“”If you touch a baby bird the parents will abondon/kill it” Most birds dont do that. If you help a baby bird back into its nest as long as you try not to touch the nest a lot then everything should be fine.”

“That Einstein failed math/was otherwise a poor student.”

“I always see those LPTs that say you should know your blood type in case of an emergency so the hospital can get you the right type. This is 100% incorrect, we NEVER take the blood type a person says they are. Patient remembers incorrectly=dead patient and hospital gets sued.”

“Astronomer here! People always say Jupiter protects us from getting hit by asteroids because its larger gravitational pull attracts them. In fact, this does not appear to be the case. Some things hit Jupiter or get flung away, some things get flung directly at Earth that otherwise wouldn’t.”

“Your head does not lose proportionately more heat than the rest of your body. It’s about the same.”

“Schizophrenia has nothing to do with a split personality.”

“That chloroform quickly knocks you out. It takes minutes to knock you out, not the seconds you see in TV and movies.”

“We only use 10% of our brain.”

““Left and right brained” people who are either more artistic or more numbers base. Just as inaccurate as the “parts of your tongue that taste different things” yet people still say it.”

“Goldfishes really do not have a memory span of 5 seconds. They actually remember things for months, recognise their owners, and are able to distinguish them from other people.”

“Napoleon wasn’t small. He was just the victim of good propaganda by the eventual winners.”

“That you have to wait 24 hours to report someone missing in the USA. There is no law about waiting, you don’t have to. Push to make the police cooperate and list the person missing immediately when you suspect something isn’t right. Don’t lose precious time; it’s extremely important if the person truly is missing.”

“If you tell the truth, I wont get mad.”

“That medieval/ancient people only lived to be ~32 years old, and at that age, they were considered ancient. That estimate is an average, which means it accounts for high infant/child mortality. Lots of ancient people lived to their 80s and older. If you made it to 30, chances are good you’re making it another 30+ years.”

“That cracking your knuckles too often will cause arthritis.”

“That you swallow eight spiders a year in your sleep.”

“We are experiencing a temporary high volume of phone calls. Your call is important to us.”

“Cutting your hair makes it grow faster.”

“That daddy long legs are the most venomous spider in the world they just can’t bite you.”

“If you have a cold, you should get lots of Vitamin C.” This is completely down to one scientist called Linus Pauling who had a theory that massive doses of Vitamin C would cure colds, subsequent studies have shown he was wrong and any benefits are minimal at best.”