Busting Popular Myths That You Probably Thought Were Facts

Parchment Paper, Not Hemp

There’s also a popular myth that the Declaration of Independence was established on hemp paper. That’s not true! It’s just regular parchment paper, sorry to burst your bubble.

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The More You Know

  • Honey is essentially bee vomit.
  • A Nepalese doctor has restored the sight of over 100,000 often poverty-stricken people in the last thirty years across Asia and Africa using a 5 minute procedure and an inexpensive artificial lens.
  • Scorpions are incredibly resilient: scientists have frozen scorpions overnight, left them in the sun the following day, and when thawed, the arthropod walked away unscathed.
  • Benjamin Franklin was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
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