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There are some myths and hearsay that are so compelling, people just go on repeating them for years and years. Maybe it's because people don't expect they've been lied to about something as trivial as an animal fact. It could also be that the myth itself is just so engrained in our culture that trying to upend it is pointless. To fill up your head with something else, here are some not so fun facts to feel weird about.

It's weird how with a smidgen of detail and a few photos, you can convey some incredible and untrue "information" on eclipses and death cults. As with history, science can also be easily farced, like this thread on the "dangers" of black-tiled pools and gullibility. 

There's a lot of people walking around with their heads still full of garbage they heard on the bus in 6th grade, and they're more than willing to tell you with full confidence that bears lay eggs. From absurd falsehoods to nonexistent laws that people insist are real, people are willing to say some absurd things in complete seriousness.

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.