Debunked Myths

Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, and mothers their weight.

According to studies, curvy hips indicate smart women who are more likely to deliver intelligent children.

"Stud Poker" got its name when a drunk Civil War vet gambled a horse.

The Dvorak keyboard is estimated to be 12 to 20 times more efficient than the QWERTY keyboard.

The only country where cannabis is completely legal and du jure is North Korea.

Jack Daniel’s last words were “One last drink, please”.

According to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Shu general Zhuge Liang had to defend a town with a mere 100 troops against an army of 150,000. He hid his men, flung open the gates, and sat on the walls playing a lute. The opposing general of Wei, Sima Yi, certain it was a trap, ordered a retreat.

There's a mysterious satellite of unknown origin that's orbiting Earth. Dubbed the Black Knight Satellite, astronomers have been reporting strange radio signals allegedly coming from the satellite since the 1930s - before NASA or the Soviet Union put satellites into space.

During his lifetime, a man named Walter Summerford was struck by lightning three times. After his death, his gravestone was also struck.

Each of the main characters in Spongebob Squarepants was inspired by one of the seven deadly sins.

German scientists claim to have evidence that suggests that our universe may exist inside of a computer simulated Matrix.

The actor playing The Mountain in Game of Thrones Season 4, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, was only 25 years old at the time of filming.

Lindsay Lohan was approached to star in The Hangover, but she declined because the screenplay "had no potential."

20 years ago, there were only 130 websites, Google wasn't around, and you had to pay for an email account through an ISP.

In 2010, Gary Richmond was beaten into a coma. He woke up with amnesia and no memory of his wife of 20 years. Subsequently, he ended up falling in love with her all over again!

When the current King of Thailand was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the hospital room in which he was born was declared Thai territory for the duration of the birth so that he could be born on 'Thai soil'.

In 2011, there were 3 known cases around the world of twins coming from different fathers.

A cauliflower that weighs almost 72.5kg has broken the world record by almost 3kg.

The Google driverless car has only encountered two accidents. The first it was rear ended at a stop sign, and the second was when a human was behind the wheel.

Despite nearly everyone carrying HD cameras in their pockets, UFO sightings have actually increased since smartphones became widespread, with reports to organizations like MUFON rising significantly in the 2010s and 2020s.

Held in farts enter your bloodstream and are bad for your body.

A widely shared claim that men 'need two guys nights out per week to stay healthy' is a misquotation of Oxford researcher Robin Dunbar's work on friendship and wellbeing.

There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.

The chocobo in Final Fantasy was based on a real creature called a "Gastornis" that existed 45 million years ago.