You shouldn’t believe everything you hear because not all of it may be based on fact. Chances are the person saying it may just be acting on blind faith without having done any research. It’s definitely easy to spread misinformation but much harder to disprove wacky theories.
The folks in this list all fell victim to such ‘facts,’ spread by people who were absolutely convinced by what they were saying. Hopefully, some of these examples might serve as a reality check in case you still believe any of them.
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#1
My roommate tried to convince me that there are Chimpanzee-people in the jungle because isolated tribes are getting it on with the monkeys. I tried to explain how species reproduce and quickly realized he thinks you can bang a horse and get a centaur.
#2
The shape of the banana and the way it fits your hand so well are proof that god exists.
He stopped using that argument when one of our co-workers pointed out that d***s fit hands pretty well too.
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#3
My parents tried to convince me that homosexuality is caused by vaccines. Little do they know that I’m gay even though they didn’t have me vaccinated as a kid.
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#4
The band name “KISS” is an acronym for “Knights In Satan’s Service.”
“AC/DC” = “Anti-Christian Devil Children”
“Slayer” = “Satan Laughs As You Eternally Rot”
…all told to us without irony by a Sunday school teacher, circa 1987.
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#5
Not me but my mum. She was walking with a group of friends on a popular trail in the UK. She has quite an outspoken friend, let’s call her Sally. The group saw a number of Chinese tourists taking pictures of the sheep along the trail. One of the group asked;
“I wonder why they are all taking pictures of sheep all the time.”
To which Sally replies;
“It’s because they don’t have sheep in China”
The group all believed Sally, and thought it was an amazing fact. My mum decided to regurgitate the fact one dinner time saying that “Sally had told her so”
I called b******t so Googled it there and then.
Turns out China has the largest population of sheep in the entire world.
My mum has never lived that down.
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#6
An ex boyfriend once insisted that women can hold in their periods like we can hold our urine. He did not believe me, a woman, when I told him that was absolutely not the case. What.
Image source: anon, Polina Kovaleva
#7
My dad believes “nano silver” cures everything & truly believes in his “nano silver” throat spray. He says kings & emperors in the past drank from silver cups & that’s how they had long, healthy lives.
Er. No they didn’t. They had mostly short, often disease riddled lives.
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#8
“The spork is ‘the devil’s utensil’ because it’s the amalgamation of masculine fork and feminine spoon, trying to blur gender lines in society.”.
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#9
That “mind over matter” was real. Meaning that you could lift objects with your mind, etc.
It was a great conversation.
Her: “You can do all kinds of stuff with your mind.”
Me: “Like what?”
Her: “Lift things, bend spoons, etc.”
Me: “Okay, cool. Can you bend something for me?”
Her: “Well no, my mind isn’t that good.”
Me: “Then why should I listen to you?”.
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#10
Gay men have [intercourse] by slapping their cheeks together. I died laughing.
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#11
Someone once told me that it never snows in the state of Washington because ‘its on the west coast’. Same person also told me that she doesnt believe in gravity because “if it was real, wouldnt the sun just suck up the moon?”.
She was 24 when she said these things to me.
#12
Africa is one country.
We had literally just finished a geography segment about the countries in Africa.
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#13
I was talking to a guy at the bar and he was telling me how soap is unnecessary for washing your hands. All you need is a combination of hot water and cold water. Not warm. But use both cold and hot.
I did not shake his hand.
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#14
When you go to Liverpool and start singing a Beatles song, everybody will join in like it’s some Disney movie. The guy was dead serious.
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#15
A woman at a party I was attending over a decade ago insisted that the largest member of the rodent family is the…polar bear.
I looked at her in absolute disbelief and replied that they weren’t rodents, they were f*****g bears.
She had a PhD, too…smh.
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#16
A woman I worked with a long time ago told me that her proof of Christianity being the correct religion is that it was the first one.
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#17
My ex argued that fossils weren’t actually old and those creatures never existed, they were just stuck there to confuse us.
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#18
I always like “if they are undercover law enforcement and you ask, they HAVE to tell you!”.
Image source: Foolscap77, Darya Sannikova
#19
Peacocks dont have [intercourse]. A female gets pregnant when it eats the teardrops of the male.
Image source: a_guy_named_gai, Oleksandr P
#20
That you can live off drinking sea water because Gatorade has sodium in it.
I was telling this dude about a guy who was stranded out at sea for awhile and survived by drinking rainwater and shark blood or some s**t, and dude was like “why didn’t he drink the sea water? Gatorade has sodium in it and it’s fine. It’s a myth that you can’t drink sea water. Probably so they can keep charging people for drinking water.”.
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#21
That men have one less rib than women, and that alone disproves evolution.
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#22
My grandma wasn’t very happy with the fact that I’m vegetarian so she tried to convince me that fish were vegetables. … I still can’t help but laugh because she wasn’t even joking.
Image source: the_krusty_cl0d, Valeria Boltneva
#23
It’s possible to breathe underwater.
She then tried to demonstrate and snorted a bunch of lake water up her nose. She was 14 at the time.
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#24
An old boss explained to me one day that hearing men sing causes women’s brains to release some kind of [intimacy] hormone that makes us crazy. This is why girls and women screamed and fainted over the Beatles back in the day and why we get all hysterical at concerts. He said it in this really condescending tone, too, like he was dropping some deep knowledge on me that I probably wouldn’t understand, but that’s how he explained most things anyway. F*****g hated that idiot.
Image source: downhereforyoursoul, Nuno Magalhães
#25
“The internet is in the sky.” I explained how it’s in the ocean. They ganged up on me and said “It’s called the ‘cloud’ because it’s in the sky, duh!”
It was 3 of them vs 1 of me. I walked away ‘losing’ the debate. There’s power in numbers folks.
Edit: Thanks to everyone in the comments explaining how the internet works. To those saying I’m wrong, I maintain, clouds come from oceans – its science.
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#26
My friend argued that all eggs are brown when they come out of the chicken, and only turn white after going through a chemical cleaning process. Later he also confidently explained that rats and bunnies can change their gender at will. I know some fish species can do it, but rats and bunnies? No XD.
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#27
North Carolina can’t be in The South… its has North in its name!
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#28
My mum told me Michael Jackson died from eating too many potato chips, in an attempt to get me to stop snacking..
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#29
My cousin’s wife told me that blue eyed babies can’t wear Pampers diapers because they’re all allergic.
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#30
1. Neighbour told me he attended an international medical conference for work and he learned that women were “catching diabetes in their feet because of the sandals that they wear in the summer”
2. Little sister’s friend said that a contestant on a singing show like X Factor came second after the finale because the contestant who won stole his phone and turned it off so he wouldn’t get his votes when people texted in.
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#31
“soap makes the water molecules smaller, that’s how it cleans”.
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#32
La Quinta is Spanish for “next to Denny’s”.
I thought they were making a joke.
They were not.
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#33
Unsweetened iced tea has no caffeine because it has no sugar.
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#34
You can get black lung disease from overcooking the marshmallows for s’mores.
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#35
Goats lay eggs. A several minute argument followed, and I did not convince him he was wrong. I work in meat processing. Not that that’s necessary to know that goats don’t lay eggs, but it just made the argument all the more ridiculous. I’d literally seen goats born live countless times, and yet he argued.
Edit: I also worked at a caviar bar for a while, and many times had to hear from people who were horrified we were eating dolphin eggs. Beluga. I’ve heard that “mahi mahi is dolphin” more times than I can count. And from people who’ve eaten it even.
Edit #2: Meant “whale eggs” in the first edit. Mahi on the brain.
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#36
Someone in one of my college classes believed that we only use ten percent of our brains.
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#37
Eating 2lbs of lima beans will kill you.
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