Common Myths That Have Been Debunked By Science

Gum Doesn't Take Seven Years to Digest

Whoever told you this was likely much older than you when they did. This theory has been disproven thousands of times, and has been the cause of a ton of unnecessary hospital bills. The gum isn't your problem, its anxiety and misinformation that's the problem. 

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The More You Know

  • A reservoir in space holds 140 trillion times the amount of water in Earth's oceans.
  • The speed of a computer mouse is measured in "Mickeys."
  • Coca-Cola consumers will pay more to drink less ounces.
  • Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
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