Facts & misconceptions that should be common knowledge.

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Oct 11, 2014 2:15 PM #1253209
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earth can still live without the sun, we just had to live underwater

Incorrect
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Oct 11, 2014 2:19 PM #1253213
Well I mean Earth is non-living in the first place.


If he's talking about humans, no.
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Oct 11, 2014 2:20 PM #1253214
well we would have 8 mins of living.. then boom, bye humanity
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Oct 11, 2014 2:44 PM #1253237
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No. That's not true. I refuse to believe it. You're a liar! WHY WOULD YOU LIE!!!!

Wait did you actually not know this?

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well we would have 8 mins of living.. then boom, bye humanity

This should not be common knowledge lmao
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Oct 11, 2014 2:50 PM #1253240
oh well im not sure if this was said but:
English is actually one of the hardest language to learn for other countries
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Oct 11, 2014 3:02 PM #1253252
You mean some countries. It's difficult for countries that doesn't use ABC as their common language but the countries that do like Indonesia, Malaysia that has similar language wouldn't have as much difficulty learning it.

You see, it's the transition to other form of letters make it hard to learn other languages.
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Oct 11, 2014 3:34 PM #1253266
if people didn't know
Smoking doesn't necessarily cause lung cancer

Recycled objects still go to the same place as other garbage. And sometimes your shid isn't even recycled
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Oct 11, 2014 5:41 PM #1253371
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Humans don't only use 10% of their brain(can't believe this wasn't said yet)


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Also, the fact that humans actually DO use 100% of their brain, however if you use all 100% at the same time, you'll have a seizure. But we do use all 100% of our brain, just some sections at different times.

I mentioned this in the front post, lol.
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Oct 11, 2014 6:08 PM #1253401
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I mentioned this in the front post, lol.

O
Didn't read all of that, my bad
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Oct 11, 2014 8:29 PM #1253459
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- Shotguns do not work at long range


You mean to that this is a misconception, right?

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You mean some countries. It's difficult for countries that doesn't use ABC as their common language but the countries that do like Indonesia, Malaysia that has similar language wouldn't have as much difficulty learning it.

You see, it's the transition to other form of letters make it hard to learn other languages.


It's also the grammar. Spanish-speakers commonly have trouble with English despite using what is virtually the same alphabet due to grammar. English is the melting pot of languages so, it borrows rules from many different languages and oftentimes those rules together don't make much sense; not the way a language like Spanish has grammar that makes sense, anyway. And then of course there is the problem of having to adjust to Germanic phonetics mixed in with some cases Hellenic (Hellenik?) and Romance phonetics; and the odd spelling that also stems from this.

Adjusting to new alphabets is a problem associated with learning most world languages, not just English.
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Oct 12, 2014 12:21 AM #1253540
The sun is not on fire,its a big ball of gas that gives off light and heat energy through nuclear fusion.
Not all Africans are black.
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Oct 12, 2014 12:26 AM #1253542
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The sun is not on fire,its a big ball of gas that gives off light and heat energy through nuclear fusion.
Not all Africans are black.

Not all black people are African
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Oct 12, 2014 12:43 AM #1253547
i got a couple of misconceptions(maybe):

-Bats are not blind
-Ostriches do not stick their head into the sand to hide from their foes
-Sunflowers do not track the sun, they look at East all day long
-Antibiotics do not cure the common colds
-People cannot catch warts when they touch toads, warts are caused by viruses
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Oct 12, 2014 12:57 AM #1253553
Common misconception: I don't have one dick.

Or how about that the earth is billions of years old.
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Oct 12, 2014 1:03 AM #1253554
Contrary to popular belief, Miniman isn't actually short. In fact he towers over 99% of the Asian population.

Also pyramids used to be white and shiny and not the brown dusty bricks you see today. They were never like that in the past. Pretty much how the greek ruins werent marble white but are like that now as a result of deterioration and time. It used to be hippie colorful as people used vegetable extracts to colorate it