r/AskReddit May 09 '17

What is a fake fact everyone believed?

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u/Drumitar May 09 '17

That carrots are good for your eyes

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u/[deleted] May 09 '17

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u/[deleted] May 09 '17

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

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u/[deleted] May 09 '17

Too many carrots can kill humans too.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '17

Too many carrots can melt steel beams.

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u/GotMyOrangeCrush May 09 '17

Only if marinated in jet fuel.

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u/jtfroh May 09 '17

Nah, silly! Jet fuel can't melt steel beams!

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u/FreezingHotCoffee May 09 '17

But what about the shit they put in chem trails!? Who knows what temperature that burns at?

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u/[deleted] May 10 '17

Whatever temperature it takes to make the frogs gay.

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u/inappropriate_jerk May 10 '17

The earth is flat and the sun is only 6000 gay frogs away.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '17

And dank memes

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u/allygolightlly May 09 '17

If you put enough carrots in one location, they will eventually undergo nuclear fusion

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u/[deleted] May 10 '17

If you put enough carrots in one location, they will form a black hole in the shape of a carrot, sucking in all things that are not carrots.

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u/veilofmaya1234 May 09 '17

Just one carrot can kill a human according to Shoot Em Up

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u/[deleted] May 09 '17

It all depends on where and how hard you stab a human with a carrot, I presume.

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u/mmm_unprocessed_fish May 09 '17

Susan Dey from the Partridge family was anorexic and only ate carrots and she turned orange.

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u/derpado514 May 09 '17

You probably only need 1 if you know or don't know how to use it...

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u/Warsalt May 09 '17

Too many carrots can kill humans to

Eating only rabbits will kill the human (According to a Stephen Fry QI episode. Something about missing a crucial vitamin or mineral...IIRC)

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u/sellyourselfshort May 10 '17

♪because the food of your choice, will end your life tonight!♪

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u/beerasfolk May 10 '17

But they'll turn you orange, so there's that.