Word spreads like wildfire and if it’s not true, then it goes around even faster. That’s one of the ways how gossip, fake news and old wives' tales are born.To reverse the process is no easy feat, even if we have unlimited resources to fact-check every bit of information we get. So folks on Reddit took it upon themselves to make others aware that you don’t actually use only 10% of your brain and a watermelon won’t grow in your belly if you swallow a seed.More info:RedditThis post may includeaffiliate links.
Word spreads like wildfire and if it’s not true, then it goes around even faster. That’s one of the ways how gossip, fake news and old wives' tales are born.
To reverse the process is no easy feat, even if we have unlimited resources to fact-check every bit of information we get. So folks on Reddit took it upon themselves to make others aware that you don’t actually use only 10% of your brain and a watermelon won’t grow in your belly if you swallow a seed.
More info:Reddit
This post may includeaffiliate links.
That drinking ice cold water after eating oily foods will solidify the oil and permanently remain in your body.I informed my coworker that if your body temperature ever reached that point, you’d have bigger problems than weight gain.
Some people still believe cracking knuckles causes arthritis.
Going outside with wet hair will make you get pneumonia. Or an earache. Or maybe arthritis. Depends on which old wife you listen to.Joke’s on them - I haven’t blow dried my hair in decades and usually leave the house with wet hair in the morning. On winter mornings, the tips of my hair get frozen. No ear infections or pneumonia or arthritis yet.
That we only use 10% of our brain
That you have to wait 24 hours to report someone missing
An undercover cop has to tell you he’s a cop if you ask him
You can’t get pregnant if you are breastfeeding.
This is a German one, but basically if you give your child a very Americanised name, then the child will be attention seeking and naughty and perform badly in school. It’s called Kevinism.
Many Koreans still believe that if you sleep in a closed room with a fan on, that you will die. Does that count as an old wives tale?
Chewing gum stays in your stomach for 7 years
You can suck venom out of a snakebite.
When you shave your hair it grows back thicker.
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Starve a fever; feed a cold.Edit: well it seems that both versions exist (starve a cold; feed a fever), but I’ve always heard the Starve a fever version, never the other one. The (wrong) explanation was that if you’re hungry and cold, eating will warm you up. Since eating warms you up, you don’t want to eat when you have a fever. Technically however, if you’re sick, your body needs nutrients to get better, so you should not starve either.
My mil thinks that if I tickle my babies feet he will have a speech delay
The cold makes you get sick, not germs
No swimming for 30 minutes after eating
Taking vitamin c will kill your cold, flu, etc.At best it might prevent a cold if taken regularly but even that is disputed. It def wont help if you start taking tons after the fact.
“If you swallow a watermelon seed, a watermelon will grow in your stomach.”
Urine is sterile(it is not).
Butter on burns
If you cut your hair, it grows faster. No.
Vick’s Vaporub cures all flu and cold like illnesses - just need to rub it all over.
That people in Spain speak with a lisp because they didn’t want to embarrass a lisp-having king back in the day.
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