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27 Popular Science Myths Debunked. I’m Worried About #15.

27 Popular Science Myths Debunked. I’m Worried About #15. December 1, 2016

For decades people thought that these science myths were true. Today we set the record straight.During North America’s summer, Australian winter happens and there’s no way this could happen if seasons depended on our distance from the Sun.

The common house fly can live for up to a month.

Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system with an average surface temperature of 864 degrees Fahrenheit.

While it does work to muffle the weapon, the result is about as loud as a police siren, which is still one hundred times less loud than the gunfire without a silencer.

Research suggests that the males used their arms to pin down a fellow female during mating.

On the contrary, Einstein once said, “Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.”

It gives a person the feeling of being drunk and a possibly a loose tongue though.

Recessive genes can be carried from generation to generation without emerging as a hair color.

It pulls in all directions and dimensions.

The rings are comprised of individual dust and ice particles that range in size from microscopic to many feet long.

They will be fine and it might even save them from injuring themselves.

Polaris is not a single star, but is a triple-star system. It doesn’t even top 10 of the brightest stars in our night sky.

Tourette’s encompasses a lot more than that, including involuntary movements and different sound tics. The swearing tic is called coprolalia.

80% of the computer industry is ruled by Windows, so hackers are merely attacking the majority.

Solid, liquid, gas, and plasma are the four states of matter you see every day.

But it might injure them. The penny will top out at 50mph.

It will slowly expand and eventually swallow Earth in the process.

They don’t bury their heads at all, they flop to the ground and play dead.

During the first two years of life, dogs mature rapidly. After that, it depends on the breed. Typically, dogs will have an equivalent age of approximately fifteen years at one calendar year.

The limit for an adult is 2,000 milligrams a day. While a mega-dose of Vitamin C will not likely kill you, it can cause diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, headache, heartburn, and other unpleasant side effects.

It’s actually your car’s metal frame that conducts the electricity straight to the ground.

They look black when we observe them because they emit no form of visible light. One of the only ways we know black holes exist is because of the gravitational pull they have on stars.

Long-term excessive drinking can lead to neurological damage along with many other health problems, but if you just had one bad night, your brain will be fine in the morning even if your body might not.

Fire needs oxygen to exist, and there is no oxygen in space.