The Coriolis effect is the reason that (some) storms rotate counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern.
Right, but storms are much larger than sink drains.
Yes.
On a scale between sink drains and storms, cannonballs fired long distances are effected by it. IIRC that was how it was discovered.
Heck, it can be observed by tossing a ball from the center of a moving merry-go-round to a person near the edge.
One of my biggest disappointments about The Simpsons (‘Bart vs. Australia’) was that they presented the sink drain phenomenon (they used a toilet) as real. It may have been meant as an inside joke, but it’s misinformed lots of people.
I as a great Simpsons fan (at least of the first ten seasons or so, I stopped watching decades ago) think that this was one of the best episodes ever, and yes, it was an inside joke, obviously. The Simpsons at that time were always too clever for much of their audience.
I had a discussion with a school teacher and it was along the lines of…
Teacher: The kids act up when it’s a full moon.
Me: I think that’s an urban legend.
Teacher: It is true, you can ask any teacher and they will tell you it really happens. (implying I don’t know because I’m ignorant because I have never experienced it).
You think your early education record disappears? Try running for political office these days 
Anybody learning fluid dynamics from The Simpsons might want to examine their life choices
Cite?
I would think it depends on the sink.
That one’s totally true.
The one about kids acting up when it’s a new moon is also true. And the one about them acting up when it’s a gibbous moon. And when it’s a crescent. And…
If you can fit a tempest in a teapot…
Yeah, that’s exactly what I never understood about the sugar and hyperactivity thing, too. Have the researchers ever been around kids? They do realize kids get the zoomies, act up, go to warp 10, etc., all the time for no particular reason other than they’re kids.
No need to come up with alternative explanations to sugar or the moon, like being at a party, or whatever. Trying to find an explanation is just a pigeon spinning in a circle and pecking at the corner of the cage.
I’ve never heard anything about not breaking spaghetti affecting taste. It’s just about keeping the noodles long so you can swirl them on a fork. And that it is considered bad form by Italians. Only after Googling have I learned this style of eating supposedly helps you hold on to a higher sauce-to-noodle ratio.
Growing up. no one thought sugar was my problem, but my mom did avoid red dyes because she was at the time sure that she’d noticed it made my symptoms worse.
I only ever heard of “permanent records” on Saved by the Bell.
That if you say ‘Yes’, to one of those robo-calls that ask ‘can you hear me?’, scammers will record your response and use it to bind you in a legally enforceable contract.
There’s no substantive evidence of this happening; there just are lots of people who say it happened to a friend’s workmate’s mother.
OTOH, my SIL apparently has a strong and valuable ability to context-switch / multi-task. She had a job where she was required to manage multiple projects in parallel.
You may say “jobs shouldn’t be like that”, but it wasn’t a system that was under the control of her employers, and (actually) has to many independent time-lines to be easily controllable by any of the participants.
Full of jokes about the imaginary stereotype Australia imagined by Americans. So a bit of a disappointment for some Australians, who would have loved to have seen jokes about Australia and Australians.
Don’t ER doctors and nurses swear by the full moon crazies in their Emergency rooms?
Is that an UL too?
My aunt always said if you crack your knuckles alot you’ll have arthritis when you age. I knew better than that at age 10.
That was the subject of an Ig Nobel prize. Donald L. Unger spent 60 years cracking the knuckles of only one hand, not the other, to see if it would lead to different outcomes (it didn’t).
The “Vietnam vets were spat on when they returned home” myth took hold as a metaphor for their lack of sufficient recognition/presumed ill-treatment, but also to denigrate the antiwar protest movement.
It actually denigrated Viet vets, who we were supposed to believe meekly submitted to spitters without giving them a good pounding.
I’ve yet to see a single documented instance of such behavior. Definitely not a routine occurrence.
Former ER doc here. No one I worked with believed the full moon thing.