Sorry to be off topic but I think it’s vaguely interesting. This my area and those billboards have just been taken down after years.it turns out people live in flats behind and the landlord sold their natural light off. How gross is that ? Especially grim as some tenants were placed
there by the council and didn’t have a choice
https://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/ne...ee-years-after-giant-advert-removed-1-6380835
Ok back on topic. What springs to mind first is the kind of stuff you hear as a kid that I always thought didn’t sound true.
‘You only use a tiny portion of your brain.’ I also heard that Einstein was able to activate a larger part. But I always thought it made no sense for us to evolve a brain we can’t use.
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Ten percent of the brain myth - Wikipedia
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Another I’ve just realised is quite similar is that ‘daddy long legs have the most deadly venom in the world they just can’t access it.’ I believed that one for a minute when I was about 12. False.
www.livescience.com/amp/33625-daddy-longlegs-spiders-poisonous.html
And you can’t generally see the great wall of China from space other than in radar imagery.
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Great Wall - NASA
The Great Wall of China and Inner Mongolia are featured in this image photographed by Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao on the International Space Station. Despite myths to the contrary, the wall isn't visible from the moon, and is difficult or impossible to see from Earth orbit without the...
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