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The misinformation kind, not the mythology kind. Like 'scientifically bees can't fly' or 'tomatoes are a fruit they are not a vegetable'?

Any of them that you see, even in joking, and just want to be That Guy and get all 'Well, actually.... ' at the person saying it? Get it off your chest here!

In the tomato thing, they are botanically a fruit and in culinary terms a vegetable so they're a fruit and a vegetable. And it's always the tomatoes that get singled out and never zucchini or something.

Maybe tomatoes get singled out because they are a popular vegetable. There's vast swaths of cuisine with tomatoes in it, zucchini... a bit less so.

Thinking on it, I think there was a thing to do with import taxes where the tomato growers wanted the tomatoes to be taxed as a fruit instead of a vegetable. So they petitioned to have the culinary definition changed to match the botanical one and the government rolled their eyes and went "Lol no." but the incident was interesting enough to stick around as trivia.

And bananas are botanically berries, while a lot of berries (strawberries, blueberries, etc) botanically are not.

-Premodern people had a life expectancy of 30. No, being 30 a thousand years ago didn't make you an old man, those statistics are accounting for child mortality rate. It was perfectly common for medieval people (or earlier) to live well into their 80s.
-Premodern people thought the earth was flat. Well, I suppose some did, but from the Greeks scholars at least in Europe understood the earth to be round
-Blood is blue before it spills. uh no.
-Anything about "left-brained" and "right-brained" correlating with dominant hands and artistic/logic abilities
-You only use 10% of your brain
-Redheads are going extinct. that's not how recessive genes work...

Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Henry the Second, mother of Richard the Lionhearted and the King John who got pushe dinto the Magna Carta lived to 82. There's a famous long life.

We may only use 10% of our brains to think with, but the rest is being used to run our bodies.

If I understand the very basics of recessive genes, in theory, females are recessive. I truly don't believe we will lose red hair, unless the whole of White People bred with non-whites and buried the red gene under dominant brown hair genes.

Basically, I agree those myths are silly.

About the genes, Whites having children with non-Whites wouldn't have much to do with it, because redheadedness is a recessive gene even among "white" hair colors. Recessive genes can still be "passed" to kids, and kids will be carriers, even if another gene dominates. So a biracial kid might be a "redhead" carrier, and their kids might be carriers, too - or have red hair.

The only way red hair could become extinct is if everyone with red hair or a "carrier" of the recessive gene did not reproduce.

That reminds me of the biracial twin sisters that have pictures floating around the internet. Their mother is half-white and father white, one sister is POC while the other looks like an Irish stereotype.

The other thing that will also keep red hair from dying out is that some people will always be just a bit more attracted to their own racial type, and will marry other white, possibly red-haired people. That is a way any race will always keep some of their base type - the world will never turn into a homogeneous mid-tone.

Also, red hair is close to home for me - my eldest brother had (past tense as he's both going bald and greying) mid-light brown hair on his head, but his beard has always been very red.

The likelihood of him having a child is low, but there are plenty of cousins on Mum's (where the red comes from) who have probably passed it on.

Technically, the myth is "bumblebees can't fly according to the laws of physics" but yeah, it's a silly myth. In that vein, the myth that x number of stings of a wasp/hornet/bee can kill you. Unless someone is allergic or the critter stings you in the throat because you accidentally swallowed one (and good luck trying to swallow a hornet), those stings, even in added numbers, are very unlikely to kill you.

Also kangaroos can't jump according to the laws of physics.

That child marriages and huge age gaps between spouses were really common in the Western Hemisphere 2 or 3 hundred years ago. If you start looking at actual records, most marriages happened between age 18 and 25, and the age gaps were between 0 and 5 years, for first marriages. Second marriages between older people tended to have more variabliity in age gaps. First marriages with larger than average age gaps or very young participants tended to be either political (usually upper class) or because someone knocked someone up(shotgun weddings transcend class).

does the "there's somebody for everybody" nonsense count?

Well, technically it's true... if your standards are low.

There is someone for everyone. You just have to put some effort into finding them, even if feels like you did nothing. You'll be surprised at what a nice pair of pants, or a subtle change of posture, could do.

Wow.

Mind blowing, isn't it?

explain all those people in bad relationships. Or no relationship.
and nice pants and good posture do not cancel out ugliness.

"Ugly" is subjective. You may think you're "ugly" but others may view you as good looking. "Working" what you got, even if you think you're "ugly", tends to be attractive. Don't ask me how that works, but it does.

It's not a miracle cure, but it's one of those little things that helps.

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