Facts & misconceptions that should be common knowledge.

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Oct 12, 2014 5:28 PM #1253888
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What's the other 4 senses, then?

There are more than 9 sense:
1-Sight
2-Taste
3Touch
4-Pressure
5-Itch
6-Thermoception
7-Sound
8-Smell
9-Proprioception: This sense gives you the ability to tell where your body parts are, relative to other body parts
10-Tension Sensors
11-Nociception (pain)
12-Equilibrioception
13-Stretch Receptors
14-Chemoreceptors
15-Thirst
16-Hunger
17-Magentoception
18-Time
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Oct 12, 2014 8:18 PM #1253934
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9-Proprioception: This sense gives you the ability to tell where your body parts are, relative to other body parts
12-Equilibrioception
14-Chemoreceptors
17-Magentoception
18-Time


I was not born with these ones on the list... My balance is shiti can not for the life of me tell you which way north is unless (do to astronomy) it's night time or if the sun is setting or rising, time I don't even know what day it is, or month, I do know the year for now (I'm not joking when I say I don't know what day it is, I had to look that up on my phone) granted I can say how long something took in minutes, chemicals I can I only know a couple by smell but it's not like I can do a blind test, Proprioception yeah if I close my eyes I don't know where my body parts are relative to my body (on the ironic side though I know where I am in a room if I seen it before hand as for it comes down to math and knowing the stride I take when walking and using depth perception to estimate the room size beforehand)
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Oct 12, 2014 11:25 PM #1254001
"Alright" isn't a word. It's actually spelled "All right"
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Oct 12, 2014 11:34 PM #1254005
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"Alright" isn't a word. It's actually spelled "All right"

Alright.
In the word scent the c is silent and is only there to differentiate it from the word sent
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Oct 12, 2014 11:35 PM #1254006
Pirates did not actually wear eye-patches because of the loss of an eye, but actually because they believed that they could use the eye that was always covered to see better at night.
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Oct 12, 2014 11:37 PM #1254008
They don't actually push people out from the plank like in the movies/cartoons either. And there are women pirates (rarely though). And they also rarely bury treasure.
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Oct 12, 2014 11:55 PM #1254016
Slim Shady is Eminem's alternate ego.
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Oct 12, 2014 11:57 PM #1254017
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Slim Shady is Eminem's alternate ego.

The real slim shady never stood up
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Oct 13, 2014 12:03 AM #1254019
Mythbusters = thread
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Oct 13, 2014 12:43 AM #1254034
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They don't actually push people out from the plank like in the movies/cartoons either. And there are women pirates (rarely though). And they also rarely bury treasure.


Actually everything you know about Pirates is mostly butchered by Hollywood much liek Ninjas. Pirates back then were a label given by the rest of the world for what they simply did to survive. Actually the most accurate fictional portrayal of how pirates actually were is Assassin's Creed Black Flag, sans the conspiracy of course.
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Oct 13, 2014 12:48 AM #1254037
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Mythbusters = thread

PICKLES = PICKLED CUCUMBERS
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Oct 13, 2014 12:51 AM #1254040
Oh speaking of Raptors, the velociraptor isn't the speedy, intelligent beast everyone knows and loves from Jurassic park. That honor actually goes to another kind of Raptor, but they used Velociraptor instead because it sounded cooler. And even at that, they werent intelligent enough to say open human doors or coordinate an ambush

And even if they used the proper one, they wouldn't actually be as tall as a human. Common Raptors were the size of chickens, and feasted on prey similar to them. There were exceptions though like the UtahRaptor (look it up) but for the most part, Raptors are fucking harmless
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Oct 13, 2014 1:08 AM #1254059
In Star wars when Darth Vader says "Luke I am your father"

he actually says "No, I am your father"
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Oct 13, 2014 1:24 AM #1254073
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In Star wars when Darth Vader says "Luke I am your father"

he actually says "No, I am your father"


There's actually an entire page for these things
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Oct 13, 2014 1:32 AM #1254082
Nothing in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme ever implied that he was an egg.

But I'm sure some of you have heard that one before. :o

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"No Scooby-Doo villain ever said "And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids." This is a pastiche of various quotes (most called them "meddlers", not "meddling kids"), and many villains said nothing as they were carried off."

This one got me the most.