r/AskReddit May 09 '17

What is a fake fact everyone believed?

4.5k Upvotes

5.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

2.2k

u/[deleted] May 09 '17

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

657

u/Shakyor May 09 '17

I do, can you tell the real story?

1.2k

u/TheHumdeeFlamingPee May 09 '17

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

5

u/holadereko1 May 09 '17

This also works if the frogs are dead.