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10) The Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from space.
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To see something on Earth from space, it would have to be pretty big, which the great wall
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of China all 5,000 miles of it certainly is. But, it’s only 30 feet across at its widest.
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Here’s a photo taken from the International Space station, 200 miles above Earth. Can
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you spot the great wall amid the mountain tops?
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Here, right? No, that’s a river, the wall is actually here. Even if you guessed the
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right lines buy pure luck, this photo was taken with a zoom lens, so from the window
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of the space station it looks more like this – which pretty clearly makes the Great Wall
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count as ‘not visible.’ As for the man-made part of this misconception
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our glorious man-made cities blasting light into the void certainly are visible.
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9) Cracking your knuckles causes arthritis. Socially obnoxious? Yes. Gives you arthritis
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later in life as karmic punishment? No. 8) People Only Use 10% of their Brain
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If you haven’t seen a medical drama in the past oh, 30 years, you might not be aware
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that doctors now have machines that can see inside peoples’ brains and, contrary to
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popular, belief 90% of the neurons don’t sit all day around doing nothing.
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While scientists don’t yet know exactly what each part does, they do know that all
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the bits matter. So if you think someone could scoop out 90%
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of your brain and you’d still be just fine, then perhaps you really do only use 10% of
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it. 7) Eskimos have Hundreds of words for snow
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This one is technically correct, but misleading. Some languages, such as German, like to make
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compound words by running several smaller ones together which is why German words are
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sometimes absurdly long. Inuit languages use compound words as well
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so rather than say ‘yellow snow’ as you would in English an Inuit speaker combines
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the two words into one, but it’s not really a new word, just a quirk of grammar.
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So technically Eskimos do have 100s of ways to describe snow… but then so does every
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language. 6) You Need 8 Glasses of Water a Day
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While doubtless some people would benefit from drinking more water and drinking less
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crap there is no scientific evidence that 8 glasses of water a day is the required amount
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and some evidence that it might be too much. And while we’re talking about water…
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5) Tap Water is Bad but Bottled Water is Good If you live in a paradise free from Government
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regulations like, say, Somalia, then you might have good reason to prefer bottled water over
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tap. But modern, functioning countries have something called health regulations which
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cover both kinds of water. Also, water is extremely dense making transporting
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it from those pristine mountain tops and glaciers enormously expensive which is why bottled
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water companies don’t bother. ‘Bottled’ water is often just local tap
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water with a fancy label and an enormous markup. 4) Gum takes seven years to pass through your
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digestive system. This is pretty easy to disprove yourself but
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it’s understandable why most people don’t try the experiment.
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3) Blood in Your Veins is Blue The idea here is that the blood in veins is
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blue and it only turns red when exposed to the oxygen in the air.
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Thinking this isn’t unreasonable, after all your veins look blue and medical diagrams
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show arteries as red and veins as blue, but it’s the same mistake as thinking that mountain
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dew is green because it’s in a green bottle. Pour it out and you discover that Mountain
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Dew is really piss yellow, which is probably the reason it’s in a green bottle to begin
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with. The next time you get blood withdrawn from
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a veins take a look. What color it is? Red. How much oxygen is inside a good syringe?
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None. Unless you’re a Horseshoe crab or Plavalaguna
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you’re blood isn’t blue. 2) Fan Death
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This misconception is a specialty of South Korea. Here the belief is that if you spend
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too much time with a rotating fan in a confined space, it will use up all your oxygen and
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you’ll asphyxiate to death. Exactly how the fan made of lifeless, anaerobic
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plastic, competes for your oxygen is unclear, but hilariously South Korean fan manufacturers
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– who surely must know better – include timers on fans to prevent them from running
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too long. 1) People Swallow 8 Spiders a Year While Sleeping
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Supposedly while you’re in bed, helplessly unconscious with your gob wide open, each
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year eight spiders find their way into your mouth and you reflexively swallow them.
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This is plainly ridiculous: spiders love warm, moist places so eight is far too low an estimate.
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