misconceptions

For whatever reason, there are a few common misconceptions that are way too persistent. After mountains of evidence to the contrary, your uncle will still sit at the dinner table and proudly proclaim an untrue "fact" in complete seriousness. Even complete strangers will still come up to you and insist certain laws are true when they don't actually exist.

If you're like anyone else, you probably have a bunch of inaccurate BS just banging around in your head. Here are some common myths you might still believe. If these make you feel dumb and you'd like to feel like you know even less, here are facts that feel way too obvious after hearing them.

Someone on AskReddit asked for people to share those known misconceptions that they're tired of hearing other people repeat as fact. Some people really need to fact check themselves before they share information with others, and act like it's the undeniable truth. 

Some pieces of trivia can stick around in cultural consciousness for way too long, especially if they're untrue. It can be tempting to repeat a myth just because it sounds shocking and "unbelievable." There are oodles of misconceptions that people have about the past and future that just never seem to die.

People use figures of speech to justify stupid behavior all the time. That's not to mention the ones we straight up use wrong. Here are some sayings that are misused, misquoted, or just plain dumb.