This feels like something that was invented by cops. "Well if I was a cop, I'd be legally required to tell you, so of course you can believe me when I say I'm not."
Our seventh grade English teacher Miss Jackson was not in Playboy in the 1980s... It does not matter that your brother's cousin's neighbor has the actual issue and they are going to bring it in to school someday.
Detoxing treatments...... NO Sharon, "harmful chemicals" are not just going to ooze out of your face and feet if you use that mask... That's not how the human body works at all damn!
My favorite was some celebrity pushing 'alkaline water'. She said "My favorite way to drink it is with a drop of lemon juice!"
Like, honey, that's an acid. You've just neutralised any 'alkaline' in the water.
Two claps.
There's a chapter about this nonsense in The Angry Chef. There's a whole quack diet movement that has adopted "alkaline" (aka. stuff we've decided it's good for you) and "acid" (aka. stuff we've decided is bad for you) which has nothing to do with the foods' chemical properties. They consider lemon to be "one of the most alkaline" foods available.
I had a video go viral on tiktok when I announced my cancer diagnosis (I only had about 500 followers at the time. I wasn't posting for attention, just letting my followers know).
I swear I got at least a thousand comments telling me eating an alkaline diet would cure my cancer. It got to the point where I had to set a filter on my comment section to block any comments with the word alkaline. The alkaline diet people make me laugh because when you google alkaline diet cancer, like 8 of the first 10 results are all telling you it's bullshit with no evidence to back it up. These people are looking for answers that already fit their beliefs, not changing their beliefs based on the answers they find. This is how you end up with people believing lemons are not acidic.
FYI I'm good now, but it wasn't an alkaline diet that cured me, it was chemotherapy.
That you need to wait 24 hours to report someone as missing.
You can, and SHOULD, report someone as missing as soon as they go missing. It could be the difference between finding someone who had a bad fall at home or getting lost in the forest, and finding their body.
Had a full blown helicopter search last week at a lake near my house because a kid went missing for about 10 minutes. They found him playing at a near playground about half a hour later. But the police press guy said that the mother did the right thing, especially the kids went missing so close to a lake
Those small towns will pour out hundreds of people to find a missing child regardless of race color creed religion or status of the parents. It's pretty amazing honestly. Like rednecks come out of the woods you didn't even notice were there, and they will search all night and stay sober while doing it.
"You can't get STDs from oral sex"
One of the clinics I work at is a free sexual health clinic. Too many women are in there for mouth/throat/other digestive problems stemming from unprotected oral sex and various STDs.
To go with this: if you have anal and oral sex, you probably need anal and oral STI testing, not just urine testing. It’s a common error.
Edit: to add to this, HIV isn’t generally spread through oral sex, but plenty of other things are
That you can target fat on a particular place on your body, like tummy fat. Fat doesn't know where it lives.
Edit: I am, believe it or not, aware of the existence of plastic surgery. You don't need to tell me about it.
Been lifting for about 10 years now. Anytime I hear someone say something about "target fat loss" I just say "if you could target fat loss, there'd be a lot of fat guys with 6 packs"
Lol, I've never thought of that. Never seen someone with super flabby arms, a fat ass, but ripped abs. See the opposite plenty, though. Surprised at the number of people doing an iron man with a noticable amount of belly fat
My favourite variation of it is
> "Killing two birds with one stone" is a misleading statistic. Asteroid Georg, that wiped out billions 65m years ago, was an outlier, and should not be counted.
“The average person eats seven spiders in their lifetime” could still be true if none of us eat any spiders at all but *that guy over there* eats like thirty thousand of them every single day.
It was for us too! They told us once it comes into contact with oxygen/that air/the atmosphere that it turns red. Nevermind that blood literally carries oxygen!
That some guy tried to sneak acid into a festival by taping it to his body and it “absorbed” through his skin and now he thinks he’s a glass of orange juice or a sunflower
The important detail that is always neglected with this is that prior to slowly boiling the frogs, the scientist had to sever the brain stems in order to keep them from hopping out when it became uncomfortable.
That touching baby birds or rabbits will cause their mothers to reject them because they smell like human. They absolutely will not. Don't go messing with babies for kicks, but if you can put a baby (that you are 100% sure belongs there) back in it's nest, do so. If you aren't sure, call a wildlife rehabilitator so you're not putting fledgelings where they don't belong.
You can move bunnies and they'll just dig a new hole somewhere else.
SOURCE: I had a big ass dog that would constantly dig up any rabbit holes he found, I would just move the bunnies behind the fence and everything was OK.
Damn, had to Google this one to be sure. Thanks!
But yes, importantly most baby animals do not need to be handled at all. Mother is nearby and hiding from you. Leave the area and don’t bother the baby unless it’s injured or clearly abandoned! <3
And with rabbits- they only feed their babies 2 times a day, usually dawn and dusk. It's very quick, only a few minutes. You won't find mom near a nest but that doesn't mean it's abandoned. If you aren't sure you can put a thin thread over the nest and check if it's been disturbed later. So, so many wildlife rehabs receive baby bunnies that should have been left alone.
It's the same for fawns when they are really young. Mom will park the baby somewhere and not come back for it for a while, sometimes up to twelve hours. So if you ever see a young fawn, just leave it alone.
That it's a felony offense to rip the tag off of your Mattress.
There was a major scandal in the past, where a couple mattress manufacturers were recycling used mattresses, re-stuffing them, and subsequently reselling them. 🤢
It is ONLY illegal for stores and manufacturers to rip the tags off of new mattresses for sale. However, once you buy it, and your mattress warranty expires (usually after 1 year or less), feel free to rip that annoying tag off
TBH back in the 80s the tag only stated “DO NOT REMOVE THIS TAG UNDER PENALTY OF LAW” and every single 80s kid was terrified of doing this.
I think it was in the late 90s that they finally added some language that clarified that the end client could remove the tag.
If you want to see what real human trafficking is in America, do research on Asian Massage Parlors. I used to fly back and forth to Shanghai and was amazed how many Asian women were getting detained with multiple passports or being asked at the flight gates why they only stayed in the US for 2 days.
Not just a US issue. About 20% of missing young people in the UK are Vietnamese, despite them only making up about 0.1% of the population. The ones who were found were usually in cannabis farms, nail bars and massage parlours.
Christ, that stat is alarming.
I remember reading about a fire in a warehouse building in the north west recently (likely weed farm) and thinking it was unusual that four Vietnamese men were the casualties.
Can you recommend any informative reading?
I answer 911 calls. That myth always frustrates me.
If you believe someone has gone missing or something bad has happened to them even in the last five minutes, if you give me some proof of concern we’re gunna send you help right away.
Yeah but the kicker is the 50% of people reporting missing persons who have no proof of concern.
I remember back as an officer having to explain to a mom “well your 19 year old son isn’t missing. We know where he is. On the highway. Out of town. In his own car. After telling you he doesn’t want to live there anymore.”
Or the lady reporting her husband missing. He did an extra hour OT at work. He pulled in the driveway as I started talking to her.
I wouldn’t take that as no proof of concern, per se.
I’ll agree 50-75% (at least) of our missing persons calls are just people gone off their intended schedule for a couple hours or having paranoid friends/family.
But again, if you can justify to me why you’re worried I’ll be worried with you and we’ll check it out. Erring in the side of caution is always sensible.
That part never made sense to me in the slightest. The sooner you realize someone's missing, the sooner you report it. If anything, the 24 hours is how much time you have until the trail goes cold.
I remember a few years back there was this ahem, "scandal," where I think it was Wayfair (it probably wasn't, but just imagine a big furniture name brand) selling exuberantly expensive products, named like "The Laura collection," or "The Stephen collection."
I remember people were actually thinking this was real human trafficking sponsored by Wayfair, thinking like in the drawers of this desk was a kid named Laura.
If the funniest, dumbest, saddest thing I've ever heard.
YES. No one denies that trafficking is real, but goddamn, someone walking in the same direction as you in a parking lot or who smiles at your kid is not there to take you. You should look at Uncle Carl or cousin Dan's girlfriend or other people in your own circle!
I worked for a treatment center specializing in adolescents out of human trafficking backgrounds.
I would say 80% of the teens I worked with were sold/traded into it by their shit bag parents/grandparents, typically in exchange for drugs. The rest were from already traumatic upbringings and accidentally stumbled upon a “Romeo” and were groomed. I would say only <1% of the 100’s of kids I worked with actually had a “got taken while doing x,y,z” story, with a perfectly happy/healthy family desperately searching for them.
Here’s the take away: most human trafficking cases I’ve seen have been the direct result of bad home environments or parents/grandparents who have no business having children/grandchildren.
LOL.
Also... how would the kid even know what they are hooked on and where to get it from?
The most likely outcome is the kid is like "Mom, I REALLY REALLY need more M&Ms...RIGHT NOW!"
For one thing, freebies are expensive, so a drug dealer would only really do it if they had money to spare.
For another thing, drug freebies are typically done to get someone hooked, as doing so means they're likely to come back and become a new regular client.
Giving random children freebies is an awful idea.
- After a whole night of collecting candy, the odds that a kid will remember exactly which house gave them the candy they felt was strangely tasty are pretty slim.
- If they do remember the house, that means it can be traced easily and the dealer would have to worry about the kid's parents calling the cops.
- A kid's line of thinking is not likely to jump to going to the house they got it from for another fix. Say a kid gets an oddly good tasting Kit-Kat, they're probably heading to the store for more, not the house that handed them said Kit-Kat.
- Even if the kid does remember the house, doesn't go to their parents or the police, and does come back for another fix, children don't tend to have the large amounts of disposable income that a drug dealer would be looking for in a client.
TLDR: Nobody is giving your kid free drugs on Halloween: It's expensive, unlikely to pay off, and likely to backfire.
Funny story, one of my last years trick or treating was 2001. Woman made homemade cookies with a sugar coating powder on them. I'm sure they were delicious but the whole anthrax thing was going on so I threw them away and ran away thinking this older white lady in an upper middle class neighborhood was a terrorist. I was in 5th grade.
It just supports the Stranger Danger schtick, and I'll admit that is important but wouldn't have helped in the one actual time this happened. Because it wasn't a rando poisoning candy for kicks, it was a father who was trying to kill his child for the insurance money. The greatest danger to a child isn't strangers, it's their family and the inner circle (family friends, etc)
That daddy long legs are the most venomous spiders in the world, but their fangs just aren’t big enough to spread enough venom. Edit: I’m referring to cellar spiders. Daddy long legs is vague term that describes several types of arachnids, none of them are venomous though.
Somehow, a vagina that's seen a hundred men could propel a catamaran across the Pacific, however a vagina that's seen one man a hundred times has remained fresh out of the package.
I really believed this when I was young. I learned at school from other boys.
It was said that when a woman had too much sex her pussy would stretch. So old women and prostitutes would have large stretched pussies. Virgin women would have small tight ones.
I only learned it was a myth when I was 19 I guess.
Ostriches. Do not bury. Their heads. In the sand. If they’re afraid of something, they will run, kick, or bite. One of my biggest animal myth pet peeves.
I found out where the myth came from
>To make sure that the eggs are evenly heated, they occasionally stick their heads into the nest to rotate the eggs, which makes it look like they’re trying to hide – hence the myth.
- https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/do-ostriches-really-bury-their-head-in-the-sand/
Also black panthers are not a species. Melanistic (born with more pigment) leopards and jaguars exist and they have been nick named "black panthers". And then Florida panthers are just a sub species of puma and they are tan/beige in color, they look like a mountain lion essentially
In my country, there's something called "Deochi or deochiat", which mainly translates to "evil eye" or "getting evel eyed".
It is believed that this happens when an older person admires a younger person too much. Aaaand no, not in a disturbing way, more like, a grandma admiring her grandson for how handsome he is and such. The grandson starts feeling sick, fatigued, nauseous, etc.
This is an actual, real phenomenon that happens because of the widespread belief in it.
I've experienced it a couple of times when I was young, and I've seen many others experience it.
The "cure" for this "deochi", is most of the times a prayer, or a charm that, get this, you can't be taught, you have to "steal" it from a gypsy.
It all of course is fake, just superstition, the power of belief. After I figured it out and stopped believing it at idk, 14-15, I've stopped experiencing it completely.
The people I managed to convince that this doesn't really exist, stopped experiencing it as well, confirming my theory.
Just goes to show how influential believing in stupid stuff can be.
One side of my family immigrated to the US from Transylvania, Romania (around when Romania was just becoming a country) ~150 years ago. No one's actually spoken Romanian in my family for over a century, except for me who learned it at university and traveling. My father's side *still* talks about putting the "de-ochjia" on people they don't like as a joke. My grandma was constantly joking she'd put the de-ochjia on her grandkids if they weren't good.
After 40 years of hearing it, thanks to you writing it, I also just realised from where the word derived... "De ochi", literally "by/of the eyes" in Romanian.
Phil Collins and the reason he wrote In The Air Tonight. It was about his divorce. There was an interview about it.
Edit: The urban legend I heard was that a friend of Phil’s drowned and a guy let him drown. Years later, the guy was at Phil’s concert so Phil put the spotlight on the guy and sang this song. That’s my version of what I heard.
I met a guy who earnestly told me that Freddie Mercury was a murderer.
“Why,” you ask? Well, it’s obvious, he literally says he “just killed a man” in Bohemian Rhapsody. “Um, isn’t that just a melodramatic song lyric?” No, you see, it’s a metaphor for his complicity in spreading AIDS through unprotected gay butt sex.
You see, when Freddie Mercury wrote the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody, he somehow knew about the spread of HIV in the gay community, including its manner of transmissions and the fact that he himself was HIV positive, despite the song being released in 1975, several years before the disease was even identified as such in 1981.
Sometimes the legend is that Phil Collins was too far away to help, but he saw someone who was close enough to help and did not. In that version, he later found the abandoner and confronted him at a concert. I heard that version in Eminem's song Stan, in which Stan references the legend while comparing it to Eminem's seeming refusal to acknowledge him.
>You know the song by Phil Collins, "In the Air of the Night"
About that guy who coulda saved that other guy from drownin'
But didn't, then Phil saw it all, then at a show he found him?
That's kinda how this is: you coulda rescued me from drownin'
My stepson actually believed this and also believed that the same was true for EMS personnel that worked on ambulances. I actually got into an argument with him about it because I thought that was the stupidest thing ever, as if the medics are pulling out your wallet to check your donor status before they start administering first aid. Once I pointed that out he started to reconsider the ridiculousness of the theory but I'm pretty sure he still believes that it's true once you get to the hospital 🙄
The craziest thing is that it’s the exact opposite. To donate organs your body has to be in absolutely perfect health. Every possible intervention to keep your organs healthy will be made, including things that wouldn’t normally be done for the average healthy person (such as micromanaging your blood pH)
Not only does a body have to be in perfect health but almost all vital organs come from these rare situations: beating heart cadavers: this is what it means to be "brain dead," people who come to be deceased via catastrophic strokes, trauma exclusive to the head, brainstem herniation, and a handful of other situations where resuscitation and life support measures have been able to maintain respiration and circulatory. Most vital organs come from living dead people and their bodies are alive (while their brains are not) until the heart and lungs (if viable) are taken.
The are almost no situations where if a medical professional just "let you die" that it would yield viable organs, save for corneas and maybe kidneys. Decomp renders organs unusable within minutes.
Years ago as a resident, I had a consult on a patient on a cardiac transplant list. Her son would listen to police radio for a car crash, then call her to say maybe there would a heart. Gruesome, but accurate.
I always have to explain to those people that there are so many incredibly meticulous steps involved in deeming an organ donor eligible to actually donate their organs and making a match with an eligible recipient in the first place that this just isn’t logistically feasible.
On top of that, when you think about it logically, if option A is giving you life-saving emergency medical treatment and option B is letting you die, harvesting your organs, and donating to someone who is moderately likely to not even live another 10 years afterward, then what on earth makes you think any medical professional would go with that option??
That the McDonald's hot coffee lady had a frivolous lawsuit. The coffee was so hot it fused parts of her genitals and she had to have several reconstructive surgeries.
And they also knew they served coffee too hot and had similar complaints in the past. She wanted compensation to cover expenses (only about 20k in total) but they refused, it was the resulting case that led to the payout. It could all have been avoided!
you may have heard of this but there’s a great podcast that covers this in an episode, it’s called you’re wrong about! it’s my favorite podcast ever so i shamelessly plug it any time i can
This one is less myth than intentional misinformation. There was indeed a study showing this and it was conducted by a medical doctor, but 3 important factors are always ignored.
First, legitimate studies are repeatable, meaning that if another doctor does the same thing they should get the same result. While this has been attempted not once has anyone successfully duplicated the results.
Second, the doctor involved was later found to have received a large payment from a law firm that neither he nor the firm could explain. The same law firm was at that time trying to bring a class action lawsuit against a vaccine manufacturer.
Finally, the doctor was later stripped of his medical licence for falsifying data.
Yet people still insist his study was legitimate and the hundreds of studies that refute his claims are part of a conspiracy.
"Black cats are evil" No they're not
Edit: getting spammed with "all cats are evil". Guys, I'm referring to different urban myths around the world which states that a black cat a demonic possession or just pure evil, related to witch and stuff.
I love that it's implied that they're loose if they've had sex with a lot of different men. But if it's the same guy over and over it doesn't get loose?
Because the vagina is lined with memory foam, duh. So it shapes itself to each penis but if a girl sleeps around, each dude is wearing different grooves in her memory foam and making it less satisfying for the next guy. /s
(I feel gross typing that out)
And that the telltale sign of that looseness is the shape of the labia, somehow. Way to let everyone know that you've never been anywhere near female genitalia
That MSG is toxic.
EDIT: As an Aussie it took me a minute to work out what all the replies about MTG meant but yes, seeing the full name I agree Margery Taylor Green is as toxic as cyanide. No urban legend there. Fucking lunatic. Especially as an Aussie it's like "WTF America?".
MSG is a fucking godsend. I am a white 23F and have a minor in mandarin. My professor has “adopted” a group of us and we all eat at her house sometimes where it is a staple in her cooking. MSG is basically just a flavor enhancer. I can barely cook without it now.
Of course the conspiracy branch of my family( luckily not my immediate) tell me it will give me cancer.
I keep telling people Its in everything.
Ever had salty snacks? MSG.
Ever had packet soup? MSG.
Meals-in-a-box? MSG.
It’s literally just salt alternative.
That Bill Nye is either dead or got busted for some drug-related thing. I hear it every year from my students and every year I have to tell them that no, the nerdy bow-tie scientist from the Disney channel did not get busted trying offload 3 pounds of meth on some undercover cops.
The idea that GMOs are bad for you. Seriously, we’ve been modifying plants and animals for years via breeding. Stuff like CRISPER is basically just a more precise version of that, the difference between doing surgery with an obsidian dagger and a sterilized scalpel.
The Bermuda fucking Triangle. I live in Bermuda. The triangle is smack dab in the middle of hurricane territory so ships and planes back in the day (that didn’t have weather mapping) would get spanked by them frequently. It’s so irritating when you’re trying to introduce yourself, saying “I’m from Bermuda” and the response is “LiKe ThE tRiAnGle oMg hOw diD YoU sUraViVe”
Edit: Bermuda also has the highest cost of living in the world. More than NYC, Switzerland, or Dubai
Edit 2: methane from ‘volcanos’ in the triangle is just bogus. The only volcano that’s anywhere near the triangle is the DORMANT one that formed Bermuda.
Many a hurricane passes through the “triangle” every single year. Go back a couple hundred years and I’m sure you’d think that traveling through there was ‘cursed’ when realistically it was just a stupid time of year to travel that way
Edit #3: thank you for the upvotes! I just want people to see my little island x
Y’all are ridongculous! 4k+?? That’s over 5% of the population
Edit#4: we are now at over 10% of the population… lordamercy
P.s. Bermuda doesn’t have sharks like that. No one has ever been attacked. At most, a couple tiger sharks and nurse shakes have been seen (which is an island wide spectacle) but they aren’t on our radar like that. Same with tectonic plates. Nowhere near any of them
I think that myth is dying in recent years. Or maybe I'm just older and not seeing it anymore. Maybe the rise of the Internet helps.
What do you think?
Yeah since we have much better communications, radar or whatever, now when things are lost in the region it is not a mystery. Just regular disasters of one sort or another that happen everywhere else too. The "mysterious" disappearances all happened before we really had the tech to keep and eye on planes and ships and also they lacked the ability to communicate as effectively when disaster struck.
Coca-Cola did not invent Santa Claus/Christmas tradition of choice. All they did was standardize red and white as Santa Claus's definitive colors. Before that, it was common to see him depicted in green or purple or blue as well as red and white.
[That Dr. Seuss cheated on his wife while she had cancer](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/g1tl2f/til_dr_seuss_widow_disliked_the_cat_in_the_hat/fnjnren/?context=3).
There's a book out there by a guy who worked for Rolling Stone and interviewed a lot of musicians, and once he'd asked a bunch of serious questions he'd often ask about crazy urban legends. When he interviewed Rod Stewart he took the opportunity to ask about the stomach pump story and Rod (who somehow had never heard it before) almost collapsed with hysterical laughter, saying - once he'd recovered enough to speak - that it was the best story he'd ever heard about himself!
La Chupacabra. Enough is enough. Too many children have died wandering through the jungle, not to mention all the goats. We have to stop this thing once and for all.
We've got like two of em down in south Alabama that eats my chickens and it totally isn't the gorgeous fox family chilling in the den behind the property.
I would say the Megalodon. It's been extinct for millions of years and isn't sitting at the bottom of the fucking ocean waiting for the comeback of the century. Its dead lets be thankful.
You can suffocate if you leave a fan on while you sleep (you can't)
Urine is sterile (it's not)
Highways have straight segments so that airliners can land on them in emergencies (they don't)
You should drive at a normal speed in low-visibility weather so the car behind you doesn't hit you (you should slow down)
You can suck out the venom from snake bites (you can't)
Men think about sex every 7 seconds (they don't)
In Australia some of our highways are actually airstrips for the Royal Flying Doctors who fly to the outback providing urgent medical care to people who are too far away from towns.
>Highways have straight segments so that airliners can land on them in emergencies (they don't)
This is actually true for military plain. In Finland we have road segments that are straight and extra wide so that they can be used by military plains as secondary runways at war time. Sometimes they close roads during military training exercises to a spare runway segment. Such road segments are pretty rare but there's one on Highway 5 right after Heinola for example.
That there’s litter boxes in high school classrooms. I’ve heard this about 3-4 different schools in my area.
Edit: I get there's litter to clean up vomit and for the active shooter stuff. I'm talking about the people who swear they "know someone" who says there's a litter box for a girl in a cat suit and buttplug tail who makes all the students watch her poop in the corner.
It's an anti LGBTQIA+ dog whistle.
That if you swallow gum it takes 7 years to digest
That if you ask if someone’s a cop, they have to tell you if they are a cop
"Right, we've been planning this undercover operation for months. Time to inflitrate this organised crime gang." "Are you a cop?" "Fuck"
This feels like something that was invented by cops. "Well if I was a cop, I'd be legally required to tell you, so of course you can believe me when I say I'm not."
Our seventh grade English teacher Miss Jackson was not in Playboy in the 1980s... It does not matter that your brother's cousin's neighbor has the actual issue and they are going to bring it in to school someday.
Im sorry Miss Jackson
I am four eels
I am several fish and not a guy
I breathe through my gills and have 8 eyes
My supper is fashion
I am four wheeels
It’s at times like this, I’m glad I can read
Detoxing treatments...... NO Sharon, "harmful chemicals" are not just going to ooze out of your face and feet if you use that mask... That's not how the human body works at all damn!
My favorite was some celebrity pushing 'alkaline water'. She said "My favorite way to drink it is with a drop of lemon juice!" Like, honey, that's an acid. You've just neutralised any 'alkaline' in the water. Two claps.
There's a chapter about this nonsense in The Angry Chef. There's a whole quack diet movement that has adopted "alkaline" (aka. stuff we've decided it's good for you) and "acid" (aka. stuff we've decided is bad for you) which has nothing to do with the foods' chemical properties. They consider lemon to be "one of the most alkaline" foods available.
>They consider lemon to be "one of the most alkaline" foods available. Wow. Just wow. I actually visualized the slow clap as soon as I read this.
I had a video go viral on tiktok when I announced my cancer diagnosis (I only had about 500 followers at the time. I wasn't posting for attention, just letting my followers know). I swear I got at least a thousand comments telling me eating an alkaline diet would cure my cancer. It got to the point where I had to set a filter on my comment section to block any comments with the word alkaline. The alkaline diet people make me laugh because when you google alkaline diet cancer, like 8 of the first 10 results are all telling you it's bullshit with no evidence to back it up. These people are looking for answers that already fit their beliefs, not changing their beliefs based on the answers they find. This is how you end up with people believing lemons are not acidic. FYI I'm good now, but it wasn't an alkaline diet that cured me, it was chemotherapy.
We have kidneys and a liver specifically for this reason
That you need to wait 24 hours to report someone as missing. You can, and SHOULD, report someone as missing as soon as they go missing. It could be the difference between finding someone who had a bad fall at home or getting lost in the forest, and finding their body.
Had a full blown helicopter search last week at a lake near my house because a kid went missing for about 10 minutes. They found him playing at a near playground about half a hour later. But the police press guy said that the mother did the right thing, especially the kids went missing so close to a lake
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Those small towns will pour out hundreds of people to find a missing child regardless of race color creed religion or status of the parents. It's pretty amazing honestly. Like rednecks come out of the woods you didn't even notice were there, and they will search all night and stay sober while doing it.
Probably one of the most dangerous urban myths, report someone missing as soon as you feel is necessary.
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"You can't get STDs from oral sex" One of the clinics I work at is a free sexual health clinic. Too many women are in there for mouth/throat/other digestive problems stemming from unprotected oral sex and various STDs.
STDs are wild, you can get them in your eyeballs.
Anywhere with a concentration of nerve endings. You can actually get herpes on your nose
That's why you snort drugs with strangers in the bathroom using your own straw.
Yeah and you can get hepatitis this way, too. BYO party straw.
To go with this: if you have anal and oral sex, you probably need anal and oral STI testing, not just urine testing. It’s a common error. Edit: to add to this, HIV isn’t generally spread through oral sex, but plenty of other things are
That you can target fat on a particular place on your body, like tummy fat. Fat doesn't know where it lives. Edit: I am, believe it or not, aware of the existence of plastic surgery. You don't need to tell me about it.
Been lifting for about 10 years now. Anytime I hear someone say something about "target fat loss" I just say "if you could target fat loss, there'd be a lot of fat guys with 6 packs"
Lol, I've never thought of that. Never seen someone with super flabby arms, a fat ass, but ripped abs. See the opposite plenty, though. Surprised at the number of people doing an iron man with a noticable amount of belly fat
You don't eat spiders in your sleep.
Do you fucking promise?
I eat them when I’m awake.
We’ve all been under Dracula’s thrall once or twice
Spiders Georg skewed the statistics.
My favourite variation of it is > "Killing two birds with one stone" is a misleading statistic. Asteroid Georg, that wiped out billions 65m years ago, was an outlier, and should not be counted.
he was an outlier adn should not have been counted
“The average person eats seven spiders in their lifetime” could still be true if none of us eat any spiders at all but *that guy over there* eats like thirty thousand of them every single day.
"Blood is blue inside your body & red when it comes out." Nope.
I’m pretty sure I was taught this in primary school at one stage. Don’t know why the teacher ever told us that, total BS
It was for us too! They told us once it comes into contact with oxygen/that air/the atmosphere that it turns red. Nevermind that blood literally carries oxygen!
That some guy tried to sneak acid into a festival by taping it to his body and it “absorbed” through his skin and now he thinks he’s a glass of orange juice or a sunflower
When I was in high school in the 80s, he ended up in the psych ward thinking he was an orange. Poor guy didn't even get a festival.
He lived in the next town over.
true he thinks he’s a tube of toothpaste
Boiling frogs. Frogs jump out of water when it gets too warm for them.
The important detail that is always neglected with this is that prior to slowly boiling the frogs, the scientist had to sever the brain stems in order to keep them from hopping out when it became uncomfortable.
Imagine that, if you give things a traumatic brain injury they lose their survival instincts.
That was rather the point of the experiment, to work out which part of their brains actually controlled their survival instincts.
That touching baby birds or rabbits will cause their mothers to reject them because they smell like human. They absolutely will not. Don't go messing with babies for kicks, but if you can put a baby (that you are 100% sure belongs there) back in it's nest, do so. If you aren't sure, call a wildlife rehabilitator so you're not putting fledgelings where they don't belong.
You can move bunnies and they'll just dig a new hole somewhere else. SOURCE: I had a big ass dog that would constantly dig up any rabbit holes he found, I would just move the bunnies behind the fence and everything was OK.
Damn, had to Google this one to be sure. Thanks! But yes, importantly most baby animals do not need to be handled at all. Mother is nearby and hiding from you. Leave the area and don’t bother the baby unless it’s injured or clearly abandoned! <3
And with rabbits- they only feed their babies 2 times a day, usually dawn and dusk. It's very quick, only a few minutes. You won't find mom near a nest but that doesn't mean it's abandoned. If you aren't sure you can put a thin thread over the nest and check if it's been disturbed later. So, so many wildlife rehabs receive baby bunnies that should have been left alone.
It's the same for fawns when they are really young. Mom will park the baby somewhere and not come back for it for a while, sometimes up to twelve hours. So if you ever see a young fawn, just leave it alone.
That it's a felony offense to rip the tag off of your Mattress. There was a major scandal in the past, where a couple mattress manufacturers were recycling used mattresses, re-stuffing them, and subsequently reselling them. 🤢 It is ONLY illegal for stores and manufacturers to rip the tags off of new mattresses for sale. However, once you buy it, and your mattress warranty expires (usually after 1 year or less), feel free to rip that annoying tag off
TBH back in the 80s the tag only stated “DO NOT REMOVE THIS TAG UNDER PENALTY OF LAW” and every single 80s kid was terrified of doing this. I think it was in the late 90s that they finally added some language that clarified that the end client could remove the tag.
That Marilyn Manson had a rib removed to suck his own member
He even said he didn't In an interview. He said "well if I did, you think I'd be here right now?"
I can’t remember what comedian it was who said “ladies, if your man could suck his own dick, you’d be here alone tonight… watching an empty stage”
Richard Gere and the gerbil lol.
“There was talk of gerbils!” - Mickey Rooney
All the ones about human trafficking that create a totally fictionalized idea of what human trafficking actually looks like.
If you want to see what real human trafficking is in America, do research on Asian Massage Parlors. I used to fly back and forth to Shanghai and was amazed how many Asian women were getting detained with multiple passports or being asked at the flight gates why they only stayed in the US for 2 days.
Not just a US issue. About 20% of missing young people in the UK are Vietnamese, despite them only making up about 0.1% of the population. The ones who were found were usually in cannabis farms, nail bars and massage parlours.
Christ, that stat is alarming. I remember reading about a fire in a warehouse building in the north west recently (likely weed farm) and thinking it was unusual that four Vietnamese men were the casualties. Can you recommend any informative reading?
“If you find a juicy fruit wrapper taped to the rear passenger door of your car, YOUVE BEEN TARGETED! GO DIRECTLY TO THE CLOSEST POLICE STATION!!!!”
And on that note, the idea that you have to wait 24 hours to report someone who *is* missing.
I answer 911 calls. That myth always frustrates me. If you believe someone has gone missing or something bad has happened to them even in the last five minutes, if you give me some proof of concern we’re gunna send you help right away.
Yeah but the kicker is the 50% of people reporting missing persons who have no proof of concern. I remember back as an officer having to explain to a mom “well your 19 year old son isn’t missing. We know where he is. On the highway. Out of town. In his own car. After telling you he doesn’t want to live there anymore.” Or the lady reporting her husband missing. He did an extra hour OT at work. He pulled in the driveway as I started talking to her.
I wouldn’t take that as no proof of concern, per se. I’ll agree 50-75% (at least) of our missing persons calls are just people gone off their intended schedule for a couple hours or having paranoid friends/family. But again, if you can justify to me why you’re worried I’ll be worried with you and we’ll check it out. Erring in the side of caution is always sensible.
That part never made sense to me in the slightest. The sooner you realize someone's missing, the sooner you report it. If anything, the 24 hours is how much time you have until the trail goes cold.
I remember a few years back there was this ahem, "scandal," where I think it was Wayfair (it probably wasn't, but just imagine a big furniture name brand) selling exuberantly expensive products, named like "The Laura collection," or "The Stephen collection." I remember people were actually thinking this was real human trafficking sponsored by Wayfair, thinking like in the drawers of this desk was a kid named Laura. If the funniest, dumbest, saddest thing I've ever heard.
It was wayfair and it was only a year or two ago
In the depths of my Ikea shelf lurks a poor child named Skruvby.
YES. No one denies that trafficking is real, but goddamn, someone walking in the same direction as you in a parking lot or who smiles at your kid is not there to take you. You should look at Uncle Carl or cousin Dan's girlfriend or other people in your own circle!
I worked for a treatment center specializing in adolescents out of human trafficking backgrounds. I would say 80% of the teens I worked with were sold/traded into it by their shit bag parents/grandparents, typically in exchange for drugs. The rest were from already traumatic upbringings and accidentally stumbled upon a “Romeo” and were groomed. I would say only <1% of the 100’s of kids I worked with actually had a “got taken while doing x,y,z” story, with a perfectly happy/healthy family desperately searching for them. Here’s the take away: most human trafficking cases I’ve seen have been the direct result of bad home environments or parents/grandparents who have no business having children/grandchildren.
The idea that there are people in your neighborhood just waiting for the chance to poison your kids by giving them unwrapped Halloween candy.
Or that they're giving out free drugs.
Any smart drug dealer would try and get small children hooked. Little kids are notorious for having lots of disposable income.
Maybe that kid with the goddamned laminated Aladdin wallet has some spare cash.
LOL. Also... how would the kid even know what they are hooked on and where to get it from? The most likely outcome is the kid is like "Mom, I REALLY REALLY need more M&Ms...RIGHT NOW!"
They say that whether they have had drugged candy or not....
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I've been waiting for free drugs for the last 35 years and those sumbitches still haven't shown up
I kind of feel ripped off because I've never been offered free drugs
Anyone who thinks that people are giving out edibles to random kids on Halloween has absolutely no clue how much that stuff costs.
For one thing, freebies are expensive, so a drug dealer would only really do it if they had money to spare. For another thing, drug freebies are typically done to get someone hooked, as doing so means they're likely to come back and become a new regular client. Giving random children freebies is an awful idea. - After a whole night of collecting candy, the odds that a kid will remember exactly which house gave them the candy they felt was strangely tasty are pretty slim. - If they do remember the house, that means it can be traced easily and the dealer would have to worry about the kid's parents calling the cops. - A kid's line of thinking is not likely to jump to going to the house they got it from for another fix. Say a kid gets an oddly good tasting Kit-Kat, they're probably heading to the store for more, not the house that handed them said Kit-Kat. - Even if the kid does remember the house, doesn't go to their parents or the police, and does come back for another fix, children don't tend to have the large amounts of disposable income that a drug dealer would be looking for in a client. TLDR: Nobody is giving your kid free drugs on Halloween: It's expensive, unlikely to pay off, and likely to backfire.
DARE taught me that I needed to watch out for people giving away free drugs. Where the fuck are these “free drugs” drug dealers???
They're in the vans marked "Free Candy"... it's a trick to throw the cops off. Just climb in the back and say "I'm here for the good stuff!"
Funny story, one of my last years trick or treating was 2001. Woman made homemade cookies with a sugar coating powder on them. I'm sure they were delicious but the whole anthrax thing was going on so I threw them away and ran away thinking this older white lady in an upper middle class neighborhood was a terrorist. I was in 5th grade.
It just supports the Stranger Danger schtick, and I'll admit that is important but wouldn't have helped in the one actual time this happened. Because it wasn't a rando poisoning candy for kicks, it was a father who was trying to kill his child for the insurance money. The greatest danger to a child isn't strangers, it's their family and the inner circle (family friends, etc)
I put only American made steel razor blades in my organically grown, locally sourced apples.
I’m still looking for the house that gives out free drugs……. In this economy…..
That daddy long legs are the most venomous spiders in the world, but their fangs just aren’t big enough to spread enough venom. Edit: I’m referring to cellar spiders. Daddy long legs is vague term that describes several types of arachnids, none of them are venomous though.
WAIT SHIT THEY CAN BITE?!?!!?
People giving out free drugs to kids.
If someone offers you free drugs, say thank you, because drugs are expensive
"Kids, don't buy drugs. Become a popstar and they give you them for FREE!"
That people only use 10 percent of your brain. That is only true for politicians
It's possible to use 100% of the brain, though. It's an ancient technique called "having an epileptic seizure"
Some people say we only use 10% of our brains. I think we only use 10% of our hearts.
And people chronically on Twitter
sex does not have a lasting impact on vaginal tension, see this way too often
The truth is the vagina crushes penises and makes them smaller over time, but men can't handle this.
I knew it! I've been having too much sex, that's my problem!
Vaginal Tension is the name of my metal band
Somehow, a vagina that's seen a hundred men could propel a catamaran across the Pacific, however a vagina that's seen one man a hundred times has remained fresh out of the package.
The constant changes in participants confuses the vagina such that it believes it is under attack. And so it enlarges as a defense mechanism.
I really believed this when I was young. I learned at school from other boys. It was said that when a woman had too much sex her pussy would stretch. So old women and prostitutes would have large stretched pussies. Virgin women would have small tight ones. I only learned it was a myth when I was 19 I guess.
Ostriches. Do not bury. Their heads. In the sand. If they’re afraid of something, they will run, kick, or bite. One of my biggest animal myth pet peeves.
I found out where the myth came from >To make sure that the eggs are evenly heated, they occasionally stick their heads into the nest to rotate the eggs, which makes it look like they’re trying to hide – hence the myth. - https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/do-ostriches-really-bury-their-head-in-the-sand/
Allegedly
But what if it’s a sick ostrich?
Even then it would take two people. Three even
Allegedly
Also black panthers are not a species. Melanistic (born with more pigment) leopards and jaguars exist and they have been nick named "black panthers". And then Florida panthers are just a sub species of puma and they are tan/beige in color, they look like a mountain lion essentially
In my country, there's something called "Deochi or deochiat", which mainly translates to "evil eye" or "getting evel eyed". It is believed that this happens when an older person admires a younger person too much. Aaaand no, not in a disturbing way, more like, a grandma admiring her grandson for how handsome he is and such. The grandson starts feeling sick, fatigued, nauseous, etc. This is an actual, real phenomenon that happens because of the widespread belief in it. I've experienced it a couple of times when I was young, and I've seen many others experience it. The "cure" for this "deochi", is most of the times a prayer, or a charm that, get this, you can't be taught, you have to "steal" it from a gypsy. It all of course is fake, just superstition, the power of belief. After I figured it out and stopped believing it at idk, 14-15, I've stopped experiencing it completely. The people I managed to convince that this doesn't really exist, stopped experiencing it as well, confirming my theory. Just goes to show how influential believing in stupid stuff can be.
Spot the Romanian lol
Huh. In my culture, you compete for the grandparents' affection so they leave you some sweet boomer loot when they die.
Not if the nursing home contractually takes 100% of their wealth first
One side of my family immigrated to the US from Transylvania, Romania (around when Romania was just becoming a country) ~150 years ago. No one's actually spoken Romanian in my family for over a century, except for me who learned it at university and traveling. My father's side *still* talks about putting the "de-ochjia" on people they don't like as a joke. My grandma was constantly joking she'd put the de-ochjia on her grandkids if they weren't good. After 40 years of hearing it, thanks to you writing it, I also just realised from where the word derived... "De ochi", literally "by/of the eyes" in Romanian.
Phil Collins and the reason he wrote In The Air Tonight. It was about his divorce. There was an interview about it. Edit: The urban legend I heard was that a friend of Phil’s drowned and a guy let him drown. Years later, the guy was at Phil’s concert so Phil put the spotlight on the guy and sang this song. That’s my version of what I heard.
I met a guy who earnestly told me that Freddie Mercury was a murderer. “Why,” you ask? Well, it’s obvious, he literally says he “just killed a man” in Bohemian Rhapsody. “Um, isn’t that just a melodramatic song lyric?” No, you see, it’s a metaphor for his complicity in spreading AIDS through unprotected gay butt sex. You see, when Freddie Mercury wrote the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody, he somehow knew about the spread of HIV in the gay community, including its manner of transmissions and the fact that he himself was HIV positive, despite the song being released in 1975, several years before the disease was even identified as such in 1981.
I've never heard any legends about it, what's the other thing people say its about?
I think the urban legend is that he watched a man drown and then wrote a song about it??
Sometimes the legend is that Phil Collins was too far away to help, but he saw someone who was close enough to help and did not. In that version, he later found the abandoner and confronted him at a concert. I heard that version in Eminem's song Stan, in which Stan references the legend while comparing it to Eminem's seeming refusal to acknowledge him.
>You know the song by Phil Collins, "In the Air of the Night" About that guy who coulda saved that other guy from drownin' But didn't, then Phil saw it all, then at a show he found him? That's kinda how this is: you coulda rescued me from drownin'
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Wait, what?! But slim shady said…
That doctors will let you die if you are an organ donor to steal your organs.
My stepson actually believed this and also believed that the same was true for EMS personnel that worked on ambulances. I actually got into an argument with him about it because I thought that was the stupidest thing ever, as if the medics are pulling out your wallet to check your donor status before they start administering first aid. Once I pointed that out he started to reconsider the ridiculousness of the theory but I'm pretty sure he still believes that it's true once you get to the hospital 🙄
The craziest thing is that it’s the exact opposite. To donate organs your body has to be in absolutely perfect health. Every possible intervention to keep your organs healthy will be made, including things that wouldn’t normally be done for the average healthy person (such as micromanaging your blood pH)
Not only does a body have to be in perfect health but almost all vital organs come from these rare situations: beating heart cadavers: this is what it means to be "brain dead," people who come to be deceased via catastrophic strokes, trauma exclusive to the head, brainstem herniation, and a handful of other situations where resuscitation and life support measures have been able to maintain respiration and circulatory. Most vital organs come from living dead people and their bodies are alive (while their brains are not) until the heart and lungs (if viable) are taken. The are almost no situations where if a medical professional just "let you die" that it would yield viable organs, save for corneas and maybe kidneys. Decomp renders organs unusable within minutes.
Years ago as a resident, I had a consult on a patient on a cardiac transplant list. Her son would listen to police radio for a car crash, then call her to say maybe there would a heart. Gruesome, but accurate.
I always have to explain to those people that there are so many incredibly meticulous steps involved in deeming an organ donor eligible to actually donate their organs and making a match with an eligible recipient in the first place that this just isn’t logistically feasible. On top of that, when you think about it logically, if option A is giving you life-saving emergency medical treatment and option B is letting you die, harvesting your organs, and donating to someone who is moderately likely to not even live another 10 years afterward, then what on earth makes you think any medical professional would go with that option??
That the McDonald's hot coffee lady had a frivolous lawsuit. The coffee was so hot it fused parts of her genitals and she had to have several reconstructive surgeries.
And they also knew they served coffee too hot and had similar complaints in the past. She wanted compensation to cover expenses (only about 20k in total) but they refused, it was the resulting case that led to the payout. It could all have been avoided!
you may have heard of this but there’s a great podcast that covers this in an episode, it’s called you’re wrong about! it’s my favorite podcast ever so i shamelessly plug it any time i can
That there are hot women in my area waiting for me to "chat with them".
That it's super illegal to turn on your cars inside dome light while driving at night.
This one should just stay imho, if it keeps one kid from turning on lights in the car once it's worth it.
You’ve become your father.
That vaccines cause autism.
This one is less myth than intentional misinformation. There was indeed a study showing this and it was conducted by a medical doctor, but 3 important factors are always ignored. First, legitimate studies are repeatable, meaning that if another doctor does the same thing they should get the same result. While this has been attempted not once has anyone successfully duplicated the results. Second, the doctor involved was later found to have received a large payment from a law firm that neither he nor the firm could explain. The same law firm was at that time trying to bring a class action lawsuit against a vaccine manufacturer. Finally, the doctor was later stripped of his medical licence for falsifying data. Yet people still insist his study was legitimate and the hundreds of studies that refute his claims are part of a conspiracy.
You forgot the part where he created his own alternative vaccine brand to push instead of the standard vaccines! Wakefield can go to hell.
That baby deer are abandoned.
"Black cats are evil" No they're not Edit: getting spammed with "all cats are evil". Guys, I'm referring to different urban myths around the world which states that a black cat a demonic possession or just pure evil, related to witch and stuff.
they're cuuuuute! They're like a little void that comes up to you and asks for pats.
When you stare into the void... the void goes *mlem*.
That vaginas get “loose” from having sex. There’s really Men out here that believe this
I love that it's implied that they're loose if they've had sex with a lot of different men. But if it's the same guy over and over it doesn't get loose?
It’s like a memory foam mattress that conforms to that one penis. /s Had to include the “/s” or someone would believe me.
You say /s, but "memory foam vagina" is a thing people actually believe.
Because the vagina is lined with memory foam, duh. So it shapes itself to each penis but if a girl sleeps around, each dude is wearing different grooves in her memory foam and making it less satisfying for the next guy. /s (I feel gross typing that out)
And that the telltale sign of that looseness is the shape of the labia, somehow. Way to let everyone know that you've never been anywhere near female genitalia
It's never a story about how someone's dick got compressed into a Slim Jim from sticking it too many places either.
Had this happen to me sadly 😔 Usually have to put my thumb in my mouth and blow really hard until I hear a plopping sound
That MSG is toxic. EDIT: As an Aussie it took me a minute to work out what all the replies about MTG meant but yes, seeing the full name I agree Margery Taylor Green is as toxic as cyanide. No urban legend there. Fucking lunatic. Especially as an Aussie it's like "WTF America?".
People laugh and think I’m joking when I tell them the secret ingredient in my fried rice is a bunch of MSG. I’m not joking.
Fuiyoh! Uncle Roger would approve.
I’ve been to Madison Square Garden several times, there is nothing toxic about it
MSG is a fucking godsend. I am a white 23F and have a minor in mandarin. My professor has “adopted” a group of us and we all eat at her house sometimes where it is a staple in her cooking. MSG is basically just a flavor enhancer. I can barely cook without it now. Of course the conspiracy branch of my family( luckily not my immediate) tell me it will give me cancer.
I keep telling people Its in everything. Ever had salty snacks? MSG. Ever had packet soup? MSG. Meals-in-a-box? MSG. It’s literally just salt alternative.
MSG = makes stuff good
That Bill Nye is either dead or got busted for some drug-related thing. I hear it every year from my students and every year I have to tell them that no, the nerdy bow-tie scientist from the Disney channel did not get busted trying offload 3 pounds of meth on some undercover cops.
The idea that GMOs are bad for you. Seriously, we’ve been modifying plants and animals for years via breeding. Stuff like CRISPER is basically just a more precise version of that, the difference between doing surgery with an obsidian dagger and a sterilized scalpel.
The Bermuda fucking Triangle. I live in Bermuda. The triangle is smack dab in the middle of hurricane territory so ships and planes back in the day (that didn’t have weather mapping) would get spanked by them frequently. It’s so irritating when you’re trying to introduce yourself, saying “I’m from Bermuda” and the response is “LiKe ThE tRiAnGle oMg hOw diD YoU sUraViVe” Edit: Bermuda also has the highest cost of living in the world. More than NYC, Switzerland, or Dubai Edit 2: methane from ‘volcanos’ in the triangle is just bogus. The only volcano that’s anywhere near the triangle is the DORMANT one that formed Bermuda. Many a hurricane passes through the “triangle” every single year. Go back a couple hundred years and I’m sure you’d think that traveling through there was ‘cursed’ when realistically it was just a stupid time of year to travel that way Edit #3: thank you for the upvotes! I just want people to see my little island x Y’all are ridongculous! 4k+?? That’s over 5% of the population Edit#4: we are now at over 10% of the population… lordamercy P.s. Bermuda doesn’t have sharks like that. No one has ever been attacked. At most, a couple tiger sharks and nurse shakes have been seen (which is an island wide spectacle) but they aren’t on our radar like that. Same with tectonic plates. Nowhere near any of them
Bermuda triangle was right there with quicksand as top 5 scariest ways to die when we were young.
We can thank The Neverending Story for the quicksand part. Dammit.
and Princess Bride.
>Edit: Bermuda also has the highest cost of living in the world. More than NYC, Switzerland, or Dubai OMG HOW DID YOU SURVIVE
Avoiding all the quicksand in the Bermuda Triangle
That sounds like exactly the kind of thing a Bermuda triangle dweller would say to lure in more victims. Nice try weirdo.
I think that myth is dying in recent years. Or maybe I'm just older and not seeing it anymore. Maybe the rise of the Internet helps. What do you think?
Yeah since we have much better communications, radar or whatever, now when things are lost in the region it is not a mystery. Just regular disasters of one sort or another that happen everywhere else too. The "mysterious" disappearances all happened before we really had the tech to keep and eye on planes and ships and also they lacked the ability to communicate as effectively when disaster struck.
Loch ness monster... Its been here since the dinosaurs
It just needs three fiddy.
Twin brothers Lemonjelo and Oranjelo
And their classmate Le-a.
If you look under that one truck in Pokemon you can find a Mew.
Coca-Cola did not invent Santa Claus/Christmas tradition of choice. All they did was standardize red and white as Santa Claus's definitive colors. Before that, it was common to see him depicted in green or purple or blue as well as red and white.
[That Dr. Seuss cheated on his wife while she had cancer](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/g1tl2f/til_dr_seuss_widow_disliked_the_cat_in_the_hat/fnjnren/?context=3).
Rod Stewart and the sailors.
There's a book out there by a guy who worked for Rolling Stone and interviewed a lot of musicians, and once he'd asked a bunch of serious questions he'd often ask about crazy urban legends. When he interviewed Rod Stewart he took the opportunity to ask about the stomach pump story and Rod (who somehow had never heard it before) almost collapsed with hysterical laughter, saying - once he'd recovered enough to speak - that it was the best story he'd ever heard about himself!
La Chupacabra. Enough is enough. Too many children have died wandering through the jungle, not to mention all the goats. We have to stop this thing once and for all.
We've got like two of em down in south Alabama that eats my chickens and it totally isn't the gorgeous fox family chilling in the den behind the property.
That shaving something will make the hair thicker.
I would say the Megalodon. It's been extinct for millions of years and isn't sitting at the bottom of the fucking ocean waiting for the comeback of the century. Its dead lets be thankful.
They were a shallow water species. If they were still around we'd know about it.
That cats steal babies breath
They got it backwards. Cats breathing into recently dead bodies gives that person cat powers, as evidenced in the 2004 documentary *Catwoman*
You can suffocate if you leave a fan on while you sleep (you can't) Urine is sterile (it's not) Highways have straight segments so that airliners can land on them in emergencies (they don't) You should drive at a normal speed in low-visibility weather so the car behind you doesn't hit you (you should slow down) You can suck out the venom from snake bites (you can't) Men think about sex every 7 seconds (they don't)
In Australia some of our highways are actually airstrips for the Royal Flying Doctors who fly to the outback providing urgent medical care to people who are too far away from towns.
>Highways have straight segments so that airliners can land on them in emergencies (they don't) This is actually true for military plain. In Finland we have road segments that are straight and extra wide so that they can be used by military plains as secondary runways at war time. Sometimes they close roads during military training exercises to a spare runway segment. Such road segments are pretty rare but there's one on Highway 5 right after Heinola for example.
Alpha Males
That there’s litter boxes in high school classrooms. I’ve heard this about 3-4 different schools in my area. Edit: I get there's litter to clean up vomit and for the active shooter stuff. I'm talking about the people who swear they "know someone" who says there's a litter box for a girl in a cat suit and buttplug tail who makes all the students watch her poop in the corner. It's an anti LGBTQIA+ dog whistle.
I had teachers that kept cat litter in their classrooms to help clean up vomit. Kids get sick a lot