Having nothing to do (learning for exams) I found an article on wikipedia with a list of common misconceptions.
It's a good read and on more than one occasion I had the "get outta here" moment. Apparently the smarter people of society never thought the world was flat.
http://en.wikipedia...._misconceptions
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Common misconceptions
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Posted 15 December 2008 - 01:40 PM
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Posted 15 December 2008 - 02:16 PM
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Posted 15 December 2008 - 05:47 PM
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Lemmings do not engage in suicidal dives off cliffs when migrating. They will, however, occasionally, and unintentionally fall off cliffs when venturing into unknown territory, with no knowledge of the boundaries of the environment. The misconception is due largely to the Disney film White Wilderness, which shot many of the migration scenes (also staged by using multiple shots of different groups of lemmings) on a large, snow-covered turntable in a studio.
Photographers later pushed the lemmings off a cliff.
Photographers later pushed the lemmings off a cliff.
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Posted 15 December 2008 - 06:24 PM
That was informative, though I did know about a few of those already.
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Posted 16 December 2008 - 04:10 PM
Interesting. I am shocked that I actually believed in some of the myths on the list.
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Posted 16 December 2008 - 04:16 PM
Napoleon wasn't small, well I'll be damned
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Posted 16 December 2008 - 04:17 PM
Some of those I knew, some I never heard of, and I was shocked at others.
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