. The word “Bleep” was never an English term
meaning “Fornication Under Consent of King.” It
likely comes from the Dutch fokken, the German
ficken or the Norwegian fukka.

2. “420” is not the Los Angeles police code for
marijuana use. Some guys claim they invented “420”
at San Rafael High School in 1971, when a group of
stoners would go smoke under a statue every day at
4:20 PM, but who knows?

3. Napoleon Bonaparte was not short. Or well, tiny.
He was 5’7’’, which was more or less standard
height in 1821. His nickname le Petit Corporal was a
term of endearment, and not meant to be taken
literally.

4. There is no “real” you. If you treat people
poorly, or start fights in bars, or steal, or hit dogs,
or pick on the weak kid in school, you are not, nor
can you be, “actually a good person on the inside.”
You are an asshole.

5. Waking sleepwalkers does not harm them. They
may get disoriented for a bit, but it can’t hurt them.
Letting them walk around a house asleep, on the
other hand, could harm them pretty good.

6. Bulls can’t see the color red as any different from
any other bright colors. It does not enrage them.
Rather, the aggressive posturing of the matador is
what causes them to charge.

7. Humans have more than five senses. Most
humanistic social scientists (the guys who study such
things) believe they have at least nine, and some
argue up to twenty senses. In addition to touch,
taste, sight, hearing and smell, humans can sense
pain, hunger, thirst, pressure, balance, acceleration,
and time, among others.

8. Hair and fingernails do not continue growing after
people die. Rather, the skin cells surrounding the nails
and hair follicles die and shrink away, giving the
perception of growth.

9. Outside of your family and perhaps a very few
close friends, no one on earth cares that much about
you. Unless you’re a celebrity.

10. Albert Einstein never failed math in school. He
once failed an entrance exam to a gifted students’
school, but he was two years younger than everyone
else taking the test, and he aced the math and
science sections of the exam.

11. Life expectancy in the Middle Ages was low
(around 30), but that was caused by a huge infant
mortality rate. Most people who lived past infancy
didn’t die at 30. If you made it to 21 in medieval
England, your average life expectancy at that point
became 64.

12. Men don’t think about sex every seven seconds.

13. Vaccines don’t cause autism. The only study that
ever linked the two was shown to have faulty data
and the lead scientist fudged the results.

14. George Washington never had wooden teeth. His
dentures were made of gold, hippo ivory, lead, and
human teeth.

15. Also, George Washington never smoked pot. He
did grow cannabis on his property, but that was for
hemp to make clothing for his slaves.

16. Chewing gum doesn’t take seven years to digest.

In fact, you don’t digest it at all. Shoots right
18. While we’re on a Christianity kick, nowhere in
the Bible does it identify Christ’s birthday at
December 25. Bible scholars put his birthday
sometime in September, but there’s no specific date.
Pope Julius the First most likely set the December
date. He may have been tying it in to a winter
solstice festival, or celebrating the date of the
conception of Christ (nine months before the
September date of his birth).

19. The forbidden fruit is never explicitly stated to be
an apple. It’s just a fruit.

20. Jihad does not mean “holy war.” It translates
literally as “struggle.”

21. Thomas Edison didn’t invent the light bulb. His
was the first practical light bulb that could be used at
home and wouldn’t burn out, but others had invented
similar devices beforehand.

22. Dogs don’t sweat by salivating. Panting helps
cool them down, but dogs have sweat glands other
places besides their tongues, including the pads of
their feet.

23. Frankenstein wasn’t the name of the monster in
Mary Shelley’s novel. The medical student who
created him was named Frankenstein. The monster
was nameless. (Also, Frankenstein was a medical
student, not a doctor, as he is commonly referred.)

24. Drug “flashbacks” are a psychological response,
and not the result of leftover drugs being stored in
your fat cells.

25. Marilyn Monroe never said, “Well behaved
women rarely make history.” Harvard professor
Laurel Thatcher said it.
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26. Marie Antoinette did not say, “Let them eat
cake.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau first wrote the
phrase when Marie was only ten years old. Rousseau
probably made it up himself, the cad.

source: http://thoughtcatalog.com

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Awesome...
Tnkx 4 d info.. .

Ok
modified....these re amazing. Only baba God knws how many more things we believe dat aren't real.
Merry xmas Op

merry Xmas to u OP nice write up

This's why I'm creating "unlearn" to address this sort of learned untrues.

Really

Ladies, please note # 12...

Merry Xmas with God's love!!! Fastest fingers first!!! 600952764415618 (Etisalat) 8874115328715278 (Mtn) 341519889463790 (Glo)

I don't even have a clue about the stuffs listed above, talk more of believing they were actually true

Interesting

I dont agree with number 6, but I am willing to Google it and learn. If the bull is enraged by the aggressive posturing of the matador, then it should charge at the body of the matador rather than the red cloth. Also, if bulls manage to break out of their enclosures, they seem to always charge bystanders wearing red clothing first.


Also, number 9 has no correlation to the list.

Basit99:
merry Xmas to u OP nice write up

m sure u didnt read it,go tru 18 again.

interesting

adeaks:
I dont agree with number 6, but I am willing to Google it and learn. If the bull is enraged by the aggressive posturing of the matador, then it should charge at the body of the matador rather than the red cloth. Also, if bulls manage to break out of their enclosures, they seem to always charge bystanders wearing red clothing first.


Also, number 9 has no correlation to the list.

Spanish matadors began using a small
red cape, or muleta, in bullfighting around the 1700s.
Ever since, it seems, people have perpetuated the
color-charged myth that red makes bulls go wild.
An 1,800-pound bull can hook a grown man with his
horns and toss him 30 feet in the air, so the
MythBusters set out to find a way to test this myth
— carefully. They decided to put makeshift matadors
into an arena, each holding a flag of a different
color, and wait for an angry bull to see red.
The red, blue and white flags got equal, half-
hearted attacks when they were motionless. In order
to elicit an aggressive charge response from the bull,
the flags had to be waved.
Turns out, the color red isn't what causes bulls to
attack. In fact, bulls don't seem to have any color
preference at all. They'll charge whichever object is
moving the most, which means this old myth can get
tossed right out of the ring.

Many things need to be correct...

Op you forgot to add God and Jesus

Walexey:
Awesome... Tnkx 4 d info.. .

okay

let them know number 21

Alright.. Cool...

daamazing:
m sure u didnt read it,go tru 18 again.

guy believe in what u believe and lemme believe what I believe....... period

aii.

M not sure number 6 is entirely true, weneva we make survey pegs using red caution tapes @ our work sites, on our return in d mornin, d bulls in d area av scattered d pegs, so we started using yellow caution tapes n guess wat, de don't care abt d pegs n we come bak to meet dem just as we left dem.

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interesting

I learnt something new today.

Op, thanks for that.

Very informative...

Educating!..Thank you

nice

fact!

Good one. Nice!