40 Conspiracies and Myths That Need to Be Lobotomized From the Collective Consciousness

Goldfish get a bad rap, but they can probably remember what you did last summer
40 Conspiracies and Myths That Need to Be Lobotomized From the Collective Consciousness

Carrie Fisher rules. She was a once-in-a-generation talent, and an incredible writer to boot. But we have to start being honest with ourselves: There’s simply no evidence she was a script doctor on The Empire Strikes Back.

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Fingerprints

MYTH: FInGeRPRINTS ARE ALL sUper unique. FAGT8 THEY'RE ACTUALLY WORRYINGLY SIMILAR. Your fingerprints aren't all that unique - -relatives will have ma

Tongue Rolling

MYTH: ROLLING YOUR TONGUE IS A GENETIC TRAIT. FAGT8 TONGUE ROLLING IS SOmeTHING yoU LEARN. Elementary school science teachers like to use tongue rolli

Neanderthals

NEANDERTHALS ACTUALLY HAD GREAT POSTURE. Neanderthals stood upright. The myth of the hunched knuckle- draggers came from one Neanderthal skeleton that
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Vikings

CRACKED ALL VIKINGS WORE HORNED HELMETS Actuallys the misconception came from a painter who had drawn the Vikings with horned helmets. He was inspir

Madagascar

Myth: Madagascar is all jungle and primitive tribes. Reality: It has a thriving economy with its own airlines, 5 star hotels, and shopping malls. The

Antacid

MYTH: ATE So MucH you FEEL SICK? POP An ANTACID. FAGT8 ANTACIDS MAke YoU FEEL even FULLER. Eating causes your stomach to produce hydrochloric acid to

Twinkies

MYTH: TWINKIES WILL LAST FOREVER, GUYS! NEVER DATE: IPIRATION FACT8 THEY ACTUALLY LAST ABOUT A MOnTH. The urban legend goes that Twinkies aren't made

The Pull-Out Method

MYTH: pulling out doesn't prevent pregnancy. FACGT8 It's alrost as effective as condorors. Used properly, the withdrawal method of birth control is

Pork

MYTH: ALWAYS COOK PORK UnTL I'S SWELL-DONE. FACT8 PORK IS MUCH SAFER THAN you THINK. The myth that undercooked pork is swimming with worms is left ove

Conspiracy Theory Rock!

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Good luck finding reruns of Conspiracy Theory Rock. CONSPIRACY THEORY ROCK! Smigel created a parody explaining how huge corporations were buying up all the major media outlets. It just struck me as really funny to do it on our own network, says Smigel. SNL has never rebroadcast the cartoon after its initial airing.

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Michael Mann

Michael Mann, a climate scientist, was just doing his job when he began receiving death threats from people who didn't believe that climate change was

FDR

IN 1933, WEALTHY BUSINESSMEN PLOTTED TO OVERTHROW FDR. But the general they recruited for the coup ratted them out. A group that allegedly included th

Hunter S. Thompson

Some believe that the king of gonzo journalism, HUNTER S. THOMPSON, was ASSASSNATED for saying 9/11 was an inside job. Much of the theory comes from t

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