40 Deceitful Myths and Misconceptions That’ll Have You Second-Guessing Your Entire Life

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40 Deceitful Myths and Misconceptions That’ll Have You Second-Guessing Your Entire Life

We feel like Morpheus offering Neo the red and the blue pill right now. 

So which is it going to be, Neo? Are you going to take this red pill of a list that will shatter your comfortable ignorance, or play it safe with the blue pill of not reading this list and keep believing a plethora of lies in fact’s clothing? 

Keep in mind that there’s no going back.

Brown Sugar

Brown sugar is not healthier than regular white sugar. vs The only difference between the two is the taste. Although the difference in taste is caused by brown sugar's containing more minerals, the amount is too small to have any sort of effect. CRACKED.COM

The Founding Fathers

CRACKED.COM MYTH: The Founding Fathers were Christians. No matter who you include as a Founding Father, not all of them were Christian. Deism (which prioritizes human experience and rationality over religious dogma and texts) had a huge influence during their time.

Guinness

CRACKED AN ELABORATE RITUAL FOR POURING GUINNESS Guinness has spread the idea that their beer needs to be poured in a very particular way, taking almost two minutes, to get the perfect pint. This is total nonsense - you can pour it any way you want and it tastes the same.

Breakfast

CRACKED BREAKFAST IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MEAL OF THE DAY It's been said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and it's important for our health. In actuality, this phrase was created by cereal companies in 1944 to help sell more cereal. Club FREE Price! MILK 1000 10 AUTHORING FREE FIBER 1000 OLE GRAIN made the = Kellogg's FREE WIN INSTA FUKER WHOLE GRAIN Kellogg's Kellogg's Kellogg's Kellogg's Kello Kellogg's FROOT FROST HONEY HO FR T Raisin LOOPS SMACKS LOOPS LOOPS SMF Bran SAM EX Two Scoups! TEX INTERNATIONAL SALD - 4- Club - 3 Club Paket

Toothpaste

CRACKED YOU NEED ALL THE TOOTHPASTE YOU CAN FIT ON THE BRUSH The toothpaste industry has been telling us that we need to use a ton of toothpaste to get our teeth clean, but that's not true. A pea-sized amount is all you need to get your teeth sparkling.

Rings

CRACKED DIAMONDS = COMMITMENT The diamond engagement ring seems like it's been around forever - but actually, it was created in the late 1800s by diamond mining company De Beers as part of a clever advertising strategy.

Sushi

CRACKED SALMON SUSHI IS AUTHENTIC JAPANESE FOOD Before the Norwegian salmon industry got involved, sushi made with salmon wasn't something that was eaten in Japan. They even had to be convinced to give it a try.

J.K Rowling

CRACKED J.K. ROWLING'S MIDDLE NAME JK Rowling doesn't actually have a middle name. Her publishers used her initials as a way to make her books more attractive to boys, who might not want to read books by someone called Joanne Rowling, the thinking went.

Male Emotions

CRACKED.COM CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, MEN ARE MORE EMOTIONALLY' SENSITIVE THAN WOMEN. In one experiment, when presented with blissful, funny, exciti

Sugar

Sugar is not the only thing that causes cavities. You may think that avoiding candy is enough to protect yourself against cavities. However, carbohydrates like pasta and rice also produce bacteria responsible for cavities. CRACKED.COM

Cowboys

BELIEF: Cowboy hats were worn in beginning of the Western American frontier. TRUTH: The cowboy hat didn't become popular until after the American Civi

Charles Manson

MYTH: CRACKED Manson and his posse were serial killers. REALITY: None of them were. Serial murder is defined as the killing of three or more people by

Happy Days

Conventional wisdom says Happy Days croaked when Fonzie literally jumped the shark in season five. But a more accurate low water mark might be The Nu

Salvador Dali

Contrary to popular belief, the clocks in Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory are not inspired by Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity

Springtime

Research on seasonal effects on suicide rates suggests that suicide attempts OCCUr more frequently in the springtime, contrary to the popular belief t

Goldfish

THINK YOUR FORGETFUL PAL HAS GOLDFISH MEMORY? 5F 10 50 15 45 20 40 35 25 O0 30 THINK AGAIN. Contrary to popular belief, that goldfish have a three sec

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

Miranda Rights

MYTH: If a cop doesn't read you your Miranda rights, you can walk. FACT8 Those rights apply to interrogation, not arrest. Despite what you see on ever

Stripes

CRAE Vertical stripes are slimming, horizontal stripes are not. It's actually the opposite. Studies have comprehensively shown that someone wearing

Bathing in Medieval Times

Everyone in HISTORY THE medieval times smelled awful. Actually, they were way into bathing. Contrary to popular belief, medieval people actually lik

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