When we were younger we were told many myths that we believed were true. Such as cutting your hair makes it grow faster or that if you eat watermelon seeds, then you'll grow a watermelon in your stomach. As we grow older and more mature many of the myths our parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, anybody who told us these types of myths or that we were taught are actually proven false.
Chameleons actually do not change their color to hide or blend within an environment. Chameleons change the color and pattern of their skin to communicate with each other and the color of their skin is used to express their emotion and their mating behavior.
In the bible, the apple is not really known to be the forbidden fruit because some people claim it be a fruit similar to a pomegranate or a fig, but not an apple. People only believed that the apple was the forbidden fruit because of the Latin words "evil" and "apple" in a pun.
Humans have more than senses and are believed to have between nine to twenty senses. Some of these senses include balance, temperature, pain, and more.
Napoleon Bonaparte was known in history books to be short, like 5'4 or even shorter, but that is not true. Napoleon's height was actually 5'7.
The number 420 is not directed for the use of marijuana. The Los Angeles Police Department, or LAPD, uses this number as a code for "juvenile disturbance."
George Washington never had teeth or dentures made up of wood. His teeth were made up of gold, ivory, led, and teeth from other people.
When we stay in the shower or swimming pool too long and our fingers start wrinkling, it is not because our fingers are absorbing water. The reason why our fingers wrinkle when they stay in water for too long is because of the "autonomic nervous system."
The myth that cracking your knuckles will give your arthritis is not true. The sound that you get when you are cracking your knuckles is due to the pockets of gas between the joints of your fingers. In the future, cracking your knuckles only leads to a lower grip strength.
They say that if you chew a piece of gum and swallow it by accident that it will stay in your stomach forever. However, this myth is false and if someone actually swallows a piece of gum, then it will only stay in their stomach for about a week, but it will not stay in your stomach for years.
When you die, your hair and nails don not continue to grow. Once your body is dead, it will start to decay along with your skin, nails, hair, organs, etc.
When dropping a piece of food on the floor, the five-second rule does not apply because all floors are usually generally filthy. It does not matter how fast you try to save a piece of food from the floor because once that piece of food touches the floor, it immediately caught some of the bacteria from the floor.
Those are just some of the myths that are proven to to be untrue and that you probably thought were true. Hopefully in the future, you do not believe everything that someone has told you because it may not all be true and just a false myth.
I think that its interesting how as we grow older, we still believe in some of the myths we were told when we were younger. This made me think about why we were told these myths in our earlier years, was it just to merely scare us or to help protect us? I also wonder who came up with all these false facts, like a watermelon growing inside of you when you swallow a watermelon seed. Overall, I found your post interesting since I once believed in some of the myths you mentioned!
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