What’s the stupidest thing someone has told you as a ‘fact’? – 17 bizarre statements people actually believed
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‘It is illegal for single women to buy tampons. My mother in the 70s.
Women have to change their names when they marry, by law. Also my mother.
You get cancer if you cook anything in a pan that’s had eggs boiled in it. My ExMiL, “confirmed” by my Ex.
All sportsmen end up in wheelchairs. My late MiL.
I dread to imagine what I’ve said ’
-Flibertygibbert
10.
‘A taxi driver told my wife very confidently that “Rats have no bones”.’
-Theratchetnclank
11.
‘A white South African in London told me that the newsreader Moira Stewart wasn’t black but a white woman in blackface for diversity reasons, and that if I didn’t believe him I should pay careful attention to her wrists where the blacking up stopped.’
-partisanly
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‘Lad at school was adamant that from birth we all only have a set number of times our heart can beat. Once we run out we die. So people who exercise will die earlier than people who don’t as they use up their beats faster. It was also the reason why women live longer than men, as men play football.’
-Sloppy-Joe76
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‘At Sea World a dad told his kids that the Hippos were robots because real ones don’t swim.’
-Nelliebob
14.
‘Black pepper comes from peppers. My teacher.’
-Choice-Standard-6350
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‘I have life threatening allergies to a lot of foods. One time I had anaphylaxis from melon.
On a later date, I was at A&E for an unrelated matter and they asked, “any allergies?” And when I explained only some food ones. When we got more into it and I said about the melon, a doctor said “but melon is just water?!?” and I found myself explaining protein chains to a man who had completed medical school.’
-catjellycat
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‘My friend was convinced that cows had “evolved” to be able to roll over cattle grids. And now farmers and councils are in a panic to find new solutions.’
-unholy_plesiosaur
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‘I was the deliverer of the fact, and I still laugh about it to this day.
I confidently told my friends about the Pacific Northwest tree octopus, having seen an article about it online and only really skimmed it. There’s an octopus that lives in trees. AMAZING I thought.
Like it literally takes a minute of scrutiny to see the website is clearly a joke. But Christ had I argued hard around the table that it was real. I even had the website as proof!
Well. Yeah. Obviously there isn’t an octopus that can live up a tree.’
-bulletproof_vest