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[–] original_reader@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

You likely ask which seeming facts are actually false.

It that is so, here are some examples of "facts" I hear repeated:

  • we only use 10% of our brains
  • the sun is yellow
  • Vikings wore horned helmets
  • Cleopatra was Egyptian

And so on...

P. S.: don't forget to drink 8 glasses of water a day

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

wait wasn't cleopatra egyptian?

[–] CyberMonkey403@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

She was a Ptolemy, a Greek dynasty installed by Alexander the Great. But tbf, pharaohs have been from all over the place

[–] zloubida@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Her family was in Egypt for more than 3 centuries… in my book that makes her an Egyptian.

[–] BoosBeau@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] zloubida@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sorry English is a second language, did I misused this idiom?

[–] BoosBeau@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

No, I'm just being dumb. You used it correctly, you fuckin cutie. <3

[–] TraipsersWill@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

She was known to walk like one...

[–] Valarie@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

we do only use a low percentage of our brains at any given moment, if im not mistaken the problem with that is exactly what inside that percentage is being active at any given moment because random segments or all of your brain working at once would lead to a seizure.

dont quote me though because i am kinda dumb and neurology isnt my specialty.

[–] TraipsersWill@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I do drink 8 glasses of water a day.
It counts if half the glass is whisky, doesn't it?