It did make for some amusing Pearls Before Swine comics.
I did not know that…
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Well, I re-learned something today. Serves me right for trusting my friends in college over my mom. Thanks!
Did you see that a real doctor had asked for a cite for the latter claim?
I was well into my 20s, maybe even later when I learned that shaving did not make hair grow back faster or thicker. Like many other disproved lies, it comes from really pondering the question of HOW.
I believed glass was a semi-solid fluid until distressingly late in life.
People who believe in God are too stupid to know any better.
If you present proven facts you can change people’s minds.
See when you are in the place half-way between sleep and awake? That’s when the things under your bed are most active. Don’t let your feet hang over the side!
When my grandfather was a boy - this would’ve been in the late 1800s - he attended a family gathering. His father and uncles were tending some grape vines. My grandfather announced that he wanted to help. The men told him that tending grape vines was extremely dangerous, delicate work that simply could not be done until much later in life.
My grandfather, in his late 30s, bought his first house… and, being an anxious sort of man to begin with, was made quite additionally anxious by the fact that the house came with Grape Vines in the back yard. Oh, no… He’d never been given the official Now You Are A Man, Here Is How To Tend To Grape Vines information. What if he became injured or ill?
So, he went along to the public library and read a book about tending to Grape Vines.
And, then, it dawned on him for the first time that the men all those years past had just wanted to gossip among themselves without a small boy listening - and they had told a really bold lie to get him to go away… and he’d believed it for 30 years.
So what you’re saying is, it does take a village. (Seriously though, I never knew that. Does that mean that there’s an added chance of pregnancy in situations with multiple partners, because more sperm may team up, so to speak? Will a single sperm eventually succeed in penetrating the ova’s cell wall, or will it exhaust its resources before?)
That’s one I’ve also promulgated, and later on, had to disabuse my thesis advisor, a highly skilled and knowledgeable physicist, of.
It’s a little hard to parse, but you think you can’t be prosecuted for being drunk on a bike? Or in driving a boat? Prosecuted may not be the right word but you can indeed be cited, at least in my state (Colorado).
I don’t know what you mean by saying your driving license could be endorsed but if it means points off your auto driver’s license for the above infractions, well, I once had a cop tell me they COULD take points off. Of course cops can lie to you, and it hardly seems fair as you don’t need a driver’s license to ride a bike. But even if it wasn’t true then, it’s true now, you can get a DUI or drunk biking. I don’t know if anyone has gotten one though.
“I do.”
And that’s when he let his guard down, and the grapevine encircled his neck, squeezing slowly at first. . .
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A round of applause for the winner of the greatest username/post combo of all time
Disney not only lied, they completely fabricated the footage. The scenes were filmed near Calgary, where there was a suitable cliff over a river (not the Arctic Ocean). They had to import the lemmings, which don’t occur anywhere near there. They used a turntable to film the “migration” and make it look like there were many more lemmings than they actually had. And then they pushed or flung the lemmings over the cliff into the water, to make it look like they were jumping.
I believed the Caucasian one for years. I believed the one about glass being a fluid for years.
I’m pretty sure I read here on the SDMB that the myth of vampires and werewolves was loosely based on an actual disease. Then I read an article here a few years later that this wasn’t true. Now I’m just confused.
I don’t know how long I believed George Washington never did anything wrong.
Hi Suze
Nope, I don’t think that - it’s a two-parter, and I noted that part (1) was true, thus:
Part 2 was false - in the UK, at least - so this is interesting:
Where urban myths start, maybe?
j
In Melbourne, no demerit points apply to bicycle/horse rider traffic offenses. Unless you use your drivers license for ID, and the officer fills in form incorrectly. Same, I’ve heard, in other places. If it’s just a different number on the same form, an officer may not even correctly remember the numbers for a bicycle offense. If it’s just a note in details section, the officer may neglect to note that it’s a bicycle offense, or the back office may not interpret in correctly.
Probably the more often bicycle citations are issued, the less likely that mistakes are made.
I believed in the Christian God and the divinity of Jesus until I reached my early 20s.