Folks Reveal Inaccurate 'Facts' They've Been Told, And The Examples Are Hilarious (37 Answers)

That men have one less rib than women, and that alone disproves evolution.

My grandma wasn’t very happy with the fact that I’m vegetarian so she tried to convince me that fish were vegetables. ... I still can’t help but laugh because she wasn’t even joking.

It's possible to breathe underwater.

She then tried to demonstrate and snorted a bunch of lake water up her nose. She was 14 at the time.

An old boss explained to me one day that hearing men sing causes women’s brains to release some kind of [intimacy] hormone that makes us crazy. This is why girls and women screamed and fainted over the Beatles back in the day and why we get all hysterical at concerts. He said it in this really condescending tone, too, like he was dropping some deep knowledge on me that I probably wouldn’t understand, but that’s how he explained most things anyway. F*****g hated that idiot.

“The internet is in the sky.” I explained how it’s in the ocean. They ganged up on me and said “It’s called the ‘cloud’ because it’s in the sky, duh!”

It was 3 of them vs 1 of me. I walked away ‘losing’ the debate. There’s power in numbers folks.

Edit: Thanks to everyone in the comments explaining how the internet works. To those saying I’m wrong, I maintain, clouds come from oceans - its science.

My friend argued that all eggs are brown when they come out of the chicken, and only turn white after going through a chemical cleaning process. Later he also confidently explained that rats and bunnies can change their gender at will. I know some fish species can do it, but rats and bunnies? No XD.

North Carolina can't be in The South... its has North in its name!

My mum told me Michael Jackson died from eating too many potato chips, in an attempt to get me to stop snacking..

My cousin's wife told me that blue eyed babies can't wear Pampers diapers because they're all allergic.

1. Neighbour told me he attended an international medical conference for work and he learned that women were "catching diabetes in their feet because of the sandals that they wear in the summer"

2. Little sister's friend said that a contestant on a singing show like X Factor came second after the finale because the contestant who won stole his phone and turned it off so he wouldn't get his votes when people texted in.

"soap makes the water molecules smaller, that's how it cleans".

La Quinta is Spanish for "next to Denny's".
I thought they were making a joke.
They were not.

Unsweetened iced tea has no caffeine because it has no sugar.

You can get black lung disease from overcooking the marshmallows for s’mores.

Goats lay eggs. A several minute argument followed, and I did not convince him he was wrong. I work in meat processing. Not that that's necessary to know that goats don't lay eggs, but it just made the argument all the more ridiculous. I'd literally seen goats born live countless times, and yet he argued.

Edit: I also worked at a caviar bar for a while, and many times had to hear from people who were horrified we were eating dolphin eggs. Beluga. I've heard that "mahi mahi is dolphin" more times than I can count. And from people who've eaten it even.

Edit #2: Meant "whale eggs" in the first edit. Mahi on the brain.

Someone in one of my college classes believed that we only use ten percent of our brains.

Eating 2lbs of lima beans will kill you.