19 common mistakes that we somehow still believe

2017-10-18 21:51

19 common mistakes that we somehow still believe
Bananas don’t grow on trees, and the wolves are howling at the moon.

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Living in the modern world, we hear every day a lot of new information, whose reliability is sometimes questioned, reports Rus.Media. Today we are told that bananas grow on palm trees, and the next day I start to think it’s grass. Or, for example, we all thought that wolves howl at the moon, the result being that all this is someone’s invention. Many of these myths are partially true, others were taken from the ceiling. So let’s attack ignorance, catch 19 of the myths in which they believe the vast majority of people.

Bananas grow on palm trees

In fact, bananas are the fruit of herbaceous plants, which has nothing to do with palm trees. However, this grass grows to giant size — the height of some of its shoots can reach 15 meters. And by the way, the banana is a berry.

The biblical forbidden fruit is an Apple.

In the old Testament does not say that the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil was an Apple. Most likely, the theory that Adam and eve ate the Apple, arose from the translation of the Bible into Latin, made in the fourth century, — the fact that the Latin word malum and translated as “Apple” and “evil.” Therefore, the forbidden fruit can be anything, such as pomegranate, Fig or even something intangible.

Wolves howl at the moon

In fact, a direct connection between the full and the howling wolf there. Howling for wolves is a means of communication, and they raise their heads only because sound travels much better. The wolves can howl and in absolute darkness, however, due to the fact that moonlight nights usually out of the wind, howl’s easier to hear, and to see the howling wolf in the absence of moonlight, it is simply impossible.

Cavemen lived in caves

Current research suggests that early humans led a nomadic life, and the caves were used for temporary camps. Moreover, the ancient habitations were not found in caves and in the open countryside. These include, for example, a restaurant Olduvai, Tanzania, whose age, according to scientists, reaches 1.7 million years.

Ketchup is tomato sauce

The first recipes of the usual ketchup from tomatoes appeared in American cookbooks in the early nineteenth century. And about 200 years before in England from Asia brought the anchovy sauce, fish brine, wine, spices, garlic, beans, walnuts and mushrooms called сatchup or ketchup, which is believed to have been invented in China around the third century BC.

The compass needle points to the North pole

Strictly speaking, it is not so. The compass needle points to the magnetic North pole, which, unlike the geographic North pole is constantly shifting, and rather quickly — about 55-60 km per year. In addition, every day the magnetic North pole moves along an oval path 85 km.

Change of seasons is due to changing the distance from the earth to the Sun

In fact, the change of seasons is due to the fact that the Earth’s axis is at an angle to the plane of rotation of the planet around the Sun. Thus, in the period when the Northern hemisphere due to the tilt of the Earth less facing the sun, it is winter comes. Southern hemisphere at the same time gets much more light and, consequently, its residents enjoy the summer warmth.

The moon has a dark side

Everyone knows that the Moon always faces the Earth on one side only. This fact became the reason of emergence of the myth about the dark side of our satellite. But everybody forgets that the Moon, like the Earth revolves around the Sun, and hence all its parts equally illuminated by the sun.

Charles Darwin said humans descended from monkeys

In fact, Darwin never claimed that man evolved from apes. In his work “the Origin of man and sexual selection”, he merely pointed out that between man and APE must be some link, namely the common ancestor.

Alcohol warms

Alcohol not only increases body temperature but also can significantly increase the heat loss of the body. The fact that spirits expand the blood vessels and warm blood comes to the skin, causing us for a short time to feel the warmth.

The Emperor ordered to kill a Gladiator down with your finger

There is no evidence that the Emperor ordered to kill the Gladiator by lowering the big toe. The expression pollice verso, which is used to refer to this gesture translates to “turning the thumb”, but up or down is unclear. In 1872, this gesture is portrayed by Jean-Leon Gerome the painting Pollice verso, which became the ancestor of” this popular delusion.

Space is a vacuum

Despite the fact that outer space, low density, call it vacuum still impossible. The fact that the Universe is filled with hydrogen molecules, electromagnetic radiation, and probably the so-called dark matter, which, unfortunately, scientists have not yet detected.

The Indians always rode horses

Despite the fact that the ancestral home of modern horses is North America, they became extinct here around 6 thousand years BC. They returned to the Americas only in the sixteenth century with European colonists.

The first to use horses to the Pueblo Indians and then transferred this skill to other tribes. And Mustangs as mounts they are almost never used — most often they were hunted for their skins and meat.

25-th frame effect on the subconscious mind of a person

In 1957, the American James Vicary conducted an experiment: he put in an ordinary film footage, the urge to drink a certain drink and eat popcorn. According to his statement, immediately after the sessions, the sale of both has increased dramatically. But a year ago the American psychological Association have refuted the effect of 25-th frame, and in 1962, Vicary himself admitted to rigging the results of the experiment.

Cellular communication works thanks to satellites

But, no! In fact, the principle of cellular networks is this: after dialing the phone finds a signal, the base station control unit which, in turn, the cable transmits it to the controller. The controller sends a signal to the switch that also goes through the wires and the switch determines where to forward the call.

During sleep the brain is resting

It is considered that sleep, among other things, the need to ensure that our brain can rest. In fact, during sleep the brain is not resting, his activity becomes somewhat different than during wakefulness. For example, a study conducted on mice showed that during sleep the brain starts the self-cleaning function to get rid of toxins.

The pyramids were built by slaves

It is accepted that the Egyptian pyramids were built by slaves. However, extensive research has shown that the construction of the pyramids worked civilian workers who, as it turned out, even create some semblance of modern trade unions.

Weightlessness is the absence of gravity

Everyone is familiar with footage of astronauts floating in the ISS. However, this is not happening because of the lack of gravity, because the acceleration of free fall on the ISS is only 10% smaller than the earth. Explains the “volatility” of astronauts non-stop movement of the ISS in a circular orbit, so they are in a state of continuous free fall.

The right brain is responsible for creativity

It is considered that people with more developed right hemisphere is dominated by creativity, and that those who have dominant left hemisphere, inclined to analysis and logic. However, a recent study has completely destroyed this myth — the scientists analyzed the brain activity of 1 011 people aged 7 to 29 years and found no indication of dominance of one or another hemisphere.