That's not true! 30 common myths that people persist in believing

There are things that we have heard about since childhood, and it does not occur to us that information about them may be distorted. Remember what we were told about Napoleon Bonaparte? He is a French emperor, a commander and... a shorty! But was that really the case?

We have made a curious selection about things that many people do not perceive quite correctly. Interesting? Read about it further.

In a wolf pack, the alpha male is only in captivity. There is no active struggle for leadership in freedom. These animals are more concerned with raising offspring and getting food.

A missing person report can be submitted to the police immediately. There is no law that you have to wait a certain time, especially if there is reason to believe that a crime has been committed.

Vaccination leads to autism - a myth. This statement appeared thanks to the statement of the doctor Andrew Wakefield, who faked the results of the study for selfish purposes.

Often self-sacrifice is an action aimed at proving something to someone. It is not always associated with the desire to get attention.

The ancient Greeks did not make statues white. They painted them with bright colors. Until our time, the paint has not been preserved, so archaeologists find the figures light.

Everyone knows about 5 human senses: hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste. In fact, there are more of them. There is also hunger, thirst, a sense of balance, a feeling of pain, etc.

Napoleon is hardly short. His height was 170 cm . At that time, this growth was considered above average.

The forbidden fruit is not necessarily an apple. In the Book of Genesis there are lines about the forbidden fruit, but not about the apple. The association appeared after the fruit was called mali ("fruit", "apple", "evil") in Latin translations.

The expression "memory like a golden fish", i.e. very short, does not correspond to reality. The fish can remember not only the events that happened a second ago, but also earlier ones.

Albert Einstein studied well and was never a two-biter. He especially loved mathematics. The only exam that Einstein failed was the "Entrance Tests" to the institute, but the next year he passed them successfully.

The amount of water consumed does not have to be 2 liters per day. It depends on age, well-being, etc. By the way, the liquid from juices, soups is no worse.

Acne is a genetic feature of the body. Acne is not related to hygiene or dieting.

A person can hardly swallow a spider in a dream. These insects are timid, and snoring, breathing and turning over a person frighten them greatly.

The author of the light bulb is not Thomas Edison. It was patented by Joseph Swan in 1860.

Shampoos cannot repair damaged hair from the inside. They make it more well-groomed and beautiful, but this is only an external effect.

The hollow statue with spikes inside the "Iron Maiden" is not a torture device of the Middle Ages. It was invented in the XVIII century in order to frighten people at exhibitions, telling about the horrors of the past.

Sign language for communication in another country must be taught. It is not international, and each nation has its own language.

The "deep Web" is not only non-indexed sites with criminal information. These are also pages with scientific publications, some books from libraries, etc.

The "happiness cookies" that are distributed in Chinese cafes were not invented in this country. Their homeland is Japan. The Chinese treat them as souvenirs for foreigners.

The Great Wall in China is not visible from space. It can be seen only with the help of special magnifying devices.

There is no reliable data that Vikings wore helmets with horns. For the first time, people saw such a helmet at a theatrical production of the opera "Ring of the Nibelungs" in 1876.

Humans are not descendants of chimpanzees. Both have different branches from a common ancestor that lived on the planet about 8-5 million years ago.

Columbus is not the first European to enter the land of America. Leif Eriksson, a navigator from Scandinavia, visited it in the X century.

Orson Welles' radio play "The War of the Worlds" did not cause panic among the US population. No one believed in the aliens. Rumors of mass panic are a publicity stunt by the CBS Corporation and Orson.

Buddha Guatama was not overweight. The Buddha figures that many people love so much are a prototype of Butai, a character of legends who has nothing to do with Guatama.

Sugar is not to blame for the hyperreactivity of babies. This statement was refuted after a study that was conducted among children who consume and do not consume sweets.

Despite the fact that there are fewer and fewer redheads and blondes, they will not disappear from the face of the Earth. Scientists have proved that such people will be born periodically.

The vomitorium in Rome is not a room where the noble nobles rejected the food they ate in order to continue to be saturated further. It's just the entrance to the stadium.

The deceased does not grow hair and nails. This illusion is created due to the fact that the skin shrinks and some parts of the body are exposed.

George Washington didn't have teeth made of wood. The teeth of slaves, donkeys and horses were embedded in his artificial jaw. The base was made of hippopotamus bone and gold.