40 Times Conventional Wisdom Was Wrong

You did it again, didn’t you? You believed what you heard simply because some overconfident dude barged into the room spouting it loudly and proudly. In the immortal words of every mother of the past hundred years, “If your friend told you to jump off a bridge, would you?” 

The same can be said for believing random facts. Well, the saying would be more like, “If your friend told you a fact about the construction of a bridge, you wouldn’t blindly believe it, would you?” 

No, you wouldn’t! Because we have the internet now, and you don’t want to bounce around town spreading falsities now do you?