28 Bits Of Wisdom Your Parents Told You (Are Pure B.S.)
Bust out the spicy food and play in all the piles of rusty nails you want.
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There are a lot of so-called facts that we base our everyday lives around. Drink vitamin C and stay cold-free. Avoid spicy foods and avoid an ulcer. Don't want a wedgie, place tiny thumb tacks in the band of your undies.
OK, we made that last one up. Anyway, it turns out a lot of these "no brainers" we believe are totally baloney. For example ...
![A leopard never changes its spots This belief is SO popular that it became an idiom, but leopards do change their spots as they reach adulthood. The](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/3/2/582532.jpg?v=2)
![Elisabeth Kubler-Ross developed her Five Stages Of Grief in the 60s and ever since people have thought that when faced with their own imminent death](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/3/4/582534.jpg?v=2)
![You do not put butter on a burn to help ease CRACKED.COM the pain. It actually makes things worse. The butter or any other oily remedy will trap the h](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/1/3/582513.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED COM So what if I don't do well in school? Einstein was a bad student, and look at him! Einstein struggled with school discipline and learnin](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/3/1/582531.jpg?v=2)
![Is it true that most of us can only be -brained' (creative) or 'left-brained' (logical)? pt Turns out, all of us use our brain hemispheres evenly, and](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/9/4/582494.jpg?v=2)
![Microwave ovens destroy all of your food's nutrients. It actually does the opposite. Because microwaves heat food for a shorter amount of time, the](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/2/4/582524.jpg?v=2)
![Everybody knows bats are blind and only rely on echolocation. That's where the idiom 'blind as a bat' comes from, right? Nope! Bats can see fine, even](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/1/7/582517.jpg?v=2)
![Cracking your knuckles will give you arthritis. False. There's no scientific correlation between cracking your knuckles and developing an arthritis. T](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/9/5/582495.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED COM The saying that wine gets better with age is no longer true once you get past a certain point. The majority of wines should be consumed](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/2/9/582529.jpg?v=2)
![Drink 8 glasses of water a day to stay healthy! FALSE There's no evidence to support this myth. How much water you need per day depends on your health](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/9/6/582496.jpg?v=2)
![DON'T 'SWALLOW GUM! IT WILL SIT IN YOUR STOMACH FOR EARS! 22 NOT TRUE GO AHEAD. IT'S FINE. IT WILL BE OUT OF YOUR STOMACH IN TWO HOURS LIKE EVERYTHING](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/0/0/582500.jpg?v=2)
![The memory span of a goldfish is more than just a few seconds. Studies have found that goldfish can remember stuff for at least several months. They c](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/9/2/582492.jpg?v=2)
![YOU ACTUALLY DONPT LOSE MOST OF YOUR BODY HEAT THROUGH YOUR HEAD. EVEN WITHOUT A HAT ON, YOU ONLY LOSE ABOUT 10% OF YOUR BODY HEAT WHICH IS ROUGHLY EQ](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/9/8/582498.jpg?v=2)
![8? P The idea that great white sharks mistake humans for seals when attacking is bulls it. They approach humans and seals in completely different ways](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/3/6/582536.jpg?v=2)
![OSTRICHES BURY THEIR HEADS IN THE SAND WHEN THEY'RE SCARED OR THREATENED FALSE! But they do dig holes in the dirt to use as nests for their eggs and s](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/0/5/582505.jpg?v=2)
![You'll get a hernia if you lift heavy things! CRACKED.CON Not true. Hernias are a result of congenital factors or age; lifting heavy things can exac](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/0/4/582504.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED Down with a bad cold? Avoid milk if you don't want to get more mucus and phlegm. Nope. A study in 1990 shows that there is absolutely no cor](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/8/5/582485.jpg?v=2)
![93% of all communication is nonverbal. This isn't true. The saying comes from a 1971 study by Dr. Albert Mehrabian. He clarified that the results on](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/8/9/582489.jpg?v=2)
![Old survival tip: If you're lost, you can find North by looking at the trees. Moss only grows on the North side of a tree. Reality: No. Moss can gro](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/1/9/582519.jpg?v=2)
![Rust does NOT cause tetanus. A rusty nail could give YOU tetanus if you step on it, but so could a non-rusty nail. Tetanus is caused by bacteria a spe](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/1/1/582511.jpg?v=2)
![VITAMIN C WON'T KEEP YOU FROM GETTING SICK... BUT IT CAN AFFECT HOW LONG YOUR COLD LASTS. CRACKEDCON](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/9/1/582491.jpg?v=2)
![Foods with mayonnaise spoil faster. False It actually helps prevent spoilage. Mayonnaise contains acid and preservatives that kills bacteria delaying](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/8/8/582488.jpg?v=2)
![Liars avoid eye contact, right? SO you graduated from Harvard, Doctor? Nope. Studies found that people maintain eye contact longer when they're lying,](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/2/7/582527.jpg?v=2)
![Spicy foods cause ulcers. Even doctors were fooled by this for a long time but there's really no correlation between consuming spicy foods & ulcers. U](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/1/8/582518.jpg?v=2)
![Many people choose Espresso foc tat estta CAFFEINE Buta a cup ofregular drip coffee contains more caffeine. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/0/8/582508.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED.COM Sweating helps detoxify your body. False. Our sweat glands' purpose is to prevent overheating. It's not responsible for detoxificatlon - o](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/1/2/582512.jpg?v=2)
![OPPOSITES DON'T ATTRACT People are more drawn to like-minded individuals for practical reasons such as comfortable social atmospheres and their potent](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/3/0/582530.jpg?v=2)
![CRAE Vertical stripes are slimming, horizontal stripes are not. It's actually the opposite. Studies have comprehensively shown that someone wearing](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/9/0/582490.jpg?v=2)