COMMON MOVIE MYTHS
MYTH: You must wait 24 hours before reporting a missing person.
TRUTH: If you have genuine concerns, you should contact the police immediately.
MYTH: You can talk to another skydiver during free fall.
TRUTH: The wind traveling past your ears makes you deaf to all sounds.
MYTH: The pin of a grenade can be dramatically pulled out with one’s teeth.
TRUTH: The person would have no teeth afterwards, and the grenade would still have a pin.
MYTH: The forensic process gives answers to all questions and even solves crimes.
TRUTH: The process of forensics only helps to collect evidence.
MYTH: An asteroid belt is dense and crowded.
TRUTH: There are many miles of vacuum between asteroids.
MYTH: Silencers make every gun completely quiet.
TRUTH: A silencer only dampens the noise, but the gunshot is still audible.
HOW WE KNEW IT WAS OK TO EAT TOMATOES _ Ever wonder how humans learned it was safe to eat some foods and not others? Probably trial and error. Either our ancient relatives tried foods and hoped to live, or they used animals to test it. Back in 1820 the tomato was publicly proven safe when Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson stood on the steps of the Salem, New Jersey, courthouse and ate a large number of them without any adverse effects. Up until the end of the eighteenth century, physicians warned against eating tomatoes, fearing they caused not only appendicitis but also stomach cancer from tomato skins adhering to the lining of the stomach.
YOU CAN PERMANENTLY FIX ONE TINY ANNOYANCE FROM SOCIETY : You have been appointed Minister of Minor Inconveniences. You cannot fix healthcare, housing or wages. But you CAN permanently eliminate one tiny annoyance from society. What the internet said:
• All point of sale machines work exactly the same way. Card stripes face the same way, we tap in the same place, etc.
• Cereal bags need zipper closures.
• I am getting rid of the bathroom stall gaps. They make anxious people even more anxious.
• We now board airplanes by seats — back to front. (Someone pointed out that this has an effect on plane balance since there are no back wheels so someone else suggested we board window seats first, then middle seats, then aisle seats.)
• All printers use the same style ink cartridge!
• Physical buttons on car dashboards instead of touchscreens.
