Some of you may have read in the news that your fingers wrinkle when wet to aid your under-water grip, but there have been studies regarding the matter and the results show no improved grip when you’re all wrinkly.
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Your taste isn’t separated to sweet at one point, bitter at another, etc, in a sort of tongue map of taste, in fact it’s just mixed together pretty evenly over your entire tongue.
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If you’re exposed to a vacuum (such as outer-space) you don’t blow up like a balloon and eventually explode. For all you inflation fetishists, just stop, that’s not even related to the misconception, just please stop.
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Blood isn’t blue until it’s oxygenated. It’s always red thanks to the iron in the haemoglobin, your veins just happen to look blue on the outside because they’re an inbuilt mood ring and you’re always depressed, mine are always pink because I’m always fabulous.
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If you eat less than an hour before you go swimming you’re not more likely to drown or get cramps.
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If you wake up someone while they’re sleep walking you’re not going to harm them in any way apart from ripping them out of their fantasy world where they’re about to do it with you, you should make it up to them somehow.
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Great white sharks don’t mistake humans for seals, in fact that have completely different tactics for attacking humans than other animals.
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The word ‘theory’ in The Theory of Evolution does not imply invalidity, scientific theories have been proven and are almost unanimously accepted in the scientific community.
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Sharks can actually suffer from cancer, so stop supporting Bruce’s smoking habit, not only will it cause him cancer, it’s also a bad idea for a fish to be out of water.
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Ostriches don’t stick their heads in the sand to hide from enemies, they do this to give their faces a precious sandy look of yesteryear.
