Myths Most People STILL Believe!

Check out these myths most people still believe! This top list of common misconceptions that have been proven false are still believed by many around the world! Which ones did you believe to be true? Subscribe For New Videos! http://goo.gl/UIzLeB Watch our "BIGGEST Lies Taught In School!" video here: https://youtu.be/5XuqPJWFD88 Watch our "Most TERRIFYING Sea Monsters Ever!" video here: https://youtu.be/B9aPB6KB504 Watch our "WORST Military Mistakes Ever!" video here: https://youtu.be/bDFVyeuZ2yA 10. Gum takes seven years to digest This is one of those myths that seemingly came from nowhere. And it’s really specific, too. Seven years to digest gum? One theory is that parents used the myth to keep their children from swallowing non-food items. Pediatric gastroenterologist David Milov of the Nemours Children's Clinic explains that if it were true, then evidence of that would turn up during routine colonoscopies and capsule endoscopy procedures. In fact, there’s never been a piece of gum found that wasn’t more than a week old. What does happen, though, to that pink wad you swallowed by accident? Some of the components, such as sweeteners, are broken down, but the gum's base is largely indigestible. As long as the piece you swallowed wasn’t larger than a quarter, it should pass naturally. 9. Playing dead will save you during bear attack This factoid is partially a myth. Or, it’s taken on mythic proportions, which isn’t surprising since it’s an old idea. In 1806, an explorer wrote of a Native American woman who, when attacked by a bear, dropped to the ground and played dead. The bear ran off to attack her husband. Another California pioneer wrote that if a person plays dead with their face down, the bear will only bite a few times before wandering away. While this could keep you safe from a mother bear defending her cubs, it won’t keep you safe from a hungry bear. The proper response to a bear attack depends on who you ask. Some experts say it depends on the species. For example, black bears are shy and timid but if they attack a person, it’s to eat that person. The best course of action is to fight back with pepper spray or just run away. There’s no scientific evidence to suggest the black bear will chase you. Other experts say that running could only lead to injury, so don’t do that, but everyone agrees climbing a tree won’t help since most bears can climb pretty well. Overall advice seems to suggest fighting back or using a camera flash as a distraction. Or, you could just admire the bears from faraway and let them do their bear thing. 8. We only use 10% of our brains. Though an interesting idea, the "10 percent myth" is so wrong it is almost laughable, says neurologist Barry Gordon at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore. No one knows for sure who started this myth but it has been linked to the American psychologist and author William James. He argued in his book The Energies of Men that "We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources." The myth has also been associated with Albert Einstein, who supposedly used it to explain his cosmic towering intellect. Doctor Gordon says the myth's durability comes from people's conceptions about their own brains: they see their own shortcomings as evidence of untapped gray matter. What is accurate, however, is that at certain moments in anyone's life, like when we rest and think, we may be using only 10 percent of our brains. Over the course of the day, the entire brain is at work keeping us breathing, moving, and assimilating information. Recent research suggests that not only are the different parts of our brain working at the same time but also that they never stop. And the brain sucks up an enormous amount of resources to continue functioning. In fact, twenty percent of the oxygen we receive goes to our brain. So, something that important is definitely using more than 10% of its capacity. 7. Sharks Thanks to Jaws, most people think of sharks, especially Great Whites, as indiscriminate machines. Despite changing perspectives, this stereotype still jumps to mind whenever a shark attack occurs. In reality, only six people a year die from shark attacks. To put that in perspective: more people die from elephant attacks annually than they do from sharks. Attacks by Great Whites are the most documented of shark attacks but that does not make them the most common. This is because Great Whites are easily identifiable and any attack by one will surely be documented. Also, sharks as a whole do not eat people. Shark attacks often occur because the predator mistook a swimmer as an injured fish or a surfer as a seal. The shark will take an exploratory bite, realize they have the wrong creature, and move on. Very rarely will a shark consume a person.

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1. I would've thought vibration, pain, and temperature were all part of the sense of touch.
2. superb
3. Great stuff
4. origins explained I now know that sharks are not into eating people.......but I'm still scared of them DON'T JUDGE ME!
5. gum: It really doesn't easily pass through you and can cause serious problems. I have a friend in oregon who had first hand experience with why swallowing gum is NOT healthy. Her son developed sever abdominal pains, and after being rushed into emergency surgery at the hospital, had to have his appendix removed. The doctor told her that he had found some chewing gum, rotted chewing gum, that had some how gotten into the appendix and caused IT to rot. How it got there? well, the appendix is located near where the small and large intestines join and apparently in his case, at least, stuff passing through his digestive tract was able to enter it.
6. Some people don't even use 10% of their brain
7. the carrot myth actually tricked the germans during worldwar 2 we knew it was rubbish the reason whe we could see them coming before they knew we could is because the british empire had invented radar but to keep it secret the MOD sent out propaganda about carrots helping you see in the dark and luck happened and some nazi spies gay hold of it took it to the SS and the Luftwaffe and the pilots were made to eat almost nothing but carrots now the problem with eating nothing but carrots is it actually damages your eyesight and will make you seriously ill and even turns our skin orange thanks to the carotene which fortunately is what happened to the luftwaffe and the nazis so that myth actually helped us win the war
8. Coconuts kill more people than Sharks. :p
9. know i nknow carrots doestt give you eyesight i been eating carrots for 5 YEARS NOW GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
10. I so agree with him
11. I love this show what's your Insta id
12. Origins Explained you are cute and pretty and smart  😊😉☺🤗🤓😊😉
13. She's attractive enough.
14. Carrots actually do make your eyes better because my sister has glasses and she sometimes she eats carrots and her eyes are getting better .And I eat carrots every day and my eyes are like a hawk's eyes maybe better
15. your presentation is awesome keep going
16. cat crossing road is consider as bad luck!
17. Never run from a bear attack, he is more likely to chase you because you are exhibiting prey behavior even if he never meant to chase/kill you in the first place!
18. one time I was so tired i literly slept for 3 DAYS I woke up and had a broken finger it was crushed by my well self I FELL OFF MY BED 💀
19. good luck running away from a bear. also fighting will do nothing, bears are like tanks you cant kill one with a hand gun in one shot. bears if protecting cubs will maul and bite you untill they think you are dead. they go for the head and necks. good luck.
20. with brown bears the attacks usually happen because the human comes in between the mommy and cub/s and then the bear only attacks to protect, then playing dead logically thinking works because the bear's goal isn't to kill for food but to incapacitate so the cubs will be safe.
    also I had NEVER even heard of the myth that people of the male sex are missing a rib bone... that's some fucked up religious shit 😂