...humans use only 10% of their brains. Right?
But how many of you know that particular piece of knowledge is patently, totally, 100% untrue. Not a hint of truth in it, not even a tiny bit. Humans don't carry around any extra gray stuff, every part of the brain does have it's function, and humans use the entire thing in their normal lifes.
I once again saw this particularly persistant urban myth repeated in a TV-show today, and that inspired me to start a thread on things that EVERYBODY knows. The thing is, that certain claims are so tempting, could have such interesting consequences if they were true, that people instantly accept them without a hint of scepticism when they hear them.
The 10% Brain use is one such piece of knowledge, and it's probably so prevalent because if we only used 10% of our brain, then there'd be all that extra there fueling our imaginations as to all sorts of paranormal and fascinatingly weird things that might lurk in that large dormant mass... And because it's such great imagination-food, and would fit, if it were true, so perfectly into so many beliefs about the supernatural, people leap at the opportunity of adapting such an interesting fact into their small-talk arsenal.
Any other facts that EVERYBODY knows that you can think of that are completely bogus?
-Jarno
Originally posted by PyrrhoThere's that one about how eskimos have 20 words for snow. Apparently they don't at all, which when you think about it is actually a lot weirder than if they did.
...humans use only 10% of their brains. Right?
But how many of you know that particular piece of knowledge is patently, totally, 100% untrue. Not a hint of truth in it, not even a tiny bit. Humans don't carry around any extra gray stuff, every part of the brain does have it's function, and humans use the entire thing in their normal lifes.
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Any other facts that EVERYBODY knows that you can think of that are completely bogus?
-Jarno
Rich.
That aliens landed and the government(s) have kept it quiet. HA HA HA HA!!!!
Have you seen the state of our governments? They couldn't stop a story like that. They leak like colanders under a high pressure hose.
Just on another note, stupid things people say, after you have found something you had lost, they say, "It's always in the last place you look, isn't it?"
Of course it is, because then YOU STOP LOOKING!!
Originally posted by steerpikeno way !
Any other facts that EVERYBODY knows that you can think of that are completely bogus?
Peope who live in the same country as me are smarter, cleaner. more patriotic, honest, generous and friendly than foreigners.
Peope who live in the same country as ME are smarter, cleaner. more patriotic, honest, generous and friendly than foreigners.
Originally posted by sanitariumI think the thing behind this one is the fact that they're such a simple organism that they can take quite a bit of radiation. However, if they were hit by the full force of a nuke then they too, along with everything else, would be toast.
that cockroachers would survive a nuclear war.
bull crap, i think bull crap would be the only thing that would survive.
Having said that it has been proven that a cockroach can take a lethal (to a human) amount of electricity and survive even though the're so much smaller.
Jim.