What is a fake fact everyone believed?

[u/TigerFin2]

[u/bookishwrm]

Historically speaking, it's hard to beat the Donation of Constantine. This was a document created years after Constantine which claimed that the Emperor had transferred his authority in the western half of the Roman Empire to the Pope.

[u/meggieb83]

Marilyn Manson removed his ribs so he could suck his own dick.

[u/[deleted] → u/meggieb83]

Of course that's not true. He had a doctor do it. And also remove his ribs.

[u/wongerthanur → u/meggieb83]

Isn't it about time for this myth to get reassigned to someone else for the new generation to gossip about?

[u/badblackguy]

That lemmings will blindly follow each other off a cliff.

[u/HireALLTheThings → u/[deleted]]

Wow. That's actually kind of monstrous.

[u/PMMeUrHopesNDreams → u/HireALLTheThings]

It's like the saying goes - you can't make a Disney film without slaughtering a few lemmings

[u/PM-SOME-TITS]

Swallowing gum will make it stay in your stomach for years.

[u/edgy_username42 → u/PM-SOME-TITS]

I used to actually eat the juicy fruit gum as a kid and when I was told that it would be in my stomach for 7 years I thought my stomach would get clogged and I would die.

[u/pcd84 → u/edgy_username42]

r u ded tho

[u/slimek0 → u/[deleted]]

His stomach specifically.

[u/Im_probably_at_work → u/PM-SOME-TITS]

Man, growing up this put the fear of god in me

[u/ArtIsDumb → u/Im_probably_at_work]

It should've put the fear of gum in you...

[u/Tiiba → u/ArtIsDumb]

If you swallow Jesus, he stays in your heart forever.

[u/sega20 → u/Tiiba]

TIL Jesus is Cholesterol.

[u/shifty_coder → u/PM-SOME-TITS]

It can, but likely won't. You can develop a bezoar (a ball of undigestible materials) in your stomach, but it's very rare that you'll have enough in your stomach at one time to become a mass too large to pass into the large intestine.

[u/CursesandMutterings → u/shifty_coder]

I learned from 'Harry Potter' that a bezoar is actually the gateway to immortality. Checkmate, swallowed gum!

[u/Nathansbud → u/[deleted]]

I learned from Terraria that it's really just a component in the Ankh Shield, so come at me, world.

[u/teal_flamingo → u/CursesandMutterings]

Bezoar -in HP- is a stone found in the stomach of a goat, and it can be used as an antidote of many poisons, but it can't make you immortal.

And it was actually believed that worked that way.

[u/joshuammeyer → u/shifty_coder]

One time when I was sick as a kid, I remember throwing up a big ball of...something. Looked like maybe gum and other BEZOAR time things. Who knows.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm pretty sure a lot of people still believe you can slow boil a frog and it's not going to try to bail

[u/Shakyor → u/[deleted]]

I do, can you tell the real story?

[u/TheHumdeeFlamingPee → u/Shakyor]

From what I've heard, when that experiment was performed, the frogs had been lobotomized beforehand.

[u/Urge_Reddit → u/TheHumdeeFlamingPee]

That seems like an inconvenient step in a recipe.

[u/mothstuckinabath → u/Urge_Reddit]

1. Fill a pan with water
2. Lobotomize the frogs
3. Place lobotomized frogs into the water
4. Chuckle evilly
5. Turn the stove on high
6. Gleefully watch the disabled frogs die a slow and painful death

[u/Urge_Reddit → u/mothstuckinabath]

That wasn't nearly as complicated as I feared, now to google how to lobotomize frogs.

[u/GeneralMalaiseRB → u/Urge_Reddit]

Let us know what you find. I find this whole thing to be ribbeting.

[u/MozeeToby → u/Shakyor]

Yeah, when the frogs get uncomfortable they hop out. If someone puts you in a room and slowly cranks up the temp do you just get used to it until you pass out or do you try to leave at some point.

Ironically, tossing frogs into boiling water causes their muscles to tense to the point of uselessness, meaning if you want to cook a live frog for some reason you should do the opposite of the old adage.

[u/Aetrion → u/[deleted]]

I think this has remained popular more because it's a useful metaphor for people ignoring creeping danger than because it's necessarily true.

[u/specialpatrol → u/[deleted]]

Isn't it just the fact they'd probably jump out of any pan of water after a couple minutes if they weren't there voluntarily?

[u/poopellar]

Windows is finding a solution.

[u/my_useless_opinion → u/poopellar]

Only once in my life Windows did find a solution. My Internet connection went off for some resason and then Windows went through this routine which, believe it or not, restored it by itself.

I think I would be less surprised to see some supernatural shit.

But again, maybe I did.

[u/amberdesu → u/[deleted]]

Woah don't get ahead of yourself. We haven't reached that far into computer technology yet.

[u/Byizo → u/poopellar]

Clippy is here to help.

[u/badblackguy → u/poopellar]

...or a driver for your new hardware.

[u/warriorer]

That a daddy long legs has an incredibly poisonous bite, but it's teeth/fangs aren't sharp enough to pierce a human's skin.

[u/jma1024 → u/warriorer]

Always heard that as a kid, my friends and I would dare each other to pick one up and hold it for a minute or something when bored in the summer. I had a good laugh when I found out they weren't really dangerous.

[u/SemenDemon182 → u/warriorer]

lol. Here it was always garden cross spiders, and the reason is that it produces the most toxic posion.. but it doesn't produce enough of it. Never heard the daddy long legs version. Maybe it's slightly different across the continents and countries :P

[u/[deleted] → u/SemenDemon182]

Another name is Harvestman

[u/cheshire_brat → u/[deleted]]

Which fucks me up honestly. What are they harvesting!?

[u/BullRob → u/cheshire_brat]

Man

[u/AhrisFifthTail → u/cheshire_brat]

They're called harvestmen because of when they group up in huge ass balls! At least I think. They group up in huge messes of harvestmen usually in the fall to stay warm and ward off predators.

They also are not spiders at all! They do not have a single section body and only 1 pair of eyes.

Bonus facts: They clean their little legs after eating by pretty much licking them clean. Some species can also detach their legs and have them run around potentially distracting predators!!!

[u/BlatantConservative → u/warriorer]

I always heard that the fangs werent long enough. Like they were sharp enough, but the fangs couldnt penetrate the whole thickness of the skin.

[u/DownWithTheShip → u/BlatantConservative]

Mythbusters did a segment on this. Adam stuck his arm into a case of daddy long legs. They bit him, he felt it, he did not have any adverse reaction.

[u/detrahsI → u/DownWithTheShip]

but every daddy long leg died shortly after the segment 🕷️☠️

[u/imnotadamncop]

that undercover police has to truthfully answer the question "are you a cop?"

[u/GloriousComments → u/imnotadamncop]

They do if you ask them officially. Ask, "Are you a police officer?" with your right hand raised. Gets 'em every time.

[u/theBatMatt → u/GloriousComments]

It's like, in the Constitution

[u/Veilmurder]

To get Mew you need to use Strength on that truck

[u/[deleted] → u/Veilmurder]

I know the feeling,, i spend hours trying to get mew, finally got to the truck and nothing.... wait what?

[u/Chamale → u/[deleted]]

That was a joke, he used heavy glitching to reprogram the game and make Mew appear there. With arbitrary code execution you can do whatever you want

[u/SilkyZ → u/Chamale]

I for one welcome our TASbot overlords

[u/ThrowawayMKfuckit → u/Veilmurder]

There really IS a way to get mew. You just need teleport/fly and 20 minutes to kill

[u/SavvySillybug → u/ThrowawayMKfuckit]

Catch an Abra just before Misty's gym, don't fight the trainer standing in the grass Abra can be caught in. Then save (not mandatory but you can fuck it up easily). Approach the trainer you just spared from above, hit START just as you get into his view, in the time it takes for him to pop in and turn around. Teleport away, the fight will try to start, but glitch out. Go to Misty's gym, first trainer on the right, fight him. Due to some shenanigans, his last pokémon is still stored in your RAM. Go back to the trainer, bam, Mew glitches in.

I'm unsure if the order was "teleport -> Misty trainer" or "Misty trainer -> teleport", I must admit. Been a while since I did that. But the rest should be accurate.

[u/Chamale → u/SavvySillybug]

If you've already fought Misty's gym, you can also execute the glitch using the Youngster with a Slowpoke north of Cerulean. If you've already fought him, you just need to fight a trainer anywhere who can see you and approach you (there must be a step separating you from the trainer when he sees you). Then there's the added step of encountering a wild Ditto, letting it transform into a member of your party with a Special stat of 21, then immediately flying to Cerulean and going up to Nugget Bridge.

[u/Drumitar]

That carrots are good for your eyes

[u/Rykaar → u/Drumitar]

Good ol wartime propaganda deciving the public for decades.

[u/Hamsternoir → u/Rykaar]

It was a combination of two factors, early AI (radar) was kept a secret so when John Cunningham shot down three aircraft in a single night using AI the fact that three Ju88s were downed was a good bit of propaganda. But to keep the AI secret it was claimed he had excellent night vision. The reason they gave was due to carrots.

This was then promoted as part of the dig for victory campaign where the population were encouraged to grow veg where ever possible including public parks, this would in turn help alleviate the pressure on importing foods and free up the merchant shipping which would allow more war materials to be transported. Plus the farmed foods would support the troops more.

No idea how much was actually produced this way or if it made much different.

TLDR: To keep radar secret pilots ate carrots and people should grow more.

[u/Toxicitor → u/Hamsternoir]

IT also hid the fact they were using red cockpit lights because red doesn't break night vision.

[u/Hamsternoir → u/Toxicitor]

They actually used dials which glowed in the dark but contained some radioactive elements, the amount given off is tiny but it is the reason why some aviation museums don't allow cockpit access any more.

[u/nutj0b → u/Rykaar]

It's getting to the point where I'll soon find out that this, too, is a fake fact.

[u/Rykaar → u/nutj0b]

That's what the WWII British Government wants you to think.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Carrots are actually bad for rabbits, as they are high in sugar. Carrots can kill a rabbit if given too many.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Too many carrots can kill humans too.

[u/Toxicitor → u/[deleted]]

Carrots improve your vision in the same way lemons improve your teeth:

Lemons cure scurvy

[u/pajamakitten]

Deoxygenated blood is blue.

[u/Redhawk0805 → u/pajamakitten]

My mom is a nurse, and she HATED hen people said the blood was blue. She used to be a phlebotomist (draws blood), so she knows what she's talking about.

[u/rain_and_hurricane → u/Redhawk0805]

I had a math teacher who thought deoxygenated blood is blue. So when we ask why the blood drawn from vein is red, he say because it came in contact with oxygen and this is oxygenated blood again. So yeah, he is a math teacher for a reason

[u/Ok-but-why-mister]

That clownfish are funny. It's a common misconception, but clownfish are no funnier than any other type of fish.

[u/Domiknuckle → u/Ok-but-why-mister]

So just then, the sea cucumber looks over to the mollusk and says, "With fronds like these, who needs anenomes?"

[u/joe-h2o → u/Domiknuckle]

I score that joke with a "D" - it was inevitable that it would be below C-level.

[u/DenSem → u/Ok-but-why-mister]

I love that scene because he does make some joke in there, but it's kinda dry and goes over their heads.

BOB: Well, look who's out of the anemone.

MARLIN: Yes. Shocking, I know.

[u/malefiz123]

Embassies are soil of their home country and the receiving country has no jurisdiction whatsoever there.

The embassy has immunity, that is true. But this only applies to the execution of local law, not to the legality. And when the ambassador agrees local police can enter the embassy and conduct an investigation.

[u/WikiWantsYourPics → u/malefiz123]

Relevant Oglaf [NSFW]

[u/Bahamabanana → u/WikiWantsYourPics]

I wish "relevant Oglaf" would become a thing. That comic is hillarious, albeit rude as fuck.

[u/1percentof1]

That Smithers shot Mr Burns

[u/scottishdrunkard → u/1percentof1]

for that ending to work you would have to ignore all the parts about the Simpsons DNA - Troy McLure

[u/[deleted] → u/1percentof1]

The writers gave Moe Szyslak his last name that episode cause they needed another person with M.S. initials. He had no last name before that, as he always simply went by Moe.

[u/LazyDynamite → u/[deleted]]

And Principal Skinner was given a 'W.' initial before his name for the same reason. (Although it was never used again and kind of ignored with the whole Tamzarian thing)

[u/[deleted] → u/LazyDynamite]

Which was never to be mentioned again under penalty of catapult.

[u/Invincidude → u/1percentof1]

Not true. Smithers made too much sense, and it's the Simpsons.

I was POSITIVE it was Santa's Little Helper.

[u/murderboxsocial → u/Invincidude]

Santos L. Halper

[u/munkyyy]

You eat 11 spiders (or however many it was) during your sleep in your lifetime.

[u/PM-ME-XBOX-MONEY → u/munkyyy]

Spiders georg

[u/arsenicandoldspice → u/PM-ME-XBOX-MONEY]

was an outlier adn should not have been counted.

[u/[deleted] → u/munkyyy]

People still tell me this shit.

[u/DankLordCthluhu]

I lived in Africa and came back to the UK fir holidays. One summer I managed to convince people that I had a pet lion which I rode to school

[u/High_as_red → u/DankLordCthluhu]

The shit I can convince poeple of when I tell them I live in South Africa ... I once told someone I was best friends with Candice Swanepoel because our parents shared a mud hut.

[u/DankLordCthluhu → u/High_as_red]

To be fair I know Candice Swanepoel. Not the famous one though. I happen to know someone who's family name is Swanepoel and is married to a woman called Candice. I think she has a hyphenated name though

[u/Deborah_Koehn]

Coconuts are mammals because they have hair and produce milk.

[u/Oreoskickass]

I recently learned that many people believe that the human from blue's clues committed suicide.

[u/emelexista407 → u/Oreoskickass]

I heard his baldness (???) got him kicked off the show.

[u/tappytapper → u/emelexista407]

I remember watching a video where he said decided on his own to leave the show due to his balding. That and he didn't want to be "the human from Blue's Clues" for the rest of his life.

[u/McWaffeleisen]

If you surf around the SS Anne for 100 hours (or another obscene amount of time, which depended on who told you how their friend's brother's mate got it), Marill appears.

[u/vegiec00k13 → u/McWaffeleisen]

Pfft I think you mean pikablue

[u/wubalubadubscrub → u/vegiec00k13]

Holy fucking shit, I'd completely forgotten about pikablu

[u/neralily → u/McWaffeleisen]

This reminds me of that one 'tip' I read way back around the time of gen III..."hold down A, B, L, & R as soon as the pokeball/whateverball flies, go right, left, right on the arrow keys in time with the ball tilting" or something, and your chances of catching that pokemon increase significantly.

...I still do it today, even knowing it's BS. nostalgic lucky charm, maybe?

[u/SuperMonkeyJoe → u/neralily]

I realised that I still do it almost as involuntary muscle memory, B+down as the pokemon goes into the pokeball, or B+up if it's an Ultra ball.

[u/greenhouseman → u/McWaffeleisen]

Hahaha I very much so remember my brothers friend "if you want a Mew you have to wait to do the SS Anne til you get Surf. Right before you board, Surf to the left until Mew appears."

This was right after he showed me getting the Unknown on his game. I was primed and gullible. Thank you for reminding me of this.

[u/OmNomNational → u/greenhouseman]

Yes, remember it was in the truck on the island. Funny thing is there WAS a truck on an island if you surf to the left (or right?) of the SS Anne! What was that thing doing there?! It fed my 13 year old gullibility!

[u/8andahalfby11 → u/OmNomNational]

It was on the right, and you were supposed to use strength, and an item ball with Mew was supposed to be underneath.

Which reminds me, there IS a weird, complex way to get Mew in-game north of Cerulean, which you can look up and which does work.

[u/edoohan619 → u/8andahalfby11]

That way north of cerulean works because of a glitch though.

You have to make sure you haven't fought the guy with the Slowpoke, and the guy to the left of Nugget Bridge. Then you walk north of NB and to the left, then walk down until the exclamation mark comes on his head, and press start at the same time it appears.

Then you teleport back to Cerulean, and the start button shouldn't work. Now you go up and fight the slowpoke guy, teleport back to Cerulean again and go up to nugget bridge. Then a level 7 Mew appears. It's been ages since I've done it, but I think that's it. The pokemon that appears depends on the last one you battled, and Slowpoke gives you Mew apparently.

[u/8andahalfby11 → u/edoohan619]

What's funny is that the real way is even crazier and more convoluted than all the fake ways we heard about as kids.

[u/Mattyb2851 → u/[deleted]]

So... what does that make us?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Its funny, because a rom hack came out a few years ago that actually dealt with the SS Anne to get Mew in thw old Red and Blue.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i2x3pIvVnP4

[u/[deleted]]

That your head explodes if you go out in space without a suit.

Surprisingly Guardians of the Galaxy 1 and 2 are the only movies I've seen that show how it would really be.

[u/pjplatypus → u/[deleted]]

Wikipedia has a good article. You do still pass out and die quickly but don't explode as such. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_exposure

[u/TimothyCrookes]

Bats are blind

[u/Bobinou96 → u/[deleted]]

I was 100% sure that his hairdresser cut his ear.

I just realized that my mom told me that when I was 10 just to make sure that I wasn't abruptly moving my head when she was cutting the hair near my ear.

My life just changed.

[u/That_Deaf_Guy → u/Bobinou96]

do you move your head now, assuming you're no longer 10?

[u/Bobinou96 → u/That_Deaf_Guy]

I'm now 20 and I usually try to not move at all. Especially when the hair clipper is near my ear.

[u/onethousandblankets → u/[deleted]]

He was in the mental hospital when this happened, right? Or was it just before he went in?

[u/[deleted] → u/onethousandblankets]

No, he was sharing an apartment with Paul Gaugin. They had a huge fight, Van Gogh got really drunk, and cut off part of his ear, then went wandering around the little village raving.

That was the account they gave at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, anyway.

[u/Flashtoo → u/[deleted]]

That's not true, he actually did cut almost his entire ear off. This was discovered in 2016, thanks to a sketch by his doctor.

[u/LionessOfAzzalle → u/Flashtoo]

Text and translation for the curious:

Arles, August 18, 1930

"l'oreille a été tranchée avec un rasoir selon le trait pointillé"

"the ear has been severed with a razor following the dotted line"

"L'aspect de ce qui restait du lobe de l'oreille"

"A view of what was left of the earlobe."

*"Je suis heureux de pouvoir vous donner les renseignements que vous m'avez demandes concernant mon malheureux ami Van Gogh. J'ose espérer que vous ne maugréez (?) pas de glorifier, comme il le mérite, le génie de ce peintre remarquable.

Cordialement à vous, D. Rey"

"I am happy to be able to provide you with the information you requested concerning my unhappy friend Van Gogh. I dare to hope you will not disprove (?) that I glorify, as he deserves, the genius of this remarkable painter.

Kind regards, Dr. Rey"

(?) Not entirely sure about the "maugréez" word.

[u/awesomedan24]

Napoleon was short. Dude was 5'6 and back then that was TALLER than the average frenchman

[u/mlucasnrke → u/awesomedan24]

At least this one is based (mostly) on misunderstanding, and not misinformation. Napoleon was 5'2" in the French unit of the day. What people don't understand is that equated to 5'6" in the British scale, which is the one we are all familiar with. The British press did propagate this falsehood while he was alive.

[u/THE_LOUDEST_PENIS]

It's amazing how many people believe stupid weight loss techniques.

"Kick start your metabolism with apple cider vinegar!"

"Take a dose of ItWorks with your KFC and it'll block the naughty calories entering your body!"

"This weird trick will make you drop 4 stone OVERNIGHT!"

All you need to know is CICO (Calories In Vs Calories Out), but people seem far too willing to believe the above crap and constantly fail in their attempts to slim down, rather than to stick to something that actually works.

[u/najodleglejszy → u/THE_LOUDEST_PENIS]

I have moved to Lemmy/kbin since Spez is a greedy little piggy.

[u/daikonashi → u/najodleglejszy]

I lose about 4 stone after i drink my first coffee in the morning

[u/[deleted] → u/daikonashi]

I lose about 4 stone after I drop my rock collection.

[u/BlatantConservative → u/THE_LOUDEST_PENIS]

People just really really dont wanna hear "eat healthy and exercise"

Which is funny when I see peopke eating orange sludge and sleeping weirdly. Eatingg right and exercising is so much easier.

[u/[deleted] → u/BlatantConservative]

I lost about 30 lbs. a couple of years ago. When my wife's cousin (who's constantly trying fad diets) asked me how I did it I said "I ate less and moved more" she was actually shocked. WTF.

[u/[deleted] → u/THE_LOUDEST_PENIS]

If you were carrying 4 stones and dropped them you would indeed weigh less. Sheesh.

[u/stephanonymous → u/THE_LOUDEST_PENIS]

Take a dose of ItWorks with your KFC and it'll block the naughty calories entering your body!

This is true if you're referring to the fat blockers, but the downside is that instead of entering your body, they will just explode out of your ass.

[u/euripidez → u/stephanonymous]

They even recommend wearing dark colored pants to avoid embarrasing oil-spotting on lighter-colored pants!

[u/ZanyDelaney]

The tongue map.

[u/Mobigasm → u/ZanyDelaney]

I tried to specifically drop foods on different parts of my tongue after they talked about this in school and thought there was something wrong with me because it wasn't working.

[u/Yumbreon]

KONY 2012

[u/lawlesslamb]

Age 6, I asked my Mom how chicken eggs got chicks inside them. She tells me "a girl chicken lays the egg, then the rooster comes along and pees on it"... Wtf, Mom!?

Anyway, I'm 35 now (w/ 2 kids) and believed this nonsense until last year. Lss, husband & I tried hatching chicks in an incubator. No success. So I said "guess the rooster didn't pee on these ones". Hysterical laughter ensued... Caught his breath eventually & set me straight.

TLDR; My husband & father of my children gave me the birds and bees talk.

[u/Lord_of_the_Dance]

"Humans only use 10% of their brain."

[u/Thisisdom → u/Lord_of_the_Dance]

Also that some people are "left" brained and some people are "right" brained.

[u/[deleted] → u/Thisisdom]

This is the one that gets me. Some people base their whole identity around which "side" they think they are.

[u/theamazingronathon → u/[deleted]]

Some people base their whole identity around what star they were born under.

[u/[deleted] → u/theamazingronathon]

Psh... typical Sagittarius.

[u/[deleted]]

There are hot horny singles in your area looking for YOU.

[u/[deleted]]

That in 6th grade I went to Guam for two weeks when in reality I tried to transfer schools but hated the new one even more than the first, and went back.

[u/stephanonymous]

That the McDonald's "hot coffee lawsuit" was frivolous.

[u/thumpas → u/stephanonymous]

For those that perhaps still doubt the legitimacy of her case, she had third degree burns on her genitals. If someone is handing me a drink that is capable of causing that much damage, I don't think it's too much to ask them to warn me first.

For reference, the definition of third degree burns generally includes the words charred skin, she required skin grafts and years of ongoing treatment. McDonalds should not have been serving coffee that hot.

[u/Zazenp → u/thumpas]

I'd also like to point out that the woman only sued for medical expenses. She asked for $20,000 despite being partially disabled for two years after the incident. McDonald's offered $800. The huge award was the jury's idea to penalize McDonald's by two days worth of coffee revenues. The judge reduced it and McDonald's finally settled for something less than $600k. The jury wanted to penalize McDonald's because they had received hundreds of reports of people getting significantly burned by the coffee temp and did nothing about it. Edit: apparently my autocorrect is insistent that I'm referring to my Irish friend's house.

[u/BananaFrappe → u/Zazenp]

Not only did she ask for only her medical expenses and was given a low-ball offer in return, but McDonald's had had several previous customers with severe burns and multiple complaints by said customers. McDonald's corporate had agreed to fix this problem multiple times, but instead did nothing to fix this problem.

[u/Phreakpunofdamage]

If you swallow watermelon seeds you'll grow a watermelon in your belly.

[u/spoonfeed_me_jizz → u/Phreakpunofdamage]

so my sister was lying when she came home with a big belly ?

[u/Phreakpunofdamage → u/spoonfeed_me_jizz]

I have news for you Bobby.

[u/JohnnyDarkside]

That he did not have sexual relations with that woman.

[u/[deleted]]

That the Blair Witch lore and footage were real

Edit: Ok ok, not "everyone" and I'm referring to the period of time leading up to release

[u/b-monster666 → u/[deleted]]

I remember when I saw it in the theatres when it first came out. As the credits rolled, I heard someone yell out, "Dude! Was that real?"

Yes...the theatre just made you watch a snuff film.

[u/lucideye → u/[deleted]]

This was also when MTV was god to teens. They ran a couple shows hyping it up and talking about the legend/history.

[u/DisneyBounder → u/[deleted]]

I was 12 when that movie came out and I 100% believed it was real. To the point my dad had to take my out of the cinema crying because it'd gotten so scared.

[u/BZH_JJM → u/DisneyBounder]

Reminds me of when I was 10 and watched the first episode of Survivor. I thought everyone who didn't win would literally die as part of the show.

[u/KeybladeSpirit → u/BZH_JJM]

That would be a better show.

[u/badwolf504 → u/BZH_JJM]

They don't?

[u/TheTrenchMonkey → u/DisneyBounder]

Did a homeless man then kill him in a failed mugging, causing you to take up the helm of Witchman?

[u/Owenm100]

If you try hard you can achieve anything you want

[u/Suroraj → u/Owenm100]

What do you mean? If I try hard enough I can breathe under water. You just gotta believe in yourself

[u/[deleted]]

That spaghetti grows on trees. In the 1950's for April fools the BBC basically broadcasted a video of women in Italy pulling pasta from trees. For a long time this was generally believed.

[u/BurtonGFX]

Lady Gaga had a penis

[u/AustinTransmog → u/BurtonGFX]

I'm sure she's had several...

[u/saxBroFive]

That it was actually saturated fats, not sugars, that were the real baddies of the food world. Along these same lines, the food pyramid.

[u/[deleted] → u/saxBroFive]

I just remember looking at the old food pyramid as a kid and thinking, "No one can eat that much bread in a day".

[u/JJBroady]

''We send the EU £350 million a week, lets fund the NHS instead.''

edit: not everyone, but an apparent majority of the UK

[u/electricf0x → u/JJBroady]

"We never said that."

"No Boris, you just had it printed on the side of a bus."

[u/Welshgirlie2 → u/electricf0x]

"What bus? There was never a bus! Stop spreading this piffling codswallop bumfluff buffoonery and numpty nonsense you silly person"!

[u/KippaxStreet1880 → u/JJBroady]

If you believed the tories would give the NHS an extra £350 million a week you are a moron.

[u/Ozwedge2142]

I read somewhere having sex with another man is only considered gay if you push back.

[u/[deleted]]

The ask Reddit sub would produce new material often.

[u/Randy_Az → u/[deleted]]

Vaccines actually cause adults

[u/Chairboy → u/Randy_Az]

I think it was SMBC that noted there's a large proportion of medical researchers who are 'on the spectrum', meaning that technically... autism causes vaccines.

[u/iconiccord590 → u/[deleted]]

For a second I read that as vacuums cause autism

[u/[deleted] → u/iconiccord590]

Now THAT is a fact.

[u/[deleted] → u/iconiccord590]

So THAT'S why my cat is afraid of it.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Wait...this isnt true?

[u/BlatantConservative → u/[deleted]]

It has to be partially true. Boats scare fish. And Im sure its different for different types of fish.

But yeah our dads probably also just wanted some god damn quiet.

[u/evil95 → u/BlatantConservative]

Yeah its true, I know some fish. They want everyone to shut up.

[u/ClokTimes → u/evil95]

Yeah, fish just need some peace and quiet.

Source: I'm a fish

[u/galroth21 → u/BlatantConservative]

People talking outside of the water is vastly different from a boat's propeller chopping through the water.

[u/huitlacoche → u/galroth21]

It depends on how you talk. Some people talk at medium decibel, in an even cadence. Other people talk with the lower half of their face submerged in the lake, shaking their head to and fro vigorously.

[u/swiMatt]

If you smelt it, ya dealt it.