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10 Completely False ‘Facts’ Everyone Knows

Postby JoshuaConcon » Thu Oct 04, 2012 12:07 pm

10: Mount Everest Is The Tallest Mountain in the World.

9: Body Heat Dissipates Mainly Through the Head.

8: The Great Wall of China Is the Only Man-made Object Visible from Space.

7: Glass Is a Slow-moving Liquid.

6: Mother Birds Will Abandon Babies if You Touch Them.

5: Different Parts of Your Tongue Detect Different Tastes.

4: People Thought the World Was Flat Before Columbus.

3: Deoxygenated Blood Is Blue.

2: Chameleons Change Color to Blend in with Surroundings.

1: Humans Have Five Senses.

Source: http://science.howstuffworks.com/scienc ... facts1.htm
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Re: 10 Completely False ‘Facts’ Everyone Knows

Postby demo123 » Thu Oct 04, 2012 12:55 pm

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Re: 10 Completely False ‘Facts’ Everyone Knows

Postby Semper » Thu Oct 04, 2012 1:03 pm

Americans are fat and dumb.
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Re: 10 Completely False ‘Facts’ Everyone Knows

Postby WolfENgang » Thu Oct 04, 2012 5:48 pm

Sort of true Semper but I don't want to say anything to offensive.
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Re: 10 Completely False ‘Facts’ Everyone Knows

Postby ChaosTLW » Thu Oct 04, 2012 5:58 pm

JoshuaConcon wrote:10: Mount Everest Is The Tallest Mountain in the World.
It is the uppermost point in the world, but not the tallest mountain.

9: Body Heat Dissipates Mainly Through the Head.
Never knew about this "fact", so I won't comment on it.

8: The Great Wall of China Is the Only Man-made Object Visible from Space.
As far as I know even the Great Wall of China isn't really visible from space.

7: Glass Is a Slow-moving Liquid.
In a sense, everything solid we know is a slow-flowing liquid.

6: Mother Birds Will Abandon Babies if You Touch Them.
Yeah, this "fact" is bullshit. People only say that this because you can go to jail if you take care of native birds without a permit, if I'm not mistaken.

5: Different Parts of Your Tongue Detect Different Tastes.
All parts of the tongue can detect all tastes, in theory, but some parts have more "taste detectors" than others.

4: People Thought the World Was Flat Before Columbus.

3: Deoxygenated Blood Is Blue.
Squid blood is blue, because it has copper on it's blood. If we removed iron and replaced it with copper then it would be blue.

2: Chameleons Change Color to Blend in with Surroundings.
They do it both to blend in with the surroudings(although only in some species) and to make social exhibitions

1: Humans Have Five Senses.

Source: http://science.howstuffworks.com/scienc ... facts1.htm


EDIT: Ooops, just now I've seen the link. lol
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Re: 10 Completely False ‘Facts’ Everyone Knows

Postby rakiru » Thu Oct 04, 2012 6:14 pm

Mount Everest is the highest mountain, while Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain.

People sometimes use stained-glass windows in churches as "evidence" that glass is a liquid, as the pieces tend to be thicker at the bottom, but they're like that because creating perfectly flat glass wasn't really possible back when they were made, and it only makes sense to put the thicker side on the bottom.

The great wall of china fact is actually that it's the only man-made object that can be seen from the moon, not space. Many man-made objects can be seen from space, including cities, motorways, railways, fields, large buildings, etc. Space is only about 100km up.

Chameleons do not change colour to blend in with their background, ever. It all depends on their emotional state.

We have upwards of 10 senses:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense

Another false fact: There are 3 states of matter. It's actually at least 15.

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Re: 10 Completely False ‘Facts’ Everyone Knows

Postby JoshuaConcon » Thu Oct 04, 2012 8:54 pm

rakiru wrote:Mount Everest is the highest mountain, while Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain.

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Re: 10 Completely False ‘Facts’ Everyone Knows

Postby ChaosTLW » Thu Oct 04, 2012 8:56 pm

JoshuaConcon wrote:
rakiru wrote:Mount Everest is the highest mountain, while Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain.

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It is actually you who deserves the facepalm, because he is right.
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Re: 10 Completely False ‘Facts’ Everyone Knows

Postby ChaosTLW » Thu Oct 04, 2012 8:56 pm

JoshuaConcon wrote:
rakiru wrote:Mount Everest is the highest mountain, while Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain.

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It is actually you who deserves the facepalm, because he is right.
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Re: 10 Completely False ‘Facts’ Everyone Knows

Postby ThisFrickinSite » Fri Oct 05, 2012 5:53 pm

Everyone knows that the 8th one isn't true...
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Re: 10 Completely False ‘Facts’ Everyone Knows

Postby rakiru » Fri Oct 05, 2012 6:07 pm

ChaosTLW wrote:
JoshuaConcon wrote:
rakiru wrote:Mount Everest is the highest mountain, while Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain.

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It is actually you who deserves the facepalm, because he is right.

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Re: 10 Completely False ‘Facts’ Everyone Knows

Postby ThisFrickinSite » Fri Oct 05, 2012 6:13 pm

rakiru wrote:The great wall of china fact is actually that it's the only man-made object that can be seen from the moon, not space. Many man-made objects can be seen from space, including cities, motorways, railways, fields, large buildings, etc. Space is only about 100km up.


I believe that the great wall of China is actually not visible from space at all because it's rocks are found in the terrain surrounding it so it actually blends in quite well.
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