in charlie and the chocolate factory (2005) (the best version imo b/c i saw it as a kid and the magic only works around then) a lady said that chocolate is an aphrodisiac and i’ve completely internalized that as true.
i hope it is, it sort of makes sense. people buy chocolates on valentines day
That I still have? If I still have any, it’s because I don’t know any different to be able to say I have any. 🤷🏻♂️
I’m sure there’s a few; I just can’t say for certain what they are.
That quicksand is everywhere. And if you find a pyramid with crystals in it, leave them be.
Or that quicksand is actually, well, quick.
Thanks, Princess Bride. 👍
This question is kind of unanswerable. People don’t really hold misconceptions that they know to be misconceptions.
It’s possible, especially when it comes to things like luck or illusion. Most people know that magic isn’t real, but some still tend to fall back on magic as an explanation for a really good illusion.
There is a fine line between holding two beliefs that are in direct contradiction and understanding that something you want to be true is something that you also understand is a misconception, is my point.
It is an aphrodisiac, but not a very strong one. Various types of nuts can be more benefitial to the libido than chocolate is… or a combo of them, yeah, that can also work I guess.
I used to believe that those defibrillators used by doctors were to restart a heart
Yup, defibrillators are for arythmia, and work by stopping the heart for a moment to let the heart restart itself and get back into rhythm.
TIL and no, I never watched that much ER episodes.
That myth is still pushed by many TV shows to this day, unfortunately. I believe that most public emergency defibrillators work automatically, so that is nice.
BF players: yeah, they are good for gunshots, knife stabs, if blown up by mines, run over by a jeep or pulverized by a sabot round. And agains lethal falls.
If I could just list out my misconceptions I’d be a god
Almost all dinosaur-centric film/TV of the 90s-2000s imply (or state outright) that the dinosaurs are now extinct. As a result, this remains a deeply held and ubiquitously perpetuated misconception. Paleontologists have suspected since the 70s, and known for sure since at least the 2000s, that the avian theropod dinosaurs survived and became modern-day birds. Therefore, birds are dinosaurs. Wikipedia is pretty clear on this.
I’ve had my share of conversations with people who apparently don’t want this to be true and somehow defend the misconception like it’s a religious dogma. Let’s see how it goes here.
Anyone who has seen a shoebill stork knows that dinosaurs didn’t die.
This is just nitpicking. Aktually a chicken is a dinosaur.
Well, in terms of species (could create fertile offspring), modern day birds are not dinosaurs.
However, we animals which are the same species as they were millions of years ago.
I think more people need to see this video (by Clint’s Reptiles). It taught me more about the dinosaur extinction (and why some dinosaurs survived!) in 12 minutes than I learned in 12 years of primary school.
Another related misconception is that the pterodactyl is a dinosaur. In fact, it is a pterosaur which is a separate clade from the dinosaurs. Unlike the dinosaurs, the pterosaurs really are extinct. When science videos refer to “the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs” they should really say “pterosaurs” instead, it would be more educational on multiple levels.
A lot more than the pterosaurs died out though. Most archosaurs, including the sauropods and the non-avian theropods, are gone. The majority of ancient crocodilians went extinct too (not dinosaurs, but related). So it’s kind of odd to mention pterosaurs but not those others.
… Til that dinosaurs aren’t extinct.
It’s not exactly a misconception that I’ve ever really held, but I absolutely hate the lazy writing trope in TV/film where hitting someone over the head and knocking them out is used so commonly and casually and there are never any repercussions.
In reality, if you get hit on the head hard enough that you lose consciousness for any length of time, you’re almost certainly going to suffer very serious brain damage. If you wake up at all - yes, it’s quite possible you’d die from this - then you’re going to have a major concussion, a huge headache, and probably a fracture in your skull and your brain will be swelling up inside your skull. It’s a VERY serious injury, and yet it’s just played off as this casual thing on TV and I think it’s incredibly dangerous how casually it’s depicted.
My granddad died because he slipped on some ice on the way to work one day, and bumped his head. It happened before I was born, but knowing this always reminded me how serious head injuries can be
Heh, yeah I’ve been playing one of the Batman games (Arkham Origins) and the hero “knocks out” every single enemy with either a chokehold or a blow to the head. I sigh and think “Yep, Batman doesn’t kill 🙄” whenever he walks away from a pile of 18 unconscious henchmen all with grievous and urgent injuries.
