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Popular Myths Busted

Entertainment Aug 13, 2013

by Anokhi Admin

We debunk some popular myths here, so at the next dinner gathering, you can be a know-it-all and show off!

Cracking your knuckles will not give you Arthiritis, there will always be other causes that lead to it. Various studies done on this have discovered no correlation between this very common habit and the disease. It is not the bone that gets affected by the action, but rather release of pockets of gas that live between joints. So crack away!

No, we do not only use 10% of our brains. Truth is, we use pretty much all of our brain, and most of it is active most of the times. The only time we may be using as little as 10% is during moments of complete leisure, when we are just resting and doing very little(if any) thinking.

All you fitness junkies, the healthiest diet is not a low-fat diet. An extensive study done by the National Institute of Health concludes that a low-fat diet is ineffective, and does does not result in significantly better outcomes

Goldfish do not have a mere 3 second memory(well perhaps Dory from ‘Finding Nemo’ did, but that was an extreme case). For an animal that tiny, they have a pretty good ability to remember, they can be trained to response to variations in light, music and other senses.

The percentage of immigrants in UK is NOT 1/3 or $31.8% of the population, as it is widely believed. It is infact only 11.3%.

Bananas do not grow on trees, contrary to the popular belief. What looks like a tree, is actually a herbaceous plant and does not contain any wood

Tomatoes are fruits, not a vegetable

A swallowed gum stays in your body for many years? Wrong! No medical evidence exists to corroborate this claim, no endoscopies or colonoscopies have ever showed existence of these, according to a Florida gastroenterologist. They stay in for an average of a week.

Bats are only color-blind, as opposed to being completely blind as the myth goes. At night they can still see better than humans.

Here is a workplace myth for the loudmouths out here. It is not illegal to get fired for something you said, either at work or outside work. In US, the first amendment – the freedom of speech that is – only prevents the government from limiting your right to speech. A private employer has a legal right to let you go, so watch what you say!

Sources:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/samjparker/common-myths-debunked
http://www.popsci.com/node/74033
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/apr/24/10-great-urban-myths-debunked
http://list25.com/25-popular-myths-debunked/
http://money.usnews.com/money/careers/slideshows/10-workplace-myths-debunked/3
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