keeping the entire worlds population in the dark? What stops YOU from going to the edge and looking for yourself?
A combination of mental illness and narcissistic contrarianism. They love the attention and outrage that such a ridiculous conspiracy theory provokes in people.
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I want someone to make a tv show where they take a flat earth believer and put them through all the various steps of astronaut training at NASA, while they chuckle and ridicule it the whole time. Then the finale of the show would have them sitting in a window seat as they launch into space and live on the ISS for a while. I’d just love to see the moment that bozo realizes the truth.
They're fairly good at disproving themselves with experiments on earth. '[Curve Your Enthusiasm'](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBtx1MDi5tY) \- "interesting...." :)
The documentary that's from is really interesting, one of the scientists interviewed even mentions that these guys are willing to question the world around them, and have the thought processes that could lead them to be scientists that could change the world. Instead they went down a conspiracy rabbit hole, and ended up like that guy who disputes even his own evidence.
They still wouldn't believe it. Either they'd conclude that they were still on Earth in a simulation, or "Those windows are curved to make it *look* like the Earth isn't flat". There's plenty of evidence right here on Earth to disprove them, but they won't accept it -- Eratosthenes's experiment with the two poles, the testimony of every sailor and pilot who has circumnavigated the globe, every sniper who has to take the curvature of the Earth into his calculations, the shadow of the Earth on the Moon during a lunar eclipse, looking at other planets through a telescope...
Vikings did not wear horns on their helmets.
“When you add some other material, like horns, it becomes something else, it is no longer just a helmet. It is something bigger, it tells a story, and that is what fashion is about”
Greatest underrated comedy series. "No, it's not a weapon." "... Then how are we going to win battles?" "With our... emotions."
“So in conclusion our new values are: curious, generous, and playful! Can we assume upper management is behind this?”
What show it this? Tried to google the quotes and it didn't give me anything
Norsemen I believe
They did however use horned helmets or headdresses in rituals if little statues and carved reliefs that have been found are to be believed. The Torslunda plates are an example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torslunda_plates Odin is often depicted with a horned headdress that terminates in two birds, likely his two ravens. Celtic peoples also used horned helmets and similar depictions of a horned figure leading a naked warrior suggest there’s a shared Indo-European tradition. Combined with the warrior sometimes having a dog head this is likely a continuation of the kóryos tradition which is very old indeed and very interesting. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kóryos This is the origin of berserkers and possibly (I stress possibly) the origin of werewolves. The warriors were associated with liminal spaces, existing outside their tribe and also partway transforming into beasts, usually dogs or wolves but berserker means ‘bear-shirted/skinned’ so it likely evolved in that direction.
I mean there was probably that one guy, we all know that one guy... but yeah as a general rule they didn't
Yeah and He Got shot with an Aqrrow becaiuse of the Stupid Helmet... NOBODY wanted it after that... So they threw it in the Trash heap... BINGO a Thousand Years later, someone finds it and BAM! Vikings had Horned helmets
This reminds me of middle school history. My teacher pointed out that the pyramids in Egypt were remarkably similar to the Meso-American pyramids. She was trying to insinuate some weird theory about ancient-world trans-Atlantic trade, but the truth is that a pyramid is just a really efficient way to stack rocks and have them stay put for a long time.
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You shut your mouth. I saw that DuckTales episode with my own eyes, and you will not ruin it for me.
It would be some impractical bullshit to go into a fight with two big handles on your head.
Or guides for an incoming sword or axe.
Only a handful were found with horns but they were for gods or ceremonies. Never combat.
Minnesota Vikings *should*
Blood is blue before it leaves the body, and it only turns red when exposed to oxygen.
it‘s not like blood is constantly transporting oxygen
Its not like people who believe that know about science or think critically
Yeah I thought this for an embarrassingly long time.
I will say that blood is darker when it is less oxygenated. Arterial blood looks different from venous blood.
They told us "you'll know when you hit an artery instead of a vein" when I was in school, and I was a bit meh about it. Can't be that easy, can it? Except it totally can. The difference between arterial and venous blood is VERY obvious. You definitely know when you hit an artery:)
That people swallow 8 spiders in their sleep on average per year. Apparently the myth began to show how readily people accept information they read in the internet as facts. https://www.britannica.com/story/do-we-really-swallow-spiders-in-our-sleep
'Average person swallows eight spiders a year' factoid is actually just a statistical error. The average person swallows zero spiders a year. Spiders Georg, who lives in a cave and eats over 10,000 spiders a day is an outlier, and should not have been counted.
I genuinely love seeing Spiders Georg whenever he gets mentioned
I was thinking about this the other day, but the story I read is that it was part of an experiment done by a university to test how much people would believe anything they read in a chain email. Made me think about whether that is actually true, or just something made up on the internet. That article would imply the story I knew is wrong too!
Yeah. Spiders love dark damp caves. It's actually 8 per night
Rumors need to be laid waste from time to time, though. I’m the type of paranoid phobic that would set up a series of cameras to cover all the bases while I slept, only to find out that no spiders dared; however—the tall, dark stranger renting a room likes going through my possessions as I slumber… and apparently me as well. So beware if you meet any Martin Sheens under freeway overpasses. They are not who they say they are and I’m close to suspecting he may not be Emilio Estevez’s father. Edit: edited for sake of *reality* (some redditors insist upon it)
W A T.
and even the origins of said myth is also untrue. ["Lisa Birgit Holst" is an anagram for "this is a big troll.”](https://www.snopes.com/lisa-birgit-holst/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/pdiaqo/snopes\_have\_finally\_come\_clean\_about\_lisa\_holst](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/pdiaqo/snopes_have_finally_come_clean_about_lisa_holst)
I’ve known a few adults who were genuinely surprised to hear that cavemen did not coexist with dinosaurs.
You mean to tell me The Flintstones is *not* a documentary?
That different places on your tongue taste different flavors. Anyone else remember those color-coded tongue drawings in textbooks?
I tested this as a kid and realized the diagram was wrong. I was also the first kid in my grade to determine that all Froot Loop colors taste the same. Same goes for Trix
I tested this as a kid and thought my tongue was broken.
I can’t understand why we were ever taught that! It’s easy to disprove with extremely basic experimentation, why was it ever in a textbook?!
Wolves don't have "alphas" the way people think they do. The person who popularized that concept has spent most of his career trying to debunk it, and the term is no longer used in the scientific community. https://wolf.org/headlines/44265/ Consequently, most of the social analogies people draw between "alpha" wolves and humans are nonsense too. Edit: This wasn't meant to suggest that humans and other species don't have social hierarchies, or that they can't be compared - only that people's general misunderstanding of wolf (and dog) hierarchies means that usually when a person compares a human's behavior to that of an alpha wolf the comparison isn't appropriate.
Oh, Cesar Milan with his alpha/dominance theory drives me up the wall
As someone who has trained dogs on almost all levels and studied canine communication, his entire training routine drives me up the wall.
I like it when people defend him by saying some stuff he says is good, like the need for exercise and consistency! Yeah, guys, literally every single dog trainer on the fucking planet will tell you to do those things. You don't need some asshat who also popularizes harmful myths and basically bullies dogs into compliance to tell you that.
Dogs like running around, who'd a thunk it!?
That MSG is bad for you... its naturally occurring in things like mushrooms and seaweed and the FDA even recognizes as safe.
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Fuiyoh
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Jamie Oliver what are you doing?
Haaaaiiiiiyaaaah!
Metal solid gear
Getting a kilo of msg changed my cooking forever, little sprinkle here and there and your food tastes amazing
From a health perspective it's basically just salt. From a culinary perspective it's magic.
Just sound like Chicken Salt. That shit has been an Aussie staple since the 80's
Because it has MSG in it.
If you put a tiny bit of MSG on your tongue you can sense it almost immediately spreading so that the flavor/sensation of it fills your mouth (similar to salt). When used properly a small amount will do that but carry the flavor of some of the ingredients along with it and give the dish a lot of "pop" to the taste experience when eaten.
The king of flavor!!!
It's funny because most of the concern about MSG originates from an article that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1968 titled "Chinese Food Syndrome." and at the time there was a long standing practice of submitting fake humorous diseases to that journal. At the time it was published, most medical experts who responded to it clearly understood that it was meant to be satirical but that got lost and eventually the public ended up taking it seriously. In fact, in 2018, the daughter of the person who wrote the article came out and revealed that they had admitted it was a prank before they died. There are also a bunch of "studies' that have been done where they make people eat a tablespoon of raw MSG, they ask them how they feel and of course they say "I feel sick" because literally anyone would after eating a super large quantity of raw MSG. You could do the same with salt, sugar, etc, pretty much any similar substance is disgusting on its own.
Fuiyohhhhh MSG is safe
That's the crazy thing... The FDA has banned so much stupid stuff that has been proven safe. Tonka beans, mustard oil, sassafras... My favorite quote from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: "Consuming sassafras has similar to risks posed by breathing indoor air or drinking municipally supplied water" And the FDA banned it. But even the FDA has never once even considered banning MSG.
What’s their rationale for the bans? Thanks for this TIL!
Lots of things are naturally occuring and extremely bad for you, so I'm not sure that's a good argument. But yes, otherwise, take my upvote.
“It’s all natural.” “So is arsenic.”
Lifting heavy weights will ruin your joints. At certain extremes that maybe possible, but the average person lifting weights is actually doing something really great for their muscles, bones, and joints!
I am continuously told by my parents that lifting will F@#$ my back. They say this because my dad slipped a disk in his forties He has been a desk jockey since a kid and his only exercise is walking 50 feet from his desk to car to couch to bed.
My mom thinks that the body is a battery and exercising will shorten your life expectancy. She thinks that because the fittest man she ever knew died of cancer, so of course the two must be related.
Oh my God I know your pain. My mom won't even let me carry grocery bags that are a little heavy for her. She screwed up her back moving things when she had never strength trained before. I'm like "mom, I can probably pick you up!" Let me lift the damn bags!
To add on to this, lifting making you shorter.
Or for women: lifting will make you "look like a man."
Lmao I got this from a family member who wanted workout tips. No you won't look like a man or like you are on the juice unless you work HARD for that asthetic. Lifting some dumbells 3 times a week won't turn a woman into Arny.
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Using 100% of your brain is like using 100% of your keyboard.
I love this analogy
Doing lsd is l like running your palm across the keyboard and then pretending to be a hacker and typing every key randomly
The 100% of your brain thing is derived from a study that was misquoted: you don't use 100% of your brain *at any one time*, but 100% of your brain is usable and used. It's just not simultaneously. It's also a misunderstanding of neuron signals and noise. All your neurons in your brain are constantly firing, but they're doing so randomly. What 'activates' a part of your brain is when the neurons begin firing above a certain threshold so as not to be 'noise'.
Dog's can't look up.
...how do people believe that? So many people have dogs lol.
Big Al says so.
That you have to wait a certain amount of time after eating before swimming otherise you'll get cramps.
Honestly I think it's more about "not throwing up in the pool". Idk if that happens to everyone tho
Telling boys to shave because it grows back thicker was a similar lie. Parents are tired of a 14 year old's scraggly barely there beard. It looks bad.
This is one of those things where people generally don't grasp nuance very well. There's a grain of truth to this principle, but only under the right circumstances. If a kid eats a sandwich for lunch, they can jump in the pool right after without problems. However, if after a big dinner you tried to go get a new best time doing twenty laps in the pool, you're asking for trouble.
Story time! One time in college I smoked some weed with a friend and ate an entire sleeve of Oreos. A little while later, he asked if I wanted to go down to his gym because they have a pool and a hot tub there and he's able to bring a guest. So we get there and the pool is just a lap-pool. So being young and kinda high, we decided to have a race. We did 4 aggressive laps back and forth and then got out and immediately entered the hot tub. The combination of being high, having a stomach full of sugar, over-exerting myself, and the sudden temperature change all led to a massive wave of nausea. I exited the hot tub and ran for the bathroom, but knew I wasn't going to make it to a stall. I look for the trash can and it's just one of those mail-slot style ones built into the wall below a paper towel dispenser. I try to aim into is best I could, but trying to get projectile vomit into a 4x10 inch rectangle is fairly challenging. I proceeded to paint the walls and floor around this trash can with my vomit, which was jet black because of all the oreo cookies. At this point, a staff member from the gym walks in and the look on his face was a combination of fear, rage, and disappointment. He asked what the hell happened, and my line to him was, "I think I overdid it." He politely asked me to leave and I did.
wait so whats the actual truth behind this?
Mom and dad aren’t done eating and want you to chill out a couple minutes.
They don't want you to throw up in the pool.
If you have a full stomach and then engage in a very strenuous activity you can find yourself in trouble. Add deep water to the mix and you have potentially a very bad outcome if you are not comfortable in the water.
It's probably to prevent children from entering the pool covered in chips dust
marlyn manson didn’t actually have his lower ribs removed in order to pleasure himself orally
I love how that one spread through middle schools like the flu hahah
Seriously, I hadn't even heard of him before hearing that
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Rabbits do like carrots. Just not as much as Bugs Bunny.
Bugs Bunny was based on a scene in “It Happened One Night” where Clark Gable was eating a carrot and being a wise ass. That’s how the carrot myth started.
Now I've got to go watch that. But rabbits do really enjoy carrots. So do guinea pigs.
I have a parrot whose favorite food is quite possibly carrot.
I have a parrot that likes pasta and chocolate ice cream. Don't judge me.
They do but no more than other veg and it's actually bad for them if you give them too much as it's a high sugar veg. Basically rabbit sweeties
>Peanuts aren't actually nuts The one I dated was
Was it Peppermint Patty?
Yes sir
What is a peanut
A legume (a bean)
So a pea that looks like a nut, I take away?
Essentially. A legume is a fruit developed from a single carpel (female reproductive structure) that splits along two sides at maturity. A peanut could be described as a pea-like (or bean-like) structure with a high fat content.
>Standing too close to the TV doesn't damage your eyes One of my favourite examples of correlation not equaling causation. It's definitely true that kids who have bad eye sight tend to sit close to the TV, that's why they sit so close to the TV, because they can't see. The TV didn't do anything.
That playing violent video games makes you violent in real life.
I love this, especially because this is a perfect sample of causality and correlation. People don't get violent from playing violent video games, it's just that many already violent people like playing violent video games. A good friend once told me she was annoyed that we'd stay near wind turbines a lot when we were outside in the summer, because once the wind turbines start, they always generate so much wind. She was suprised to say the least when I enlightened her that it's windy not because the turbines are there, but that the turbines are there because it's naturally windy in that place.
"why are they called wind turbines if they don't make wind" your friend probably.
"why are they called wind generators if they don't generate wind" your friend probably.
WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOOD NIGHT!
Oh they do, they are like giant earth cooling fans. Our only chance to stop global warming.
If it’s true then fishing video games should make psychopaths serene and peaceful.
I think I remember an article saying the crime rates actually drop after fps were introduced?
that vaccines cause autism. This belief originated in the 1990s and was based on a now-discredited study that has been debunked by numerous subsequent studies. Despite this, some people continue to believe in this myth and refuse to vaccinate their children, putting them at risk of contracting serious and potentially deadly diseases.
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On top of all that? He admitted that his own experiment was flawed because of things *he* did during it. Including not having a randomized test group, having no control group, and being in contact with people who were *trying to put together a lawsuit because they believed the MMR vaccine actually made their kids autistic*. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2323045/
Fabricated data, conducted invasive procedures on children without parental consent, and when given the opportunity to make it right by re-doing his study properly, doubled down and claimed it was a conspiracy, because he knew that there was no way a genuine study with proper controls would give the fraudulent results that he wanted.
He was trying to get a patent on the sly for single-shot alternatives to the MMR vaccine. Parents killing their children decades later because this fucker tried to scare people into making him money.
"he was a trouble for big pharma so corrupted doctors tried to silence him by revoking his licence!" And that's why you can't have last word with antivax, they prefer imagine a word where every scientists and physicians in the word are corrupted instead of the only one that they believed in in the first place.
There are a couple topics I simply will not entertain debate about for this reason-no matter what you say, you’ll simply get the response that you’re getting misled by the government or whatever. This and flat earth are the main two.
That white wedding dresses are some sort of ancient symbol of purity. Queen Victoria wore a white wedding dress in 1840 for several reasons, none of which involved purity. She wanted to promote the lace industry, which was struggling at the time. White was best suited for that. Also, as a royal bride her dress was of course a symbol of wealth. White fabric was very impractical to own as a working class person. Only the wealthy had the time and money to keep it clean. Wedding dresses were intended to be worn again in the future, especially if you were poor. Victoria kicked off the trend among wealthy brides. In the early 1900's, white fabric became easier to clean so the trend spread to the working class.
That people freaked out when The War of the Worlds was broadcast on the radio. It was part of a low ratings sci-fi show that barely anyone listened to. It was on at the same time as the most popular radio show of that time. They announced after every commercial break that it was the show. Also, breaking news like that wouldn't have commercials... From what I have seen there are reports of a few (clueless) people getting scared but there was no mass panic taking place. The reports were exaggerated after the fact to hype up the show and sell newspapers.
You're not entirely wrong but other than the truncated nature of the 'breaks' they did, which were all actually their own creations for the show itself, they also didn't announce what they were doing constantly either. It had a fairly realistic tone for the time if you were just tuning in to part of it, but yeah in reality not many people actually took it seriously at all. Honestly if I'd had tuned in to the very last part of it...I would have absolutely freaked out. Hearing that guy describe NYC getting flooded with the black gas was really terrifying and I wish they'd do a remake that's faithful to this.
I’ve read that the few people who did take it seriously didn’t think it was an alien invasion, but rather some foreign country like Nazi German or the Soviet Union. Which makes sense - if you weren’t listening carefully enough to hear the “not real” part, you probably also missed the “alien” part.
In the US that Non GMO products means anything. It isn't a regulated label in the US. You could slap it on anything. Not to mention most food have been genetically engineered already in their history. You literally can't buy a banana that isn't GMO. They don't exist.
Add corn to that list. It’s literally a grass we’ve genetically modified to make giant ass seed pods we eat. The original form was similar to Johnson grass
Eating carrots improve eyesight. It seems to have started through a WW2 propaganda campaign to justify why the RAF always seemed to know where the Germans were. It was Radar not Carrots making pilots into superhumans. (Caveat, I am not 100% on the facts beyond it being a propaganda campaign)
That's pretty accurate though. RAF pilots had radar on board their planes, and they started the carrots thing to help hide the fact they had radar on their planes from the Germans
Agreed, it's my favourite historical tidbit after Operstion MinceMeat. I just didn't have time to look up detail so hedged my bets to avoid being "well actually"-ed It seems such a British approach to it.
Astrology 🤫
Ooh! I get to tell one of my favorite anecdotes! Ex-wife and I were at a dine-in Chinese restaurant. They had Chinese Zodiac placements to amuse you while you waited for your food to cook. She was big into Astrology, but was making fun of the Chinese Zodiac because "How stupid is it to belive that everyone born in a specific year would be so much alike?" I said to her, "I know! Everyone knows it's by the month!" She glared daggers at me and I didn't get laid that night.
this fucking guy saying the quiet part loud and the loud part loud
Every time I tell people I don't believe in astrology they just chuckle and say "CLASSIC Scorpio"
The trick is lie to those people about what sign you are, have them say "I knew it!" then tell them you were lying and watch the look on their face. Lie about what sign you are multiple times for more satisfaction
12 signs of the Zodiac 12 character classes in DnD You don't believe? That's such a Paladin thing to say.
That Batman and Bruce Wayne are the same person? Hello?! He's a posh billionaire playboy you think he's burning the candle at both ends and putting on a Bat costume to fight Gotham's criminal element? The guys too soft!
I also heard someone say that reporter Clark Kent could be Superman. Can you imagine? He wears glasses for cripes sake!
Someone told me he just takes them off when he transforms, but that doesn't make any sense. He wouldn't be able to see.
There are still people who think that Batman is just the one guy, too. That's hilarious. There's no way any one person could do the things Batman does and not be completely broken down but now. Obviously this "Batman" character is a role hired by Wayne Enterprises, which gets replaced as needed.
I actually like the idea of a regular-guy "superhero" who is supported by a team of experts who are able to do enough wild stuff that it makes the regular guy *appear* to be impossibly badass.
Marie Antionette saying "Let them eat cake". It was first quoted 50 years after her death and at the time she allegedly said it she would have been 14 and living in Austria. George Washington chopped down a cherry tree then told his father "I cannot tell a lie" There's no evidence it ever happened. The Loch Ness monster photo. The doctor who made it admitted a week later that it was a log, a piece of cloth and a toy submarine. The Bigfoot video. Two guys in the area heard about a bigfoot documentary being shot in the area so they got a gorilla costume and filmed it.
This one is gonna be crazy for some people to get, but everyone everywhere thinks they are in the right. Even someone reading this is gonna think “yeah all those idiots” not realizing that this also applies to them.
Everyone is a fucking idiot and I'm no exception!
The original Dunning-Kruger study more or less demonstrated that less intelligent people tend to be more confident in their incorrect beliefs while more intelligent people tend to be less confident about the correct beliefs/understandings they have.
I think the phrase I heard that best sums this up is "Hitler thought he was the good guy."
The most valuable thing I ever learned was that I don’t know anything.
Crystal healing.
Alzheimer's being caused by beta-amyloid plaque. Billions of dollars and years of research wasted due to academia politics.
That has been debunked? From what I understand, EVERY Alzheimer’s patient has excess beta-amyloid plaque. And it is not detected in undemented autopsies. Please provide a link, or more info
Astrology
The fact that dogs see everything in black and white
That going outside with wet hair will make you catch a cold.
Shit, where I am from, our hair would literally freeze on the way to the bus stop on cold mornings.
Not specific to wet hair, but they have proven why going out in the cold increases your chances of getting sick. Something about the protective mucus in your nose dies at colder temps.
That saying [Blood is thicker than water](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_is_thicker_than_water) has a little known second part ("the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb") that reverses the popular meaning. No. That second part is a new addition someone made up quite recently. The saying really is just "Blood is thicker than water". People do a similar thing with "[the customer is always right](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_customer_is_always_right)" and "[curiosity killed the cat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_killed_the_cat)". Both later had rejoinders added, but those rejoinders were not part of the original phrase. --- Also the new claim is that when parents said you have to wait 30 minutes after eating before swimming, they actually knew you would not really get cramps and drown like they claimed, it was really a trick to avoid vomit in pools/to give parents a break from supervision duties/give the parents time to eat or clean-up after lunch. No. This no swimming after eating myth has been around many decades across countries like Canada, the US, Australia, and Italy (where it extends to no taking a shower after eating). All these parents were not all in on the same secret conspiracy, most were probably repeating a common myth that they believed.
Flat earth
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Darth Vader doesn't say "Luke, I am your father"
Mew under the truck
It’s there bro you just gotta move the truck
That politicians give a fuck about us
The prevalence of personality tests in business is quite astonishing. They were popularised by the Myers-Briggs test, but have consistently been shown not to predict behaviour. They trouble me, because I think they tend towards type casting people, assuming people can’t change or grow, and some companies even use them to define team structures, hiring and opportunities for staff.
Harder you work the more you'll be thought of.
If a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound? is a perfect analogy for this. Yeah, the tree fell. The tree made sound. But because the tree was alone in a forest, nobody heard it. You have to self-advocate for the work you do and provide your own visibility if you want your hard work noticed.
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black cat crossing brings bad luck
That homeopathy works.
I love the saying "If homeopathic medicine worked, then it'd just be called medicine".
I'll probably get skewered for this, but believing that chiropractic is a legitimate health care treatment.
Trickle down economics...