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23 "Facts" People Believed for Way Too Long Before Finding Out They Were Wrong
Maybe your parents lied to you, maybe you were reading a discredited book, or maybe you heard it on the playground. We've got a lot of erroneous garbage banging around our noggins.
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![Text - [-] recjus85 4908 points 1 day ago My parents told me when I was really young that the tails on shrimp were poisonous.](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAI=)
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