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40 Myths and Mistruths Whispered Into Humanity’s Ear by Apate, the Greek Goddess of Deceit

If you’ve ever done anything weird in front of your goldfish, don’t assume they’ve already forgotten

40 Myths and Mistruths Whispered Into Humanity’s Ear by Apate, the Greek Goddess of Deceit

October 06, 2024

The whole “dumb blonde” trope dates back to a bitter beef between burlesque dancers and suffragettes.

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Spiders

MYTH: DADDY-LONGLEGS ARE THE MOST VENOMOUS SPIDER IN THE WORLD. CRACKED COM The myth states that the deadly arachnids are harmless to humans because their fangs are in the back of their mouth, SO they can't bite us. Daddy-longlegs, otherwise known as harvestmen, not only aren't actually spiders, but they have no venom at all. — Source: Burke Museum

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Urine is sterile. It's a myth that pee is totally clean. In reality, even healthy people have some bacteria in their urine. CRACKED — Source

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Historic Mortality Rates

MYTH x Before modern medicine, people used to die at 40. FACT If people survived into young adulthood they were likely to reach their 70s and 80s just as we do today. This myth stems from people calculating the average age of death without taking high child mortality into account. CRACKED — Abraham Bloemaert/National Gallery of Art
SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine

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Female Masturbation

MYTH: Women don't masturbate More than 50% of women 18 to 49 reported masturbating during the previous, 90 days. CRACKED.COM — Source: Kinsey Institute

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Movie Trivia Everyone Gets Wrong - Myth An original ending of Scream 2 had Sidney’s boyfriend Derek and best friend Hallie as the killers. Reality It — Source: /film

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Busted Myths!

MYTH Polar bears and penguins live at the North Pole. TRUTH Polar bears and peguins don't live anywhere near other. Polar bears live in the Arctic Cir

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Beards

MYTH: SHAVING MAKES HAIR GROW B BACK THICKER. CRACKED.COM If shaving made your hair grow back faster and thicker, every teenage boy would look like Paul Bunyan. The reason this myth persists is because hair tapers as it grows, and when you cut it back you see the wider bottom portion. — Source

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Stonehenge

MYTH: Btonehenge looks the same as it has for thousands of years. TRUTH: Rearly every stone on the site was adjusted in between some way 1901 and 1964

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Fingerprints

MYTH: FInGeRPRINTS ARE ALL sUper unique. FAGT8 THEY'RE ACTUALLY WORRYINGLY SIMILAR. Your fingerprints aren't all that unique - -relatives will have ma

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Somali Pirates

Myth: Somalia has the highest rate of piracy in the world. Reality: The piracy rate in Somalia has dropped significantly since 2013. Now most pirate a

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MYTH Opossums sleep upside down and hanging by their tails. TRUTH Only baby opossums can support their weight with their tail...and only for a few seconds. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Dumb Blonde Stereotype

THE STEREOTYPE ... BLONDES ARE DUMB. BUT In REALITY ... THAT'S A MYTH ... INVENTED BY SUFFRAGETTES. A specific troupe of blonde burlesque performers m — For details, read 6 Terrible Stereotypes (That Came From Positive Things)

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Wonder Woman

AMAZONS In Wonder Woman: Amazons are enemies of Ares. In Greek myth: Amazons are the daughters of Ares. — Sources: World History Encyclopedia, Jean-Pol Grandmont

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Goldfish Memories

MYTH Goldfish have a three-second memory. x FACT Studies have proven that goldfish have a memory capacity of up to six months. CRACKED — Hans/Pixabay
American Museum of Natural History

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Nail Growth

Nails Grow After Death CRACKED.COM A common myth says nails (and hair) keep growing after death. Retracting skin may make nails and hair appear longer, but they cannot continue to grow without glucose. Ancient cultures may have come up with this myth to explain why corpses look so fabulous. — Source

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Sugar

MYTH: TOO MUCH SUGAR WILL MAKE YOU HYPER. CRACKED This myth stems from a single study in the '70s that proved one child's behavior improved when sugar was removed from their diet - go figure. Don't worry about polishing off your leftover Halloween candy before bed, although maybe consider a change in diet yourself. — Source: Association for Psychological Science

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The Dark Knight

Movie Trivia Everyone Gets Wrong - Myth Heath Ledger improvised the Hospital Explosion scene in The Dark Knight because the explosives malfunctioned. — Source

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Organic Food

MYTH: ORGANIC FOOD IS ALWAYS BETTER. Organic food has not been found to be significantly healthier than non-organic and eating the recommended serving

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Madagascar

Myth: Madagascar is all jungle and primitive tribes. Reality: It has a thriving economy with its own airlines, 5 star hotels, and shopping malls. The

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Siberia

MYTH Siberia is a frozen wasteland. REALITY Parts of Siberia have beautiful summers. Novosibirsk reached 87.80F (31C) last June. CRACKED COM

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Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen aren't identical twins. They're fraternal twins (or, technically, sororal twins), which means they grew from different En x eggs. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know: 13 Facts That’ll Exert The Old Cerebellum

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You can't revive someone who's flatlining with a defibrillator. Unlike in movies, if you actually tried to shock someone who had flatlined back into life, you wouldn't accomplish anything. The only thing that can help them is CPR. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie (And Other Cool Stuff) Now-You-Know Facts

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MYTH Roadrunners can outrun those pesky coyotes. TRUTH Roadrunners can run up to 20 mph, but coyotes can run twice as fast. CRACKED.COM — Source

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40 Myths and Mistruths Whispered Into Humanity’s Ear by Apate, the Greek Goddess of Deceit

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Owls

MYTH Owls can spin their heads around completely. TRUTH Owls can turn their heads 270 degrees in both directions. CRACKED.COM — Mental Floss

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Cleopatra is remembered as a beautiful seductress only in Europe and the U.S. In the Islamic world, she's remembered as a scholar. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Now You Know: 13 Facts That’ll Exert The Old Cerebellum

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THERE'S NO TRUTH IN TRUTH SERUMS Any individual that can hold out in normal interrogation can hold out in a drugged- state, according to the CIA. If you trust them to tell us. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mockumentaries The Terrible Truth This preachy 1951 short film proclaims weed is a gateway drug to heroin. It even ends by saying, Some say that the Reds are promoting drug traffic in the United States to undermine national morale. Right, The Terrible Truth, we're sure some say that. CRACKED.COM — Source

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40 Myths and Mistruths Whispered Into Humanity’s Ear by Apate, the Greek Goddess of Deceit — Source: National Geographic

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BELIEF: Albert Einstein failed math classes. TRUTH: Einstein confirmed he never failed math and was at the top of his class. CRACKED.COM — Source: TIME

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Nutella

MYTH Nutella is as healthy for x you as peanut butter. FACT Nutella is actually less healthy than chocolate frosting. Nutella pushed the healthy myth so far that they were actually ordered to pay out a class action lawsuit for deceptive advertising. nutella FERRERO ge der - CRACKED — Source

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MYTH Sharks can smell blood from miles away. TRUTH Sharks can smell blood from a quarter of a mile away. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lobsters

MYTH Lobsters are monogamous. TRUTH Female lobsters spend up to two weeks with a mate. CRACKED.COM — Source

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MYTH: A munchkin killed himself on The Wizard of Oz People often say that a munchkin killed themselves while they were making The Wizard of Oz, but that's not true -- it's just an urban myth. CRACKED — Source

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We might just become a lion

MYTH Lions have kings (or at least alphas). TRUTH Lions don't have a hierarchy. They live in a egalitarian society. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Brain Drain

GRACKED MYTH: MOST PEOPLE OF AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE ONLY USE 10 PERCENT OF THEIR BRAINS (AS SEEN IN: LUCY) FACT: Everyone, of varying levels of intelligence, uses 100 percent of their brain. There is no basis for this myth at all. — OECD / Wired

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LIE You can NOT collect the Triforce as an item in Ocarina of Time. Return Save Decide EST STATUS 80 sssss S shssspy TION Melody 500 to Play The item

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Movie Trivia Everyone Gets Wrong - Myth Edna Mode was based on fashion icon Edith Head. Reality The director says that’s a no. — Source

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40 Myths and Mistruths Whispered Into Humanity’s Ear by Apate, the Greek Goddess of Deceit — Source: Alaska

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The Color of Blood

MYTH: THE BLOOD LEAVING YOUR HEART IS BLUE. FAGT8 IT'S ACTUALLY DARKER RED. The myth that deoxygenated blood is blue comes from the fact that through

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