39 Facts You Probably Believe That Aren't Actually True

What makes you fat? What do camels use their humps for? Is blood blue? We all have little facts and tidbits of information that we've picked up somewhere along the way that we later find out are entirely false. Dig through these responses and see what 'facts' you know are actually not true at all. Just to make it more difficult for you, not 100% of these facts are true (we trust you, Redditors, but...not that much). Take this information with a grain of salt, and enjoy learning something new. 

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    Text Many people believe that eating carbs makes you fat. Carbs don't make you fat, overeating food does.
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    Text It's a common misconception that goldfish only grow as big as their bowl. In reality, the reason they tend to only grow so big as pets is because of poor water quality and improper care. They aren't really meant to be kept cooped up in small tanks, so the reason they stay small is because they die a lot earlier than their life expectancy in the wild. Sounds a little blunt perhaps, but it's essentially the same as a malnourished child dying, but it happens so often that every
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    Text St Patrick isn't Irish. He's Welsh
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    Text You see this in the media a lot. That a heart attack is the same as cardiac arrest. It's not. In order for a body to function normally, blood needs to flow to the cells to drop off oxygen and nutrients and take away waste products. If that process stops, the cells begin to starve, fill up with waste and die The blood travels through arteries in the heart just like most other places in the body. A heart attack is when one or more of those arteries are blocked and the heart tis
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    Text that life expectancy several hundred years ago was only 35 or so. the average age was lower due to incredibly high infant mortality rates. however, if you could survive infancy/childhood, you'd likely live well into your late 50s or 60s
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    Text If you flatline a defibrillator won't do a damn thing doesn't matter how high you shout "CLEAR!". It's designed to stop a heart, not start it. It stops your heart and then your built in pacemaker takes over. Of course I am no medical person so correct me if am wrong.
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    Text Blood isn't blue in your veins. It's definitely still red. Just darker.
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    Text That Pearl Harbor was the only attack on US soil during WWII In fact, the Japanese bombed Dutch Harbor and invaded the Aleutian Islands. There were also U-boat attacks on the West Coast and German spies who landed via U-boat on the East Coast. None of these were particularly consequential in the grand scheme of things though, so they were forgotten.
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    Text 1. Rabbits love to eat carrots. Eating carrots can actually make rabbits sick because of their high sugar content. Rabbits mainly should only eat hay and/or grass. 2. George Washington died of a cold. George Washington was diagnosed with a cold, but actually he was suffering from a severe infection called "epiglottitis." 3. Dogs only see in black, white and gray. Dogs are dichromial animals, so while they recognize fewer color differences than humans, who are trichromial, t
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    Text Israel Bissell not Paul Revere was the most important rider who let the revolutionaries know the English were coming. George Washington never cut down his parent's cherry tree, nor did he ever utter the words "I cannot tell a lie" Though the long rifles were useful in fighting the British during the revolutionary war, muskets made up the bulk of the American firearms.
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    Tex It's believed that camels store water in their humps. The ability for camels to survive for seven days without water isn't due to the fact that they store water in their humps. All their humps are fat, but the fat is what provides them with about three weeks of energy. Camels' kidneys and intestines are really the ones that retain water.
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    Text - 6. "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when he was five years old. "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" was not composed by Mozart. He only composed variations on the tune, and then at the age of 25 or 26. 7 Jesus was born on December 25. The Bible never claims December 25 as the birth date of Jesus but may imply a date closer to September. The fixed date is attributed to Pope Julius the First because in the year 350 CE he declared the 25th of December the o
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    Text - That we only use 10% of our brain and if we could use 100% we'd all be super geniuses or something.
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    Text - People in the Middle Ages thought the Earth was flat The greeks had already calculated the radius of the sphere with great precission centuries before.
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    Text - That you eat 8 spiders in your sleep. You actually eat them mostly in your processed food, as the FDA allows a limit on things like peanut butter and tomato soup
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    Text - The Pilgrims are very unlikely to have actually landed at Plymouth Rock
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    Text - Eating carrots doesnt actually improve your night vision. This was a disinformation campaign carried out by the British in WWII to keep the Germans from discovering that they invented radar. Pretty funny/ obvious once you stop and think about it..
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    Text - The fact you can get a cold from being cold.
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    Text - "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day." This originated as an ad campaign to sell breakfast cereal.
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    Text -Glass is a slow moving liquid.
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    Text - h Lots about food. Bread isn't very good for you. Fat isn't all that bad for you. Eggs aren't bad for you. Artificial sweeteners aren't unhealthy (although possibly addictive) Withholding nuts from infants may actually cause nut allergies instead of preventing them, as was previously believed
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    Text - The best way to escape a bear is to run down hill. You may get faster running down hill, guess who else does too?
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    Text The whole tongue map thing. You don't have parts of the tongue that only react to a specific taste.
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    Text - The scene from Fresh Prince where Will starts crying about his father is commonly said to be an improvised scene, but Will actually had a very good relationship with his father growing up
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    Text - It's a myth that the Great Wall Of China is the only man made object visible from Space. It may be long but it is not very wide so there would be no way you could see it from over 100 miles above the earth without some sort of magnification such as a telescope There are man made objects that can be seen from space such as some open cast mining pits and also the greenhouse in southern Spain can be seen but with viewing from space it depend on perfect conditions with clear skies an
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    Text CPR is used to restart hearts and is quite successful CPR is hugely unsuccessful and isn't used to restart hearts, it's used to keep circulation going until medication to restart the heart can be administered A defibrillator is used to restart hearts. Nope again. It's used to stop hearts that are beating incorrectly in the hope that when they restart they'll be beating all nice and proper.
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    Text The structure of a wolf pack. Contrary to what most people think, there is no alpha, beta, ect. in the pack. Rather, the pack is made up of a family with the mother and father leading, followed by their cubs and later the families of their cubs. After a while the cubs break off from the pack to find their mates and will remain on their own
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    Text Microwaves and cell phones cause cancer from "radio waves" The visible light spectrum has more energy than any of the waves coming from your microwave or cell phone. Both microwaves and cell phones do not emit ionizing radiation. However, humans do! :D
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    Text - That you should drink 8 glasses of water a day
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    Text -that women talk per day on average more than men. it's a common misconception that many of those 'fact pages' like to post. Somehow this is sth that the majority of people have accepted as true.
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    Text If you're undercover and a cop you have to tell me
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    Text that Hitler and the Nazi's ever won an actual majority of the German vote. if I remember right it was about 33% at most.
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    Text Einstein didn't fail math
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    Text You don't stop growing when you're 23, it's really you never stop growing. Around 30 is when it slows down, and cells don't reproduce as quick as they used to.
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    Text - The body's natural state is perfect health. All ailments have an unnatural cause
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    Text - The food pyramid. It was lobbied into what we grew up on by the food industry, having plenty of grain. I mean, come on, grain is not more necessary than vegetables and fruit.
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    Text -While Donald Trump is the 45th president of the United States, he will be only the 44th person - the 44th male to actually hold the job. Recall that President Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms: He won election in 1884, lost in 1888, and won again in 1892 -so he is considered both the 22nd and 24th president
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    Text - That cutting your hair makes it grow faster, or that shaving makes your hair grow back thicker and faster.
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    Text - Sugar makes kids hyper. It does not
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