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Thomas Edison is famous for inventing the light bulb, but he wasn’t actually the first; he was, however, the first to make a commercially viable light bulb.
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Consuming extra vitamin C doesn’t prevent colds, it just makes the cold you already have slightly better.
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Putting a bit of salt in your pot of water doesn’t make it boil noticeably faster; all you really accomplish by doing so is making your water slightly less healthy.
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There has been no empirical evidence of any vaccine causing autism or any related disease, so please vaccinate your children to help with humankind’s herd immunity, you don’t want to bring back smallpox do you?
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If you swallow gum it doesn’t stay in your gut for seven years or whatever, it actually comes out at the same rate as any other food stuff, but you shouldn’t swallow too much of it or it will cause a pretty serious case of constipation.
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If you notice a person close to you has gone missing don’t wait 24 hours to report it to the police, there is no law dictating that this is what you’re actually supposed to do.
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Believe it or not giving sugar to people, including children, doesn’t cause any hyperactivity, it’s all placebo brought on by adults or other children.
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Neither redheads, gingers, Fanta pants, fire crotches, orangu-testes nor candle-heads are going extinct.
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Once a person is dead their hair and fingernails don’t keep growing, however, their penis size totally does, you should try it out.
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Shaving hair doesn’t make it thicker or coarser than plucking or waxing, it just makes the hair have a less natural end, causing it to feel spikier; this will go away with normal wear and tear.
