Interesting facts and False Myths.

Hello again! Well it's tuesday! Today, I shall be informing you of some rather odd and interesting facts, and busting myths, etc.

First, Interesting facts

1. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. 
2. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma. 
3. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. 
4. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. 
5. Pearls melt in vinegar.
6. Turtles can breathe through their butts.
7. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year. 
8. On average people fear spiders more than they do death. 
9. Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 
10. The tongue is the only body muscle that is attached from one end only.

Now, false myths

1. Humans only use 10% of their available brain capacity: FALSE. It has been tested and proven that when telling stories and relaying information, we use around 35% of our brains.

2. Bats are blind: FALSE. Although not as well as humans, bats CAN actually see. However, Bats don’t use their vision as much, bats use sonar to catch bugs and other animals.

3. Rice will explode in the stomachs of the birds that eat it: FALSE. This myth is of course untrue and some birds have made rice apart of their diets. This was started by an advice column in 1996 in which the author was fooled by a sick turkey.
   
4. The average person eats 8 spiders per year in their sleep: FALSE. This is, perhaps, one of the most famous recent examples of intentional misinformation. The number of spiders is completely erroneous and changes slightly in various retellings, as does the time period. This "fact" was made up by a journalist to demonstrate the ease of disseminating false information in the computer age. 
5. Wear your jacket or you'll catch a cold: FALSE. Recent studies have proved that being cold has nothing to do with your chances of catching a cold. The predominance of colds and the flu in the winter has much more to do with staying huddled inside, away from the cold. 

Well, wasn't that fun? Or at least interesting. Sorry I couldn't come up with anything more original than this. I'll try my best to come up with another post later on tonight or tomorrow!