1.Most diamonds aren't formed from compressed coal rather they are compressed and heated 90 miles
below the surface of the Earth, while Coal is found about 2 miles below the Earth's surface.

2. Being "blind as a bat" means not being blind at all. While many use echolocation to navigate, all of them can see.

3. Dropping a penny from the Empire State building won't kill someone. The penny will top out at 50 milesper hour,which isn't fast enough to kill.

4. Blondes and redheads are not "going extinct." Genes do not go extinct. Recessive genes, like the gene for red or blonde hair color, can be carried from generation to generation without emerging as a hair color.

5. Hair and fingernails do not keep growing once someone dies.Instead, the skin shrinks, giving the appearance of further growth.

6. The color of your snot doesn't indicate if you have a bacterial or viral infection — It can vary from
clear to yellow to green with avariety of illnesses.

7. Pure water doesn't conduct electricity well. The reason we can get shocked when standing in electrified water is because water we come across will be contaminated by minerals, dirt, and other things that will conduct electricity.

8. Your blood is never blue but rather dark red when it's not carrying oxygen. It only looks blue because you are seeing it through your skin.

9. Giving children sugar doesn't make them hyper. In several trials, kids were just as hyper when given sugary or sugar-free drinks.

10. Cracking your knuckles doesn't give you arthritis. Causes of osteoarthritis include age,injury, obesity, and genetics.

11. Stress doesn't play a large role in chronic high blood pressure. Acute stress can temporarily increase blood pressure, but overall it's not a main cause of hypertension. Things like genetics, smoking, and a bad diet are much
bigger factors.

12. Lightning does strike twice. And some places, like the Empire State Building, get struck up to 100 times a year.

13. HIV probably didn't jump to humans through human-monkey sex, but through hunting of monkeys for food that led to blood-to-blood contact.

14. Dogs and cats don't see in shades of grey. They can see in blue and green. Dogs have a wider field of vision than humans but cannot see as far in front of them as we can.

15. This is one of the most important one people should know. People don't use "just 10%" of their brains. We use the entire brain for different processes at different times. We couldn't survive if we scooped out 90% of it.

16. There is no such thing as someone having a "photographic" memory — only very good memories. Even people with exceptional or autobiographic memories don't recall events with visual details precise enough to mimic a camera.

17. Microwave radiation won't cause cancer, it just heats food up. In fact only a few types of radiation cause cancer, and these dependon the dose — just like radiation from the sun can cause skin cancer but just enough helps your body make Vitamin D.

18. Goldfish actually have pretty good memories. They can remember things for months, not seconds like most people say.

19. One gene does not equal one protein. Many genes make multiple different proteins, depending on how the mRNA from the gene is sequenced and cut up in the cell. Some genes don't make proteins at all.

20. You are not born with all of the brain cells you will ever have. There is ample evidence that the brain continues to produce new cells in at least a few brain regions well into adulthood, through a process called neurogenesis.

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Actually, What They Mean By 10% Is Not Space But Capacity. So, That Would Mean That The Brain's Capacity For Cognitive Function Is Never Utilized Simply Because, The More We Use, The More It Increases. So, For Instance, If You Speak 1 Language, Your Present Brain Can Take Just 9 More. But When You Can Now Speak 10 Languages, It Becomes Possible To Speak Up To Hundred. So The Whole Point Is Still, At Any Given Time, The Capacity Of The Brain Is 90% Free. Your Brain Just Won't Let You Use Up It's Ram Or Rom Significantly. And We Don't Yet Know Why. Oh, And Btw, Never Use The Word "probably" In A Fact.

Nice one. your no 17 brings me to this question; I heard photocopiers, printer and some other electrical appliances emits radiation, how bad are there to our health?

kemiola89:
Nice one. your no 17 brings me to this question; I heard photocopiers, printer and some other electrical appliances emits radiation, how bad are there to our health?

no danger. the radiation is not harmless. the sun and the earth also emit similar radiations. so, our bodies have evolved to block it.