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[–] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

None of them, that what makes them facts.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago* (8 children)

    You likely ask which seeming facts are actually false.

    It that is so, here are some examples of "facts" I hear repeated:

    • we only use 10% of our brains
    • the sun is yellow
    • Vikings wore horned helmets
    • Cleopatra was Egyptian

    And so on...

    P. S.: don't forget to drink 8 glasses of water a day

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    wait wasn't cleopatra egyptian?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    She was a Ptolemy, a Greek dynasty installed by Alexander the Great. But tbf, pharaohs have been from all over the place

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Her family was in Egypt for more than 3 centuries… in my book that makes her an Egyptian.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    All of them, including this one.

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    [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    pee is stored in the balls

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    [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    My pants are, and have always been, shit free.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    "The real McCoy" is not a reference to Elijah McCoy's oiler but predates Elijah's invention and seems to come from Scotland originally. The term has been misapplied to many McCoy's over the centuries.

    Elijah McCoy was an inventor who was originally born in Canada to parents who had fled there to escape slavery in Kentucky. They eventually moved to Michigan where Elijah would go on to invent not just an improved oiler mechanism for machinery but also stuff like a folding ironing board and a lawn sprinkler. Despite an interesting and successful life the saying "the real McCoy" was never really a thing. It seems to have been applied retroactively around the 1960's.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    I can tell you which 80s band is Simply Red

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    "The Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility."

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Pancakes are better than waffles

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