6 Lies About the Human Body You Learned in Kindergarten

[WhollyHeretic]

http://www.cracked.com/article_19296_6-lies-about-human-body-you-learned-in-kindergarten.html

[onager]

1. Great! Thanks!

And as usual, I couldn't resist wasting a few hours minutes poking around.

Also on-topic for this group: "5 Ways 'Common Sense' Lies To You Everyday"

http://www.cracked.com/article_17142_5-ways-common-sense-lies-to-you-everyday.html

"The problem is, there is something about our brains that just won't let us put ourselves in the other guy's shoes."

One of my favorite trash TV shows says that a slightly different way: "Pain, humiliation and stupidity are funny...as long as they happen to someone else."

[Silent3]

5. A quote from that article...

Emphasis mine:

The Appeal To Probability is the fallacy behind one of the most cherished tenants of common sense: Murphy's Law.

From another article linked to at the top of the same page. "8 Words You're Confusing With Other Words":

Even though pretty much everyone knows the difference between tenants (occupants of someone else's property) and tenets (beliefs), there is always someone out there mixing them up.

[dmallind]

6. Boy does #4 on that one scream DU or what? nt

[trotsky]

2. Quite a few people won't like #1.

But as always, great stuff from Cracked.

[Odin2005]

3. Didn't know the blood one. Interesting.

[TZ]

4. I knew that blood is never blue

I just didn't know why it looks like that sometimes..interesting.